The Hey folks, welcome to another soda jaker on songwriting Joining us today for our final and decidedly seasonal

episode of 2015 is an Academy Award and Grammy-winning husband-and-wife team

responsible for some of the most memorable movie music of recent years.

Any of our listeners who have young children will almost certainly be intimately

familiar with Disney's huge 2013 animated feature frozen, especially the songs.

Well today we'll hear from their

composers about just how they were put together. We are thrilled to welcome

the delightful Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez to the show.

This will make a nice companion episode to our Richard Sherman

interview from a couple years back, won't it? It certainly will. And am I right in thinking this is the

second married couple we've had on the podcast? Indeed this is, Man and Weil were the first way back in

episode six and like Barry and Cynthia Robert and Kristen are both native New

Yorkers. The former was born in 1975 and took to music at an early age

taking up the piano when he was just six.

He wrote his first song at the age of seven and by the age of 14 he was already writing his

own musicals for his high school drama group.

He continued to hone his writing talent for the next few years as well as studying

English at Yale and on graduating in 1997 he enrolled in the BMI Lehman-Engle Theatre

workshop which was essentially an intensive course in learning how to write musicals. a or took a slightly more circuitous route to discovering her true calling as a songwriter.

She was a child actress in commercials and kids theatre, then studied theatre and psychology at college,

relocating to New York shortly after graduating, she worked a series of jobs and did more acting work before making the life-changing decision to apply for, you guessed it, the BMI Lehman-Ingle Theatre Workshop.

She was accepted and that was where she was to meet her future spouse and musical collaborator in 1999.

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