I know I've posted about the TV show Once Upon A Time before, but this time I want to talk about the musical score of the show, so it'll be different and really cool, I promise.
Mark Isham is a composer and musician in Hollywood, and he's been working for over twenty nine years in the industry. He has won both Grammy and Academy Awards for his score on the film Crash in 2004, and has both written and performed music for over 100 films to date, including most recently, The Lucky One starring Zac Efron.
In addition to his film work, Mr. Isham has also composed for television shows such as Once Upon A Time. The executive producers and creators of the new ABC series, Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis, were big fans of Mark Isham after hearing his work in so many films and asked him to be the composer for the show.
This past February, Mark Isham and ABC Studio released the Once Upon A Time (Music from the TV Series) EP. The soundtrack features the four main orchestral suites from the series, including the aptly named "Once Upon A Time Orchestral Suite" and "The Queen's Curse" which are two of my favorite scores used in the show.
If you haven't seen Once yet, you should definitely do that, it airs Sunday nights at 8pm on ABC! It's the best show ever and it's written by the guys who wrote for Lost, so you already know it's going to be good...
Mark Isham's Once Upon A Time Orchestral Suite
Friday, October 5, 2012
As this season's shows are finally starting to be up and running, I've been getting increasingly more impatient with the new episodes of some of my favorite shows. "Once Upon a Time" is one of the shows I've been anxiously awaiting since it's finale last season.
When the show started last year, I remember sitting in Intro to Media Industries trying to figure out what pilots would survive and which ones would flunk. "Once Upon a Time" was one of the shows that was in my failure list. I was so used to watching American TV fail at fantasy shows, I wasn't even going to give this one a chance. I'd leave my fantasy shows to the Brits. Finally, about halfway through the season, my best friend told me I had to watch it. The two of us see eye to eye on just about everything: music, books, TV, hobbies, etc... She's one of the only people who would be able to convince me to watch something I wasn't sure on, and she did.
First off, I have to say, I'm really glad I gave it a chance.
The show is really well written; the subplots are all seamlessly interlaced, forming a latticework of characters. The design of the show is beautiful. I want to steal all the gowns off the characters. The actors are all brilliant, especially Jared Gilmore, who plays the little boy, Henry. It also doesn't hurt that Emilie de Ravin, who played my favorite character on "Lost," plays Belle, my favorite Disney princess.
The season premiere aired this past Sunday after a cliffhanger that left us with the characters finally remembering their fairytale pastlife. The new season promises a host of new chracters, from Mulan to Captain Hook, as well as a storyline just as exciting as the first season.
I'm excited to see the direction the show takes over the course of the year. It's safe to say this is one, and possibly only, fantasy show the U.S. didn't screw up.
