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Music preparation: Steven L. Smith
Orchestrations: John Neufeld
Sound engineer: Shawn Murphy
Music editor: Jim Henrikson
Orchestra: The London Symphony Orchestra
Ethnic Woodwinds: Tony Hinnigan, Michael Taylor
Studio: EMI Abbey Road Studio 1, Londres

Once Upon A Time With Me
Performed by: Florence Warner Jones
Music: James Horner
Lyrics: Will Jennings
Vocal Backgrounds: New London Children's Choir

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ONCE UPON A FOREST – AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPLETE SCORE

Notes on the movie Once Upon A Forest opened to mixed reviews on June 18, 1993 and was not the financial success that the filmmakers had hoped for – of course, there was the small matter of Spielberg’s dinosaurs crowding the marketplace back then. None of this, however, kept Forest from being nominated for an Annie Award for Best Animated Feature in 1993 and winning an MPSE Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing. A quick internet search does not reveal very much about the production, but there is an informative Wikipedia page. It has this to say about the production. Once Upon[...]

ONCE UPON A FOREST – AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR CHARLES GROSVENOR

Hot on the heels of A Far Off Place and just prior to Searching For Bobby Fischer (both 1993), James Horner was asked by producer David Kirschner to score a modestly budgeted animation movie called Once Upon a Forest. Kirschner and Horner had first joined forces on An American Tail (1986) and they went on to collaborate on Fievel Goes West (1991), The Pagemaster (1994) and Hocus Pocus (1993). (James Horner was originally slated to score Hocus Pocus but had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts, handing over scoring duties to John Debney, who was barely a blip on[...]

ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

Oxyman [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI studios) are recording studios in London,England, founded in the year 1931. Their current name is a tribute to the eponymous album of The Beatles who recorded most of their songs there in the 1960s. Several famous bands have recorded there, such as Pink Floyd, and more recently, Oasis and Radiohead. Legendary music composers like John Williams used the studios to record the scores for five films of Star Wars starting with ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ in 1980, and composer James Horner has used Abbey Road Studios many times as his recording[...]

FLORENCE WARNER JONES*

Florence Warner (born March 22, 1947 in Atlanta) is an American singer who worked mainly for commercials. Her recording career boils down to albums out in the late '70s and early '80s. Source: Wikipedia [...]

NEW LONDON CHILDREN'S CHOIR

The New London Children's Choir is a children's choir who rehearses at Highgate Primary School in North London. It was founded in 1991 by Artistic Director Ronald Corp. Source: Wikipedia Official site: newlondonchildrenschoir.org.uk [...]

WILL JENNINGS

Wilbur Jennings (born in 1944 in the Texas town of Kilgore) is an author, songwriter and performer. He has written or co-written many contributions for artists such as BB King, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston, Linda Ronstadt, Celine Dion and others. He received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1997 for the lyrics of the song My Heart Will Go On for James Cameron's Titanic. Source : Wikipedia [...]

ANDRAÉ CROUCH

By Eirik Voss (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Andraé Crouch (born July 1, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an award-winning gospel musician, recording artist, songwriter, arranger, and producer. He was a key figure in the Christian Music movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His religious songs were performed by Elvis Presley, Paul Simon, and church choirs and other musical groups around the world. He won eight Grammy awards and received an Oscar nomination. Andraé Crouch was inducted into the Gospel Music Association’s Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1998. Source: Riverphlo.com [...]

BRAD DECHTER

© scoringsessions.com Brad Dechter is an orchestrator, arranger, composer, saxophonist and teacher who began his professional career in 1971; however his career in Hollywood began in earnest in 1981. Originally from Los Angeles, he grew up in a musical environment. He orchestrated and arranged more than 230 films with composers such as James Newton Howard, John Debney, Marc Shaiman, Mark Isham, Jerry Goldsmith and Trevor Jones. In recent years he also worked with Mariah Carey on her Christmas album (2010) and composed two concertos for jazz (piano and oboe). As a saxophonist, he studied with the legendary George Coleman and played with Ella Fitzgerald,[...]

JOHN NEUFELD

John Neufeld is an American arranger, orchestrator and clarinetist. He also plays other wind instruments (flute, saxophone). He is a regular contributor to the work of John Williams from Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989). Source: discogs.com [...]

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RichTea [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons The London Symhony Orchestra is one of the main symphony orchestras in England and was founded in 1904. Enormous movie scores were recorded with this orchestra like Harry Potter, Star Wars and Superman. Source : wikipedia [...]

CONRAD POPE

Conrad Pope is known in Hollywood for his rare musical skills and as a refreshing and emotional musical composer. He has participated in over a hundred films in varied genres and budgets. With a classical background, he studied at the conservatory in New England, Princeton University and Europe. He worked as a music supervisor for composers like John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, John Powell and Hans Zimmer. Official site: ConradPopeMusic [...]

DAVID KIRSCHNER

Photo by Amy Graves © WireImage.com David M. Kirschner (born May 29, 1955) is an American film and television producer. In 1986 Kirschner created and produced An American Tail, which was co-produced by Steven Spielberg. Kirschner is also the creator of the animatronic doll Chucky, which is featured in the Child's Play. Source: Wikipedia Unreleased Projects: [...]

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