While possessing a stylistically distinct sound, Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist(最低限度),experimental electronic(實驗電子), European classical(歐洲古典音樂), and Japanese classical(日本古典). Lesser known are the other musical roles he plays; he is also a typesetter(排字工人),author(作家),arranger(編曲), and head of an orchestra.
He is best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki(宮崎峻), having composed many scores for many of his films including Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea(崖上的波妞,2008), Spirited Away(千與千尋 ,2001), Howl's Moving Castle(霍爾的移動城堡,2004), Princess Mononoke(幽靈公主,1997), My Neighbor Totoro(龍貓,1988), and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(風之谷,1984).
Born in New York on July 22 in 1949, growing up in suburban New Rochelle, was a budding instrumental talent, developing an early interest in Beethoven and Brahms, later taken by the new folk movement, all the while adding rock'n'roll, and virtually anything else his ever-expanding musical universe.
Alan Menken 是一位來自美國的紐約人，出生於1949年7月22日，從小生長在一個喜愛百老匯音樂的家庭中
"I showed an interest in piano at a very young age, but I hated to practice, so when my parents left the room I'd make up my own version of the piece. That's how I started composing", he says. He also took up violin and guitar, played in bands and "did the whole '60s experience, soup to nuts".
"I wanted to be a serious composer, but as a very early age really thought that I couldn't do that because who becomes a composer? Chances were I'd be what every other Menken male in sight was: a dentist. My father was a dentist, my father's father was a dentist, my father's brother was a dentist, my mother's sister's husband was a dentist, my father's sister's husbund was a dentist. I thought that I was my fate".
After earning a degree in music from New York University, Menken worked under Lehman Ingram, the Music Director at the Musical Theater Workshop. He supported himself by writing jingles, accompanying ballet classes (he met his ballerina wife that way), and "musical directing" other people's shows. He also performed his own material in clubs, hoping to become "a singer-songwriter in the Peter Allen / Billy Joel / Elton John / James Taylor / Jackson Browne mode". Musical theater was not a priority. "I auditioned for the BMI workshop to please my parents", he says, referring to the innovative Manhattan-based program that has spawned so many gifted lyricists, composers and librettists. "Then I realized that I really like the challenge of writing for characters, adapting stories, being able to write an entire song score. I discovered I had a gift for writing accessible theatrical material that also had some kind of contemporary thing to it".
在紐約大學取得音樂學位後，他先是在一家當地的芭蕾舞團為其譜曲，也在這裡認識了他的妻子，另外，他還為許多廣告編寫廣告歌曲。後來，他加入了 BMI's Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop，並在這家公司展現其才華，一個機緣讓他踏入音樂界。
Composition (相關作品)
1986 Little Shop of Horrors (奇形奇花)
1989 The little mermaid (小美人魚)
1990 Rocky V (洛基5)
1991 Beauty and the Beast (美女與野獸)
1992 Lincoln (林肯傳)
1995 Pocahontas (風中奇緣)
1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (鐘樓怪人)
1997 Hercules (大力士)
2004 Home on the Range (放牛吃草)
Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera(歌劇魅影), first published in 1910. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures(電影) and into one of the most successful stage musicals(舞台劇) of all time. Its main character(主要特點), Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great unfinished work, Don Juan Triumphant, is described as breathtakingly beautiful by the one person he allows to hear it; he is an object of pity, whose face has been disfigured from birth, causing him to hide behind a silk mask; and he is hopelessly in love with a young woman whom he can never seriously hope will love him back.
Today, contemporary(當代的) music instruction(教育) is part of nearly(幾乎) every college music program(方案), but when MI began in the late '70s(七十年代末期) there were few(少數) such options(選修科目) available(可用的) to musicians(音樂家作曲家). When a few dozen(一打,許多個) guitarists(吉他手) and three full-time instructors(大學講師) gathered(召集者) for the first GIT (喬治理亞工學院)class in 1977, they knew that they were breaking new ground(領域) in music education. Here's a brief(簡短的) look at how it all began.
Reorganize according to the movie of 《lion king》music play make a great stir after July, 1997 head playing, being starting resident American Broadway(美國百老匯) Octoberperforming in public, that year acquires 11 Tony Award(托尼獎) nomination, among them 6 awards including the best music and Best Director.The play's eyes were been multinational to introduce by the Europe and America later on and still appeared a different modification version in the grounds, such as London and Torondo...etc..
音樂劇:
The Lion King became the highest grossing motion picture of 1994 worldwide, and the second highest in the USA (behind Forrest Gump). The film initially made US$312,855,561 domestically, including a short return to theaters in November 1994, and adding in its 2002 IMAX rerelease the domestic total is $328,541,776.The Lion King held the record for the most successful animated feature film until 2003 when it was surpassed by the computer animated Finding Nemo, but it remains the highest grossing hand-drawn animated feature film.
The Disney Music Group (formerly Buena Vista Music Group) is a collection of affiliated record labels all subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company. The chairman of the group is Bob Cavallo, who reports to Dick Cook, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios.
Fantasia was originally released by Walt Disney Productions itself rather than RKO Pictures, which normally distributed the Disney films, and exhibited as a two-hour and twenty minute roadshow film (counting the intermission) with reserved-seat engagements. The film opened to mixed critical reaction and failed to generate a large commercial audience, which left Disney in financial straits.[1][2]
A further refinement of the well regarded Emotion turntable featuring higher mass feet and the Direct Wire Satisfy Carbon fiber tonearm, a CMB bearing and Maestro MM Cartridge.
進一步完善了頗受歡迎的情感轉盤腳具有更高質量、滿足絲碳纖維唱臂和Maestro毫米墨盒、CMB軸承。
Emotion now with CMB & Maestro
現在情感以CMB&藝術大師
Design,quality and performance previously not achieved in this price range.
設計、質量和性能以前沒有取得這個價格範圍。
We wanted to open a new dimension of music reproduction so
我們想打開一個新的層面的音樂複製等
we did things never believable in this price category:
我們做了事從未可信在這個價格類別:
· Separate motor housing molded under over 100 tons of pressure
塑造獨立的電機外殼下100噸以上的壓力
· High quality platter,base plate, belt drive and maintenance free CMB bearing
高品質的盤片、基板、皮帶驅動器和免修護的CMB軸承
· Optional colors: satin frosted clear or satin black
任意顏色 : 緞面磨砂明確或緞黑色
· Satisfy carbon fiber tonearm,"So much more than an entry-level model."
碳纖維唱臂滿足，“因此，遠遠超過了入門級機型“。
- Maestro MM Cartridge
大師毫米盒式
The multi-award winning Clearaudio Emotion is in a class of its own! It is the benchmark in its price point and we're proud and happy to reach this standard. Listen to it,compare it,and believe it!
多獲獎Clearaudio情緒在一類是自己的！這是其價格的基準點，我們很自豪和高興達到這一標準。聽它，比較一下，並相信它！
Identical in all design features and technical aspects, we offer the satin black as the standard color and satin frosted clear as an option.
同所有的設計特點和技術方面，我們提供了黑色的緞子為標準顏色和緞磨砂明確作為一種選擇。
