A Prairie Home Companion, a film by the late Robert Altman, premiered  in June of 2006 and is now available on DVD. It's been shown on HBO and is still playing in theaters around the world. Rich appears as himself (pianist and bandleader) and accompanies Meryl  Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Garrison Keillor and others. He served as the film's music director, conductor, arranger, and contributed several songs to the soundtrack. Click here for the Movie Website

 
A Prairie Home Companion - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available in stores everywhere. In summer of 2006 it hit  #1 on the Billboard Magazine Bluegrass Charts and made it onto Billboard's Soundtrack, Country and Top 200 charts as well. Available on New Line Records (click here for info)
 
Start It All Over Again
Sally Dworsky (vocals) with Richard Dworsky (piano). After years of requests, the brother and sister duo have recorded a CD of sweet songs by a wide mix of great songwriters.  Available at the Prairie Home Companion website  (click here). Click here to visit Sally Dworsky's official website		  
Kristin Chenoweth ( star of  stage and screen ) sings Dworsky's "Goin' To the Dance With You" on her CD Let Yourself Go   (Sony Classical) and has  performed it on PBS's Evening at Pops and around the country with various orchestras. (visit Kristin Chenoweth's official website)
  

 
THE ADVENTURES OF GUY NOIR nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005. Rich wrote all the music and performs it with The Guys All-Star Shoe Band. The Guy Noir theme was also used in the Prairie Home Companion movie under Kevin Kline's prologue and under the final credits. Further info at Pretty Good Goods.

 NEWS FLASHES
Dworsky is big in the Far East lately. His piano piece "A Morning With the Roses" is getting regular radio airplay in Japan, due to the recent release of the compilation CD "Windham Hill Chill- Ambient/Acoustic". And Richard's tune "The Path to You" is being heard as a theme for a morning news/variety show seen daily on Indonesian national television.

Rich's recent CD releases:  "Amazing Grace: Classic Hymns"  (solo piano and piano/cello duets) now available at Target stores everywhere on its LIFESCAPES  label. Prairie Home Companion " Duets" (HighBridge) includes two Dworsky original instrumentals (a piano 4 hands; and a piano/ cello duet) and other tracks on which Richard accompanies  Garrison Keillor and Meryl Streep, The Everly Brothers, and Chet Atkins. Dworsky provided the piano interludes on Garrison Keillor's new book on CD, "Pontoon" (HighBridge); and he collaborated with singer-songwriter Cliff Eberhardt on his CD "The High Above and the Down Below", and with  Robin and Linda Williams on their "Radio Songs" CD ( both on Red House Records).