Jon Burlingame

JON BURLINGAME is the nation's leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. He writes regularly for Variety and the Los Angeles Times and has also written on the topic for The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, The Hollywood Reporter, Premiere, Emmy, and Video Review. He is the author of four books, including the best-selling, award-winning "The Music of James Bond," as well as the TV-music history "TV's Biggest Hits" and the film-composer encyclopedia "Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks." Burlingame teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California and has often hosted concerts and film-music events, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles; appeared on stage to discuss film music at the Kennedy Center, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Television Academy; and penned the notes