Discovering that Bruce Broughton rescored Jerry Goldsmith’s iconic Soarin’ score for Soarin’ Around the World, it occurred to me: Who are my favorite parks composers? And who are yours?
I’m not yet sure. After all, X Atencio and Bruce Broughton are some prolific composers. But Yanni and Ray Lynch and many others have contributed some music in their own rights (their tracks sampled for Tomorrowland BGM or Wonders of Life or the Fountain of Nations, etc.) Of course, John Williams has lent Star Wars and Indiana Jones to Disney, and there are definitely others, like Gavin Greenaway and his wonderful work for the Millennium Celebration.
Getting the discussion started now. I’ll mull over my favorites and post them here later.