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Candidate must posses strong music education background, have experience with children and adults, and be available at least 12 hours per week, year round for a long term position
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In a closing scene, she brings her father to tears by pretending to see the boy waving goodbye to them from the moon 11, 2001, just prior to the terrorist attacks We're great at singing songs about death," Bono joked about the tune
"It's a kind of poetic coda," Sheridan said
Andrea Corr, who sings with her siblings in the Irish pop group The Corrs, performs the lullaby over the closing credits "It's like he's always been a presence in my life "We wanted her to sing in that almost childlike voice
Sheridan wasn't sure at first that he wanted a song, but felt it might reinforce some of the emotions the film explored "
Sometimes they are what Bono described as "adjuncts," unrelated pop tunes tagged onto a movie as a promotional device and Jim's pitched this film not just to me, but to anybody in Dublin for the past five years at every pub he's found himself in The film is narrated by a little girl, who tries to help her father overcome the death of his young son â€â€? who was named Frankie, after Sheridan's late brother "
The singer seems to have more affection for songs written specifically for a particular film story, like "The Hands that Built America" from Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York," a mournful rock ballad that traveled from the film's Civil War-era riots in the 1860s to the morning of Sept There are songs you have to put together slowly, the ones you have to carry on your back for a while Bono, Friday and Seezer co-wrote the theme "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" for singer Sinead O'Connor
"He's been a mentor to me," Bono said
When the U2 frontman agreed to write a song for director Jim Sheridan's film "In America," the key was crafting lyrics and a melody that would extend the melancholy wistfulness of the final scene 'Thief of Your Heart was one like that," Bono said "The audience is not going to listen to that and reinterpret the film through the song And then there are songs that are gifts
"In America" offered a different challenge
"In America" was a chance for Bono to collaborate again with the filmmaker, a longtime friend who once owned a theater in Ireland where Bono performed rock songs as a teenager
But why does the frontman for the biggest band on the planet, a man who has been nominated for a multitude of Grammys AND a Nobel Peace Prize, busy himself with movie songs?
"Film is part of my education," Bono said, sitting with Sheridan on a patio at the Chateau Marmont hotel during a recent visit to Hollywood
Although he didn't want to retell the story in song, Bono said "there are certain marks to hit" in the lyrics
"There are songs you have to rob
Bono watched a rough cut of the movie in 2001 and began crafting lyrics and melody for the song "Time Enough For Tears," drawing off elements of film's score by Maurice Seezer and Gavin Friday
Corr was picked to perform "Time Enough for Tears" because Bono wanted a voice that paralleled the young actress in the movie "
With U2 and sometimes on his own, Bono has worked on a lot of theme songs for a lot of movies, including "Gangs of New York," "City of Angels" and the James Bond thriller "Goldeneye Bono didn't get a nomination this year, although "In America" had three others, including best original screenplay for Sheridan and his daughters, whose memories he drew on for the script
"We didn't want Andrea to sing like a pop singer," he said
"Magic" is another reference point from the movie: the 1960s pop song "Do You Believe in Magic," by the Lovin' Spoonful, is played on the radio in a scene when the family's car first emerges from a tunnel into a glittery Manhattan night
"It's definitely about death and all those Irish melancholy songs "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from 1995's "Batman Forever" was one of those, along with "Elevation," which turned up in 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Bono Writes Soundtrack Out of Movie Love
Feb 3, 3:26 PM EST
Bono had to hold the note â€â€? even though it wasn't him singing
"Growing up in the north side of Dublin, our experiences of art and culture came from music and movies '"
But if they listen to it over time, they get an added perspective that carries a lot of weight â€â€? but lightly
"The moon was a symbol of faith at the end so I wrote, 'The moon is milk and the sky where it's spilled is magic So that's always been a part of me "
"In America" is loosely based on Sheridan's childhood memories about the death of his brother, mingled with his adult experiences emigrating with his wife and two daughters from Ireland to New York City in the 1980s "
They previously worked together on Sheridan's 1993 film "In the Name of the Father," about a man wrongly imprisoned for an IRA bombing in London
The band had an Oscar nomination for that one last year, but lost to Eminem '" he said
