Composer Shirley Walker passes away

[terry78]

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.asp?threadID=38428&forumID=1

May know her the best as the composer for the episode music of Batman: The Animated Series. RIP.

 

[Babs Gordon]

I loved her TAS work!

 

[Catman]

Is this real? I'm gonna search other news sites.

 

[terry78]

http://www.soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=872
Another article.

 

[Catman]

http://www.soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=872
Another article.

Okay then.

RIP

You were the 2nd best composer on the Batman franchise.

 

[Cаrter]

Oh, that ****ing sucks.
Coincidentally I checked out her official site for the first time last night.

 

[hippie_hunter]

F**k

 

[Clerk]

The music to my childhood is no more.

Oh well.... at least I still have you... Presidents of the United States.

 

[Catman]

The music to my childhood is no more.

I feel the same.

 

[The Chairman]

Sad, sad news. R.I.P. Shirley. You ruled.

 

[SoulManX]

NO ****ING WAY....

Damn another great composer gone....

Batman, Superman, MOP, etc. She was great loved her music.

 

[SoulManX]

Shirley Walker (born April 10, 1945 in Napa, California) is a well-respected and renowned American film composer.
She has served as composer for television shows such as Falcon Crest, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond and Superman: The Animated Series and has composed for major big budget films, such as Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Willard and notably the Final Destination movies.

Notable Film Scores

• Final Destination 3 (2006)
• Willard (2003)
• Final Destination 2 (2003)
• Final Destination (2000)
• Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

Trivia

• Walker writes her film scores entirely by hand
• She also orchestrates and conducts her own scores
• Walker has worked with Danny Elfman on many DC Comic works: she served as conductor for Batman, wrote most of the scores for Batman: The Animated Series using a theme inspired by Elfman's, scored episodes of The Flash (the main theme was written by Elfman) and scored episodes of Batman Beyond with Michael McCuiston.

External links

 

[The Chairman]

Shirley Walker (born April 10, 1945 in Napa, California) is a well-respected and renowned American film composer.
She has served as composer for television shows such as Falcon Crest, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond and Superman: The Animated Series and has composed for major big budget films, such as Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Willard and notably the Final Destination movies.

Notable Film Scores

• Final Destination 3 (2006)
• Willard (2003)
• Final Destination 2 (2003)
• Final Destination (2000)
• Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

Trivia

• Walker writes her film scores entirely by hand
• She also orchestrates and conducts her own scores
• Walker has worked with Danny Elfman on many DC Comic works: she served as conductor for Batman, wrote most of the scores for Batman: The Animated Series using a theme inspired by Elfman's, scored episodes of The Flash (the main theme was written by Elfman) and scored episodes of Batman Beyond with Michael McCuiston.

External links

What a truly talented individual.

 

[USMC]

She's dead, next topic.

 

[Mister J]

Sad news indeed. I really enjoyed her work.

 

[Dark Phantom]

She's dead, next topic.

Well, that's a little cold don't you think?

 

[USMC]

Well, that's a little cold don't you think?

It's cool, I shut the window.

 

[StorminNorman]

Her Superman theme may be my favorite score of all time.

 

[Road Warrior]

RIP Miss Walker

 

[SoulManX]

What a truly talented individual.

Most Aries are....

 

[Clerk]

She's dead, next topic.

God I hate you. I sit through each thread reading posters crying over how Labamba and Abbot died, in short, no one I give a flying **** about. But the one time someone cool to me dies, and you come in and **** up the goodness.

I hate you.

Yet.

I love you.

My love for you is undying. Let us ride into the sunset and make romance until one of us dies. Then it is the living partners duty to piss all over their thread.... nay.... funeral.:heart:

We ride USMC, we ride you hunka burning love.:meow:

 

[SoulManX]

God I hate you. I sit through each thread reading posters crying over how Labamba and Abbot died, in short, no one I give a flying **** about. But the one time someone cool to me dies, and you come in and **** up the goodness.

I hate you.

Yet.

I love you.

My love for you is undying. Let us ride into the sunset and make romance until one of us dies. Then it is the living partners duty to piss all over their thread.... nay.... funeral.:heart:

We ride USMC, we ride you hunka burning love.:meow:

Wow.Just.Wow.

 

[terry78]

Wow.Just.Wow.

Opposites attract.

 

[Catman]

Are you sure she passed away? I am shocked that no other news outlet as reported this. Not even the Associated Press. At work I was search through our AP wire and nothing! If AP (who reports EVERYTHING) doesn't have a story on this then somethings fishy.

 

[November Rain]

This to me feel like the rest of you when reeves passed away.

this is sad indeed, her scores defined a generation and set the tone for what potentially animation could do or make the viewer feel.

there are some of her scores i can't sit through without crying, even to this day.

she was a genius and will be sadly missed.

but her music will always be a soundtrack to my youth.