Music Composers/Orchestras Question WDW Theme Parks Discuss Music Composers/Orchestras Question in the Vacation Planning forums; Anybody know any of the composers or orchestras used to create background music? im talking in like Soarin or Ellen's Energy Adventure or even some of the fireworks shows, not ...

[ERich2010]

Anybody know any of the composers or orchestras used to create background music? im talking in like Soarin or Ellen's Energy Adventure or even some of the fireworks shows, not so much the jingle-y theme songs

[WDW4Ever]

Jerry Goldsmith did Soarin' over California I believe. He even said afterward that had he seen the video that his music was being composed for, he would have done it for free!

[WDW4Ever]

Gavin Greenaway did "Reflections of Earth". Hans Zimmer, Greenaway's colleague and the composer of "Lion King", asked Gavin to do the music because he was busy with other productions at the time.

"We Go On" lyrics were by Don Dorsey and the solo by Kellie Coffey

"Promise" was also composed by Gavin Greenaway

[WDW4Ever]

Jim Cummings, voice talent of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Darkwing Duck, does the narration at the very beginning:

"Good evening. On behalf of Walt Disney World, the place where dreams come true, we welcome all of you to Epcot and World Showcase. We've gathered here tonight around the fire as people of all lands have gathered for thousands and thousands of years before us... to share the light... and to share a story. An amazing story as old as time itself, but still being written. And though each of us has our own individual stories to tell, a true adventure emerges when we bring them all together as one. We hope you enjoy our story tonight: Reflections of Earth."

[WDW4Ever]

Just to go along with the music theme here with IllumiNations, I started a thread a little while ago that has the Holy Name Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps doing the IllumiNations music

Cadets play IllumiNations