Composer Is 'A Sucker for Emotion'
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His work duced music for Mel Gib- movie, played as Christ is Lenz says is Backstage the soul while keeping you has been nominated for son’s 2004 bible epic The dying on the cross, was proof that Pass in your seat. three Gemini awards and Passion of the Christ, a recorded in a tiny Paris ho- music tran- The renowned composer he has created music for challenging job that took tel room with Armenian scends both has carved a niche for him- Canadian television shows him across the world musician Levon Minassian time and $,-,". /$0(*.%' self and his company, Lenz like Little Mosque on the searching for unique per- playing a duduk, a wood- place. for Metro Canada Entertainment, producing Prairie, Due South and formers and unique wind instrument invented Lenz co- music for more than a hun- Robocop: The Series. sounds. 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