Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and Academy Award winning film score composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. He is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hercules", "Pocahontas", "Aladdin", … Wikipedia
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Educated at New York University Now tied with famed costume designer Edith Head for third most Academy Awards won, with eight. He has won best score and best song for four Disney animated movies: The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Ala www.imdb.com/name/nm0579678/
...Composer Information Name: Alan Menken Born: July 22, 1949 New Rochelle, New York, USA Performing Rights Organization: BMI Representation: Kraft-Engel Management Trailer Music: ... www.soundtrack.net/composers/database/?id=294
Under the terms of this new arrangement, Menken is expanding his role from within other divisions of The Walt Disney Company. For Disney Theatrical Productions, he is currently in preproduction on the stage version of "The Little Mermaid." Menken is als www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13392
Aladdin : (Alan Menken) Flying on its own magic carpet ride in the early 1990's, the collaboration between Disney and Alan Menken soared from The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast to Aladdin in 1992 without even the slightest hiccup. Despite the fa www.filmtracks.com/titles/aladdin.html
Enchanted : (Alan Menken) Everyone else is doing it, so why not Disney? The original Shrek film proved that it's now cool to make fun of fairy tales, and Disney finally pokes fun at itself in Enchanted , a musical unlike any in its storied history. The www.filmtracks.com/titles/enchanted.html
Enchanted : (Alan Menken) Everyone else is doing it, so why not Disney? The original Shrek film proved that it's now cool to make fun of fairy tales, and Disney finally pokes fun at itself in Enchanted , a musical unlike any in its storied history. The www.filmtracks.com/titles/enchanted.html?page=print
Home on the Range : (Alan Menken) Oh, the woes of Alan Menken . If you were to study a film composer's rapid ascent into stardom and equally hasty descent back into obscurity, then Alan Menken would be your perfect subject. www.filmtracks.com/titles/home_range.html?page=print
The Hunchback of Notre Dame : (Alan Menken) Like many before it, this film, along with its songs and score, stirred up a flourish of anger in certain American communities. The religious conservatives boycotted this film because of the song "Hellfire," hea www.filmtracks.com/titles/hunchback.html
