Born Sept. 12, 1957 in Frankfurt Germany
 The Bugles “Video Killed the Radio Star”
 Stanley Meyers My Beautiful Launderette
 A World Apart
 1988 Rain Man
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“Father of integrating the electronic
musical world with traditional orchestral
arrangements.”
 Learned through collaboration and
experimentation
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Opened with Jay Rifkin
 Used to be Media Ventures
 Mentoring experiences and
opportunities for composers around the
world
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Lion King best known
Other award
winners: Rain Man,
Gladiator, The Lion
King, As Good as it
Gets, The Preacher’s
Wife, The Red Thin
Line, and The Last
Samurai
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Also well known:
Driving Miss Daisy,
Batman Trilogy,
Pirates of the
Caribbean,
Inception, and
Madagascan:
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7 Golden Globes, 7
Grammys, and 7
Oscars, American
Music Awards, and
Tony Awards
27th Annual Flanders International Film
Festival Zimmer performed for the first
time live
 100 member choir and a 100 member
orchestra
 Orchestrated concert versions of pieces
from Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The
Lion King, Rain Man and The Red Thin
Line
 Recorded and released on CD
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Sound track released July 15, 2008
 Warner Bros. records
 Hans Zimmer and James Newton
Howard
 Combining two themes
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“Why So Serious?”
“Introduce A Little
Anarchy”
Both pieces named
from a quote by the
Joker
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0:00- Starts out quietly with one note playing then
slowly gets louder.
0:37- More pitches join and make a very eerie
sounding harmony. It continues to get louder as
the pitches join in.
1:31- A keyboard joins the rhythm creating a new
harmony that is still eerie sounding. The intensity is
starting to build as well.
2:30- The same synthesized strong rhythm beings
playing again making the piece more intense and
increasing the volume.
2:53- All the instruments stop and one pitch plays
continuously as well as a different synthesized
sound.
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3:47- A rhythm beings playing by the
maracas and creates a different harmony.
4:43- The double beat rhythm begins playing
again increasing volume as it continues.
7:19- The piece gets very quiet with only the
chimes fading out
7:30- Right before it goes completely silent a
single pitch starts playing again and is
building sound.
9:12- One last drum beat and the harmony
drops except the one continuous note.
0:10- Percussion and more stings join in
the piece making in louder and having a
faster rhythm. The feel it gives is there is a
chase going on.
 0:40- The percussion stops and the strings
play a single note followed by another.
 0:59- A single synthesized note begins
playing as a double beat rhythm begins.
The pitch of the single sound increases as
does the volume.
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1:26- All but the percussion stops playing
and the percussion continues the
chasing like rhythm.
 1:41- The strings fade in getting louder
and increasing pitch creating intensity.
The percussion becomes stronger again.
 3:09- The piece speeds back up with
percussion playing again.
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Hans Zimmer
 www.hanszimmer.com/index.php?rub:bio
 www.imdb.com/name/nm0001877/bio?r
ef_=nm_on_bw_sm
 www.classicfm.com/composers/zimmer
 www.mtv.com/artists/hanszimmer/biography/
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The Dark Knight
 www.empireonline.com/interviews/interv
iew.asp?IID=1532
 batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Knight
_(Soundtrack)
 www.allmusic.com
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