Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man behind Hamilton and Moana, wanted to surprise himself when creating the soundtrack for Mufasa.
That bit, you likely know. The bit you may not know is that when both Miranda and Richard Lopez were kids – enrolled at Hunter College Elementary School in Manhattan’s Upper East Side – they had the same sixth-grade music teacher, Barbara Ames. So the question isn’t how did these guys become the most influential composers of 21st-century stage and cinema, but just what was Miss Ames putting in the cordial in that classroom?, Miss Ames seems like an unexpected, almost off-piste place to start.
, that: “Is it not strange that sheep’s guts could hail souls out of men’s bodies?” The question he was asking – about the intangible but stunning power of music itself – weighs on the minds of many composers, Miranda says. Says Miranda: “I find that extraordinary. My hands aren’t as skilled as John Kander’s, very few are. But I think there’s something about the fact that both hemispheres of your brain light up when you listen to music. That it sticks in the short term and in the long term that Alzheimer’s patients can still sing songs from when they were children.
The cast of Mufasa: The Lion King , Kelvin Harrison Jr, Tiffany Boone, Aaron Pierre, Anika Noni Rose, Billy Eichner, Seth Rogan, and director Barry Jenkins at a photo call in London.At the same time, Jenkins says, the film’s story was never over-sensationalised. “And you sometimes go, are not going to watch that again, are they? And there they are day after day, you put in the VHS, and they’re watching it, and they’re learning to process this emotion,” he says.
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