Alan Menken & Kristen Anderson-Lopez

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    Alan Menken joins Kristen Anderson-Lopez in his studio for a conversation about songwriting in The Legacy Project: Volume III.
    Produced by the Dramatists Guild Foundation, the Legacy Project is a series of interviews featuring prominent contemporary American playwrights, lyricists, and composers. Each interview offers an intimate look into the lives and creative process of these writers of the theater.
    The Legacy Project was originally conceived by Jonathan Reynolds. Producers include Nancy Ford, Carol Hall, Peter Ratray and Jonathan Reynolds. The interviews are filmed and directed by Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest of Transient Pictures. The Dramatists Guild Fund’s Media Advisor is Leonard Majzlin.
    The Legacy Project: Volume III is made possible through the support of DGF Board Member Roe Green & The Roe Green Foundation.
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  • @simplystreeptacular
    @simplystreeptacular 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    If Kristen Anderson-Lopez ever decides to retire from writing obscenely successful musicals, she could have a wonderful second career as an interviewer. This is marvelous.

  • @JamesAllenFord
    @JamesAllenFord 6 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Why am I just seeing this? Kristen, that was lovely. You could sense the mutual respect between two accomplished artists.

  • @lerigoureux6474
    @lerigoureux6474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I wish Walter DISNEY himself had met and known this man.

  • @doctorstrange367
    @doctorstrange367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    There's something just simply beautiful about Menken singing his own music and playing the piano. I'm surprised he doesn't record an album with just him and the piano. Some songs just sound better as voice and piano, especially when it's sung by the guy who wrote it.

    • @angerock49
      @angerock49 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd listen to that!

  • @jeanabradbury3766
    @jeanabradbury3766 7 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    I want to know what Alan's Frozen would have sounded like.

    • @MrGabeanator
      @MrGabeanator 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I wanna know what he thought of frozen

    • @TonySolis99
      @TonySolis99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Before the Lopez’s were attached to Frozen, Alan Menken was attached to the first draft of Frozen, “The Snow Queen” and theres a song he wrote you can find on youtube called “Love Can’t be Denied”

    • @MrGabeanator
      @MrGabeanator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TonySolis99 ik

    • @forresthopkinsa
      @forresthopkinsa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      When they sat down at the piano I REALLY was hoping she'd have him play Love Can't Be Denied

  • @princepeterwolf
    @princepeterwolf 7 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    He has such a young spirit! I adore him

  • @guysegal8802
    @guysegal8802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    41:25 is it just me that it’s damn impressive to see how well he improvises?

  • @Jiwpgakis
    @Jiwpgakis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Out there is the best song ever. Thank you alan

  • @bobthathead3
    @bobthathead3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I started tearing up once he played the Aladdin soundtrack. Ugh, it's just so good. So emotional, so many memories behind it. This was such a wonderful interview, probably my favorite interview with a movie composer I've seen. Great job.

    • @joshm8015
      @joshm8015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same. One Jump Ahead (Reprise) is my favorite song of all time. Sooooo good.

  • @MrGoldlilly
    @MrGoldlilly 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This guy is a genius, yet very humble.

  • @Lifetheory
    @Lifetheory 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Alan Menken is one of the greatest composers for me in the world! Thank you Alan! And thank you guys for the interview!

  • @lkramberg
    @lkramberg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The morning after a Disney event (before 7 AM), Alan Menken was concerned about the whereabouts of his driver so that he could get to the airport in time. In spite of that, he posed for pictures with his fans. He is not only super talented but super nice. Loved this video talking about the songwriting process.

  • @estherbraga2341
    @estherbraga2341 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A genius without a lamp and a master of his craft. Mr. Menken is just too good for this world.

  • @joshm8015
    @joshm8015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love his analogy to language. Language is very musical in the sense that tone, pitch, volume, etc. (phonics) are very important. For example, we are often taught that there are 40+ "sounds" in the English language, while there are technically 12 "sounds" (pitches) in music.

  • @shmizkin
    @shmizkin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I wanna listen to this man playing and singing all day long.

  • @thechannelitrollwith1645
    @thechannelitrollwith1645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You can only appreciate someone with this much to offer fully when someone else with so much to offer is the one asking. What an incredible video.

  • @jensriemann3070
    @jensriemann3070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The interviewer was so good. The request to make an impro musical about this time of his life was amazing. And the impro itself!! It really helped me in this few seconds to improve my composing skills. Thank you so much.

  • @StevenLiSanDiego
    @StevenLiSanDiego 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Amazing talent between these two. THIS is the magic.
    LOVED how Kristen was downright giddy at the beginning of the video. Alan's show at D23 was my highlight last summer. Disney is also in good hands with the Lopez duo.

  • @HaydenAllred008
    @HaydenAllred008 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    How does this not have more views?

  • @kristineb.mcanelly3304
    @kristineb.mcanelly3304 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I think I'll watch this again...and again. And write more lyrics in-between the layers.

  • @davidmenke7552
    @davidmenke7552 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I get really teary about Howard and how things ended for him. That had to be so hard back then. Such a sad part of what is otherwise a really beautiful story about him, Menken and Disney and success. But perhaps that's what makes the whole thing as beautiful as it is.

  • @oklu_
    @oklu_ 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This video is EXTREMELY AWESOME! I love both of them and she is amazing interviewer.

  • @valerinav.8122
    @valerinav.8122 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Perfection might not exist, but you, esteemed Mr Menken are one of those rare people in this world who have touched it.
    Thankful and forever with my heart somewhere inside all of your timeless pieces!!
    Warmest greetings from 🇲🇪❤!!

  • @Tennor1
    @Tennor1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He's an incredible artist. Truly wrote the songbook of my childhood. Thank you for this!

  • @silvia-90_
    @silvia-90_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    😀👏👏👏👏 and he mentioned John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith as inspirations! Thank you Mr. Alan Menken for what you have brought to our lives! All the best always from Mexico.

    • @in.j4908
      @in.j4908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow..John williams and Alan Menken are my roll model!!!
      He mentioned John williams!
      So happy!

    • @jandreidrn
      @jandreidrn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Incidentally Alan Menken and Jerry Goldsmith shared the same agent (Richard Kraft).

  • @kristineb.mcanelly3304
    @kristineb.mcanelly3304 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Well, golly-gee.
    I'm not sure how to react to this video.
    I guess I'm a bit sad that Howard isn't here and I can't hug and thank him for all his work.
    Oh, the emotions come bursting out. Isn't life funny the way things turn out. (inserts music notes and a sigh) One day your singing as you walk down the street the next you've landed...and it's not on your feet. Oh-pick me up off the floor, friend... and push me on through the door...send me on over to the green fields of clover (note higher/longer) and I'll drum out some words on the way. ~ kb.mcanelly.

  • @johnv7060
    @johnv7060 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I noticed a Clement Wood Rhyming Dictionary on a shelf about ten minutes in. All the best use(d) them-- Porter, Sondheim, Harnick, and Ashman! (And me...but I'm not in their company.) Comes in handy...

  • @mrnobody2222
    @mrnobody2222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Two titans and personal hero’s of mine in the same room.
    Awesome!

  • @oklu_
    @oklu_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    His place.... how amazing! I wish I could go there just once before I die 😂

  • @catiesu
    @catiesu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Finally I see the man who influenced my whole life ❤️ So thankful

  • @vivianmclaine5149
    @vivianmclaine5149 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    14:26 aww, love that photo of Menken and his wife, they're such a cute couple!

  • @justintai8725
    @justintai8725 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such a wonderful talented and humble man

  • @shiannachastain5446
    @shiannachastain5446 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pure magic listening to Alan talk about his career and process.

  • @jamieoconnell4574
    @jamieoconnell4574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    24:38 I was going to say "One Jump Ahead (Reprise)" actually counts as an I want song. Aladdin sings about how he knows there is more to him then what people see.

  • @Cyberlucy
    @Cyberlucy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is amazing. I hope you have more like this.

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is amazing, a legend with a rising legend. I really love it.

  • @mrcomposer
    @mrcomposer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So wonderful!

  • @dekkerofarrell
    @dekkerofarrell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic interview!!!

  • @followerofChrist26
    @followerofChrist26 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I like how he says that he doesn't know where all of these great musical ideas come from. That right there testifies that there is a God and that He knew Alan Menken before the foundation of the world. God demonstrates His greatness through ordinary people. It is so powerful to see that shine through!

  • @TheFanDubFan
    @TheFanDubFan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved every minute of this video, thank you for making and sharing it! Alan Menken is my favorite composer 😊 I'm gonna go write a song right now 😀

  • @forresthopkinsa
    @forresthopkinsa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Came for Kristen, stayed for Alan. Name a more iconic duo

  • @Wj3VUq56a813
    @Wj3VUq56a813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love how open he is.

  • @oklu_
    @oklu_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video is priceless.

  • @MrGabeanator
    @MrGabeanator 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As the blue fairy would say good Alan Menken you have given so much happiness to others you deserve to have your wish come true

  • @demh7823
    @demh7823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This video is fantastic.

  • @rickhorvath
    @rickhorvath 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I sis some session work with Alan a few years back. Great guy to work with. Much fun was had!

  • @jandreidrn
    @jandreidrn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    14:19 Jerry Goldsmith who also scored the original score of Mulan.

  • @flavionussbaum9653
    @flavionussbaum9653 ปีที่แล้ว

    A genious at work. Fascinating! Give us the full Alan Menken I want Song, it started already so good😊

  • @nastyakotenko8123
    @nastyakotenko8123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Alan Genius! Genius! Genius!

  • @rodneyconyersjr
    @rodneyconyersjr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This makes me very happy

  • @champagneandgummybears
    @champagneandgummybears 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How had I never seen this before?

  • @KamiShun0868
    @KamiShun0868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very inspiring..!!

  • @apriliagayatri1730
    @apriliagayatri1730 ปีที่แล้ว

    omg.. the legend is so humble.. and also Kristen respect him a lot.. the fact is.. they both oscar winner

  • @brennanmaynard4237
    @brennanmaynard4237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Leap of Faith” reminds me of “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns.

  • @cherryramos8366
    @cherryramos8366 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great interview.

  • @thepagemaster2963
    @thepagemaster2963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hunchback is my favorite disney movie

  • @GraysonBarraco
    @GraysonBarraco ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude. 42:13 I LOVE his laugh there. His love for song writing it just glowing right there

  • @VladSicoe
    @VladSicoe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He’s a musical genius!

  • @brennanmaynard4237
    @brennanmaynard4237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    31:43 “There is no perfect piece of music” says Beauty and the Beast to Let It Go.

  • @pauloluisdemoraespereirape9484
    @pauloluisdemoraespereirape9484 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sensacional!!!

  • @isabellebrant6057
    @isabellebrant6057 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes! He loves Fantasia like i do!!!!!!

  • @MrGabeanator
    @MrGabeanator 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    you did great on beauty&the beast

  • @finnhaverkamp
    @finnhaverkamp ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the greatest musicians of all time

  • @robbyosborne9708
    @robbyosborne9708 ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually had a dream a couple of nights ago that I met Alan Menken.

  • @kryptonianpowers
    @kryptonianpowers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Here's whom I want Alan to collaborate with before it's too late:
    *X.)* Richard M. Sherman
    *X.)* Jim Steinman
    *X.)* Barry Gibb
    *X.)* Ron Wasserman
    *X.)* Meatloaf

    • @kiaraeijo
      @kiaraeijo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I want to see how he works with Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • @matheusfugita4739
    @matheusfugita4739 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I come to this interview frequently, as I consider it to be one of the best interviews done with Alan. Could you tell me how I can get in touch with him? Do you have his email or any contact details? I would really like to interview him. There is no record of him being interviewed by Brazilians and I really wanted to be responsible for doing this for my country.

  • @coco7377
    @coco7377 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How great if I could learn music composing with Alan Menken

  • @findingmomo3179
    @findingmomo3179 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hold Up! He won the Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy and Razzie in the same year!

    • @jandreidrn
      @jandreidrn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And he finally won an Emmy back in 2019.

  • @reptongeek
    @reptongeek ปีที่แล้ว

    Dennis Muren also has eight Oscars and he is still living. Granted two of them are Special Achievement Awards but they are still Oscar statuettes

  • @MrGabeanator
    @MrGabeanator 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I wanna hear alans full I want song

  • @stemjesper
    @stemjesper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wanne be Alan Menken when I grow up

  • @adamtain7627
    @adamtain7627 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    33:34-34:25 Best part

  • @ElachimArtist
    @ElachimArtist 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Live-action original movie musicals almost impossible (quote Anderson-Lopez, ~10:00)? So what did they do then in the early days of the talkies till the 60s? I heard original movie musicals were fairly popular then. ;P
    Otherwise great piece of insight into the mind of one of the greatest!

    • @perfectajo
      @perfectajo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She is, I believe, referring to live action original movie musicals made today. La La Land, for example, is the first (almost certain the first) truly successful (critically and commercially) original movie musical film with original songs and a story not based on a musical stage show in years.

    • @annapan321
      @annapan321 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      high school musical

    • @ShowtuneSampler
      @ShowtuneSampler 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anna Stilinski I believe she was referring to movie musicals that aren’t complete trash :)

  • @kryptonianpowers
    @kryptonianpowers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I want to ask Alan if he would've collaborated with Michael Jackson when he was still alive back then.

  • @yyessamin
    @yyessamin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    my hero

  • @musical_lolu4811
    @musical_lolu4811 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    35:19 yyyeahhh I look for Danny Troob. There, done.

  • @aashisheapen8230
    @aashisheapen8230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    22:00 sheet music

  • @soccerlove1881
    @soccerlove1881 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    33:40

  • @matthewaccount
    @matthewaccount 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    14:08 Musical Inspirations

    • @matthewaccount
      @matthewaccount 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      31:00 I love how he talks about how there is no such thing of perfection but the respect for the flow and keepin on diggin love tht

    • @matthewaccount
      @matthewaccount 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      His advice: to invest on process, not results

  • @patrickcarroll1754
    @patrickcarroll1754 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I need to go to bed and I don’t want to.

  • @erikspurrell8021
    @erikspurrell8021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Alen and are you thinking of coming to Tigrd O R sometime

  • @adamtain7627
    @adamtain7627 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    41:23-42:24

  • @christianali5431
    @christianali5431 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, say what you want about frozen, but they gave credit where credit was due.

    • @MrGabeanator
      @MrGabeanator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Christian Ali I've always wondered what Alan thought of frozen

    • @cbismarck07
      @cbismarck07 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean, they were paying homage to older Disney musicals, bur not necessarily trying to replicate what Alan had done. Frozen is good in its own way. For the First Time in Forever is the classic kind of I Want song. Super orchestral and princessy. But then you have Let it Go, which is pop-influenced. Somehow these two pieces work in the same project.

  • @lerigoureux6474
    @lerigoureux6474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    22:50 - I'm so glad he didn't fall in this trap...

  • @edwardwatkins6572
    @edwardwatkins6572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @mustuploadtoo7543
    @mustuploadtoo7543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    9:15 to 9:28 was awkward or was it just me?

  • @lerigoureux6474
    @lerigoureux6474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh fuck, I thought he had perfect pitch !

  • @doctorstrange367
    @doctorstrange367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    24:22 :)
    33:38 :)

  • @yuto2465
    @yuto2465 ปีที่แล้ว

    45:16 ポカホンタス自分用

  • @mustuploadtoo7543
    @mustuploadtoo7543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    alan menken might be a better composer than bach 🤔

    • @NuclearGrifter
      @NuclearGrifter ปีที่แล้ว

      looooooooooool

    • @aristarchusx1111
      @aristarchusx1111 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love Menken's músic and Bach's music, but I seriously doubt that making that comparison would make sense, lol.

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    @edwardwatkins6572 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    @edwardwatkins6572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    @edwardwatkins6572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @JacobPatrick1
    @JacobPatrick1 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My dad would've loved this video and related to it.
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    @edwardwatkins6572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    @edwardwatkins6572 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    @edwardwatkins6572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @marcschndr
    @marcschndr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A real composer and real music not as frozen.... This kinda....