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Alan Menken

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      CommentAuthorSylvos
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
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    Time to promote one of my personal favorites. ALAN MENKEN.

    His credits include:
    # Little Shop of Horrors (1982 Off-Broadway musical, 1986 film and 2003 Broadway Revival)
    # The Little Mermaid (1989 film and 2008 Broadway musical)
    # Rocky V (the song "The Measure of a Man") (1990)
    # Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No") (1990)
    # Beauty and the Beast (1991 film and 1994 Broadway musical)
    # Newsies (1992)
    # Weird Romance (1992 Off-Broadway Musical and 2007 revival)
    # Aladdin (1992 and 2003 musical)
    # A Christmas Carol (1995 Broadway musical and 2004 TV movie)
    # Pocahontas (1995)
    # The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 and 1999 German musical)
    # Hercules (1997)
    # King David (1997)
    # Home on the Range (2004)
    # The Shaggy Dog (2006)
    # Sister Act the Musical (2006)
    # Enchanted (2007)
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      CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
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    I don't understand it. For all the great music this guy has written, so many of his themes just get on my nerves. It's really weird! spin sad
    www.johnpowellcomposer.com/fourtrombones - The Musical Library Of Lost
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
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    My favourite Menken scores - Aladdin, Beauty and The Beast, Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Home on The Range and Enchanted.

    I also like Hercules and Shaggy Dog but little less than the aforementioned titles.
    All you Hans Zimmer/Lion King/Disney fans, please take some time to read and sign the following petition to get the complete score of The Lion King released officially - www.petitiononline.com/LIONKING/petition.html Thanks!
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
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    Aladdin was the second score I got when I first started collecting scores, actually biggrin
    All you Hans Zimmer/Lion King/Disney fans, please take some time to read and sign the following petition to get the complete score of The Lion King released officially - www.petitiononline.com/LIONKING/petition.html Thanks!
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    There's only one superior Alan Menken score for me and that is Hunchback of Notre Dame, probably capturing some of the best choral music ever written. The threatening scale, the power and the drive alone are really superior and nothing that Menken has topped yet.
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
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    Menken is GREAT!
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
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    Thor wrote
    Menken is GREAT!


    Oh yes! Incomparable at what he does.
    As Carl Orff said to his wife after she gave him cheese sandwiches for the ninth successive day, "O! For tuna"
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    Oh yes, Hunchback is definitely his best! I also like some from Beauty and the Beast, like the prologue.
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
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    Tommy_Boy wrote
    There's only one superior Alan Menken score for me and that is Hunchback of Notre Dame, probably capturing some of the best choral music ever written. The threatening scale, the power and the drive alone are really superior and nothing that Menken has topped yet.



    Many people have mentioned this particular score and yes, it's quite good but nothing to get over excited by. I'm sure I could name 100's of better choral tracks? ( I'll add : IMO wink )
    BURN THE BUNNY!
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    Timmer wrote
    Tommy_Boy wrote
    There's only one superior Alan Menken score for me and that is Hunchback of Notre Dame, probably capturing some of the best choral music ever written. The threatening scale, the power and the drive alone are really superior and nothing that Menken has topped yet.



    Many people have mentioned this particular score and yes, it's quite good but nothing to get over excited by. I'm sure I could name 100's of better choral tracks? ( I'll add : IMO wink )


    I just didn't expect anything from this magnitude from Menken, perhaps that's the reason why I was so surprised with these choral tracks. Hence the reason I like them so much wink
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
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    Tommy_Boy wrote
    Timmer wrote
    Tommy_Boy wrote
    There's only one superior Alan Menken score for me and that is Hunchback of Notre Dame, probably capturing some of the best choral music ever written. The threatening scale, the power and the drive alone are really superior and nothing that Menken has topped yet.



    Many people have mentioned this particular score and yes, it's quite good but nothing to get over excited by. I'm sure I could name 100's of better choral tracks? ( I'll add : IMO wink )


    I just didn't expect anything from this magnitude from Menken, perhaps that's the reason why I was so surprised with these choral tracks. Hence the reason I like them so much wink


    Yeah I can understand that. I remember first hearing the huge choral track on Snow Falling On Cedars which blew me away.

    I think some film score fans took against Menken because of his multiple Oscar wins, quite understandable to an extent when you consider how many Oscars the likes of Goldsmith, Morricone and North received.
    BURN THE BUNNY!
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      CommentAuthorSylvos
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
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    Timmer wrote

    I think some film score fans took against Menken because of his multiple Oscar wins, quite understandable to an extent when you consider how many Oscars the likes of Goldsmith, Morricone and North received.


    I don't agree with that way of thinking. Just because Menken won more oscars than the favorable Goldsmith or Morricone, doesn't mean people should bash Menken.
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      CommentAuthorSylvos
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008 edited
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    And why dud Lasseter replace Menken with his Pixar composer Randy Newman for their upcoming 2D animation, Princess and the Frog? "We don't want people to think Disney is repeating itself". So Newman is new to Disney now?

    That Lasseter dude's been making some unneccessary changes to Disney eversince his arrival. Not only did he fire Menken, but he also gave the guys that were doing American Dog (Bolt?) the boot, had lots or arguments with the director of Rapuzel (Should clear up why they brought another person to co-direct the film)

    Why fix something that ain't broke?
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
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    I think it was very much broke!
    As Carl Orff said to his wife after she gave him cheese sandwiches for the ninth successive day, "O! For tuna"
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    I second the motion of the member for Bristol.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
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    franz_conrad wrote
    I second the motion of the member for Bristol.


    biggrin cool beer
    BURN THE BUNNY!
 
 

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