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''The Dynamic Duo''
Sanctuary Composing Team of Fasman and O'Kennedy
- Brief overview -
Barry Fasman
Composer/Conductor
Bary Fasman is one of Hollywood's most enduring composers, song-writers, conductors, music producers, arrangers, and recording engineers. With eight platinum and/or gold albums and a 25-year history, Fasman's expansive credits include projects with some of the most respected names in music. As a composer with over a dozen features and made-for-TV movies to his credit, Fasman's scores include: Tracks Through Time, narrated by Dennis Weaver, and songs in Dance With Me (Vanessa Williams); I Know What You Did Last Summer , the Oliver Stone films, JFK, Nixon and Heaven and Earth, and the score for a new Tony Krantz (of hit TV show ''24'' fame) documentary film depicting the life work of world spritual leader, Sai Baba.. He penned the theme to the long-running NBC series, Showtime at the Apollo. In the theatrical realm, Fasman composed all the music and songs for the first musical honored by Disney and ASCAP's West-Coast Musical Theatre Workshop, "Mississippi Moon" (1999), and for the Actor's Alley Repertory Theatre's "Humbug! The Musical" (based on Dicken's "a Christmas Carol", first produced in 1990). Fasman (with composing partner John O'Kennedy) composed, arranged performed and produced the music for several Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo formatted video games, including the critically acclaimed Robotech: Battlecry, Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey, Star Trek: Shattered Universe, Corvette: 50th Anniversary and the soon to be released Sponge Bob Squarepants and Spy vs. Spy. In 1998 Fasman won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Musical Direction for a Musical, The Last Session, at the Tiffany Theatre.
John O'Kennedy
Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist
John O'Kennedy's talent and experience can be heard in his compositions and contribution to films for Disney, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and corporate clients such as IWERKS, IBM and NASA. As a composer (with partner Barry Fasman), John has Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo formatted video games to his credit, including the critically acclaimed Robotech: Battlecry, Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey, Star Trek: Shattered Universe, Corvette: 50th Anniversary, Sponge Bob Squarepants and Spy vs. Spy. For the small screen, John has contributed music to the animated show, Itsy Bitsy Spider (USA Network); De-Calssified (The History Channel) and Little Mermaid's Island (Disney Channel). His work in documentaries includes Goldtown, Sai Baba: His Work (for Tony Krantz), and Columbus, Discovery and Beyond.
