Disney’s For Scores Podcast Series to Feature Special 2-Part Interview With Oscar®-Winning Composer Alan Menken

Part 1 Available Now

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Disney Music Group’s podcast series, Disney’s For Scores, is set to release a special two-part interview with eight-time Oscar winning composer Alan Menken. Hosted by Variety's Jon Burlingame, the series gives voice to award-winning visionary composers, exploring the challenges and emotional journeys of these musical storytellers.

In Part 1, Alan Menken discusses his career and takes the audience back to his beginnings as a musician in a family of dentists, his love of “Fantasia,” and his life-changing writing partnership with Howard Ashman. The collaboration would skyrocket them both to Off-Broadway success with “Little Shop of Horrors” and eventually to the Disney Animation Renaissance with “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Aladdin.”

Part 2 will be released on September 22. Menken discusses the transition to new writing partners after Howard Ashman’s early death, Disney’s Broadway takeover, and other favorite projects such as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

Now in its third year, For Scores has released 26 episodes including Oscar®-winning composers Ludwig Göransson, Randy Newman, Rachel Portman, plus Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

The "For Scores" podcast series is produced by Maria Kleinman for Disney Music Group in association with Treefort Media, an LA-based podcast company with a mission to expand imagination through premium audio storytelling. The episodes are available to download everywhere podcasts are enjoyed.

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About Jon Burlingame:

Jon Burlingame is the nation's leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. He writes regularly for Variety and, over the past 30 years, has also written on the topic for leading newspapers such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. He is the author of four books including "The Music of James Bond" and "Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks," and he teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California.

About Disney Music Group

Disney Music Group is home to Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records, Disney Concerts, Disney Music Publishing and Buena Vista Records. Brands include Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Disney+, National Geographic, 20^th Century Studios, Lucasfilm, Searchlight Pictures, Star, Disney Channel, hulu, FX, ABC, Freeform and ESPN. DMG is home to soundtracks of the biggest movies and TV shows in the world, including “Frozen,” “The Lion King,” “Aladdin,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the “Star Wars” franchise, “Avengers: Endgame,” “Black Panther,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Black Widow,” “Cruella,” “Soul,” “Free Guy,” “Loki,” “The Mandalorian,” “This Is Us,” “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Zombies,” the “Descendants” franchise, and the upcoming film soundtracks for “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “Eternals,” “Encanto” and “West Side Story.” The artist roster includes Andy Grammer, AREA21, Queen, Joywave, Breaking Benjamin, Sofia Carson, DREAMERS, TINI, Olivia Holt, The Undefeated, New Hope Club, ScaryPoolParty, Temecula Road, Laine Hardy and CD30.