BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1032@tbeonline.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T193000 DTSTAMP:20260908T142453Z URL:https://www.tbeonline.org/events/from-pixar-to-pulitzer/ SUMMARY:From Pixar to Pulitzer DESCRIPTION:From Pixar to PulitzerAn Evening with Ira Hearshen\nComposer\, Arranger and Orchestrator of Film\, TV and Original Music\n\nThursday\, Oc tober 22\n7:30 PM Reception to follow\n\nNo-charge for paid up sisterhood members (includes 6:45 PM Pre-Glow)\n$25 for non-members (open to the comm unity)\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n\nIra Hearshen\n\nIra Hearshen was born and raised in Detroit\, Michigan where he earned the Bachelor of Music deg ree in applied theory and composition from Wayne State University. During his college years\, Hearshen began playing trumpet and arranging for bands in Detroit doing Motown and covers for popular music groups such as Blood \, Sweat &\; Tears and Chicago. In 1972\, he moved to Los Angeles to st udy orchestration at the Grove School of Music and began playing trumpet i n local clubs. Hearshen studied counterpoint with Allyn Ferguson and comme rcial and film music with Kim Richmond\, Dick Grove and Albert Harris. Hea rshen’s private orchestration studies with Harris led to his first oppor tunity for television/film work. In 1983\, Harris recommended Hearshen to composer Joe Harnell who needed orchestration assistance on two concurrent series - Cliffhangers and The Incredible Hulk. This initial experience be gan his career as a film music arranger/orchestrator which now spans five decades.[1]\n\nHearshen’s credits for film\, television\, Broadway\, and the concert stage are extensive. His arrangements have been featured in t he Detroit Symphony's Pine Knob Summer Series\, The Summer Pops Series for John Denver\, the Jacksonville (FL) Symphony\, and the Air Combat Heritag e Band. His film arranging &\; orchestration credits include\; Guarding Tess\, The Three Musketeers\, All Dogs Go To Heaven 2\, Meet The Fockers\ , Monsters Inc.(which landed Randy Newman the 2001 Oscar for Best Song whi ch Hearshen arranged &\; conducted)\,the television series Beauty and t he Beast\, and the Broadway show Into the Light. His most recent credits i nclude orchestrating and conducting the scores to The Best Man &\; its sequel\; Best Man Holiday\, Cars 2\, Super 8\, Prep &\; Landing 2\, Joh n Carter\, Barber-Shop 3\, Beauty Shop 4 as well as the entire orchestral scores for all three of the Rush Hour movies and the orchestrations on A B ug’s Life and Toy Story 2. The Toy Story 2 project included the Sinatra- style arrangement of the movie’s theme You’ve Got a Friend in Me by Ra ndy Newman and performed by Robert Goulet. This arrangement was recently r e-recorded for the Toy Story Environmental Ride at Disney World in Orlando \, Florida. More recently he transcribed Chick Corea’s solo from the tit le cut to Return to Forever’s album: ‘The Romantic Warrior” for symp honic orchestra so the remaining members of the band could play it as a re membrance of Chick.\n\nHearshen’s works for the concert stage include th e original composition Symphony on Themes of John Phillip Sousa\, nominate d for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in music\, Divertimento for Band\, a Patriot ic Overture\, and in 2008 ‘Enterprise’- a work for Symphonic Wind Ense mble \, Full mixed chorus\,&\; 3 vocal soloists commissioned by the Uni versity of Alabama as a memorial piece for the city of Enterprise\, Al.&am p\; the natural disaster which destroyed its high school also taking 7 liv es. The piece was premiered in Enterprise March 1\, 2009 with 2 live conce rts. It was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Music for 2009. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.tbeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/202 6/09/Sis-Pd-Up-Event-2026-Graphic-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR