{"id":534770,"date":"2023-01-04T06:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T03:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chris-ledesma-longtime-music-editor-on-the-simpsons-dies-at-64\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T06:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T03:36:39","slug":"chris-ledesma-longtime-music-editor-on-the-simpsons-dies-at-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chris-ledesma-longtime-music-editor-on-the-simpsons-dies-at-64\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chris Ledesma, Longtime Music Editor on \u2018The Simpsons,\u2019 Dies at 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40f943d53af\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40f943d53af\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chris-ledesma-longtime-music-editor-on-the-simpsons-dies-at-64\/#Chris_Ledesma_Longtime_Music_Editor_on_%E2%80%98The_Simpsons_Dies_at_64\" >Chris Ledesma, Longtime Music Editor on \u2018The Simpsons,\u2019 Dies at 64<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chris_Ledesma_Longtime_Music_Editor_on_%E2%80%98The_Simpsons_Dies_at_64\"><\/span>Chris Ledesma, Longtime Music Editor on \u2018The Simpsons,\u2019 Dies at 64<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Chris Ledesma, who served as the beloved music editor of <em>The Simpsons<\/em> on every one of its first 734 episodes, from the Fox animated <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>\u2019 premiere in 1989 through a 34th-season installment in November, has died. He was 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ledesma died Dec. 16 in Los Angeles, a spokesperson for the show told <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. No cause of death was revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ledesma had been hired to fill in as a music editor on Fox\u2019s <em>The Tracey Ullman Show<\/em>, where <em>The Simpsons<\/em> began as a series of shorts playing in and out of commercials. He then started on the spinoff on Nov. 22, 1989.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cI was skeptical of turning the little 30- and 60-second featurettes on <em>Tracey<\/em> into a full-fledged, half-hour show,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/13\/1989-best-year-ever-so-far\/\">wrote on his blog<\/a> in 2011. \u201cAll that went out the window as soon as I saw the first two shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ledesma noted on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> in September 2021 that he had been with <em>The Simpsons<\/em> for more than half his life. At the time, he was 23,242 days old and had been an employee for 11,621 of them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is a significant milestone for me.<\/p>\n<p>I am 23,242 days old<br \/>I have worked on The Simpsons for 11,621 days<br \/>Born 1\/28\/1958<br \/>First day on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheSimpsons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheSimpsons<\/a> 11\/22\/1989<\/p>\n<p>Not many can say they have worked at ANY job any more for LITERALLY half their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Grateful?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Grateful<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blessed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Blessed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Ledesma (@mxedtr) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mxedtr\/status\/1438548235891642370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    He <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattselman\/status\/1526758350603448321?lang=en\">left the show in May<\/a>, and his final <em>Simpsons<\/em> episode aired in November as the eighth installment of season 34. On Sunday night, the series paid tribute to him with an end title card that read, \u201cIn loving memory of Chris Ledesma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Christopher Frederick Ledesma was born in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 1958. He started playing piano by ear at age 3, then took formal trumpet lessons beginning in the third grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    While at CalArts, he decided to pursue a career in music editing after serving in that capacity on a student film. He also was an orchestral conducting major at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    When he wasn\u2019t riding the tram as a tour guide at Universal Studios Hollywood, Ledesma sat in on scoring sessions for such shows as <em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em>, <em>Magnum P.I.<\/em>, <em>Airwolf<\/em> and <em>Amazing Storie<\/em>s. He called that \u201ca priceless education that could never have been offered at any college or university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In September 1985, Ledesma landed a job as an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rentice music editor at leading music editing house Segue Music, where he handled acclaimed MTM Enterprises shows including <em>Hill Street Blues<\/em> and <em>St. Elsewhere<\/em>. He then worked for Music Design Group and Music Works before launching his own company, Click Track Inc., in 1992.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    (Through all this, he didn\u2019t give up his job on the Universal Studios tour until spring 1988.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Staring in 1994, the two-time Emmy nominee also was music editor on another animated show, <em>The Critic<\/em>, created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss of <em>The Simpsons<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In September 2014, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBy5usPGGB8\">he conducted a tribute<\/a> to <em>Simpsons<\/em> composer Alf Clausen, with whom he worked so closely for so many years, at the Hollywood Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    His r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also included the films <em>Back in the U.S.S.R.<\/em> (1991), <em>Dark Shadows<\/em> (1991), <em>Pure Country<\/em> (1992), <em>Robin Hood: Men in Tights<\/em> (1993), <em>Dracula: Dead and Loving It<\/em> (1995), <em>Blast From the Past<\/em> (1999) and <em>Dudley Do-Right<\/em> (1999); 20 Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilms; the 1988 miniseries <em>War and Remembrance<\/em>; and the 1993 TV movie <em>Gypsy<\/em>, starring Bette Midler. (He received Emmy noms for those last two projects.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Survivors include his wife, Michelle; two daughters and two sons-in-law; and three grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThe most rewarding part of the job for me is that I have been able to support and care for my family, and I work with genuinely nice people on a show that makes other people happy,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=35ajpK1AJZc\">he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((550\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Chris-Ledesma-Simpsons-Card.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"'The Simpsons' tribute for Chris Ledesma\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Chris-Ledesma-Simpsons-Card.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Chris-Ledesma-Simpsons-Card.jpg?resize=125,70 125w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"550\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy Walt Disney Co.<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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