Alan Silvestri - Allied (Music from the Motion Picture) '2016

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In his ongoing, decades-long career as a composer, Alan Silvestri has blazed an
innovative trail with his exciting and melodic scores, winning the applause of
Hollywood and movie audiences the world over. With a credit list of over 100
films Silvestri has composed some of the most recognizable and beloved themes in
movie history. His efforts have been recognized with two Oscar nominations, two
Golden Globe nominations, three Grammy awards, two Emmy awards, and numerous
International Film Music Critics Awards, Saturn Awards, and Hollywood Music In
Media Awards.
Born in New York City and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Silvestri first dreamed
of becoming a jazz guitar player. After spending two years at the Berklee School
of Music in Boston, he hit the road as a performer and arranger. Landing in
Hollywood at the age of 22, he found himself successfully composing the music
for 1972s The Doberman Gang which established his place in the world of film
composing.
The 1970s witnessed the rise of energetic synth-pop scores, establishing
Silvestri as the action rhythmatist for TVs highway patrol hit CHiPs. This
action driven score caught the ear of a young filmmaker named Robert Zemeckis,
whose hit film, 1984s Romancing the Stone, was the perfect first date for the
composer and director. Its success became the basis of a decades long
collaboration that continues to this day. Their numerous collaborations have
taken them through fascinating landscapes and stylistic variations, from the
Back to the Future trilogy to the jazzy world of Toontown in Who Framed Roger
Rabbit? the tension filled rooms of What Lies Beneath and Death Becomes Her, to
the cosmic wonder of Contact; the emotional isolation of Castaway, to the magic
of the Polar Express. But perhaps no film collaboration defines their creative
relationship better than Zemeckis 1994 Best Picture winner, Forrest Gump, for
which Silvestris gift for melodically beautiful themes earned him an Oscar and
Golden Globe nomination and the affection of film music lovers everywhere. This
35 year, 21 film collaboration includes such recent films as Flight, Allied and
most recently Welcome To Marwen. Zemeckis and Silvestri are currently working on
The Witches based on Roald Dahls 1983 classic book scheduled for release in
October of 2020.
Though the Zemeckis/Silvestri collaboration is legendary, Silvestri has scored
films of every imaginable style and genre. His energy has brought excitement and
emotion to the hard-hitting orchestral scores for Steven Spielbergs Ready Player
One, James Camerons The Abyss as well as Predator and The Mummy Returns. Alans
diversity is on full display in family entertainment films such as The Father of
the Bride 1 and 2, Parent Trap, Stuart Little 1 and 2, Disneys Lilo and Stitch,
The Croods as well as Night at the Museum 1, 2 and 3 while his passion for
melody fuels the romantic emotion of films like The Bodyguard and What Women
Want.
Most recently, Alan has composed the music for Marvels Avengers: Endgame. The
film is the culmination of a partnership with Marvel that began in 2011 with
Alans dynamically heroic score for Captain America: The First Avenger followed
by Avengers. Since 2011 Alans collaboration with Marvel helped propel The
Avengers and Avengers: Infinity War to spectacular world-wide success.
Silvestris success has also crossed into the world of songwriting. His
partnership with Six-Time Grammy Award winner Glen Ballard has produced hits
such as the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated song Believe (Josh Groban) for
The Polar Express, Butterfly Fly Away (Miley Cyrus) for Hannah Montana The
Movie, God Bless Us Everyone (Andrea Bocelli) for A Christmas Carol and A Hero
Comes Home (Idina Menzel) for Beowulf.
Alan and his wife Sandra are long time residents of Californias central coast.
In 1998 the Silvestri family embarked on a new venture as the founders of
Silvestri Vineyards. Their wines show that lovingly cultivated fruit has a music
all its own. Theres something about the elemental side of winemaking that
appeals to me, he says. Both music making and wine making involve a magical
blending of art and science. Just as each note brings it own voice to the
melody, each vine brings its own unique personality to the wine.
Their other great passion is the ongoing search for the cure to Type 1 Juvenile
Diabetes. With the diagnosis of their son at two years of age (now 29) they
continue to work the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and dream of the day
this disease (and all of the suffering it brings to so many) will finally become
a thing of the past.

Tracklist:
01. Alan Silvestri - Essaouira Desert/ Main Title (5:21)
02. Alan Silvestri - What Are Our Odds? (2:46)
03. Alan Silvestri - German Embassy (2:09)
04. Alan Silvestri - Its A Girl (2:17)
05. Alan Silvestri - Trust (3:08)
06. Alan Silvestri - Best Day Ever (1:51)
07. Alan Silvestri - Confession/ Escape (3:50)
08. Alan Silvestri - The Letter/ End Credit (6:28)
09. Alan Silvestri - The Sheik of Araby (2:33)
10. Alan Silvestri - You are My Lucky Star (3:06)
11. Alan Silvestri - JAttendrai (2:59)
12. Alan Silvestri - Sing Sing Sing (4:10)
13. Alan Silvestri - Flying Home (1:55)

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