BSX Records has released the soundtrack album for the 3D animated family movie The Greatest Miracle. The album includes the original score from the film by Mark McKenzie. The composer incorporated over 100 musicians and performers into the score including an 80 piece orchestra, a choir, a women’s choir, and the acclaimed London boys choir “Libera”. The soundtrack is available on the label’s website, as well as on iTunes, where you also check out audio clips from the album. The Greatest Miracle (El Gran Milagro) is directed by Bruce Morris (Finding Nemo, The Princess and the Frog) and produced by Mexico City-based Pablo Barosso and Claudia Nemer. The movie will be released in both Spanish and English beginning in Los Angeles and Chicago on October 14, then expanding nationwide.
For more information, check out the press release below:
MARK MCKENZIE SCORES THE GREATEST MIRACLE
THE FILM BEGINS TIERED RELEASE OCTOBER 14TH
LOS ANGELES, CA –Mark McKenzie scores the 3D animated faith-based family film The Greatest Miracle (El Gran Milagro). The film is directed by Bruce Morris and produced by Mexico City-based Pablo Barosso and Claudia Nemer. The Greatest Miracle will be released in both Spanish and English beginning in Los Angeles and Chicago on October 14th, then expanding nationwide. Last month, McKenzie’s heartfelt and uplifting score for the film was premiered as a special concert performance in Madrid, Spain as part of World Youth Day and Pope Benedict XVI’s visit. The Greatest Miracle (El Gran Milagro) tells an inspiring story of love, hope, and redemption as three characters mysteriously are drawn to attend morning mass. The composer incorporated over 100 musicians and performers into the score including an 80 piece orchestra, a choir, a women’s choir, and the acclaimed London boys choir “Libera.” The score album is available now on BSX Records and iTunes.
The lush, passionate score to The Greatest Miracle (El Gran Milagro) is matched to the narrative of gifted Disney Animation storyteller Morris (Finding Nemo, The Princess and the Frog and Pocahontas). McKenzie’s moving and dramatic composition meshes perfectly with the film’s themes to create a powerful score.
McKenzie is one of a small number composers working in Hollywood who both composes and orchestrates each note of his movie scores. The talented composer/orchestrator has collaborated with virtually every major film composer over the past 20 years. The legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith chose McKenzie to orchestrate and provide additional music on his last seven films before his death. John Barry, Danny Elfman, Bruce Broughton, Alan Silvestri, Marc Shaiman, John Williams, and James Newton Howard all have enlisted McKenzie’s orchestral talent on many scores that have subsequently received Oscars. Although McKenzie has primarily scored independent projects, the composer has garnered a reputation for the thematic richness, beauty, and warmth of his scores.
McKenzie’s extensive list of film orchestration credits includes the films Spider-Man, Nightmare Before Christmas, Good Will Hunting and the Academy Award- winning Dances With Wolves. He also has composed and orchestrated Francis Ford Coppola’s My Family / Mi Familia, The Ultimate Gift, and the award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame television series.
