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Kevin Wallace - Producer
Saul Zaentz - Producer

Shaun McKenna - Book and Lyrics
A.R. Rahman - Composer
Värttinä - Composer
Christopher Nightingale - Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator
Rob Howell - Set and Costume Designer
Paul Pyant - Lighting Designer

Christopher Nightingale

Performed by an ensemble of 15 live musicians and 3 keyboardists who trigger the Vienna Symphonic Library PRO EDITION sample sets off of G5 computers running Logic.

Christopher Nightingale about his work with PRO EDITION

“I always knew that we were going to use the VSL Pro Edition, so I orchestrated to its strenghts“, says Nightingale.

“I’m very familiar with the articulations that the Pro Edition contains, and we made sure that the players we hired were able to use the Legato Tool, in particular, for the strings and other instruments.

Our orchestra consists of a string quartet, double bass, three trombones, two french horns, one trumpet and two percussionists. The first violinist doubles on several ethnic string instruments, and we also have a flautist who doubles on piccolo and ethnic flute. Obviously there was an economic motivation behind our decision to rely so heavily on samples, and we put a lot of time into considering how best to use them. VSL is used to strengthen the brass choirs, and for string re-enforcement. We also use its excellent harp quite a bit.“

Interview given to Gary Eskow for Mix Magazine, July 2006 issue.