{"id":413,"date":"2022-08-03T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:09:28","slug":"alan-menken","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/?page_id=413","title":{"rendered":"Alan Menken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/300px-Alan_Menken_2013_cropped.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-414 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/300px-Alan_Menken_2013_cropped-231x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/300px-Alan_Menken_2013_cropped-231x300.jpeg 231w, https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/300px-Alan_Menken_2013_cropped.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Alan Menken<\/b> (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer, songwriter, music conductor, music director and record producer. Menken is best known for his scores and songs for movies produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.<\/p>\n<p>His scores and songs for <i>The Little Mermaid<\/i> (1989), <i>Beauty and the Beast<\/i>(1991), <i>Aladdin<\/i> (1992), and <i>Pocahontas<\/i> (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>He also composed the scores and songs for <i>Little Shop of Horrors<\/i> (1986), <i>Newsies<\/i> (1992), <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/i> (1996), <i>Hercules<\/i> (1997), <i>Home on the Range<\/i> (2004), <i>Enchanted<\/i> (2007) and <i>Tangled<\/i> (2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer, songwriter, music conductor, music director and record producer. Menken is best known for his scores and songs for movies produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast(1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) have each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions\/415"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}