Description
Artist: Stephen Dubois
Title: Miracle On Panther Mountain (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Format: CD
Release: 2024
Country: US
Region: Buffalo
UPC:736684996246
Miracle on Panther Mountain contains soundtracks from three short-subject documentaries done for Rick Inglasbe Studios: Cherokee (2015), Miracle on Panther Mountain
(2016) and Building Dreams (2024.) This is music for pensive reflection, quiet moments, thinking and feeling. It's perhaps a bit of a departure from the purer ambient space music typical to Stephen's output, but there are plenty of ethereal tracks in this collection. Whether it's an unexplainable event or a soundtrack for the motivation that drives us to follow our dreams there is plenty to enjoy over these 32 tracks.
Composer Stephen Dubois has been working in the planetarium field for the last 37 years. He has scored original music for 8 documentary programs: Mister Frost and the Skies of Winter, Eclipse: Into the Shadow, Our Invisible Universe, Constellations of the Zodiac, 2012: Prophecy of Doom, From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet, Unlocking the Solar System and Astin's Sky Adventure. His music has been heard in planetariums throughout the USA and North America including the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium (Buffalo, NY), The Traveler's Science Dome Planetarium (Hartford, CT) and the Howard B. Owens Science Center (Greenbelt, MD.) Since childhood, music has been a huge part of Stephen's life. He started composing in 1979 using piano, organ and found objects. By the mid 1980's, he began to employ synthesizers, percussion and sampling. Influenced by countless genres of music he describes his sound as "space music with shades of contemporary classical." He has released seven full length albums. "The Frost Sessions", "Our Invisible Universe", "2012: Prophecy of Doom" "From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet" and "Astin's Sky Adventure" along with one holiday single: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." In 2015 he wrote a score for the short subject documentary film, "Cherokee," for Rick Ingalsbe Studio as well as scoring that studio's 2016 documentary film, "Miracle on Panther Mountain." In early 2020, Stephen released his 6th album: "Beyond the Dome" a collection of material not from any planetarium or full-dome programs but rather completely new set of pieces unlike his previous albums. Whereas much of the soundtrack work can be called 'background music' the tracks on "Beyond the Dome" are 'foreground' music. In 2024, he scored the latest documentary for Rick Ingalsbe Studio: "Building Dreams" and released all of those scores on the new album "Miracle on Panther Mountain."
