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Alastair King
Alastair King (born 1967) is a British composer and conductor, perhaps best known for his musical contributions to film and television. He frequently collaborates with composers Charlie Mole, Geoff Zanelli, Nicholas Hooper and Rupert Gregson-Williams by either conducting for them or acting as an orchestrator or both. Biography King studied music at Bath College of Higher Education, graduating in 1991. He then undertook postgraduate study at Birmingham University and the University of Kansas. His work ''Hit the Ground (Running, Running, Running)'' was the only European entry in the final of the composing competition Masterprize 2001. In addition to his concert works, King has composed music for various films, including ''Shrek'', ''Chicken Run'', and ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' and television programmes, including the FIFA World Cup 2002, ''The Last Detective'', '' Second Nature'' and ''William and Mary''. King's most recent roles include conducting and orchest ...
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duties of the conductor are to interpret the score in a way which reflects the specific indications in that score, set the tempo, ensure correct entries by ensemble members, and "shape" the phrasing where appropriate. Conductors communicate with their musicians primarily through hand gestures, usually with the aid of a baton, and may use other gestures or signals such as eye contact. A conductor usually supplements their direction with verbal instructions to their musicians in rehearsal. The conductor typically stands on a raised podium with a large music stand for the full score, which contains the musical notation for all the instruments or voices. Since the mid-19th century, most conductors have not played an instrument when conducting, ...
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Second Nature (TV Series)
Second Nature may refer to: Albums * ''Second Nature'' (Atom Heart, Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell album), 1994 * ''Second Nature'' (Margaret Urlich album), 1999 * ''Second Nature'' (The Young Gods album), 2000 * ''Second Nature'' (Katherine Jenkins album), 2004 * ''Second Nature'' (Flying Colors album), 2014 * ''Second Nature'' (Netsky album), 2020 * ''Second Nature'' (Lucius album), 2022 Songs * "Second Nature" (Dan Hartman song), 1985 * "Second Nature" (Rush song), 1987 * "Second Nature" (Electronic song), 1997 * "Second Nature" (Destiny's Child song), 1998 Musical artists * 2nd Nature (boy band), African-American contemporary R&B group * 2nd Nature (TLC), American girl group TLC, also known as 2nd Nature *Uwe Schmidt (born 1968), or Second Nature, German composer, musician and producer of electronic music Other uses *Second Nature (2003 film) ''Second Nature'' is a 2003 American made-for-television drama mystery science fiction film directed by Ben Bolt starring Al ...
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Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Academy Awards, Oscars and four Grammy Awards, Grammys, and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmys and a Tony Awards, Tony. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by ''The Daily Telegraph''. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. His works include ''The Lion King'' (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995), ''Gladiator (2000 film), Gladiator'', ''The Last Samurai'', the ''Pirates of the Caribbean (film series), Pirates of the Caribbean'' series, The Dark Knight Trilogy, ''The Dark Knight'' trilogy, ''Inception'', ''Interstellar (film), Interstellar'' and ''Dunkirk (2017 film), Dunkirk''. He won a second Academy Award for ''Dune (2021 film), Dune'' in 2022. Zimmer sp ...
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King Arthur (2004 Film)
''King Arthur'' is a 2004 historical adventure film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. It features an ensemble cast with Clive Owen as the title character, Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot and Keira Knightley as Guinevere, along with Mads Mikkelsen, Joel Edgerton, Hugh Dancy, Ray Winstone, Ray Stevenson, Stephen Dillane, Stellan Skarsgård and Til Schweiger. The film is unusual in reinterpreting Arthur as a Roman officer rather than the typical medieval knight. There have been several literary works that have also done so, including David Gemmell's Ghost King, Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, and perhaps the strongest influence on this film, Bernard Cornwell's Warlord series. The producers of the film attempted to market it as a more historically accurate version of the Arthurian legends, supposedly inspired by new archaeological findings. The film also replaces the sword in the stone story with a more dark and tragic backstory of how Arthur claimed his sword Exc ...
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Destination London
Destination London may refer to: * Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, a 2003 film starring Frankie Muniz * Destination (game) ''Destination'' is a brand of taxi-themed board games first published in 2004. Players compete as taxi drivers to acquire play money by moving from destination to destination using dice. Developed by Portsmouth-based entrepreneur Rachel Lowe, ...
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What A Girl Wants (film)
''What a Girl Wants'' is a 2003 American teen comedy film directed by Dennie Gordon and written by Jenny Bicks and Elizabeth Chandler. Based on the 1955 play '' The Reluctant Debutante'' by William Douglas-Home, it is the second adaptation for the screen of this work. It stars Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, and Kelly Preston. The film was released on April 4, 2003, received mixed reviews and grossed $50 million worldwide. Plot Daphne Reynolds is a 17-year-old American girl, living with her wedding singer mother, Libby, above a restaurant in Chinatown, New York City. Libby had met Briton Henry Dashwood in Morocco, and they married in a Bedouin wedding ceremony of uncertain legality. They returned to his family estate in England. His father soon died, making Henry the Lord Dashwood. Alistair Payne, the family's aristocratic advisor, tricks Libby into leaving, telling her it is best for Henry's duties not to know she is pregnant, then he lies to Henry, hiding the pregnancy from him and ...
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Plots With A View
''Plots with a View'', released internationally as ''Undertaking Betty'', is a 2002 British romantic black comedy film written by Frederick Ponzlov, directed by Nick Hurran, starring Brenda Blethyn, Robert Pugh, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts, Lee Evans and Christopher Walken. The film began filming in Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales in 2002, and was released in the U.S. on 12 November 2005, with a DVD release on 7 March 2006. Plot Boris Plots is director of Plots Funeral Home in the fictional Welsh village of Wrottin Powys. His rival Frank Featherbed, an American, is determined to revolutionise the undertaking business in Britain through the innovation of "themed funerals". Boris dreamed of only two things as a young boy: dancing and Betty Rhys-Jones. Betty secretly loved Boris, but could not fight her father's wishes, so she was married off to a gold digger. Giving up his dreams, Boris took over the family's undertaking business. When Betty's mother-in-law dies, they are thrus ...
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The Heart Of Me
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ...
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Thunderpants
''Thunderpants'' is a 2002 family comedy film about a boy whose incredible capacity for flatulence gets him a job as an astronaut. The film was directed by Pete Hewitt, whose previous work included ''Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey'' (1991) and ''The Borrowers'' (1997). The script was written by Phil Hughes, based on a story by Pete Hewitt about a boy who dreams of being a spaceman, but has a problem with flatulence. Plot Born with two stomachs, Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook) is uncontrollably and devastatingly flatulent. No more than thirty seconds after his birth, he first breaks wind, horrifying his parents (Bronagh Gallagher, and Victor McGuire) and doctor (Robert Hardy). As he grows up, Patrick's farts become so uncontrollable and destructive that his father has to flee their home, as he is often injured by his son's gaseous emissions, whose force is so strong that it can blow people over. Patrick is bullied at school as a result of his condition, but eventually finds strength in hi ...
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John Powell (composer)
John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films. He is best known for composing and/or co-composing scores for animated films, such as ''Antz'' (1998), ''The Road to El Dorado'' (2000), ''Chicken Run'' (2000), ''Robots'' (2005), the second through fourth ''Ice Age'' films (2006–2012), the '' Happy Feet'' films (2006–2011), '' Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!'' (2008), '' Bolt'' (2008), the ''How to Train Your Dragon'' trilogy (2010–2019), the ''Rio'' films (2011–2014), ''Dr. Seuss' The Lorax'' (2012), and ''Ferdinand'' (2017). His work on ''Happy Feet'', ''Ferdinand'' and '' Solo: A Star Wars Story'' has earned him three Grammy nominations. He was nominated for an Academy Award for ''How to Train Your Dragon''. Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other ...
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Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a British composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the ''Metal Gear'' series, ''Spy Game'', ''Phone Booth'', '' Man on Fire'', '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', ''Déjà Vu'', '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'', '' The Martian'', ''Antz'', ''The Tigger Movie'', ''Chicken Run'', the ''Shrek'' franchise, '' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas'', ''Flushed Away'', ''Arthur Christmas'', '' Early Man'', and ''Catch-22''. He is the older brother of composer Rupert Gregson-Williams. Education Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College School in Cambridge at the age of seven. He was a child chorister at the school and later attended Stowe School, a boarding independent school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar. He next went to the Guildhall School of Music and D ...
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Ben Foster (orchestrator)
Ben Foster (born 1977) is a BAFTA award-winning British composer, best known for his work on the BBC series ''Torchwood'' and as orchestrator for Murray Gold on ''Doctor Who'' and for Marc Streitenfeld on ''Prometheus'' and '' The Grey''. He is also known for his work as the conductor for Peter Gabriel's ''Scratch my Back'' world tour and albums, and for the BBC Proms ''Doctor Who'' events. Career Foster studied Composition and Conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2000. He was awarded the Lutosławski composition prize. He is a graduate of the National Film and Television School, where he studied with Francis Shaw and Peter Howell (the latter having composed for the BBC series ''Doctor Who'', with which Foster would later become associated). ''Doctor Who'' and ''Torchwood'' Since November 2005, Foster has worked as orchestrator and conductor for composer Murray Gold on ''Doctor Who''. He also conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in '' ...
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