As a film composer, Carbonara's credits include Working Title's British comedy hit, The Guru (starring Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei), for which he artfully mixed traditional Indian instruments into a western ensemble. Also internationally, he scored two French produced films for director Amos Kolleck, Queenie in Love and Fast Food, Fast Woman, which premiered at Cannes, as well as Brazilian director Ana Carolina's Amélia. Other U.S. credits include David O. Russell's critically-acclaimed Spanking the Monkey, Nick Smith's Monumental and James Ryan's award-winning The Young Girl and the Monsoon.
For television Carbonara has scored the ABC pilot Elizabeth Street for executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Miguel Arteta and Jon Sherman's My Sexiest Mistake for the Oxygen Network.
Carbonara has also composed music for theater, scoring productions at the Atlantic Theater Company and Playwright's Horizon in New York City and The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge.
As a music editor, Carbonara has recently worked on the upcoming films, License To Wed (starring Robin Williams) and on Bob Odenkirk’s directorial debut, Let's Go to Prison (starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnet). Also in 2006, he worked on The Lake House (starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves) which was his fourth time working with academy-award winning composer Rachel Portman. Carbonara was the music editor on the two Oscar-nominated scores Portman wrote for Director Lasse Hallström’s films, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, as well as on her score for Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie. Carbonara has also worked as a music editor for directors Ron Howard, M. Night Shyamalan, David Mamet, Milos Forman, Stanley Tucci, Steve Buscemi and Robert Benton and for academy-award winning composers Michel LeGrand and Howard Shore.
A former jazz and touring trombonist, Carbonara has a bachelor degree in film scoring from the Berklee College of Music (1985).
Babylon
David Carbonara Lyrics
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We laid down and wept, and wept
For Thee Zion
We remember Thee, remember Thee Zion.
David Carbonara's song Babylon begins with a reference to the biblical city of Babylon and its association with the captivity and exile of the Jewish people. The lyrics refer to the waters of Babylon, likely a reference to the Euphrates River that flows through the city, and how the Jewish people wept by its shores. The weeping is a symbol of the sorrow and despair felt by the exiled Jews, who had been forced to leave their beloved city of Zion behind.
The lyrics then shift to a remembrance of Zion, the Jewish homeland, which had been taken from them. The remembrance of Zion is a symbol of the Jewish people's longing to return to their homeland and reclaim what had been taken from them. Overall, the lyrics of the song Babylon serve as a powerful statement on the themes of exile, loss, and nostalgia for a home that may never be regained.
Line by Line Meaning
By the rivers of Babylon
We were near the Euphrates River in Babylon
There we sat down
We found a spot to rest
Yeah, we wept when we remembered Zion
We cried when we thought of our homeland, Zion
By the rivers of Babylon
We were still in Babylon
There we sat down
We stayed in one place and thought
We wept when we remembered Zion
We cried again when we remembered Zion
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: DAVID V CARBONARA
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