“‘Mad Men’ offers a perplexing challenge. While handsomely staged and beautifully scored, the series rolls in an outrageously sexist, racist world.”

-The Boston Herald : Mad Men

“Promising young composer who...made his compositional debut in 1994, on director David O. Russell low budget comedy Spanking the Monkey...David Carbonara is one of a very small number of composers to successfully juggle this dual-career, (composer/music editor) and judging by his recent work with James Newton Howard and Christopher Young, it looks as though it will continue.”

-Jonathan Broxton of Movie Music UK : Spanking the Monkey

Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film & TV Music Conference

Weiner noted that he wrote the pilot 10 years ago...

Among the first 20 or so people to read the pilot script was Weiner's fellow panelist at the Film & TV Music Conference, composer David Carbonara. "He was my audience," said Weiner of Carbonara who went on to score the pilot seven years after receiving that initial script...

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-Shootonline.com : Mad Men

Mad Men

2007-2010
AMC
Directors: Phil Abraham, Jennifer Getzinger, Andrew Bernstein, Lesli Linka Glatter and Alan Taylor
Producers: Matthew Weiner and Scott Hornbacher

The Guru

2002
Working Title Films / Universal Pictures
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Producers: Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan and Michael London

Spanking the Monkey

2003
Fine Line Features
Director: David O. Russell
Producers: Janet Grillo, Stanley F. Buchthal and Dean Silvers