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Alan Irwin Menken [1] (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer and conductor, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Skydance Animation. Menken's contributions to The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) won him two Academy Awards for each film.
Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films including the Back to the Future film series , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Forrest Gump , Cast Away , and The Polar Express .
1949 — 1966. Alan Menken was born July 22nd, 1949 at French Hospital in New York City, to young aspiring actress/playwright, Judy Menken and boogie-woogie piano-playing dentist, Norman Menken, DDS. He grew up in a home, filled with music and theater (and comedy and drama) in New Rochelle, New York, along with his sisters, Faye and Leah.
Alan Menken, American composer whose captivating scores helped invigorate the animated feature films of the Walt Disney Company. He earned Academy Awards for his work on the movies The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995). Menken was the 16th person to win an EGOT.
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Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer, who scored the music for Disney films, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Parent Trap, Lilo & Stitch, and several Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including The Avengers films. He also composed the 1995 Hollywood Pictures sci-fi drama Judge Dredd.
Silvestri was born in 1950 and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. He graduated from Teaneck High School and went to Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts for two years. He started his film/television composing career in 1972 at age 21, composing the score for the low-budget action film The Doberman Gang and later served as the main composer for the television series CHiPs and as additional composer for the television series Amazing Stories and Tales from the Crypt.
In 1984, he began a frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis on films, like Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Future trilogy, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Contact, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, The Polar Express, Beowulf, Flight, The Walk, Allied, Welcome to Marwen, and The Witches. He also scored other films, such as Predator, Critical Condition, Overboard, The Abyss, Predator 2, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, The Bodyguard, Grumpy Old Men, The Quick and the Dead, Sgt. Bilko, Volcano, Mouse Hunt, The Odd Couple II, Practical Magic, the first two Stuart Little movies, Reindeer Games, What Women Want, The Mummy Returns, The Mexican, Serendipity, Maid in Manhattan, Identity, Van Helsing, the Night at the Museum trilogy, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The A-Team, The Croods, RED 2, and Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One.
He also composed music for the science documentary Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds on National Geographic for which he won two Emmy Awards.
•He was originally slated to compose the score for Tarzan, but was replaced by Mark Mancina.
1."Exclusive: Alan Silvestri to Compose Disney+’s ‘Pinocchio’ With Glen Ballard Writing New Songs". The Disinsider (December 20, 2020).
Oct 15, 2022 · Nowadays, Menken works on reworking some of his most beloved animated Disney soundtracks for their respective live-action remakes— Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and the highly-anticipated The Little Mermaid, allowing for both a new audience to discover his songs while providing a nostalgic reimagining for the generations who grew up on the original films.
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Alan Irwin Menken is an American film and musical theater composer and pianist. For Disney, he composed music for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Home on the Range, Enchanted, and Tangled. He has worked with lyricists Howard Ashman, Sir Tim Rice, Stephen Schwartz, David Zippel, Jeff Wayne and Glenn Slater. In 2001, he and ...
