Los Angeles, March 4, 2012
I will be at the Tucson Festival of Books on Sunday, March 11 to sign copies of my latest book, Film and Television Music: A Guide to Books, Articles, and Composer Interviews. Film music fans will also be able to purchase copies of The Dimitri Tiomkin Anthology, Elmer Bernstein’s Film Music Notebook, and Film Music 2: History, Theory, Practice. The Festival and book signing take place at the University of Arizona. I will be at the Author Pavilion Sunday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Tent 1 (East Tent), located on the south side (towards the center) of the U of A mall across from Bear Down Gym and just west of the U of A Mall tent. The Tucson Festival of Books is the fourth largest such event in the United States.
Read more about the book: Film and Television Music
This authoritative reference work has been reviewed favorably by the film and music press.
Library Journal
[Sherk] spent nearly 30 years compiling vast lists of practically everything of substance ever published on the subject of music for film and television, and the result is this remarkably vast treasure trove of information.
Music Reference Services Quarterly, review by H. Stephen Wright
Sherk has provided a tremendous service in locating so much of this previously hidden film music knowledge. If he had published only this one chapter [Chapter 5, “Books with Material on Film and Television Music” ] in book form, it would still be a worthwhile acquisition for libraries.
Overture magazine
Compiles over 100 years of writings devoted to the subject of film and television music and its practitioners, offering an awareness of the vast literature on film and television music to a larger audience.
The Film Music Society
Film and Television Music is nothing less than a landmark reference work – an indispensable book for anyone who researches or writes about this field.
Leonard Maltin in Leonard Maltin’s Movie Fan
Sherk is the ideal person to have tackled this Herculean task.
A view of some of the books on film and television music available for purchase at the Author Pavilion at the Tucson Festival of Books at the University of Arizona campus, March 11, 2012.