During the 18-month “The World’s Most Magical Celebration,” which kicks off Oct. 1, there will be a special piece of music you will keep hearing.
Platinum-selling songwriter and music producer Alana Da Fonseca and Nashville-based songwriter and producer Bobby Studley created an original anthem for the 50th Anniversary, collaborating with award-winning composer Emily Bear and singing phenom Journi on “The Magic Is Calling.”
“They asked me to write a song that embodied the concept of the magic of the park calling to you,” Da Fonseca said. “It’s such a tremendous honor to write something that celebrates a place that brings so much joy to so many people.”
The “The Magic Is Calling” anthem will be heard throughout all four parks. It will connect to all four parks, as different arrangements of the song will be heard when each Walt Disney World theme park icon transforms into a Beacon of Magic at night. Cinderella Castle, Spaceship Earth, Hollywood Tower Hotel and the Tree of Life will each shine with their own unique EARidescent glow.
It will also be played during Mickey’s Celebration Cavalcade, featuring the “EARidescent 8” each day at Magic Kingdom, and custom arrangements of the song will be performed by everyone from the Main Street Philharmonic and Dapper Dans to the Discovery Island Drummers and Voices of Liberty.
