Live panel with Don Dorsey, Eric Jacobson and Steve Taylor, 5:15 PM at Disney's Contemporary Resort Convention Center. Part of Wayback WED, WDWNT's two-day gathering of former Imagineers and Disney entertainment veterans.
Career-spanning interview: America on Parade through Reflections of Earth, plus MSEP, the Electrical Water Pageant, Carnival de Lumière, the original IllumiNations, and the solo albums.
"Associated with literally hundreds of Disney's entertainment events." Reflections of Earth is discussed as a $22M millennium spectacle.
Two-part sit-down with full transcriptions and archival photos: the styrofoam Earth model, the Abbey Road session with Gavin Greenaway, the Jack Wagner and Bob Jani mentorship, air-launch technology, and the Mickey-ears shells behind the millennium show.
Part of the show's Imagineer / industry-professional interview index.
May 28, 2018, on the parade-control systems Don designed, from Mickey Track through DECS.
June 17, 2018, on the MIDI-programmed flame barge behind Reflections of Earth's opening.
Detailed recaps of the 2024 panel and its 2025 Gold Theater encore, including the story of Sorcery in the Sky as the first Disney pyro choreographed to music.
Published for the parade's 50th anniversary, June 17, 2022.
Decades after release, still finding new listeners.
Independent third-party confirmation that the bridge's 50th-anniversary fireworks, light and sound show was created in partnership with Don and Pyro Spectaculars, for the celebration where 300,000 people walked the span.
A genuine archival collection: the Reflections of Earth 10-year reunion (Sept. 30, 2009), the final-performance team gathering (Sept. 30, 2019, with 38 team members and signed "Promise" sheet music), commemorative coin scans, and fireworks manufacturing photos.
Part-time synthesist/arranger on America on Parade (1975); arranged and performed the updated MSEP music (1977); guided development of the park's parade-control audio computer system (1980); created and directed WDW nighttime spectaculars from 1983; designed Fantasmic!'s sound effects.
Nineteen torches for nineteen centuries; the globe as the world's first spherical 15,000-LED video screen; the center torch rising 38 feet.
A 2021 thread showing organic fan demand ("the best of the best… the only man alive that could fix Harmonious"), and a source for his Universal Beijing parade work.
More is out there. Coverage from the eighties and nineties, Radio City, the Super Bowl XXXIV halftime, and a stack of newspaper pieces, still sits behind archive paywalls. It will be added here as it is dug out.
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