Mark Snow's Millennium Crew Profile
Profile
Mark Snow‘s status as one of today‘s most innovative and successful film and television composers is only the latest element of a far-reaching and eclectic career in music. While Snow is perhaps best known for his theme and scores for The X-Files and Millennium, this Juilliard-trained musician‘s career has encompassed lush orchestral scoring, album production, classical performance, and five years as a co-founder of the legendary New York Rock N‘ Roll Ensemble (a band he formed in the late ‘60s with Juilliard roommate Michael Kamen, himself a much in-demand producer, studio musician, conductor, arranger, and film and television composer). Snow has been nominated for six Emmy awards (in five different categories) and has worked on many motion pictures, as well as virtually every type of dramatic television program in existence. His best-known work also includes The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, An American Story, and Something About Amelia. Mark Snow was born Martin Fulterman on 26 August 1946 in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn, New York, native began studying piano at the age of ten, then moved on to both drums and oboe. Four years at Juilliard followed, where he studied with jazz arranger Hall Overton and oboist Melvin Kaplan, as well as 12-tone composer George Tremblay and composer Earl Hagan (best known for the theme of The Andy Griffith Show).
Yet at the same time, Snow found himself bitten by the rock n‘ roll bug. He found the perfect outlet for his wide-ranging talents and interests in the New York Rock N‘ Roll Ensemble, which he formed with Kamen to perform both innovative pop and purely classical music (Snow played both drums and oboe, although not at the same time! in that band).
Snow left the band in 1973 and, after a brief period in record production, moved to Los Angeles in 1974 and began working as a film and television composer. His early successes in the field included episodes of the award-winning series Family, and the theme and episodic scores for the long-running Hart To Hart. Other work included Cagney and Lacey, Baghdad Cafe, and Crazy Like A Fox, as well as many TV movies and mini-series.
Snow‘s home studio, featuring a mind-boggling array of the latest electronic equipment, enables him to "audition" an entire score for producers and directors (and his very friendly dogs) in the comfort of his own backyard.
Profile text courtesy of Jem Aswad
Biography at ASCAP: the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Millennium Cast, Character or Crew Credit
Mark Snow was a member of the Millennium crew.
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When we were talking about doing the Millennium theme, David Nutter was also involved, with Chris. They were very collaborative about it. They sent me a piece of music from an Irish band. There was solo violin and a Celtic sound with a cool rhythm. And they said, "You know, maybe this is something to go with." And the piece I wrote I thought sort of captured that in a way. It had a mournful, Celtic, medieval combination. And they really liked percussion, and I added these big percussion hits, which became in themselves the signature for some of the act-ins or act breaks. These two hits, boom boom, very ambient drums. It was really a thrill, knowing that they loved it right from the get-go. Millennium was a hole in one, right off the bat.
Source: Mark Snow
Order In Chaos: The Making Of Millennium Season One
Millennium Production Roles
Mark Snow worked on the following 67 episode/s of Millennium:
Other Ten-Thirteen shows
- The X-Files:
- Original music
- The X-Files movie:
- Original music, conductor
- The Lone Gunmen:
- Original music
- Harsh Realm:
- Original music