Name Don Dorsey | ||
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Don Dorsey is an American audio production consultant, and a designer and director of fireworks and nighttime spectacular shows (including IllumiNations and Sorcery in the Sky.) From 1975 to 1992 he served as the main audio recording and post-production engineer for the Entertainment Division of Disneyland Park, manning console knobs and faders for recording sessions with Mickey and his cohorts, and for musical groups which ran the gamut from bagpipes, steel drums and accordion to marching band, 100-voice choir and symphony orchestra. While working with Disney, Don also worked with a number of pop musicians, including Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendez, and Donna Summer.
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Don also created DECS, the Disney Entertainment Control System. (Originally named "Mickey Track") This system controls all audio in Disney parades and live atmosphere shows in Disney theme parks around the globe.
Don was Creative Director for the development of the Air Launch Firework. He was the first one to use a shooting star, currently used nightly in Epcot, as well as the three-shell Mickey, which is used nightly at Disneyland Park.
His electronic arrangements and performances for Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade have been heard by an estimated 100 million Disney park guests around the world (as of 1997). In 1984 he produced the score for Laserphonic Fantasy and IllumiNations in 1988. Don also wrote the lyrics for the two songs used in IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.
Don continues to develop new entertainment projects and technology for Disney parks around the world, and in 1999 he directed IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth, to celebrate the new millennium.
Discography
Track on:
Disney projects
Songs
Ode to Ludwig
Fur Elise
Mixed Bagatelles
Ascent
Rondo a Capriccio in G major
Birthday Dimensions
Six Ecossaises
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Fugue - From Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - BWV 565
The Festival of Festivals: Celebrations on Land
Allegretto; Trio - From Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
The Festival of Festivals: Fanfare
Scherzo: Allegretto Vivace - From Sonata No 18 - Opus 31 - No 3
The Festival of Festivals: Revelries in Pyrotechnics
2-Part Invention No 10 in G Major - BWV 781: Work in Progress
2-Part Invention No 10 in G Major - BWV 781
The Festival of Festivals: Spectacles on Water
Six Ecossaises Woo 59
Eine Kleine Gigue in G Major - K 574
2-Part Invention No 15 in B Minor - BWV 786
Ode to Joy - From Symphony No 9 in D Minor - Opus 125 - Mvt 4: Demo 1
Menuet in G Major - From Anna Magdalena - Bwv 114
3-Part Invention No 8 in F Major - BWV 794
Musette in D Major - From Anna Magdalena BWV Anh 126
Ode to Joy - From Symphony No 9 in D Minor - Opus 125 - Mvt 4: Demo 2
2-Part Invention No 10 in G Major - BWV 781: Rough Mix
Three-Part Invention No 15 in B minor - BWV 801
Three-Part Invention No 1 in C major - BWV 787
Three-Part Invention No 12 in A major - BWV 798
Two-Part Invention No 10 in G major - BWV 781
Three-Part Invention No 10 in G major - BWV 796
Diverse Kanons - BWV 1087