Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new video for PEOPLE filmed at his Upstate New York home, Menken reflects on more than five decades of songwriting, ...

Alan Menken left an indelible mark as a composer for many of the most popular Disney movies of the 1990s. Menken revolutionized Disney songwriting, blending Broadway-style compositions with heartfelt ...

You wouldn’t clock Alan Menken on the street. The composer – spiky grey hair, crinkled forehead, encouraging grin – is altogether unassuming. To see his oeuvre, though, is to realise this 75-year-old ...