What American orchestrator composed the music for Disney's 52nd Disney animated feature film.
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David Metzger David Metzger (born in 1960 in Corvallis, Oregon), is an American orchestrator and composer best known for his orchestrations of many Disney feature animation films of the past 20 years. He has helped to shape the classic Disney orchestral sound on major Disney films including "Frozen", "Moana", "Planes", "Wreck-It Ralph", "Tarzan", "Haunted Mansion", and "Brother Bear". He arranged 6 of the 7 songs in "Frozen" including the blockbuster "Let It Go" as well as much of the score. In addition to his work for Disney, he has done orchestrations for over 50 major films. He has also composed the musical score for Tarzan 2, Brother Bear 2, and Tarzan and Jane. He also has numerous video game, theme park, TV, and commercial credits.
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Wreck-It Ralph Wreck-It Ralph is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 52nd Disney animated feature film. The film was directed by Rich Moore, who has directed episodes of "The Simpsons" and "Futurama", and the screenplay was written by Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee from a story by Moore, Johnston, and Jim Reardon. John Lasseter served as the executive producer. The film features the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, and Jane Lynch. The film tells the story of the eponymous arcade game villain who rebels against his role and dreams of becoming a hero. He travels between games in the arcade and ultimately must eliminate a dire threat that could affect the entire arcade and one that Ralph himself unintentionally started.
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Mr. Piano Man, Please! "Mr. Piano Man, Please" is a ragtime style song written for former Disney Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello by songwriters, Bob and Dick Sherman for the Golden Horseshoe Revue. This song follows in a long line of popular songs written by the Sherman Brothers for Annette. Other "top ten" songs include "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess". As Annette went on to make films for other film companies besides Disney, the Sherman Brothers continued to work for the family friendly conglomerate eventually winning two Oscars for "Mary Poppins" in 1965.
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The Happiest Millionaire (album) The Happiest Millionaire (complete title Count Basie Captures Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire) is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra featuring performances of tunes featured in Walt Disney's motion picture "The Happiest Millionaire" recorded in 1967 and released on the Coliseum label.
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Happy Working Song "Happy Working Song" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz for Walt Disney Pictures' musical film "Enchanted" (2007). Recorded by American actress Amy Adams in her starring role as Giselle, the uptempo pop song both parodies and pays homage to a variety of songs from several Disney animated feature films, particularly "Whistle While You Work" from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937). Produced by Menken, Schwartz and Danny Troob, the song appears on the film's soundtrack "Enchanted: Original Soundtrack."
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Tarzan (1999 film soundtrack) Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1999 Disney animated film, "Tarzan". The songs on the soundtrack were composed by Phil Collins, and the instrumental score by Mark Mancina. The song "You'll Be in My Heart" won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, while the soundtrack album won a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. For his contribution to the soundtrack, Collins received an American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist.
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Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being "White Christmas." The film features the complete reuse of "Easter Parade," written by Berlin for the 1933 Broadway revue "As Thousands Cheer". The film's choreography was by Danny Dare.
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52nd Street Themes 52nd Street Themes is a studio album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano. It was recorded in early November 1999 and released by Blue Note Records on April 25, 2000. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. It is named after the jazz standard by Thelonious Monk.
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Heavy Traffic (soundtrack) Heavy Traffic OST is the soundtrack to Ralph Bakshi's 1973 film "Heavy Traffic". The film's score was performed by Ed Bogas and Ray Shanklin. The soundtrack album was released on Fantasy Records in 1973. The album was released on compact disc in 1996 as part of a compilation that featured both the soundtracks to "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic" on the same disc.
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David Newman (composer) David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning nearly forty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films.
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Interprets Great Music, Great Films, Great Sounds Interprets Great Music Great Films Great Sounds is an album by American composer and arranger Nelson Riddle of songs from contemporaneous motion pictures. The album also contains five songs from the 1935 Rodgers and Hart musical "Jumbo".
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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an educational "Adventures in Music" animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, and originally released to theaters by Buena Vista Distribution on November 10, 1953. A sequel to the first "Adventures in Music" cartoon, the 3-D short "Melody", Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation of the evolution of the four orchestra sections over the ages with: the brass ("toot"), the woodwind ("whistle"), the strings ("plunk"), and the percussion ("boom").
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Jerry Grant (composer) Jerry Grant (born December 31, 1936) is an American film and television music score and theme composer, Musical arranger, and jazz musician.
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Robert Russell Bennett Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards recognizing his orchestrations for Broadway shows. Early in his career he was often billed as Russell Bennett.
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David Nessim Lawrence David N. Lawrence (born 1960) is an American musical composer known primarily for his work on television and movie scores. In 2002, he won an ASCAP award for his work on "American Pie 2". He also composed music for the Disney Channel Original Movies "High School Musical", "The Cheetah Girls 2", "High School Musical 2", "High School Musical 3", "Jericho (TV Series by CBS 2006)" and "". He also composed additional music for three Sesame Street videos like "Elmo Says BOO!," "Big Bird Gets Lost," and "Let's Eat! Funny Food Songs," where he was credited as David Lawrence.
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Atmosphères Atmosphères is a piece for full orchestra, composed by György Ligeti in 1961. It is noted for eschewing conventional melody and metre in favor of dense sound textures. After "Apparitions", it was the second piece Ligeti wrote to exploit what he called a "micropolyphonic" texture. It gained further exposure after being used in Stanley Kubrick's film "".
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Cars (soundtrack) Cars is the soundtrack to the 2006 Disney-Pixar animated film of the same name. Nine songs from the soundtrack are from popular and contemporary artists. The styles of these songs vary between pop, blues, country, and rock. The remaining eleven pieces are orchestral scores composed and conducted by Randy Newman.
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Vince Mendoza Vince Mendoza (born November 17, 1961) is an American music arranger, conductor, and composer.
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Belle (Disney song) "Belle" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman for Walt Disney Pictures' 30th animated feature film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). Originally recorded by American actress and singer Paige O'Hara and American actor Richard White, "Belle", a mid-tempo French and classical music-inspired song, incorporates both Broadway and musical theatre elements. The film's first song and opening number, "Belle" appears during "Beauty and the Beast "as a large scale operetta-style production number that introduces the film's heroine Belle, considered a book-loving nonconformist by the townspeople of the village, who has grown weary of the provincial life in which she is supposed to live, and Gaston, the film's narcissistic villain who wishes to desire her hand in marriage despite Belle's rejections.
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Jack Cooper (musician) Jack Cooper ("Née" John Thomas Cooper Jr., May 14, 1963) is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator. He has written music for internationally known pop, jazz, and classical artists including Aaron Neville, Marc Secara, Jiggs Whigham, the Berlin Jazz Orchestra, Lenny Pickett, Joyce Cobb, Donald Brown, Alexis Cole, Jimi Tunnell, Young Voices Brandenburg, Bobby Shew, Christian McBride, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. His catalogue of music includes jazz through contemporary classical; he has worked for Columbia Pictures Publishing, Warner Brothers, and Alfred Music as a staff arranger since 1993.
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Toby Chu Toby Chu (Washington, D.C., 1977) is an American film composer. Over the last 20 years, he has composed music for over 50 films and television programs. His works include "," "" for Sony Pictures Animation, Warner Bros.’ dramatic thriller "Unforgettable", and New Line Cinema’s period thriller "The Wolves at the Door". He is also scoring the Freeform original series "Beyond (2017 TV series)".
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Patrick Williams (composer) Patrick Moody Williams (born April 23, 1939) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor who has worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.