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	Alan Silvestri - Biography - AOL Music
		Of composer Alan Silvestri's many film scores, he is perhaps best-known for his work with director Robert Zemeckis, starting with their first movie project, Romancing the Stone, and continuing through the next decades with many more blockbuster classics.
		Silvestri began playing music at a young age while growing up in Teapeak, NJ, and was already considering a music career by the age of 15.
		Some of Silvestri's music was released on CD, including the soundtracks for Richie Rich (1994), Father of the Bride, Part II (1995), The Quick and the Dead, and the compilation Voyages: The Film Music Journeys of Alan Silvestri.
	music.aol.com /artist/alan-silvestri/125299/biography (385 words)

	Castaway: The Films of Robert Zemeckis and Alan Silvestri
		The team of Robert Zemeckis and Alan Silvestri is certainly one of contemporary Hollywood's most prolific and successful director/composer pairings.
		Alan Silvestri was brought on to the creative team and the film's non-use of music puts a spotlight on Silvestri's work when it finally does appear.
		While Alan Silvestri can dish out action music with the best of them, he shines brightest when communicating slices of the essence of humanity.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/castaway.htm (1035 words)

	Filmtracks: Contact (Alan Silvestri)
		It's almost as though Silvestri throws a bone to the contingent of the audience the needed this swelling of positive attitude to be satisfied with the score and film; it certainly wasn't necessary, and the ideas in the film are awe-inspiring enough to perhaps merit something less innocuous.
		Silvestri makes wonderful use of the brass section as the music carries with it a shade of darkness and a possible menace associated with the unknown.
		I like the way Silvestri, early in the cue, begins with the string bass playing a rapid sixteenth note passage, which is passed on to the upper strings until the brass finally makes a bold and hard-edged entrance.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/contact.html (1329 words)

	Alan Silvestri
		Alan Silvestri, born in New York City in 1950, was a musical wonder-kid from the very first minute.
		His parents did not have any interest in music but nevertheless, Alan Silvestri played drums already at the age of three: “The first time I heard a symphony orchestra was in my early 20's.
		The big break came in the mid 80’ies, when Alan Silvestri met director Robert Zemeckis who was desperately looking for a composer who would be able to create an exciting score for his adventure Romancing The Stone.
	filmscorecenter.de /alansilvestri.htm (348 words)

	Filmtracks: Van Helsing (Alan Silvestri)
		Composer Alan Silvestri had produced arguably the best of the scores in the series of Mummy films (The Mummy Returns) for Sommers, and had since provided an action score for Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life that was substantially better than the film it accompanied.
		Silvestri, who sometimes gets stuck in the mud when tackling smaller scale suspense/horror genre scores, seems to hold his best inspiration for the days when he can compose for and record immense orchestral action.
		Silvestri's Van Helsing follows every guideline in the handbook for action score success, and with a strong execution of that writing by the ensembles, the score is highly recommended.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/van_helsing.html (1017 words)

	Alan Silvestri - film composer
		Silvestri created a suberb set of themes and motifs for the original "Back to the Future" which were then re-used throughout the series, with the 3rd movie unleashing great musical tributes to the Western genre.
		Silvestri has continued his association with Zemeckis over the years and also produced a substantial quantity of scores for other directors.
		Silvestri's contribution to the Roger Rabbit score was no only the authentic cartoonesque music for Roger's capers, but also the nicely contrasting slinky jazz for his girl friend Jessica and the film-noir jazz for Bob Hoskin's private detective.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Alan-Silvestri.htm (700 words)

	Alan-Silvestri.com: photos
		Alan at the premiere of The Polar Express on November 7, 2004
		Alan at home with the piano he used to compose his orchestral music like the Forrest Gump feather theme (he now has a new extensive studio in his house) The golden award is one of his Saturn Awards
		Tony Bennet, Mary Tyler Moore and Alan Silvestri at the hearing of the JDF Children's Congress in 1999.
	www.alan-silvestri.com /photos.html (227 words)

	Alan Silvestri: The Mummy Returns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Though Silvestri, who was born in 1950 and studied at Boston's Berklee School of Music, has written scores for many genres -- Bette Midler comedies to Robert Zemeckis films, this one somewhat resembles his music for James Cameron's 1989 The Abyss which is also firmly triadic and uses a large mixed chorus.
		Silvestri's score is generally broader and less detailed than Jerry Goldsmith's for The Mummy (1999, also on Decca) which also uses a chorus but more sparingly (its orchesrator Alexander Courage (of Star Trek fame) told me the picture was re-cut during scoring, which exhausted everyone).
		Silvestri's ideas are usually simpler and sometimes derivative -- blustery John Williams fanfares, echoes of Holst, even some discreetly used Penderecki string effects.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Mummy2.htm (373 words)

	ScoreTrack.Net - Music for The Movies: Alan Silvestri
		Alan Silvestri was born in New York on 26 March 1950, and raised in Teaneck, NJ.
		Silvestri's skill at using silence, as well as music that does not call attention to itself highlights a cinematic characteristic the plot; the literal and metaphorical silence that Ellie observes from the universe.
		Alan Silvestri lives near Carmel, California, flies his own jet plane, and has a ranch on which he does a lot of the work and a vineyard which reflects his interest in fine wines.
	www.scoretrack.net /asilvestri.html (866 words)

	The Alan Silvestri Encyclopedia
		ALAN SILVESTRI has laid down the scores to some of the biggest action and comedy films ever produced, and has firmly established himself as one of the foremost film composers in Hollywood today.
		Silvestri and his companion arrived in Los Angeles to find that no actual recording contract had been issued, and they were stranded.
		The conversation that Silvestri had with director Robert Zemeckis that night would prove to be one of the most important of his life.
	www.bttf.com /silvestr.htm (1105 words)

	The Mummy Returns by Alan Silvestri
		With scores such as Judge Dredd, The Abyss, and Predator under his belt, there is little doubt that Silvestri can produce a score that packs a powerful punch and that would be well suited to a film like The Mummy.
		However, Silvestri unearths his high powered style, buried for millennia, in The Mummy Returns and does so in a much more entertaining way than his predecessor.
		Silvestri's work is full of the matinee-infused-adventure music anticipated in the first film, but was sadly never delivered.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/mummyreturns.htm (864 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: Alan Silvestri
		Alan Silvestri is an accomplished film composer who's credits include some of the best-known movies in recent years.
		Career Path - Alan Silvestri never imagined he'd become a composer for major motion pictures.
		Working with RZ - For a decade, Silvestri has written for Robert Zemeckis, who's expected him to perform as much as any leading actor.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/alansilvestri.html (156 words)

	JT3 Song Writing Journal - Alan Silvestri style
		Alan Silvestri has grown in a remarkable short time from a guitarist, drummer and arranger in various bands to one of the world's best film composers.
		Alan Silvestri is also considered by many people as the best composer for action movies.
		Certain critics believe that his true genius lies in the fact that he instinctively has a deep understanding of what the core and emotion of a movie is and consequently produces music that fits perfectly with the movie.
	www.shopjt3.com /music_composition_J13.html (258 words)

	CHiPs TV Show Soundtrack (Volume 1, Season Two: 1978-79) - Alan Silvestri/John Parker
		Alan Silvestri is best known today as the composer of stirring symphonic scores such as Back to the Future, Predator, Forrest Gump, and more, but in 1978 he was a struggling musician looking for any reliable employment.
		Consequently, Silvestri's music for CHiPs bears little resemblance to his latter-day symphonic works (save for a stylistic consistency to his melodies), but for fans of the show, Silvestri's music was an integral part of the it's presentation.
		Silvestri updated John Parker's theme for the main and end titles, and wrote his own theme (or two) for each weekly episode - all in the catchy disco style of the Saturday Night Fever-era, utilizing a 19-piece orchestra.
	www.moviegrooves.com /shop/chipstvshowsoundtrackvol1.htm (466 words)

	THE MEXICAN \| Alan Silvestri @ Cinemusic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alan Silvestri seems to be one of those composers who I am beginning to get excited about, and with THE MEXICAN I feel I've lost my cool!
		Silvestri is under light fire for his tongue-in-cheek homage to Ennio Morricone's dusty Western scores.
		Alan Silvestri has real comic chops -- not that forced stuff so many composers can be convicted and sentenced for.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2001/mexican.html (547 words)

	Alan Silvestri
		Studying music from a young age in his hometown of Teaneck, New Jersey, Alan Silvestri began his career in Las Vegas.
		After an unsuccessful stint trying to secure arranging jobs, Silvestri moved to Los Angeles where he got his first scoring gig at age twenty-two with the 1972 film, The Doberman Gang.
		In addition, Silvestri scored such popular hits as Predator (1987), The Abyss (1989), Diner and The Bodyguard (1992), the Stuart Little films, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).
	www.settling-the-score.com /alan-silvestri.html (271 words)

	Amazon.com: Van Helsing: Music: Alan Silvestri,Hollywood Film Chorale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With an appropriate lack of subtlety, Silvestri seasons the action set pieces with some gloomy, Herrmann-esque brass, jolting doses of massed percussion, the occasional shrieking choral homage to Carmina Burana--and (for some ears) precious too little of Franz Waxman's haunting, neo-Romantic horror-film lyricism.
		Silvestri Vineyards — Film composer Alan Silvestri's vineyard located in Carmel Valley, specializes in traditional methods of winemaking while taking advantage of modern knowledge about fermentation.
		Alan Silvestri is a very talented composer and I also enjoyed his scores to The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, which are good background mood-setters for an Egyptian theme.
	www.amazon.com /Van-Helsing-Alan-Silvestri/dp/B0001O3Y7Q (1305 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Parent Trap: Music: Alan Silvestri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unlike many of his scores, Silvestri wrote a number of different themes, and each one is a gem.
		There's the "main" theme, a big sweeping string theme; there's the playful-teins theme, a jazz saxophone rift, and there's the heartwarming-type theme, which is a lovely solo accoustic guitar piece.
		Alan Silvestri seems to bring them across the screen with ease.
	www.amazon.ca /Parent-Trap-Alan-Silvestri/dp/B00000DAIQ (749 words)

	The Henry Mancini Award: Alan Silvestri
		In recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to the music of film and television, ASCAP is proud to present The Henry Mancini Award to Alan Silvestri.
		In a career that has spanned more than three decades, Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri’s music has enriched an extraordinary number of the most-successful and beloved films of the late 20th century.
		Their collaboration has spanned 17 years and, next to that of Steven Spielberg and John Williams, is the longest-running and most successful director-composer relationship in Hollywood.
	www.ascap.com /filmtv/2002/silvestri.html (1619 words)

	CAST AWAY \| Alan Silvestri@ Cinemusic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The relationship between director Robert Zemeckis and his composer of 10 films, Alan Silvestri, is a classic example.
		The film works because Silvestri's restrained and tuneful score which is dominated by touching piano solos.
		For fans of Alan Silvestri's who have most of the scores sampled here, the choice may be more difficult.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/cast_away.html (686 words)

	Amazon.ca: Predator: Music: Alan Silvestri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As with the first score, Alan Silvestri does a magnificent job creating real suspense with a Bernard Herrmann-like sound.
		Silvestri provides a mixture of instruments just like Herrmann did for many of his great film scores!
		While this score isn't as good as Silvestri's score for Predator, it does have the same powerful sound and intensity.
	www.amazon.ca /Predator-Alan-Silvestri/dp/B0000014S1 (293 words)

	The Mummy Returns (Alan Silvestri) soundtrack review
		Well, I haven't seen the film, but Alan Silvestri, brought in to score the film, instead of Goldsmith, who wasn't interested in doing the job, has sure done a great job providing the music.
		Performed by a big orchestra, with prominent brass, supported by both female and male choir, as well as a few exotic, Arabian sounding instruments, this is an incredibly fun, swashbuckling, bombastic and adventurous listening experience.
		The main theme is big, brassy and heroic, reminiscent of Silvestri's classic theme for Back to the Future, given excellent renditions througout the score, but most prominently in "Evy Kidnapped" and the almost eight minutes long "My First Bus Ride" - one of the scores' highlights.
	www.scorereviews.com /reviews/review.aspx?id=292 (422 words)

	Alan Silvestri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score for Forrest Gump, a Best Song for "Believe" on The Polar Express Soundtrack, and two Grammy Awards for the music from Cast Away and the song "Believe" from The Polar Express.
		This has made it possible for Alan to fly to Los Angeles by himself.
		Was originally hired to score Mission: Impossible, and had written roughly twenty-three minutes of music before he was taken off.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Silvestri (220 words)

	Cast Away & Others - Alan Silvestri
		As Robert Townson points out in his notes for this album, Robert Zemeckis and Alan Silvestri are one of the longest running composer director partnerships and aside from Williams and Spielberg, the longest current partnership.
		To match this, Alan Silvestri has composed some of his most famous themes for Zemeckis' films, although the familiarity of the Back to the Future theme almost certainly forever eclipse the others.
		Reactions to Silvestri's score for What Lies Beneath were decidedly mixed it has to be said, but the End Credits contains the thrilling Psycho with brass inspired action motif together with the more subtle murmerings that took up much of the spooky thriller.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/castaway.htm (549 words)

	scored with gumption - an Alan Silvestri fanlisting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is scored with gumption, the fanlisting for the great composer Alan Silvestri - the only one approved by thefanlistings.org.
		Maybe you don't know Alan Silvestri by name, but I am sure you know if I tell you that he composed the soundtrack of movies like "Forrest Gump", "the Mummy returns" and "Van Helsing".
		I am not affiliated with Alan Silvestri or any of the movie and music productions in any way nor have I contact to them.
	inspirationally.org /alansilvestri (138 words)

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