Before Night Falls

Carter Benedict Burwell is an American composer of film scores. Burwell was born in New York City, the son of Natalie , a math teacher, and Charles... Burwell, who founded Thaibok Fabrics, Ltd. He graduated from King School in Stamford, Connecticut, and Harvard College, where he was a cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon. As a film composer, Burwell has had a long-working relationship with the Coen brothers, providing music for every film they have made . He enjoys working with left-field directors, such as Spike Jonze. Among his best known film scores are Miller's Crossing , And the Band Played On , Conspiracy Theory , Hamlet , The Spanish Prisoner , Before the Devil Knows You're Dead , In Bruges , Twilight Where The Wild Things Are , The Blind Side , and Breaking Dawn Part 1 . Burwell, like many composers, studied piano as a child, but eventually quit.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international affairs and is widely deemed the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated in 1898: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles , New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages could be spoken in New York, making it one of most linguistically diverse city in the World.
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