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Before the Champion of the Arts award gala, film composer Alan Silvestri talks creativity @ mcweekly.com (re-published)
"Editor's note: This is abridged from a longer interview (read the full interview online at mcweekly.com) Silvestri did with the Weekly in January 2017, before the Arts Council for Monterey County awarded him a Champions of the Arts trophy for Lifetime Achievement.
Trust me, you have heard film composer Alan Silvestri's music. His career began in low-budget flicks in the '70s before catching his first break doing the funky and synthy music for the TV series CHiPs.
His next break came when he met Robert Zemeckis and did the music for the director'sRomancing the Stone. That was the start of a collaboration that's included the Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump (for which Silvestri was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe), Cast Away, Flight, every subsequent film that Zemeckis has done.....
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