IllumiNations was a series of nightly fireworks shows at Epcot before was created in 1999 for the Walt Disney World Millennium Celebration.[1]
| Le Carnaval de Lumière | |
| Imagedimensions: | 250px |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Replacement: | A New World Fantasy |
| Ride: | no |
| Designer: | WED Enterprises |
| Music: | "The Festival of Festivals" by Don Dorsey |
The first evening presentation, Le Carnaval de Lumière, premiered on October 23, 1982. It celebrated world festivals with fountains, film, music, and other effects. The show used rear projection screens on barges floating on the World Showcase Lagoon. Between the projection barges were fountain/fireworks barges controlled by Apple computers. The show could be viewed only from points between the Mexican and Canadian pavilions.
| A New World Fantasy | |
| Imagedimensions: | 250px |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Previousattraction: | Le Carnaval de Lumière |
| Replacement: | Laserphonic Fantasy |
| Ride: | no |
| Designer: | WED Enterprises |
| Music: | "The Festival of Festivals" by Don Dorsey |
A New World Fantasy was the 2nd version of a fireworks show at Epcot and was set to classical music played on synthesizer. It opened in June 1983 and used floating barges that had rear projection screens on them. The barges were the same as the first show at Epcot, Carnival de Lumiere. The show also added 'Pichel lights' that moved automatically.[2]
Most of the soundtrack can be found on Don Dorsey's album "Busted", but the "Great Parades and Pageants" segment was removed. The complete soundtrack can be found on a promotional Don Dorsey album.
1. "Fanfare" from La Péri
2. Symphony No. 5, First Movement
Ludwig van Beethoven3. "Flight Of The Bumblebee" from The Tale of the Tsar Sultan
4. Zampa Overture
5. Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jacques Offenbach7. "Dance Of The Comedians" from The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana8. "Bourrée" from the Water Music Suite
9. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, First Movement
10. Orpheus In Hades, Galop
Jacques Offenbach11. Trisch-Trasch Polka
12. Italian Concerto, Third Movement
Johann Sebastian Bach
14. "Procession of The Nobles" from Mlada
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov15. "March" from Love For Three Oranges
Sergei Prokofiev16. "Farandole" from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
17. March Militaire
Franz Schubert18. "March of The Toreadors" from Carmen
Georges Bizet19. The Marriage of Figaro, Aria
21. Radetsky March
Johann Strauss I22. "Procession of The Nobles" from Mlada
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov23. March Hongroise
Hector Berlioz24. "Anvil Chorus" from Il Trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi25. Hands Across the Sea
Antonín Dvořák27. "Overture" from Carmen
Georges Bizet28. "Alla Hornpipe" from the Water Music Suite
George Frideric Handel
29. Symphony No. 1 in D, "Titan"; First Movement
30. Symphony No. 9, "Choral"; Fourth Movement
Ludwig van Beethoven
31. "Lohengrin"; Prelude to Act 3
Richard Wagner32. Firebird Suite, Finale
Igor Stravinsky33. "Great Gate of Kiev" from Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky34. "Promenade (Reprise)" from Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky35. "1812 Festival Overture"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
| Laserphonic Fantasy | |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Opened: | June 9, 1984 |
| Closed: | January 24, 1988 |
| Previousattraction: | A New World Fantasy |
| Replacement: | IllumiNations |
| Ride: | no |
| Music: | "The Festival of Festivals" by Don Dorsey |
This show has the same soundtrack as A New World Fantasy. It featured lasers emitted from barges and from around the lagoon. The "Skater" segment featured the first use of non-continuous lines in a laser animation and was the first use of laser graphics on a water-droplet screen.
| IllumiNations | |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Opened: | January 30, 1988 |
| Closed: | September 21, 1996 |
| Previousattraction: | Laserphonic Fantasy |
| Replacement: | IllumiNations 25 (A) |
| Ride: | no |
| Music: | "The Festival of Festivals" by Don Dorsey |
| Duration: | 14:00 |
| Custom Label 1: | Sponsor |
| Custom Value 1: | General Electric |
This show used most of the arrangements for "A New World Fantasy" and "Laserphonic Fantasy," but instead of being arranged solely with synthesizers, the resulting arrangements were rescored for full orchestra, mostly using the original orchestration by the composers. New music was created for the show's theme by Don Dorsey and Bruce Healey. The "Great Parades and Pageants" section used in the previous installments was omitted and replaced with a celebration of all the individual countries of World Showcase (except Norway, which had just opened by the show's premiere). This installment of IllumiNations began a radical new use for effects in fireworks shows. To add to the Pichel lights, fountains, laser barges, and laser graphics projected behind the fountains, the directors made the lights representing the different interact with the music and the rest of the show. In another strange turn of events, they decided not to use fireworks until the very end of the second act, and then the third act would show the fireworks off at their best.
1. Symphony #5 Movement #1
2. "Flight of the Bumblebee" from Tale Of The Tsar Sultan
3. Zampa Overture first theme
4. Italian Concerto Movement # 3, first theme
5. William Tell Overture second theme
6. Scheherezade (Morocco)
7. Orphée aux Enfers, Galop Infernal (France)
8. Days of Emancipation (China)
9. Rule Britannia (United Kingdom)
10. Tales of the Vienna Woods (Germany)
11. Sakura (Japan)
12. España Cani (Mexico)
13. French Canadian Jig Traditional (Canada)
14. Funiculì, Funiculà (Italy)
15. Rhapsody in Blue (United States)
16. Carnival Overture Opus 92, first theme
17. "March of the Toreadors" from Carmen, Prelude to Act 1
18. Alla Hornpipe from Water Music Suite, Movement #13
19. Titan Symphony Symphony #1 in D Major, Movement #1
20. "Ode to Joy" Symphony #9 in D Minor (Choral), Movement #4
21. Prelude to Act III "Lohengrin"
22. Firebird Suite Finale
23. "Great Gate of Kiev" from Pictures at an Exhibition
24. "Promenade" from Pictures at an Exhibition
25. 1812 Festival Overture second theme
Music produced by Don Dorsey
Versions of "It's a Small World" and General Electric's theme were played.
For the New Year's Eve finale in 1992–1993, a version of "We've Just Begun To Dream" was played during the countdown, then a version of "Auld Lang Syne" followed by a short reprise of "We've Just Begun To Dream". Finally, a selection from Around the World with Mickey Mouse, that in the future would be played at the Fountain of Nations, was played.
| Holiday IllumiNations | |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Opened: | 1994 |
| Closed: | 1998 |
| Replacement: | IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth with Holiday Tag |
| Ride: | no |
| Custom Label 1: | Sponsor |
| Custom Value 1: | General Electric |
Holiday IllumiNations played during the holiday season instead of the regular show. Starting in 2004, the "Let There Be Peace on Earth" segment of Holiday IllumiNations is played after IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth during the holiday season.
Narration
All Instrumentals
All Chorus Parts
O Holy Night
Let There Be Peace on Earth
| IllumiNations 25 (A) | |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Opened: | September 21, 1996 |
| Closed: | May 18, 1997 |
| Previousattraction: | IllumiNations |
| Replacement: | IllumiNations 25 (B) |
| Ride: | no |
| Custom Label 1: | Sponsor |
| Custom Value 1: | General Electric |
Created for the 25th anniversary of Walt Disney World.
1. "Remember The Magic" - World Showcase Salute
2. "A Worldwide Celebration" (by Gregory Rians Smith) [3]
3. Mascleta
4. "International Fantasy"
5. Mascleta
6. "Discovery Suite"
7. "Circle of Life"
Versions of "A Worldwide Celebration" and General Electric's theme were played.
| IllumiNations 25 (B) | |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Opened: | May 19, 1997 |
| Closed: | January 31, 1998 |
| Previousattraction: | IllumiNations 25 (A) |
| Replacement: | IllumiNations 98 |
| Ride: | no |
| Custom Label 1: | Sponsor |
| Custom Value 1: | General Electric |
Still celebrating the 25th anniversary of Walt Disney World Resort, but the classical music returns.
1. "Remember The Magic" - World Showcase Salute (Based on the Walt Disney World 25th Anniversary tune) [1996]
2. "IllumiNations Fanfare" [1997]
3. Russian Dance - "Trepak" from The Nutcracker Ballet [1892]
4. "Die Meistersinger Overture" from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [1862-67]
5. "Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas" from "Ma Mére l'Oye" (Mother Goose Suite) [1910]
6. "Barber of Seville Overture" from Il barbiere de Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) [1816]
7. "Overture" to Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé Ballet [1912]
8. "Seventeen Come Sunday" March from English Folk Song Suite [1924]
9. "El Salòn México" [1936]
10. "Hoedown" from Rodeo Ballet [1942]
11. "Pini della Villa Borghese" from The Pines of Rome Symphonic Poem [1919]
12. "The Aquarium" from Le Carnival des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) [1907]
13. "Hornpipe" from Water Music Suite [1717]
14. "A Night on Bald Mountain" [1886]
15. "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets Suite [1914–1916]
16. "El Sombrero de Tres Picos" from The Three-Cornered Hat Ballet [1917]
17. "Ode To Joy" Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Choral), Fourth Movement [1824]
"A Worldwide Celebration" [1996]
| IllumiNations '98 | |
| Location: | Epcot |
| Section: | World Showcase (World Showcase Lagoon) |
| Status: | Removed |
| Opened: | February 1, 1998 |
| Closed: | September 21, 1999 |
| Previousattraction: | IllumiNations 25 (B) |
| Ride: | no |
| Music: | Disneyland/Walt Disney World: The Official Album (1997 CD) |
| Duration: | 13:00 |
| Custom Label 1: | Sponsor |
| Custom Value 1: | General Electric |
Same soundtrack as IllumiNations 25 (B) but without the 25th anniversary announcement.