The Sandspur

Issue date: 3/12/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment

The dresses were fabulous, Scorcese finally won an Oscar after being nominated 8 times,
and host, Ellen DeGeneres had the audience laughing the entire time! The Oscars blew us away on Sunday night, February 25, 2007.
How could they ever top these fabulous performances?

A large part of The Academy Awards is to bring in performances that give the audience
a glimpse of the immense talent there is out there in the world of cinema. It is a wonderful tradition to honor those 100's of experts who contribute critical elements to the production of a movie. What movie-goers generally forget is the masterpiece they watch is a collaboration of talent with the art design, soundtrack, actors, directing, lighting and more. By having the Oscars, it pays all of the people dues who are underscored in the movie business. For the most part movies would not happen without this entire sea of brilliant people working together. Among the talent they brought in was a hit piece from Academy nominated "Dream Girls."

Beyond that, was what I think is the best and most remarkable display of all. It was the tremendous skills in vocal control and
manipulation of the soundtrack choir. This choir was inspired by Steve Sidwell, the composer of a Honda Civic commercial which
displays a car, and a group of 60 people who are making all of the soundtrack noises. It is phenomenal because it sounds as though
it is a regular soundtrack for a car commercial. The only difference is, instead of a car making the noises of the Vrooms, tires, wind blowing through the window,
rain falling on the roof, and the screeches of the break, it is this remarkable choir!

This choir performed at the Oscars making the sound effects for a movie montage. The movie montage was played in order to honor the efforts which go into movie soundtracks. This movie montage was being accompanied
by this sound track choir. They mastered the noises of cars driving, planes taking off , rockets, horses, and everything else you
could possibly dream of. What is even cooler is they each have a book with notes which they are reading.

I certainly wonder how these people read their notes. Don't You?

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