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Shirley Walker
12+ albums
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Shirley Walker (April 10, 1945 - November 30, 2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood. Walker was the first female composer to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture and according to the Los Angeles Times, will be remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry. Walker (née Rogers) was born in Napa, California on April 10, 1945. Walker was a piano soloist with the San Francisco Symphony during high school, and later attended San Francisco State University on a piano scholarship. She studied music composition under Roger Nixon and piano studies with Harald Logan of Berkeley, California. For several years, she wrote jingles and composed for industrial films. Walker's career in film began in 1979, when she was hired to play the synthesizers on Carmine Coppola's score for Apocalypse Now. In 1992, Walker became the first female composer to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture - for John Carpenter's Memoirs of an Invisible Man (one of Carpenter's few movies he did not score himself - Walker later collaborated with Carpenter on Escape From L.A.). Shirley Walker served as composer for numerous productions, including films such as Willard, the Final Destination trilogy of movies, and television series such as Falcon Crest, Space: Above and Beyond, China Beach, and The Flash. The Flash was one of many collaborations Walker did with com
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Ice Dance
7,5062Introduction (Titles) - Edward Scissorhands/Soundtrack Version
3,7263Gotham City Overture
3,1564Introduction (Titles)
2,8975Superman: The Animated Series (Main Title)
2,7936Ice Dance - Edward Scissorhands/Soundtrack Version
2,7517Etiquette Lesson
2,7068Storytime - Edward Scissorhands/Soundtrack Version
2,5949The Grand Finale - Edward Scissorhands/Soundtrack Version
2,54110Batman: The Animated Series - Alternate Main Title
2,458albums
Edward Scissorhands
Superman: The Animated Series (Main and End Titles)
Escape From L.A.: Original Score Album
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: The Animated Series (Original Soundtrack from the Warner Bros. Television Series), Vol. 1
Batman Beyond
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman: The Animated Series (Original Soundtrack from the Warner Bros. Television Series), Vol. 2
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Batman: The Animated Series [2CDs Limited Edition Score]
Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack from the Warner Bros. Television Series)
The Music of DC Comics: Volume 2
Superman: The Animated Series - Main Title and End Title