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• HomeDon Dorsey · Sights and Sounds || Design and Production. Five decades of Disney nights: parades, spectaculars and pyro cued to music.
  • Overheard, and on the record.
  • Pick a year. Any year.
  • Three more frames on the wall.
• The StoryDon Dorsey · The Story · Parades, Telarc, Fantasmic!, Sonic Boon, and the Millennium.
  • The parades learn to keep time.
  • A synth guy out-charts Mozart's movie.
  • Setting a river on fire, on purpose.
  • The sound of movie guns, reinvented.
  • Moving the Earth, on schedule.
  • A few borrowed words, and one of his own.
• The WorkDon Dorsey · The Work · Projects, discography, clients, and current initiatives.
  • Nineteen ways to move a crowd.
  • Five records, three of them accidental hits.
  • And the customer is always right.
  • What's on the console now.
• ListenDon Dorsey · Listen · Bachbusters, Beethoven or Bust and Busted: where to stream and where to buy them.
• AppearancesDon Dorsey · Appearances · Upcoming events, panels, podcasts, press and archives.
  • Where to catch Don next.
  • Interviews, panels & TV.
  • Podcasts & recorded interviews.
  • National, trade & fan coverage.
  • Where the record already lives.
• PressDon Dorsey · Press · The chart record, the print coverage and the archives that keep the originals.
  • What Billboard printed.
  • The nineteen eighties, on paper.
  • Features & interviews.
  • Where the originals live.
• DorseyCardDon Dorsey · The DorseyCard · A once-a-year tradition since 1977.
  • It all began in 1977…
  • The title archive.
  • Pull the lever.
• ContactDon Dorsey · Contact · Anaheim, California.
• Electrical ParadeDon Dorsey's own account of how the music for Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade was made, from Baroque Hoedown in 1972 to the vocoder and beyond.
  • How the Main Street Electrical Parade got its sound.
• Privacy & TermsDon Dorsey · The terms of use and the privacy policy: the fine print, all of it readable.
  • Look around all you like.
  • This site barely knows you.
• The Epcot LagoonDon Dorsey · Epcot's World Showcase Lagoon parades and shows, 1982 to 2019: Carnaval de Lumière, Laserphonic Fantasy, IllumiNations and Reflections of Earth.
  • Thirty-seven years on forty-two acres.
• Carnaval de LumièreDon Dorsey · Carnaval de Lumière, Epcot's first lagoon show: nine barges, sixty projectors, The Festival of Festivals, and the lesson that shaped everything after.
  • The first show on the water.
• Laserphonic FantasyDon Dorsey · A New World Fantasy and Laserphonic Fantasy: classical music on synthesizers, lasers over the Epcot lagoon, and The Skater's animation firsts.
  • The lagoon learns to play the whole shoreline.
• IllumiNationsDon Dorsey · The original IllumiNations, 1988: the lagoon's synthesizer scores rescored for orchestra, a new Dorsey-Healey theme, and the pavilions joining the show.
  • The name the lagoon kept.
• IllumiNations: Reflections of EarthDon Dorsey · IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth: the pitch, the 350,000-pound Earth Globe, Abbey Road, We Go On, and twenty years of nightly performances at Epcot.
  • Moving the Earth, on schedule.
  • From sketch to first light.
• Holiday IllumiNationsDon Dorsey · Holiday IllumiNations, 1994 to 1998: Walter Cronkite, the Boys Choir of Harlem, and the Let There Be Peace on Earth finale that outlived the show.
  • The lagoon, dressed for December.
• America on ParadeDon Dorsey · America on Parade, 1975: the Bicentennial pageant, the Great American Band Organ sound, and the rooftop stopwatch work that led to Mickey Track.
  • Where the whole thing started.
• Parade ControlDon Dorsey · Mickey Track, DECS and Conductor: the three generations of the computer systems that keep Disney parades in time, each designed to Don's specifications.
  • How a mile of floats keeps the beat.
  • The consoles.
• Sorcery in the SkyDon Dorsey · Sorcery in the Sky, 1990: Fantasia's fiftieth anniversary over the Disney-MGM Studios backlot, and the first Disney fireworks choreographed to music.
  • The night the fireworks learned the score.
• SpectroMagic & Fantasmic!Don Dorsey · The origins of SpectroMagic and Fantasmic!: two coasts answering the same question about what could follow the Main Street Electrical Parade.
  • Two answers to the same question.
• Lights on Spaceship EarthDon Dorsey · The points of light on Spaceship Earth, and the Epcot anniversary show that closes every night with We Go On, the anthem carrying Don's lyric.
  • The sphere itself becomes the show.