SSO Pops: Happy Days - Favourite TV Themes

7 November 2018

Esplanade Concert Hall Performing Home of the SSO

Gerard Salonga, conductor

7 Nov 2018, Wed

SSO POPS: HAPPY DAYS – FAVOURITE TV THEMES Singapore Symphony Orchestra Gerard Salonga, conductor Benjamin Chow, Alemay Fernandez, Jack & Rai, Hazrul Nizam, vocalists STU PHILLIPS (arr. G. SALONGA)

Battlestar Galactica 3’

MORTON STEVENS (arr. B. HOLCOMBE)

Hawaii Five-O 1’

JACK ELLIOT. & ALLYN FERGUSON (arr. H. MANCINI)

Theme from Charlie’s Angels 3’

MARK SNOW (orch. J. SACKS)

X-Files Main Title Theme 3’

JAN HAMMER (arr. B. HOLCOMBE)

Miami Vice 3’

LEE HOLDRIDGE Theme from Moonlighting 3’ & AL JARREAU (arr. M. QUERIDO) Hazrul Nizam, vocalist JERROLD IMMEL (arr. H. MANCINI)

Dallas Theme 2’

JOHNNY MANDEL & MIKE ALTMAN (arr. M. VILLENA)

Theme from M*A*S*H 4’

VARIOUS (arr. M. QUERIDO)

Comedy Medley 12’ Benjamin Chow, Alemay Fernandez, Jack & Rai, vocalists

Intermission 20’

J.N. HOWARD, J. BEAL & M. POST (arr. R. VILLENA-OSORIO)

ER - House of Cards - Law & Order 7’

RAMIN DJAWADI (arr. S. CHOI)

Game of Thrones Suite 8’

JEFF RUSSO

Suite from Star Trek: Discovery 10’

DOUGLAS CUOMO (arr. R. MATTINGLY)

Sex and the City (Main Theme) 4’

JOHN LUNN (arr. D.E. WAGNER)

Downton Abbey – The Suite 4’

PERRE GORE, CAIN SCHON (arr. S.CHOI)

Fame/Don't Stop Believing 7’

Concert duration: 2 hrs Go green. Digital programme booklets are available on www.sso.org.sg.

Scan the QR code in the foyer to view a copy.

S ing a p or e S y mp hon y Or c he s t r a Since its founding in 1979, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has been Singapore’s flagship orchestra, touching lives through classical music and providing the heartbeat of the cultural scene in the cosmopolitan city-state.

In addition to its subscription series concerts, the orchestra is well-loved for its outdoor and community appearances, and its significant role educating the young people of Singapore. The SSO has also earned an international reputation for its orchestral virtuosity, having garnered sterling reviews for its overseas tours and many successful recordings.

Concert Hall. More intimate works and all outreach and community performances take place at the 673-seat Victoria Concert Hall, the home of the SSO. The orchestra performs 100 concerts a year, and its versatile repertoire spans all-time favourites and orchestral masterpieces to exciting cutting-edge premieres. Bridging the musical traditions of East and West, Singaporean and Asian musicians and composers are regularly showcased in the concert season. This has been a core of the SSO’s programming philosophy from the very beginning under Choo Hoey, who was Music Director from 1979 to 1996.

The SSO makes its performing home at the 1,800-seat state-of-the-art Esplanade

Since Lan Shui assumed the position of Music Director in 1997, the SSO has

performed in Europe, Asia and the United States. In May 2016 the SSO was invited to perform at the Dresden Music Festival and the Prague Spring International Music Festival.

This successful five‑city tour of Germany and Prague also included the SSO’s return to the Berlin Philharmonie after six years. In 2014 the SSO’s debut at the 120th BBC Proms in London received critical acclaim in the major UK newspapers The Guardian and Telegraph.

The SSO has also performed in China on multiple occasions.

Notable SSO releases under BIS include a Rachmaninoff series, a “Seascapes” album, two Debussy discs “La Mer” and “Jeux”, and the first-ever cycle of Tcherepnin’s piano concertos

and symphonies. The SSO has also collaborated with such great artists as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Diana Damrau, Martha Argerich, Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Janine Jansen, Leonidas Kavakos and Gil Shaham.

The SSO is part of the Singapore Symphony Group, which also manages the Singapore Symphony Choruses, and the Singapore National Youth Orchestra.

The mission of the Group is to create memorable shared experiences with music. Through the SSO and its affiliated performing groups, we spread the love for music, nurture talent and enrich Singapore’s diverse communities.

Supporting the Local Arts and Cultural Scene Partner of SSO since 1978 NSL is a long-standing sponsor for Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO). We have been instrumental in helping the Orchestra reach out to the community-at-large as SSO brings music to the world.

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GERARD Salonga conductor Gerard Salonga is currently the Music Director of the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra in Manila, and has recently concluded his second season as Assistant Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2016 he was chosen to be one of the assistant conductors of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, selected by the orchestra and their Music Director Jaap van Zweden from a field of 170 international applicants. He has worked closely as Assistant Conductor and cover with maestros such as van Zweden, Yu Long, Jun Märkl, Hans Graf and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

He has conducted the HK Phil, Philippine Philharmonic, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, Evergreen Symphony, Bangkok Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Orchestra Victoria in Melbourne, and in 2017 made his debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

His arrangements and orchestrations have been performed by HK Phil, Sydney Symphony, RTE Concert Orchestra, New York Pops, Winnipeg Symphony, and the Cincinnati Pops. He has collaborated as arranger or conductor with artists like Lea

Salonga, Wang Leehom, Wu Tong, Cecile Licad, Michael Ball, Il Divo, Blake, Shen Yang, Danielle de Niese, TaikOz, and The Beach Boys.

In the 2017-2018 season, he led several concerts of the HK Phil, made a return to the Malaysian Philharmonic, as well as made his subscription debuts with the Sydney Symphony and Philippine Philharmonic. For the 2018-2019 season, he will be making his debut with the Singapore Symphony and Kunming Ni-Er Symphony Orchestras, and will be again conducting the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic and Sydney Symphony Orchestras.

In 2012 Gerard was honoured as one of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM), the Philippines’ highest civilian award to achievers under the age of 40. That same year he was named Music Director of the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra, an orchestra in Manila maintained by Philippine broadcast company ABS-CBN.

BENJAMIN CHOW

ALEMAY FERNANDEZ

vocalist

vocalist

As an actor, Benjamin has been seen, notably, as ‘Kin Jek’ in Press Gang (Wild Rice), ‘Mark’ in RENT the musical, ‘Benmin’ in Tango (Pangdemonium), ‘Prince Tun’ in Forbidden City (SRT) and as 'Lim Chin Siong' in The LKY Musical (Metropolitan Productions), the last two roles earning him Best Supporting Actor twice at the Life! Theatre Awards.

Hailed by TimeOut magazine as one of Singapore’s “best-loved entertainers”, Alemay Fernandez is a veteran in the Asian jazz scene. In her illustrious 19year career, she has performed with the likes of The Count Basie Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, David Foster, Gregory Porter, Ernie Watts, Randy Brecker, Antonio Hart, Mitch Frohman, Jay Anderson, Lewis Nash, Ed Cherry, Incognito, The Platters’ Bobby Soul, William Close & The Earth Harp Collective and opened for Laura Fygi & Benny Golson. She has sung for A-listers like Kevin Spacey, Ethan Hawke, Joss Stone, Kurt Elling, Lea Salonga, Paloma Picasso and Serena Williams.

Benjamin is also a lyricist and a working V.O. artist who continues to collaborate with production houses such as Gingerbread Studios, Hogarth, Backbeat Studios, Suite Sound, Mediacorp, Neon Sound, Home Studios and various others.

He is also trying to expand as a director, ever since directing The Cave in 2016, an original work by Annabel Tan which was presented at the Twenty-Something Theatre Festival. As a Spoken Word Artist, he has also been featured at poetry events such as Destination: INK, The New Word Order, The Singapore Art Salon, SPEAK, and the Singapore Biennale.

Alemay is in constant demand in Singapore, and has performed with all manner of Singapore orchestras and bands. She has been featured in several Dick Lee musicals and concerts, and works regularly with Jeremy Monteiro.

Alemay is known for her sultry tone, powerhouse vocals and onstage presence. Her album “Hard To Imagine” launched to a sold-out concert at the Esplanade in July 2016. She has toured regionally as well as in the U.S. in 2017 where she headlined at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club in NY.

Jack & Rai

HAZRUL NIZAM

vocalists

vocalist

Starting off as solo acoustic musicians more than a decade ago, Jack & Rai came together in 2002 to form an acoustic/ rock duo with a chemistry that borders on telepathic.

An avid singer from the time he was a toddler, Hazrul Nizam was Runner-up in Talentime 2001 and is currently a member of Vocaluptuous.

Their debut album ‘In Stores Now!’ featured hit songs like ‘The Fa La La Song’ and ‘Fiona’. Songs like ‘Release Me’ and ‘Pixelated’ were also used in World Aids Day campaigns in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

Since then, Jack & Rai have been busy performing not only all over Singapore, Southeast Asia, China, Australia and the US, but also found themselves as radio co-hosts on Class 95 FM (20072009), occasional emcees, songwriters, producers and composers.

Aside from appearing at their regular night gigs at bars, Jack & Rai have played at numerous public and corporate events and earned themselves Elle Magazine's Musicians of the Year in 2009, as well as M:Idea Youth Choice's 'Band I Wanna throw myself at' in 2010 and 2011. They won the Apollo Award for Best Music Composition (Short Length), in 2016, for Mediacorp 5 TV Drama series, ‘Tanglin’.

Together with songwriter Mayuni Omar, they won the Juara 2002 songwriting competition. The song Kaulah Segalanya hit the top of the charts for five consecutive weeks. The mini album received a record 8 nominations in 7 different categories in the Anugerah Planet Muzik 2004 including Most Popular Male Artiste (Regional) and Best New Artiste (Regional).

He has sung in the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize Award 2008, the inaugural Singapore National Games, and the 2014 Chingay Festival, the opening ceremony of the SEA games 2015, and 2018 at the Asia Traditional Orchestra 2017 held in South Korea.

Hazrul’s confidence and versatility as crooner is set to evoke your memory of R&B in the 80’s, when music was all about soul.

SSO MU SICIAN S Lan Shui Music Director joshua tan Associate Conductor andrew litton Principal Guest Conductor Choo Hoey Conductor Emeritus Eudenice Palaruan Choral Director WONG LAI FOON Choirmaster

FIRST VIOLIN Igor Yuzefovich1 Concertmaster, The GK Goh Chair Lynnette Seah2 Co-Concertmaster Kong Zhao Hui* Associate Concertmaster Chan Yoong-Han Fixed Chair Cao Can* Chen Da Wei Duan Yu Ling Foo Say Ming Gu Wen Li Jin Li Cindy Lee Sui Jing Jing Karen Tan William Tan Wei Zhe SECOND VIOLIN Michael Loh Associate Principal Hai-Won Kwok Fixed Chair Kong Xian Long^ Nikolai Koval* Lee Shi Mei^

Chikako Sasaki* Margit Saur Shao Tao Tao Edward Tan^ Lillian Wang Wu Man Yun* Xu Jue Yi* Ye Lin* Yeo Teow Meng Yin Shu Zhan* Zhang Si Jing* VIOLA Zhang Manchin Principal Guan Qi Associate Principal Gu Bing Jie* Fixed Chair Marietta Ku Luo Biao Julia Park Shui Bing Tan Wee-Hsin Janice Tsai Wang Dandan Yang Shi Li CELLO Ng Pei-Sian Principal Yu Jing Associate Principal Guo Hao Fixed Chair Chan Wei Shing Song Woon Teng Wang Yan Wang Zihao* Wu Dai Dai Zhao Yu Er DOUBLE BASS Guennadi Mouzyka Principal Yang Zheng Yi Associate Principal Karen Yeo Fixed Chair Olga Alexandrova Ma Li Ming^ Jacek Mirucki Wang Xu FLUTE Jin Ta Principal Evgueni Brokmiller Associate Principal

Roberto Alvarez Miao Shanshan

TRUMPET

Roberto Alvarez Assistant Principal

Jon Paul Dante Principal David Smith Associate Principal Lau Wen Rong Sergey Tyuteykin

OBOE

TROMBONE

Rachel Walker Principal Pan Yun Associate Principal Carolyn Hollier Elaine Yeo

Allen Meek Principal Damian Patti Associate Principal Samuel Armstrong

PICCOLO

BASS TROMBONE COR ANGLAIS

Wang Wei Assistant Principal

Elaine Yeo Associate Principal TUBA CLARINET Ma Yue Principal Li Xin Associate Principal Liu Yoko Tang Xiao Ping

Hidehiro Fujita Principal TIMPANI Christian Schiøler Principal Jonathan Fox Associate Principal

BASS CLARINET

PERCUSSION

Tang Xiao Ping Assistant Principal

Jonathan Fox Principal Mark Suter Associate Principal Lim Meng Keh Chaiyaphat Prempree^ Wang Shan^ Zhu Zheng Yi

BASSOON Wang Xiaoke Principal Liu Chang Associate Principal Christoph Wichert Zhao Ying Xue

HARP CONTRABASSOON

Gulnara Mashurova Principal

Zhao Ying Xue Assistant Principal GUITAR HORN Han Chang Chou Principal Gao Jian Associate Principal Jamie Hersch Associate Principal Marc-Antoine Robillard Associate Principal Kartik Alan Jairamin^

Daniel Chai^ BASS GUITAR Brandon Wong^ KEYBOARD Joel Nah^

*With deep appreciation to the Rin Collection for their generous loan of string instruments.

Igor Yuzefovich plays an instrument generously loaned by Mr & Mrs G K Goh 2 Lynnette Seah performs on a J.B. Guadagnini of Milan, c. 1750, donated by the National Arts Council, Singapore, with the support of Far East Organization and Lee Foundation. ^Musician on temporary contract Musicians listed alphabetically by family name rotate their seats on a per programme basis.

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Battlestar Galactica There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe … Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive—somewhere beyond the heavens!

Hawaii Five-O Police and detective dramas have also had their share of memorable theme music. Hawaii Five-O originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980. Leonard Freeman, its creator, said that, “The value of a great one-minute theme to any television series is inestimable.” When planning Hawaii Five-O, he knew there was only one person he could rely on: Morton Stevens (1929–1991), whose instantly recognisable theme won two Emmy Awards. He was a student of Jerry Goldsmith of Star Trek fame, with whom he also frequently collaborated.

Female empowerment was the theme of Charlie’s Angels, a 1970s TV series in which three female undercover crime fighters solving crimes for a boss that they only know from speaking to him on the telephone. The theme was co-written

by Jack Elliot (1927-2001) and Allyn Ferguson (1924-2010) and arranged for orchestra by Henry Mancini (1924-1994).

The X-Files For The X-Files (1993-2002), the critically and popularly acclaimed music was composed by Mark Snow (b. 1946) quite by accident. In 1992 while he was in his garage studio tinkering with ideas and stumped in his search, he put his elbow on the keyboard. This unintentionally turned on a delay echo effect, which triggered the now famous spooky electronic echo. Snow then searched for a melody, eventually stumbling on “Whistling Joe”, the name of the ghostly “instrument” which he mixed with his wife’s whistling to arrive at the final product, one of paranormal TV’s most unforgettable tunes.

Miami Vice The advent of MTV in the 1980s influenced television writers and composers. The undercover cops of Miami Vice were nicknamed the MTV police due to the Jan Hammer’s (b. 1954) use of popular rock songs that often displaced dialogue and a pulsating, synthesised music in its sound track. The Miami Vice soundtrack was on the top of the US album chart for 11 weeks in 1985, making it the most successful TV soundtrack of all time for some 21 years until 2006.

PROGRAMME NOTES

And with this opening narration, the majestic flourish and opening fanfare of Battlestar Galactica began in 1978.

Although the science fiction tale lasted only one season, books and subsequent revivals (most notably the 2004 remake) continued to tell the story of a ragtag fleet of spaceships carrying the last human survivors of the devastated Twelve Colonies. They search for a new home, the long-lost sister civilization known as Earth, while hunted by their mortal enemies, the robotic Cylons. The rousing theme by Stu Phillips is an anthem of hope and determination.

Charlie’s Angels

Moonlighting With vocalist Hazrul Nizam Moonlighting is the theme song to the comedy-crime drama of the same name, which ran from 1985 to 1989. The series revolved around the Blue Moon Detective Agency and its two partners, Madelyn “Maddie” Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) and David Addison Jr. (Bruce Willis). The show stood out for its mix of detective mystery, witty dialogue and chemistry between its two leads.

Some walk by night Some fly by day Nothing could change you Set and sure of the way Charming and bright Laughing and gay I’m just a stranger Love the blues and the brave There is the sun and moon They sing their own sweet tune Watch them when dawn is due Sharing one space Some walk by night Some fly by day Something is sweeter When you meet ‘long the way So come walk by night Come fly by day Something is sweeter Coz we met ‘long the way

We'll walk by night We'll fly by day Moonlighting strangers Who just met on the way © Lee Holdridge, Al Jarreau

It was performed by Al Jarreau, who wrote the song with Lee Holdridge and in 1987 reached number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Dallas The late 1970s also saw the creation of a new genre of big-budget TV shows called ‘prime-time soap’ by television critics that featured serial plots involving feuding families, glamour and cliffhanger endings.

Dallas (1978) premiered to bad reviews, but ran for 12 seasons. Jerrold Immel (b.

1938) wrote the music for all 55 episodes of the series and two made-for-TV movie sequels.

M*A*S*H Two classic TV series from the 1970s demonstrated the pull of nostalgia from very different perspectives. M*A*S*H (standing for “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital”) was set during the Korean War featuring the antics of doctors serving in a mobile hospital unit. It was a rare instance when an Oscar-winning movie was turned into a critically acclaimed television series.

The theme song, Suicide Is Painless, was written by Johnny Mandel (b. 1925) and Mike Altman (b. 1955), the then 14year old son of the film’s director Robert Altman. The latter had tried to write the lyrics himself, but stumped, gave the task to his then 14-year-old-son, Michael, who wrote the lyrics in five minutes.

Comedy Medley With vocalists Benjamin Chow, Alemay Fernandez and Jack & Rai The Love Boat Love, exciting and new Come aboard, we’re expecting you Love, life’s sweetest reward Let it flow, it floats back to you The Love Boat soon will be making another run The Love Boat promises something for everyone Set a course for adventure Your mind on a new romance

The Love Boat soon will be making another run The Love Boat promises something for everyone Set a course for adventure Your mind on a new romance Love won’t hurt anymore It’s an open smile on a friendly shore

It’s love... (x2) © Charles Fox. Lyrics by Paul Williams

Thank you for being a friend Travelled down a road and back again Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant I’m not ashamed to say I hope it always will stay this way My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow And if you threw a party Invited everyone you knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say Thank you for being a friend (x4) If it’s a car you lack I'd surely buy you a Cadillac Whatever you need any time of the day or night I’m not ashamed to say I hope it always will stay this way My hat is off, won’t you stand up and take a bow And when we both get older With walking canes and hair of grey Have no fear even though it’s hard to hear I will stand here close and say Thank you for being a friend (x4)

PROGRAMME NOTES

Love won’t hurt anymore It’s an open smile on a friendly shore

It’s love... (x3)

Thank You For Being a Friend from The Golden Girls

Let me tell you about a friend (I wanna thank you) Thank you for being a friend (x4) And when we die and float away Into the night the Milky Way You’ll hear me call as we ascend I’ll say your name then once again Thank you for being a friend © Andrew Gold

Believe It Or Not from The Greatest American Hero Look at what’s happened to me I can’t believe it myself Suddenly I’m up on top of the world It should have been somebody else Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air I never thought I could feel so free Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be?

Believe it or not it’s just me Just like the light of a new day It hit me from out of the blue Breaking me out of the spell I was in Making all of my wishes come true Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air I never thought I could feel so free Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be?

Believe it or not it’s just me This is too good to be true Look at me falling for you Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air I never thought I could feel so free Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be?

Believe it or not it’s just me © Andrew Gold

I’ll Be There For You from Friends So no one told you life was gonna be this way Your job’s a joke, you’re broke Your love life’s D.O.A It’s like you're always stuck in second gear When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month Or even your year, but Chorus:

You’re still in bed at ten And work began at eight You've burned your breakfast, so far Things are going great Your mother warned you there’d be days like these But she didn’t tell you when the world has brought You down to your knees and [chorus]

[chorus] © Phil Sõlem, Danny Wilde, David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Michael Skloff, Allee Willis.

PROGRAMME NOTES

I’ll be there for you (When the rain starts to pour) I’ll be there for you (Like I’ve been there before) I’ll be there for you (’Cause you’re there for me too)

No one can ever know me No one can ever see me Seems you’re the only one who knows What it’s like to be me Someone to face the day with Make it through all the rest with Someone I’ll always laugh with Even at my worst, I’m best with you, yeah It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month Or even your year

E.R. – House of Cards – Law & Order

Star Trek: Discovery

E.R. (Emergency Room) is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired 1994 to 2009, 15 seasons with over 300 episodes. The E.R. Theme was composed by James Newton Howard.

From the first notes of Alexander Courage’s (1919-2008) theme for Star Trek (1966), the music has sought to amplify its core message of universal humanity. Courage relied on brass and jazz-based riffs mixed with classical orchestration in his music.

A more militarist style dominated by percussion instruments was introduced by Jerry Goldsmith (1929–2004) in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), in which also made use of choral music, synthesisers and other experimental techniques in keeping with the original innovative spirit of the film.

The American political drama House of Cards features a chilling, ominous orchestral theme written by Jeff Beal (b.1963). Beal is noted for composing without assistants or orchestrators, playing most of the instruments himself, in his own home. For the music from House of Cards, he added a 17-piece string ensemble, recorded in the living room of his house.

The music for Law & Order was composed by award-winning composer Mike Post (b.

1944) using electric piano, guitar, and clarinet.

Game of Thrones Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi (b. 1974) has composed numerous soundtracks for both film and TV. Besides his best known work for the HBO series after George R.R. Martin’s popular fantasy epic, Djawadi – born of an Iranian father and German mother has written music for such shows as Prison Break, Person of Interest, Jack Ryan, Westworld, Pacific Rim, Iron Man and Warcraft. Game of Thrones first aired in 2011 to worldwide acclaim and will conclude with its 8th season premiering in 2019. The now famous theme is rhythmically driven and makes frequent use of the cello for its dark mood and beautifully emotional voice.

Courage and Goldsmith’s approaches have guided the other composers and arrangers who have gone on to create Star Trek music, as well as countless other big-budget action-adventure films and historical epics. Jeff Russo (b.1969) bookended his score for Star Trek: Discovery (2017-) with elements from Courage’s original fanfare. A former member of the 1990s alternative rock band Tonic, Russo wanted to get away from the ‘doom and gloom, and marching drums’ and focus more on the character’s emotions and what they were feeling in his score.

Sex and the City There was no looking back in either Sex and the City (1998–2004) or Glee (2009– 2015), two television series that deal with real life issues from radically different perspectives. For Sex and the City, which ran from 1998 to 2004, its creator, Darren Star wanted a ‘Latin, cocktail-themed vibe’ for the theme song. When the show was

new and struggling to find an audience, he used to drive around Los Angeles playing the plunky, marimba-esque on his car radio hoping that it would inspire people to watch the show.

Downton Abbey The British historical period drama television series Downton Abbey (2010– 2015) begins with a telegram, not music.

The theme that is then heard instantly creates an atmosphere of elegance, tragedy and delicious repartee was never meant to be the theme music, but John Lunn (b. 1956) says that he had to do something when they cut immediately to a train scene.

Glee was set in a high school where students and teachers dealt with social issues such as sexuality, race, relationships, and teamwork. Its cast performed elaborately staged renditions of show tunes and chart. In a new marketing spin, the songs were released through the iTunes Store during the week of the broadcast.

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