Yet underscoring Zimmer’s approach was the urgency of protecting the environment. I stuck close to the orchestration…we worked on the old songs to make them more of what I always hoped they would be. At the same time, long before anybody wanted to go and build walls, I thought music was about building these bridges to Africa. They knew what every note meant, so I could harness that.
“There was such familiarity with the music,” Zimmer said. In addition to using his crack band of LA session musicians, Zimmer recruited The Re-Collective Orchestra, an all-black ensemble founded by Stephanie Matthews and Matt Jones (“Black Panther”), along with two distinctly ethnic choirs. But it was important to Zimmer to expand the score’s diversity of color and gender to reflect the world today. The African voice was already present in the original “Lion King” with the help of singer/composer Lebo M, who provided the unforgettable, opening cry from “The Circle of Life,” and who was integral once again in updating the ethnicity of the new score.
“Why don’t we get all the greatest players, get my band, get the greatest players in the world, make a new orchestra here in Los Angeles, rehearse them for two days, and then really make it as if it was a concept?” “So I said to Jon, why don’t we do it like this?” added Zimmer.
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