LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) American Experience: Walt Disney- Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack was released digitally on
September 10, 2015. The album features original music by Joel Goodman (DIRTY WEEKEND, AN HONEST LIAR).
"Early on we made the decision not to do 'Disney' music." said composer Joel Goodman. "This is a film about Walt, the person. Walt was a complex, modern, driven man. The score also needed to capture the magic Walt created and his sense of discovery."
Joel Goodman creates music for narrative feature films, documentaries, television, album releases and other forms of collaborative media. As an Emmy Award-winning composer Joel has scored over 125 films and television programs that have received 4 Oscar nominations, 15 Emmy awards and over 25 Emmy nominations. He has scored over 40 films for HBO and composed the Main Theme for the long-running and critically acclaimed PBS series American Experience. His scores can regularly be heard in movie theaters and on television around the world.
Joel has collaborated with an impressive array of distinguished directors and producers including Neil LaBute, Albert Maysles,
Kevin Spacey, Andrew Jarecki,
Barbara Kopple, Wong Kar-wei, Rachel Grady, Marshall Curry,
Sebastian Junger, Michael Epstein, Oren Jacoby, Irene Taylor Brodsky, and
Fisher Stevens. Joel recently completed scores to: Dirty Weekend, directed by Neil LaBute and starring Matthew Broderick; and An Honest Liar, the incredible story of magician and scientific skeptic
James "The Amazing" Randi. A native New Yorker, Joel lives in Los Angeles, where he enjoys time with his wife Shuli and their daughters, riding his bicycle and of course, many hours writing music.
"The film is 4 hours long and so therefore we had a lot of ground to cover with the score." said Goodman. "There are many attributes to admire about Walt Disney and this was one of those dream projects to work on a subject that was so influential in American culture."
The documentary American Experience: Walt Disney premieres on local PBS affiliates on
September 14 & 15 2015. American Experience: Walt Disney - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack was released digitally on
September 10, 2015.
