Shirley Walker 1945 - 2006 RIP

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From "www.musicfromthemovies.com":

"Another star has gone out in Hollywood this week as it has been announced that composer Shirley Walker has died at the age of 61; she suffered a brain aneurism and did not regain consciousness. The composer was something of a trailblazer for women film composers, scoring an array of projects from the early 1980s including Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Willard and the Final Destination trilogy. Walker worked largely in a comfortable niche of dark movie material and a host of animated incarnations of favourite comic books, including Superman, Batman and Spawn, though she was more than able in other genres, as scores like Willard showed. The talented composer also served regularly as an orchestrator, arranger and conductor, most notably perhaps for Danny Elfman, with whom she worked on Batman and Edward Scissorhands amongst others. Her final score, Black Christmas, can be heard in cinemas this holiday season…

It’s another sad loss for the film music world and so soon after the death of Basil Poledouris, who was also 61."