Raiklen has provided music for over 40 motion-picture, stage and television productions, including: The X-Files feature trailer, The Stupids, Disney's Sing Me A Story and Death and the Maiden. He attended, then taught, at UCLA, USC and CalArts, and has studied with John Williams and Mel Powel. Raiklen, the 2004 winner of an American Music Center Composers Grant, has had his compositions performed at the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall. He has worked with Dr. Haimoff for several years, previously scoring four full-length TV documentaries, "Ice Age Civilizations," "Atlantis: Secret Star-Mappers of a Lost World," "Dark Secrets of the Black Sea," and "Bob Truax: The U.S. Navy's Rocket Man."
Additional music features two renowned Russian folk singers, recording artists Lada Boder and Ella Goncharova, who sing the childhood dirges that all Russian youngsters are required to learn by rote in school, songs proclaiming the glory of the cosmonaut every Russian man, woman and child had been (erroneously) told was the greatest hero in history, Yuri Gagarin. Goncharova, in fact, was one of the most famous and popular Russian pop singers back in the 60s — during Gagarin's heyday. Both Boder and Goncharova jumped at the opportunity to perform, saying, "If a song about Yuri is going to appear on this definitive show on Yuri, then it had to be done right to begin now, it's time." Originally from Russia, Lada immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 7 years old. The daughter of a successful singer and a multi-instrumentalist, Lada followed in her parents' footsteps in the entertainment industry, studying ballet at Julliard where she performed with Rudolph Nureyev at the Metropolitan Opera House. A drama major at the School of Performing Arts in New York City, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career as a singer, dancer and actress and has since appeared in numerous films, television shows, stage productions and recording projects. In New York she performed in the original Broadway cast of "Sunset Boulevard" with Glenn Close and in Paul Simon's "The Capeman" with Ruben Blades and Marc Anthony.
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