When Women Won (Feature Documentary)

Original Score to ‘Mrs Robinson’ written and performed by Hugh Rodgers & Ray Harman, and featuring Cora Venus Lunny on violin and viola. The film charts the life and times of the first female president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chair of the Elders and indefatigable activist for climate justice, Mary Robinson.

In cinemas August 23rd 2024

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Irish Examiner

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Irish Independent

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RTÉ Guide

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Woman’s Way

Mrs Robinson: Original Score by Hugh Rodgers & Ray Harman

Original Score to 'Strange Occurrences In A Small Irish Village', a feature documentary about the town of Knock, Co. Mayo. Written & Performed by Hugh Rodgers with Violin & Viola performed by Cora Venus Lunny.

Strange Occurrences In A Small Irish Village (Feature Documentary) / Original Score by Hugh Rodgers

One Million Dubliners is an award-winning, critically acclaimed feature documentary on Glasnevin Cemetery. Original score by Hugh Rodgers & Ray Harman. Viola & Violin by Ken Rice, Cello by Kevin Murphy, Vocals by Diane Anglim.

★★★★ The Irish Times                     ★★★★ The Irish Independent 
★★★★ The Sunday Times                ★★★★ The Irish Daily Star
★★★★ RTÉ ten                                 ★★★★ Scannáin.com

WINNER - Best TV Award, Sandford Saint Martin Trust, UK May 2015
WINNER - Best Editing Award (Emer Reynolds), Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA), Ireland May 2015
WINNER - Director's Choice Award, Irish Film Festival, Boston, USA March 2015
WINNER - Best Irish Film of 2014, The Irish Times, Ireland December 2014
WINNER - Best Irish Feature Documentary Film, Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland July 2014

One Million Dubliners (Feature Documentary) / Original Score by Hugh Rodgers & Ray Harman

Johnny (Short Documentary) / Original Score by Hugh Rodgers

Original music from the Irish Times podcast series 'In The News' with Conor Pope and Sorcha Pollak, produced by Declan Conlan, Suzanne Brennan and Jennifer Ryan.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/in-the-news

03. STEADY (In The News Main Theme Short)

Original music from the Irish Times podcast series 'In The News' with Conor Pope and Sorcha Pollak, produced by Declan Conlan, Suzanne Brennan and Jennifer Ryan.

www.irishtimes.com/news/in-the-news

02. STEADY (In The News Alt Version)

01. STEADY (In The News Main Theme)

Somebody To Love is a new documentary exploring love, sex and disability, taking us into the romantic lives of people with physical or intellectual disabilities. Broadcasts on Monday February 17th at 9:35pm on RTÉ One. Directed by Anna Rodgers & Produced by Zlata Filipovic.
https://www.facebook.com/somebodytolove

Somebody To Love

Music from Somebody To Love, an RTE One documentary exploring love, sex and disability - taking us into the romantic lives of people with physical or intellectual disabilities.

www.facebook.com/somebodytolove

The Last Thing I Remember

One Million Dubliners 
Written by Ray Harman & Hugh Rodgers

This piece was our breakthrough collaboration and it came about in quite an unexpected way. We had each written several pieces separately, returning from our respective caves to find a common ground between our ideas and nail down a consistent sound. Aoife really liked a cue of mine and another of Ray's, and asked us to try and combine them. I wasn't sure it would work, but Ray had an idea and began the process of weaving them together. He took the piano chord sequence I had written and deftly carried it into his beautiful piece with mandolin, guitar and cello. The resulting cue now opens the film with the scene of a journey just before dawn to Glasnevin Cemetery, bringing just the right balance of mystery, light and shade, and introduces what became a recurring musical theme throughout the documentary.

Taken from the original soundtrack to One Million Dubliners. http://www.facebook.com/OneMillionDubliners
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One Million Dubliners (RH & HR)

Parnell In Reno
Written by Hugh Rodgers for Piano, Double Bass, Harp, Oboe and Strings.

Sometimes you have an idea that doesn't quite have a place until a later point. Things crystallise when you find something inspiring and it brings a fresh perspective to that idea, and makes it better. The bones of this piece had been knocking around my head for a little while and that moment came when I watched a rough cut of One Million Dubliners. I thought that if I fleshed it out, it would sit nicely across the scene of Shane MacThomáis regaling American tourists with witty stories of characters from Irish history buried in Glasnevin, as he hopped from one grave to the next on a damp winter morning. The piece is wistful, moves with a delicate bounce and carries a sense of time passing, which I thought reflected the scene somehow. Thankfully, Ray, Aoife and editor Emer Reynolds all agreed and that's exactly where it went.

Parnell In Reno (HR)

Veronique & Phuong
Written by Ray Harman & Hugh Rodgers

This piece was another of our collaborations. Ray's gorgeous & heartwarming “Lack Of Income” theme brought together with a quirky waltz I wrote for the scene with Veronique. Again Ray arranged the two pieces together, weaving them seamlessly in and out along with beautiful viola performed by Ken Rice. The final piece adds perfectly to the quirkiness and warmth of the scene of these fascinating women and their philosophies on life and death as they walk through visiting the graves of Michael Collins, Harry Boland and Kitty Kiernan. ~ Hugh

Veronique & Phuong (RH & HR)

Baby On The Moon
Written by Hugh Rodgers

I wrote this piece for the very moving scene where a young woman visits her mother's grave on Valentine's Day. Kevin Murphy's gorgeous cello performance was recorded at Experimental Audio by Stephen Shannon.

Baby On The Moon (HR)

Life & Death
Written by Hugh Rodgers

This was the very first piece I sat down and wrote for One Million Dubliners. It was directly inspired by the film without knowing exactly where it would go. Emer and Aoife placed it under the scene of Luke Kelly's birthday celebration, as John Sheahan talks about life and death, and recites his beautiful poem "Signatures" about the mark that people leave behind after they die.


Life & Death (HR)

Music from "Mrs Robinson", a feature documentary on the first female president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chair of the Elders and indefatigable activist for climate justice, Mary Robinson.

Featuring Cora Venus Lunny on Viola.

In Small Places

Wedding

Stand Up To Bullies

The UN Job

Bás In Éirinn

Gerry Adams

Inner Sense Of Justice

Indefatigable Woman

Mary Therese Winifred Burke

Rwanda

Somalia

Nick

The Tears Of Mary Robinson

Uganda

Deciding Not To Run

The Elders

Medal Of Freedom

War On Terror

The opening piece from Vittoria Colonna's beautiful short film, Sandboy.

Sandboy: Morning Grace

Original Score from Vittoria Colonna's short film, Sandboy. Violin performed by Ken Rice.

Sandboy: Charlie

Sandboy Original Score by Hugh Rodgers.
Violin & Viola performed by Ken Rice.

Find out more:
https://www.facebook.com/Sandboythemovie
http://undergroundfilms.ie/projects/sandboy

Sandboy: Awake

The Starkest Warning Of All

Saoirse

Main Title to Growing Up Gay, a 2-part documentary series for RTÉ1 2010.
Guitar, Glock, Celeste, Flute, Percussion, Viola & Violin.

Strings performed by Cora Venus Lunny.

Growing Up Gay Main Title

Music written for an ad I co-directed with Aoife Kelleher for Equate. 
Produced by Invisible Thread Films.

Open The School Gates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuGXWNg4atk

Equate "Open The School Gates"

Mary On Wheels
Written by Hugh Rodgers
Violin & Viola by Cora Venus Lunny

Mary On Wheels

Welcome To Knock / A Sense of The Other

Strange Occurrences
Written by Hugh Rodgers
Violin by Cora Venus Lunny

Strange Occurrences

St. Patrick's Day
Written by Hugh Rodgers
Violin & Viola by Cora Venus Lunny

St. Patrick's Day

Written by Hugh Rodgers
Violin & Viola by Cora Venus Lunny


Mildred The Handmaid

The People That Live Here

Fr Richard's Theme
Written by Hugh Rodgers
Violin by Cora Venus Lunny

Fr Richard's Theme

Any Hope

For Jonathan Who Drowned
Written by Hugh Rodgers

For Jonathan Who Drowned

A Bigger Vision

Eir "I've Always Been Like That"

Music from the documentary series Growing Up Gay.
Broadcast RTÉ 1 April 2010.

Graduation

Dreaming Above Rooftops [ dreamlike / dark / quirky ]

Where Did I Grow Up

I Always Knew I Was Different

Stop Crying, Son

A Proud Travelling Man

Written in December 2012. It was for something, but wasn't quite right so I discarded it before it had a chance to be fully developed. Anyway, I kinda like it.

A Failure, Unfinished

Music from the documentary short film, Seeking Sanctuary, which was commissioned by Belong To Youth Services to highlight the issues of LGBT asylum seekers and refugees in Ireland.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxoU8wRLaQI

Seeking Sanctuary - Part 1

From 'When Women Won', the award-winning documentary following the Together For Yes Repeal the 8th Amendment campaign in Ireland in 2018.

© Hugh Rodgers 2020

Machine Mode

The Exit Polls

The Day Of The Vote

We Are Women

The Crowd Fund

Hugh Rodgers is an award-winning composer based in Dublin, Ireland. Working in film and television, he has scored internationally award-winning documentaries and dramas, as well as highly successful online commercials and PSAs. 

Film & TV credits include: 'Strange Occurrences In A Small Irish Village' (Feature Documentary); 'One Million Dubliners' (Feature Documentary), Sandboy (Short Drama), Somebody To Love (TV Documentary), Home (Short Documentary),  Hold On Tight (Short Documentary), Crossword (Short Drama), Growing Up Gay (TV Documentary Series), Today Is Better Than Two Tomorrows (Feature Documentary).

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