Piece: Overture from The Phantom of the Opera

Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber/Charles Hart

Year: 1986
Ensemble: Original London Cast
Conductor: Michael Reed
About the Conductor: Reed has orchestrated, arranged and conducted many shows. He has also conducted for
many galas and concerts including the opportunity to guest conduct the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Concert
Orchestras. He has also written several musicals.

Piece: Overture from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Composer: Danny Elfman
Year: 1993
Ensemble: Studio Orchestra
Conductor: Jonathan Alfred Clawson Redford
About the Conductor: He has composed a large array of music from choral and concert music to film and
television scores. His pieces have been performed all over the world. He has been working in the film and
television industry for over 25 years and has had the opportunity to conduct, orchestrate, arrange, write, and
record with Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pieces. He has had various other jobs and at one
point he was a teacher in the Artists-in-Schools program for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Piece: The Planets: Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity

Composer: Gustav Holst
Year: 1990
Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Andre Previn
About the Conductor: Previn and his family immigrated to the United States. He has won Academy and
Grammy Awards as a pianist, conductor, and composer. He has conducted many orchestras which include the
Houston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and
several others. He has conducted several film scores and stage-to-film adaptations. He also spent some time
composing classical music and performing.

Piece: Practice, Practice, Practice from Mr. Holland’s Opus

Composer: Michael Kamen
Year: 1996
Ensemble: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Kamen
About the Conductor: Kamen attended the New York High School of Music & Art and continued his study of
oboe at Julliard. Kamen became a highly sought after arranger. He had become an established film
composer. He has performed with a variety of groups. Before he passed away, he created The Mr. Holland’s
Opus Foundation which is meant to support music education through supplying instruments to
underprivileged schools. He conducted various groups during his lifetime and from his conducting and
composition he was nominated for and received many awards.
MICHAEL REED (Musical Supervision/Vocal & Dance Arrangements) has conducted, arranged and
orchestrated more than 20 West End shows including Phantom of the Opera, Barnum, Singin' in the
Rain and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. A familiar face on television, Michael has
been musical director for many concerts and galas and is a regular guest conductor with the Royal
Philharmonic and BBC Concert orchestras. Michael has written several musicals including adaptations
of Les Enfants du Paradis and The Prince and the Pauper. Garbo, written with Jim Steinman, premieres
in Stockholm in September 2002 and A Little Danger in the West End in summer 2003.

Birth Name

Jonathan Alfred Clawson Redford

Date of Birth

14 July 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA

Mini Biography

J.A.C. Redford is an accomplished composer of concert music, film and television scores, and music for the
theater. His concert compositions span a wide range of forms from symphony, choral music and ballet, to art
songs and chamber music. His larger works have been performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the
Utah Symphony, the American Chamber Orchestra, the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles
Chamber Singers and the Utah Chamber Artists, at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., St. Peter's
Basilica in Rome, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and at London's Royal Albert Hall. His
chamber music has been performed by the Debussy Trio, Liona Boyd, the Philadelphia Brass, the
Westminster Brass and Zephyr: Voices Unbound. Redford's incidental music has been heard in theatrical
productions at the Matrix Theater in Los Angeles and South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa,
California, as well as on the American Playhouse series on PBS. Two of his musical comedies are published
by Anchorage Press and performed frequently across North America.

Working in the film and television industries for over 25 years, Redford has written the scores for more than
three dozen feature films, TV movies or miniseries, including The Trip to Bountiful, Extremities, Oliver and
Company, The Mighty Ducks II and III, What the Deaf Man Heard and Mama Flora's Family. He has
composed the music for nearly 500 episodes of series television, including multiple seasons of Coach and St.
Elsewhere (for which he received Emmy nominations). He has orchestrated, arranged, or conducted for
Academy Award-winning composers James Horner, Alan Menken and Rachel Portman, as well as for
Terence Blanchard, Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, Marc Shaiman and Cirque du Soleil's Benoit Jutras, on
projects including The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Perfect Storm.

Redford has written for and recorded with Grammy Award-winning artists Bonnie Raitt and Steven Curtis
Chapman. He has produced, arranged, and conducted music for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and served
as a consultant for the Sundance Film Institute, a teacher in the Artists-in-Schools program for the National
Endowment for the Arts, a guest lecturer at USC and UCLA, and on the Music Branch Executive Committees
for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He
is the author of Welcome All Wonders: A Composer's Journey, published by Baker Books.

IMDb Mini Biography By: J.A.C. Redford

André Previn was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. His brother was the late director Steve Previn (1925-1993). With his
family, he immigrated to the United States in 1938 to escape the Nazi Regime in Germany. He became a naturalized citizen of the
United States in 1943, and grew up in Los Angeles. At his Summer 1946 graduation from Beverly Hills High School Previn played
a musical duet with Richard M. Sherman: Previn played the piano, accompanying Sherman (who played flute). Coincidentally,
twenty one years later, both composers won Oscars for different films, both winning in musical categories.

In 1967, Previn became music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. In 1968, Previn began his tenure as principal conductor
of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), serving in that post until 1979. During his LSO tenure, he and the LSO appeared on
television in the programme André Previn's Music Night. From 1976-1984, Previn was music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra (PSO), and in turn had another television series with the PSO titled Previn and the Pittsburgh. He has also held principal
conducting positions with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His many recordings include the
three complete ballets of Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, and the complete symphonies of
Ralph Vaughan Williams, all with the LSO.

Previn has composed film scores and other musical works including a cello concerto and a guitar concerto. He has also adapted and
conducted the music for several films — some of them stage-to-film adaptations such as My Fair Lady, Kismet, Porgy and Bess,
Paint Your Wagon, but several especially for film, including the Academy Award-winning Gigi.

In the mid-to-late 1950s, and more recently, he toured and recorded as a jazz pianist. Mainly recording for Contemporary Records,
he worked with Shelly Manne and Benny Carter. An album he recorded with Manne of songs from My Fair Lady was a best-seller.
He collaborated with Julie Andrews on a collection of Christmas carols in 1966, focusing on rarely heard carols. This popular album
has been reissued many times over the years, and is now available on CD.

In later years, he has concentrated on composing classical music. He collaborated with Tom Stoppard on Every Good Boy Deserves
Favour, a play with substantial musical content which was first performed in London in 1977 with Previn conducting the LSO. His
first opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, premiered at the San Francisco Opera in 1998. His numerous other classical works include
vocal, chamber, and orchestral music. Occasionally he has made recordings of jazz music on the Telarc label.

In the United Kingdom, where he was Knighted in 1996, he is particularly remembered for his performance as "Mr Andrew
Preview" (or "Privet") on the Morecambe and Wise comedy show in 1971, which involved his conducting a spoof performance of
Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto, with Eric Morecambe as soloist. Because of other commitments, the only time available for Previn
to learn his part was during a transatlantic flight, but the talent he showed for comedy won high praise from his co-performers. At a
concert in Britain afterwards, Previn had to stop the playing of the concerto to allow the audience time to stop giggling as they
remembered the sketch. It is still voted one of the funniest comedy moments of all time.

Andre Previn has been married five times. His first three marriages, to Betty Bennett, Dory Previn and then to Mia Farrow, kept him
in the public eye. After his fourth marriage to Heather Sneddon had ended, in 2002, Previn wed the German violinist Anne-Sophie
Mutter, and later wrote a violin concerto for her. They divorced in 2006.

Previn has mentioned in the liner notes of the program printed for his appearance as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra during the 2006-2007 season that his year of birth is 1930, and not 1929 as many sources claim.

Previn wrote a memoir of his early Hollywood years, No Minor Chords, published in 1991.

Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores),
orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. Kamen was born in New York City, USA
and studied at the New York High School of Music & Art in New York, then at Juilliard's School for Music Dance and
Drama in New York. While studying the oboe, he formed a rock classical fusion band called New York Rock and Roll
Ensemble, which was on the first of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic.
[edit] Early work
Kamen's early work centered on ballets, thirteen in all, then expanding into Hollywood by writing the score for The
Next Man in 1976, then into pop and rock arranging, collaborating with Pink Floyd on their album, The Wall. One of
his songs Sing Lady Sing, was renamed Them Changes and parlayed into a hit by Buddy Miles.
[edit] Career in popular music
Kamen became a highly-sought arranger in the realms of pop and rock music. In fact in Great Britain he was among an
illustrious and small group of arrangers whose names constantly appeared on popular releases by major artists. His
contemporaries in this field included Academy Award winner Anne Dudley, Richard Niles, and Nick Ingman. His
successes include his work with Pink Floyd[1], David Gilmour[1], Roger Waters[1] (he is one of the few people to have
been invited to work with both former Pink Floyd members, after their acrimonious split), Queen, Eric Clapton, Roger
Daltrey, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, David Bowie, Eurythmics, Queensrÿche, Rush, Metallica, Herbie Hancock, The
Cranberries, Bryan Adams, Sting and Kate Bush. For Bush, Kamen delivered an orchestral backing for "Moments of
Pleasure" from her The Red Shoes album, substantially building upon a simple piano theme Ms. Bush had composed.
He achieved dramatic impact by varying the textures of the delivered line (by layering the instruments for harmonic
effect, modulating the key, subtle "riffing" of the played notes, and other displays of the arranger's art form). In this
instance, and many others, he conducted the orchestra personally for the recording. In 1984 Kamen had similarly
heightened the impact of a pop recording for the Eurythmics "Here Comes the Rain Again", that score relying as much
on his compositional skills as his arranging talents. Five years later, he did the music For Queen and Country.
In 1990 Kamen joined many other guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin.
In 2002 he was part of the Concert for George as string conductor.
[edit] Other works
Kamen wrote eleven ballets, a saxophone concerto, and provided scores for the films such as For Queen and Country,
Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Highlander, X-Men, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Licence to Kill, the
Lethal Weapon & Die Hard series, Mr. Holland's Opus, Splitting Heirs, and many others. To this day the overture from
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is used by Morgan Creek Productions as their identifying theme, while New Line's
corresponding theme is the opening segment of a track from Highlander. He also composed scores for both the From
the Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers series on HBO. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and won three
Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Ivor Novello Awards, an Annie and an Emmy. In television, his best known
work was on the 1985 BBC Television serial Edge of Darkness, on which he collaborated with Eric Clapton to write the
score. The pair were awarded with a British Academy Television Award for Best Original Television Music for their
work. In 1994, Kamen conducted an orchestration of The Who's music for a concert series called Celebration: The
Music of Pete Townshend and The Who which was subsequently released on DVD. He also worked with heavy metal
band Metallica, on a two day concert that was held in Berkeley, California, with the San Francisco Symphony. The
S&M album went multi-platinum in 2001.
[edit] Partnership with Bryan Adams and Robert Lange
Kamen formed a partnership with songwriting duo Bryan Adams and Robert John "Mutt" Lange in the 1990s and the
three of them wrote 5 songs together:
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You (from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
All for Love (from The Three Musketeers)
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? (from Don Juan DeMarco)
Star (from Jack)
I'll Always Be Right There (written for 101 Dalmatians)
The success of these songs included three number one hits in the US, two Oscar nominations, a Grammy, 2 Ivor
Novello's and significant record sales.
[edit] Later years
His involvement with Mr. Holland's Opus, a film about a frustrated composer who finds fulfillment as a high school
music teacher, led Kamen to create The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation in 1996. The foundation supports music
education through the donation of new and refurbished musical instruments to underserved school and community
music programs and individual students in the United States. In 2005 the foundation created an emergency fund for
schools and students affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Though diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997, Mr. Kamen died from a heart attack in 2003. His last recorded work
appeared on Bryan Adams's album Room Service where he played the oboe and wrote the orchestration to "I Was Only
Dreamin". Kamen had also completed the charts for accompaniment to two songs on Kate Bush's album Aerial, which
was released in November 2005. Some of Bush's fans, pleased by Kamen's scoring of "Moments of Pleasure" from
Bush's 1993 album The Red Shoes, expressed gratitude when it became known that the work had been finished.
In 2004, when Annie Lennox accepted the Academy Award for Best Original Song (her composition "Into the West"
from The Return of the King), she dedicated her achievement to the memory of her dear friend Michael Kamen.
Michael Kamen was survived by his wife, Sandra Keenan-Kamen, and by his daughters, Sasha and Zoe.