I absolutely loved working with Shirley Walker, and the Batman animated series was a really interesting show to write for. Those recordings coincided with my then burgeoning career in prime-time television, a path which I chose to pursue at that time. The first few seasons were little masterpieces and I wish they were still making them with the orchestral scores. They were in great hands with Shirley, and Mike McCuistion and his friends did such a fantastic job!

Steve Chesne

I met Shirley Walker in the summer of 1991 and began orchestrating for her on The Flash tv show for Warner Bros. She included me on several movies she was orchestrating on, and we had a wonderful working relationship together. Then she called me one day to say that she was going to oversee this new animated series, and actually would NOT be needing me to orchestrate on it. She went on to describe that each new composer would orchestrate for her, then write some cues on a show, and then compose all the music for a show... all as a means of training a new generation of composers in how the system should work, from start to finish.

She went out on such a limb to do this, to give this opportunity to so many composers, and as you know, in the process still maintained a high standard of music. This is a credit not only to Shirley, but to all those composers who worked on the show. Unfortunately, I don't believe I actually worked on any of the shows. At least, I can't find any record of my doing so. Thankfully, when this series was over and she went on to other things, she began using me again, and I was able to work with her the rest of the time.

Larry Rench