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Shirley Anne Walker (née Rogers; 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 one of the first female composers to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture (preceded by Suzanne Ciani, 1981) and according to the Los Angeles Times, is remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry.[2][3]

Shirley Walker
Birth name	Shirley Anne Rogers
Born	(1945-04-10)April 10, 1945 Napa, California, U.S.
Died	November 30, 2006(2006-11-30) (aged 61) Reno, Nevada, U.S.
Genres	Film scores
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor, orchestrator, music arranger[1]
Instrument(s)	Keyboards
Years active	1979–2006
Website	Official site

Walker often wrote her film scores entirely by hand,[4] and always orchestrated and conducted her own scores by herself.

She won two Emmy Awards during her career, while the ASCAP Shirley Walker Award was created in her honor in 2014.

Life and career

Walker (née Rogers)[5] 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.[6] She studied music composition under Roger Nixon and piano studies with Harald Logan of Berkeley, California.[7] 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.[8] In 1992, Walker became one of the first female composers 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 films he did not score himself – Walker later collaborated with Carpenter on Escape From L.A.).[2][3] Shirley Walker served as composer for numerous productions, including films such as Willard, the first three Final Destination installments, and television series such as Falcon Crest, Space: Above and Beyond, China Beach, and The Flash.[1] The Flash was one of many collaborations Walker did with composer Danny Elfman. She was his conductor on projects such as Scrooged and Batman.[9]

She served as a Board Member (1986–1994) and Vice President (1988–1992) for The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL), often speaking out on behalf of composers and their working conditions.[10] Articles and interviews are written by and about Shirley Walker in the SCL's publication, THE SCORE, a publication in print since 1986 by and about professional film/television/video game composers, songwriters and lyricists—and where Shirley spoke her mind.

Her association with DC Comics extended to television where she served as composer for Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999), and Batman Beyond (1999–2001); setting a standard for the musical tone of the DC Animated Universe.[9]

Despite the fact that very few female composers had worked in Hollywood at the time of her death, Walker was not recognized during the "In Memoriam" segment of the 79th Academy Awards.[11]

Walker worked with Danny Elfman on many DC Comics works. She served as conductor for the film Batman, wrote most of the scores for Batman: The Animated Series using a theme inspired by Elfman's, scored the pilot and all the episodes of The Flash (the main theme was written by Elfman) and scored episodes of Batman Beyond with Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter. Though her involvement in the DC Animated Universe ended after Beyond, several of her themes would be used in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

Death

Walker died on November 30, 2006, at Washoe Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, due to complications from a stroke that she had experienced two weeks before.[8] She died only eight months after the death of her husband Don.[6] At the time of her death, Walker had scored more major-studio motion pictures than any other American woman.[8] A memorial service was held at the Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage, and a plaque was placed in her honor.[12]

Awards

In 1996, Shirley Walker won her first Daytime Emmy Award as music director for Batman: The Animated Series.[8] She won another Daytime Emmy in music-composition for Batman Beyond in 2001.

In 2014, ASCAP presented its first Shirley Walker Award, honoring those whose achievements have contributed to the diversity of film and television music.[13] Recipients include Wendy & Lisa, Germaine Franco and Deborah Lurie.

Film scores

Year	Title	Info	Limited?	Label	OOP / SOLD OUT
2006	Black Christmas	Final score before her death. Replaced Vince Lauria.			NO CD
	Final Destination 3				NO CD
2003	Willard	Full album released in 2013	3,000	La La Land Records
	Final Destination 2	Promotional CD released.			NO CD
2002	Ritual				NO CD
2000	Final Destination	Complete score isolated on a DVD release, with commentary over parts. A shorter promotional CD-R was also issued.			NO CD
1999	Mystery Men	Additional music only. Majority of score by Stephen Warbeck			NO CD
1997	Turbulence	Full CD released in 2013	2,000	La La Land Records
1996	Escape from L.A.	Co-composed with John Carpenter, and Alan Howarth	No	Milan Records	OOP (expanded score released in 2014 by La La Land Records)
1994	True Lies	Co-composed with Brad Fiedel		Epic Soundtrax	OOP
1993	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	Expanded score released in 2009	3,000	Reprise Records (1993) La La Land Records (2009)	OOP
1992	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	Replaced Jack Nitzsche	No	Varèse Sarabande	OOP
1991	Born to Ride				NO CD
	White Fang	One cue only. Score by Hans Zimmer & Basil Poledouris.		Intrada Records	SOLD OUT
1990	Chicago Joe and the Showgirl	As Walker stated in an interview, for legal reasons Hans Zimmer had to take credit, but she was the one who composed the score.			NO CD
	Pacific Heights	Additional music only. Score by Hans Zimmer.		Varèse Sarabande	SOLD OUT
	Strike It Rich				NO CD
1989	Nightbreed	Additional music only. Score by Danny Elfman.		MCA Records	SOLD OUT
1985	Ghoulies	Co-composed with Richard Band		Intrada Records
1984	The Dungeonmaster	Co-composed with Richard Band		Intrada Records
	Violated	Unused score			NO CD
1983	Touched				NO CD
1982	The End of August				NO CD
1979	The Black Stallion	Co-composed with Carmine Coppola; some additional scoring by: Nyle Steiner, Bill Douglass, Kenneth Nash, & George Marsh. Replaced two other composers.	1,500	Intrada Records	SOLD OUT

Television scores (partial)

Year	Title	Info	Limited?	Label	OOP / SOLD OUT
1980	Lou Grant	Episodes: "Guns" (season 3) "Hazard" (season 3)			NO CD
1981	Cagney & Lacey	All Episodes: "The Rapist: Part 1" "The Rapist: Part 2" "The Gimp"			NO CD
1982	Tucker's Witch	All Episodes: "Abra Cadaver" (episode six)			NO CD
1985	Berrenger's	One episode (unknown title)			NO CD
1986	Fluppy Dogs	Walt Disney Television Animation	Episode: Pilot		NO CD
1984 to 1988	Falcon Crest	All Episodes: "Pain and Pleasure" (season 4) "The Showdown" (season 4) "The Decline" (season 4) "Echoes" (season 5) "Changing Partners" (season 5) "Inconceivable Affairs" (season 5) "Checkmate" (season 5) "Shattered Dreams" (season 5) "Finders and Losers" (season 5) "Dangerous Ground" (season 5) "Tuscany Venus" (season 8) "Suspicion" (season 8)			NO CD
1988	Knots Landing	Incomplete episodes: "The Blushing Bride"			NO CD
1990	Tiny Toons	Rejected score for one segment in an episode.			NO CD
1990	The Flash				NO CD
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Over 34 episodes plus second opening theme. In July, 2012, Volume 2, a 4-CD set, was issued. A third volume, also a 4-CD set, was released in 2014.	3,000	La La Land Records	SOLD OUT (re-issued July, 2012)
1994	M.A.N.T.I.S.	Rejected score, unknown episode. No other scores for the series.			NO CD
1994	Viper	All Episodes (season 1 only): "Safe as Houses" "Firehawk" "The Face" "Wheels of Fire" "Past Tense" "Scoop" "Thief of Hearts" "Crown of Thorns"			NO CD
1995	Space: Above and Beyond	Theme and all episodes.	3,000	La La Land Records
1995	The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space				NO CD
1996	Superman: The Animated Series	Select episodes, main title theme and thematic elements.	3,000	La La Land Records
1997	Spawn: The Animated Series	Theme and multiple episodes (possibly all of season 1)			NO CD
1997	The Love Bug				NO CD
1998	Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear				NO CD
2000	The Others				NO CD
2002	Disappearance				NO CD

Works for other composers

Year	Film	Conductor	Orchestrator	Original composer	Notes
1979	The Black Stallion	No	Yes	Carmine Coppola	Also co-composer
1980	Murder in Coweta Country (TV)	Yes	No	Brad Fiedel
	Amber Waves (TV)	No	Yes	John Rubinstein
1983	Right of Way (TV)	Yes	No	Brad Fiedel
	Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn	Yes	No	Richard Band
	Swordkill	Yes	Yes
	Cujo	Yes	No	Charles Bernstein
1984	Ragewar	Yes	No	Richard Band
	Anatomy of an Illness (TV)	Yes	No	Brad Fiedel
1986	Children of a Lesser God	Yes	Yes	Michael Convertino
1987	Malone	No	Yes	David Newman
1988	The Accused	Yes	Yes	Brad Fiedel
	Scrooged	Yes	No	Danny Elfman
	Ernest Saves Christmas	No	Yes	Mark Snow
	Little Miss 4th of July (TV)	No	Yes
1989	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation	No	No	Angelo Badalamenti	Uncredited
	Batman	Yes	Yes	Danny Elfman	Also co-composer
	Fletch Lives	Yes	No	Harold Faltermeyer
	Immediate Family	Yes	No	Brad Fiedel
	Red Earth, White Earth (TV)	No	Yes	Ralph Grierson
	Paint It Black	Yes	Yes	Jürgen Knieper
	Kill Me Again	Yes	No	William Olvis
	Black Rain	Yes	Yes	Hans Zimmer
1990	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	No	No	John Du Prez	Uncredited
	Nightbreed	Yes	Yes	Danny Elfman	Also co-composer
	Dick Tracy	Yes	Yes
	Edward Scissorhands	Yes	No
	Defending Your Life	Yes	Yes	Michael Gore
	Arachnophobia	Yes	Yes	Trevor Jones
	El Diablo (TV)	Yes	Yes	William Olvis
	Child's Play 2	Yes	Yes	Graeme Revell
	Bird on a Wire	Yes	Yes	Hans Zimmer
	Days of Thunder	Yes	Yes
	Pacific Heights	Yes	Yes		Also co-composer
1991	The Butcher's Wife	Yes	Yes	Michael Gore
	True Identity	Yes	No	Marc Marder
	White Fang	Yes	Yes	Basil Poledouris & Hans Zimmer
	Backdraft	Yes	Yes	Hans Zimmer
1992	Article 99	Yes	No	Danny Elfman
	Gladiator	Yes	No	Brad Fiedel
	Straight Talk	Yes	No
	Radio Flyer	Yes	Yes	Hans Zimmer
	A League of Their Own	Yes	Yes
	Toys	Yes	Yes
1993	The Real McCoy	Yes	No	Brad Fiedel
	Striking Distance	Yes	Yes
1994	Renaissance Man	Yes	No	Hans Zimmer
	True Lies	Yes	Yes	Brad Fiedel
1995	Bad Company	No	Yes	Carter Burwell
	A Goofy Movie	Yes	Yes	Carter Burwell	Burwell's score only. Don Davis orchestrated and conducted his own cues.
	Johnny Mnemonic	No	No	Brad Fiedel	Uncredited
	Batman Forever	No	No	Elliot Goldenthal	Uncredited
	Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home	Yes	No	Basil Poledouris
1996	Fear	Yes	Yes	Carter Burwell	Last orchestration work for another composer.
	Eden	Yes	No	Brad Fiedel
	Rasputin (TV)	Yes	No		Last conducting work for another composer.

References

External links

• Shirley Walker at AllMovie
• Shirley Walker at IMDb
• CineMusic: Shirley Walker - a website devoted to the music of Shirley Walker
• Shirley Walker speaking at the annual meeting of The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL)
• Film Music Society Appreciation

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[de] Shirley Walker

Shirley Walker (* 10. April 1945 in Napa, Kalifornien, USA; † 30. November 2006 in Los Angeles) war eine US-amerikanische Komponistin, Dirigentin, Pianistin und Produzentin.

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[ru] Уокер, Ширли

Ши́рли Энн Уо́кер (англ. Shirley Anne Walker[1]; 10 апреля 1945, Напа, штат Калифорния, США — 30 ноября 2006, Рино, штат Невада, США), урождённая Роджерс — американский композитор, дирижёр, оркестровщик и музыкант-исполнитель. Известна в качестве композитора голливудских кинолент, телефильмов и анимационных фильмов в жанре фантастики и фэнтези[2]. Вероятно является первой женщиной, приглашённой в качестве единственного композитора игрового фильма крупной голливудской киностудии. За свою деятельность дважды удостоена Дневной премии «Эмми»[3]. Благодаря своим достижениям называлась самым успешным американским кинокомпозитором среди женщин[4].

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