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Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including Hellraiser, Species, Urban Legend, The Grudge, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me to Hell, Sinister, Deliver Us from Evil, and Pet Sematary. Other works include Rapid Fire, Copycat, Set It Off, Entrapment, The Hurricane, Swordfish, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man 3, and The Shipping News, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Young was honoured with the prestigious Richard Kirk Award at the 2008 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music and then completed his postgraduate work at the University of North Texas. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. Originally a jazz drummer, when he heard some of Bernard Herrmann's works, he decided to become a film composer. He studied at the UCLA Film School under David Raksin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Young, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Christopher Young
Composer
for Composer in The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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Set in the roaming farmlands of a quiet village, Gruff, his sister Gruffina and their little brother Li'l Gruff are a trio of billy goat siblings who live in a shabby yet roomy barn with their parents. All their life, their kind goat mother and father had told them the legend of the evil Merzarch, an ugly old troll with magic who lives and dwells underneath the forbidden Southshire Bridge and stops anyone who dares to try and cross it. Two of the goats thought it was just superstition, but Li'l Gruff would be better off staying away from the bridge. Until then, Gruff and his brother and sister come across the bridge and there they meet the mischievous troll himself. And that's where the adventure begins.
