THE TODD-AO YEARS

Todd-AO Scoring Stage, CBS Radford, Studio City. If you happen to carefully read the liner notes in your Horner albums, you must have noticed the name of this recording studio several times. The composer has indeed recorded more than forty scores there, or almost half his discography, from Swing Kids (1992) to Deep Impact (1998) and finally The Spiderwick Chronicles (2007). Let's go back to this historical place where the maestro's brilliant notes sounded in thousands. In the 1920s, producer Mack Sennett, owner of Keystone Studios, master of silent films and the man who famously launched Charlie Chaplin's career, moved his production[...]

SALLY STEVENS

Sally Stevens is an American singer from Los Angeles. She has been part of most choral music works for Hollywood movies, and for several years has played a major role as an intermediary between composers and choirs/singers, and is as such referred to as "choir / vocal contractor." She brings in vocal talents who can meet the composers' needs for their choral parts. As a soprano, she sang in the choir she founded, the Hollywood Film Chorale, and performed the sublime song Flying Dreams in The Secret of NIMH (Jerry Goldsmith). A really accomplished artist, Sally Stevens is also passionate about photography.[...]

THE HOLLYWOOD FILM CHORALE

The Hollywood Film Chorale is a choir created by American singer Sally Stevens. Unlike other choirs, the number of members is not set. The smaller number of singers was 16, and the largest formation had 72 people for Snow Falling On Cedars by James Newton Howard. Official site: Hollywoodfilmchorale.com [...]