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Encyclopedia > Mark Mancina

Mark Mancina (born March 9, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is a composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He also notably composed the score for the thriller Twister (1996) as well as the blockbuster action flick Speed (1994). A composer is a person who writes music. ... ... Soundtrack refers to the recorded sound accompanying a visual medium such as a motion picture, television show, or video game. ... Trevor Rabin (born Trevor Charles Rabin on January 13, 1954) is a South African guitarist and film composer, best known for being the guitarist and songwriter for the progressive rock band Yes from 1983 - 1995, and since then, as a film composer. ... Walt Disney Pictures is an American movie studio, with off-shoot studios in Japan and other sites in the United States. ... For the theatrical musical, see The Lion King (musical). ... Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German composer, best known for composing film scores. ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...


Mancina has also been associated with a number of progressive rock projects. He toured with Rabin in support of Rabin's Can't Look Away album and then went on to produce tracks on the Yes album Union. He has also worked with Emerson Lake & Palmer. Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other progressive genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ... Yes is a progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. ... Union is an album by British progressive rock band Yes, released in 1991 . ... ELP can also stand for Extra Long Play, a format for the VCR tape. ...


He is known to be influenced by the Beatles, favoring their early years. The Beatles were a pop and rock music group from Liverpool, England, who continue to be held in the very highest regard for their artistic achievements, their huge commercial success, and their groundbreaking role in the history of popular music. ...


Notable film scores

‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Training Day is a 2001 film starring Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris, a highly decorated but corrupt LAPD police officer, and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, his new green recruit looking to become a part of Harris Narcotics unit. ... James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... Speed 2: Cruise Control is an 1997 action movie produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Jan de Bont. ... This article is about Con Air, the movie. ... The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe. ... Twister may mean: the game Twister the movie Twister a slang word for a tornado a tongue twister, something difficult to pronounce The name of a roller coaster in Knoebels amusement park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. ... Bad Boys can refer to a: Film Bad Boys (1995 film) and Bad Boys II (2003), two films starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Michael Bay. ... Speed (symbol: v) is the rate of motion, or equivalently the rate of change of position, expressed as distance d moved per unit of time t. ... Space Mutiny is a 1988 action/sci-fi film about a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the Southern Sun. ...

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Mark Mancina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (181 words)
Mark Mancina (born March 9, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is a composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air.
He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical.
Mancina has also been associated with a number of progressive rock projects.
Return to Paradise by Mark Mancina (618 words)
For the 1998 release of Return to Paradise, Mark Mancina was given the opportunity to bring his talents for romantic and exotic music to the forefront.
Mark Mancina's score naturally reflects the Malaysian context of the film and is constructed with ethnic percussions and a plethora of colorful, woodwind instruments.
Whatever his influences were, Mark Mancina delivers one of his best scores to date - certainly one of the most memorable themes of 1998.
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