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–based film composer, songwriter, conductor, and arranger whose credits include films such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Rock'', ''

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''. Harper composed and conducted the music for

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direct-to-video releases ''

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'', '' Tarzan & Jane'', and '' Atlantis: Milo's Return''. He also created the scores for the television series' ''

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'' and ''

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'', and the TV movie ''Houdini''. Harper's first CD, ''Dream and Variations'', is a hybrid of

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, spirituals, blues, and bluegrass. It is a sweeping assemblage of vignettes, recorded with a 70-piece orchestra live on the Eastwood Stage at

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in the Fall of 2006. The production included a 32-member choir, session musician

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on soprano saxophone, jazz pianist

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, notable string players

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(upright bass),

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(violin), and Steve Erdody (cello).

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, composer and former member of Yes, played guitar. ''Dream and Variations'' includes the song "End of Days", featuring vocals by

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, which Harper and lyricist Tom Child wrote in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. He has also recorded the soundtrack for

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's version of Fantasmic,

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, as well as a song for '' Rivers of Light''.

Discography

* ''Dream and Variations''

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harper, Don L. American music arrangers American male songwriters American male conductors (music) American film score composers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American conductors (music) American male film score composers 21st-century American male musicians