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May 2007
Meg Fox Art
and Blog
Healing Through Visual,
Literary and Performance Art
on scholarship for studies in classical music performance and theory such as The Interlochen Arts Academy National Music
Camp in Michigan, on a Sigma Alpha Iota National Scholarship. She joined the American Federation of Musicians Local 47
at the age of 18 and began her professional music career.
By the following year, in 1970, Meg was working full-time (often called as soloist and/or concertmaster) as a classical violinist
and as a Los Angeles Studio violinist. She continued music studies at California State University at Northridge until 1973, but
with a full music schedule, further studies were put on hold until 1980. At that time, years of formal, strictly regimented music
study and performance, a growing son and a growing interest in the arts as therapy led to a decision to attend an accredited
alternative education program. She transferred from C.S.U.N. and enrolled in The Union—Undergraduate program-West,
University Without Walls to focus on studies including Domestic Violence, Violence and Human Behavior, Non-Verbal
Communication, Psychodrama, Human Interaction and Buddhist Meditation and Mental Development. She received a BA in
1983 with a double emphasis in Music and Psychology. She continues to attend independent educational workshops.
Classical music performance background includes solo recitals, chamber music and orchestral concerts with organizations such
as Carmel Bach Festival, Ernst Krenek Music Festival, Monday Evening Concerts for the Southern California Chamber Music
Society, live radio broadcasts for KFAC-FM Sunday Concerts, The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of
Composers, U.S.A., and the American Society of University Composers. In addition, Meg has over 30 years of experience
playing for the Motion Picture, Television, Recording and Live Concert industries. Her career has included a diverse range of
performances from live concerts with jazz legends including Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald to recordings for rhythm and
blues great Ray Charles and rock and industry icons such as Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Christopher Cross and Madonna.
Her work with studio orchestras such as MGM, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, Walt Disney
Pictures, 20th Century Fox, NBC/TPI, and Turner Entertainment /Television can be heard on an extensive list of award
winning recordings and on soundtracks for television, and motion pictures.
Click on the speaker by the song title to Listen to her solo sound HERE on this clip from “Goodnight Moon”
St Vincent's Court: Romance Dance; Kim Carnes, (re-released in 2003)
An partial list of her work includes:
RECORDING ARTISTS/GROUPS/SINGLE TUNES
• Concertmaster and Co-Contractor (employer Paramount Picture) “Could I Have This Dance?” For the Motion Picture
“Urban Cowboy” Grammy winner Best Country Vocal Performance; Female and Juno Award winner Best Single of the
Year Anne Murray
• Concertmaster (employer Casablanca Records) “Fly By Night” aka “Dancin’ Through the Night” The acclaimed 12:50
minute disco dance tune by Charles Bernstein for the motion picture “Love At First Bite.” Nominated for Golden Globe Best
Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy George Hamilton. Winner of 3 Saturn Awards—the Academy of Science Fiction,
Fantasy and Horror Films, USA, including Best Actor George Hamilton.
• Principal Violin and Co-Contractor (employer Elektra/Asylum ) The Eagles, “Live at the Forum.”
Studio orchestra violinist for albums including Desperado, One of These Nights—Grammy winner, “Lyin' Eyes,” Best Pop
Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, and the band's first compilation; Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975).
This album was the first ever to be certified platinum for shipping one million copies and was later certified diamond. It is the
best selling album of all time in the United States, and on December 7, 1999 the Recording Industry of America honored the
group with The Best Album of the Century. The Eagles were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001.
• Concertmaster (employer, EMI/America) for St Vincent's Court: Romance Dance, Kim Carnes, (re-released in 2003).
• Concertmaster and Session Leader (employer, Capitol Records) for the acclaimed ballad “We’ve Got Tonight” from the
album Stranger In Town, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.
• Concertmaster and Session Leader for others including Don Henley; Arranger, orchestrator and producer
Jim Ed Norman; Melissa Manchester; David Cassidy.
TELEVISION SERIES
• Little House on the Prairie Winner Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series.
• The Golden Girls Winner Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series
for Comedy/Musical: Estelle Getty
• Coach ASCAP* Awarded Top Ten of the Year TV Series.
• Full House ASCAP Awarded Top Ten of the Year TV Series.
• Perfect Strangers ASCAP Awarded Most performed TV Themes.
• Tiny Toons Winner Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program
“Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures”
• Stephen King's It (USA) Winner Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a
Special (Dramatic Underscore) Richard Bellis.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Paramount Studios’ acclaimed Emmy winning series, 2003 winner of the
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA, Best DVD TV Programming Release For seasons 1-7,
and winner 2005 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA Special Recognition Award to the
Star Trek TV series (1987-2005).
* American Society Of Composers, Authors & Publishers
MOTION PICTURE
• Explorers Nominated for 2 Saturn awards Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA. Winner of Young
Artist Award Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor - Motion Picture—River Phoenix
• Trip To Bountiful Oscar winner—Best Actress in a Leading Role Geraldine Page. Nominated for Golden Globe.
• Prizzi’s Honor Oscar winner and winner of 4 Golden Globes—including Best Motion Picture—Comedy/Musical, Best
Performance by an Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture—Comedy/Musical, Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner
• Star Trek IV The Voyage Home Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Music, Original Score—Leonard Rosenman,
ASCAP Music Award winner, Top Box Office Films— Leonard Rosenman, Winner 5 Saturn Awards, Academy of Science
Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA.
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Nominated for Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture
Comedy/Musical—Matthew Broderick
• Year of the Dragon Nominated for 2 Golden Globes including Best Original Score for Motion Picture—David Mansfield
Winner, Joseph Plateau Award.
• Beaches Winner Grammy Awards Record of the Year (from the Beaches Soundtrack) “Wind Beneath My Wings,”
Bette Midler, and Best Song “Wind Beneath My Wings,” songwriters Larry Henley & Jeff Silbar. Nominated for Oscar.
Winner of Young Artist Award—Mayim Bialik for Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Fantasy
• Godfather III Nominated for 7 Oscars. Nominated for 7 Golden Globes including Best Original Score—Carmine Copolla
During the session for Godfather III, it began to rain—the first storm after a long LA drought. In the words of Meg’s
husband, jazz guitarist Jim Fox,
“We were headed home, westbound on the infamous 101 freeway. Little did we know that on the other side of an
upcoming crest, a double tractor trailer semi was beginning to fishtail across the highway. While it was still in
motion, we barreled into it along with a half dozen other cars.”
The impact crushed two vertebrae in Meg's back, but thankfully the burst-fractured bone splinters just missed reaching her
spinal cord. Four years of physical therapy included a year of hand therapy to restore full range of motion to her left hand,
and after eight years she was able to fully give up use of a cane for walking. Throughout her recovery, she turned to her love
of visual art and discovered her true passion. She created a line of nationally distributed greeting cards for Recycled Paper
Greetings, and what began as a greeting card for a baby shower evolved into a story, Meiying, Beautiful Flower—a fairy tale
based upon symbolism found in chinese art and folklore. In 1999, travel to the Guangdong province with families adopting
children from China coupled with a desire to raise awareness for Children In Need, Children’s Rights and the Prevention of
Child Abuse, inspired her to create a Meiying, Beautiful Flower Book/CD giftpack and to perform a musical puppet theater
version of Meiying, Beautiful Flower in a number of venues including chapters of Families With Children from China.
Proceeds are donated to Half the Sky.
It would be nearly a decade before this journey would lead to an awakening to the truth about the trauma of abuse in her own
childhood and she would document her journey of healing through the arts with the project Of Nettles and Deliverance.
Meg was able to return to playing the violin part-time in 1997. She continued to concentrate primarily on her love of visual
and literary arts, and in performing arts, the world of standard songs and jazz. She began touring with her husband, Jim,
throughout USA, Canada, and Japan performing with orchestras including The Henry Mancini Orchestra and most recently,
with Frank Sinatra, Jr. and The Terry Woodson Orchestra. Sinatra, a true storyteller, stands alone as the last remaining
performer to work exclusively with a full orchestra performing, in concert, the original arrangements of legends including
Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Don Costa.
In recent years Meg has been actively exploring symbols and symbolism in the arts; their role in communication, and in turn
creative expression and healing. Workshops included advanced study of letterforms and music notation as language at the
Abbey St. Pierre de Solesmes, France where she attended The Gregorian Schola Program-Study of Gregorian Chant “Sung
Speech” under the direction of Dom Jean Claire and Dom Daniel Saulnier OSB Director of Palaeography and professor at the
Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Rome. Dom Daniel Saulnier is considered to be the world authority on chant .
With the completion of the project, Of Nettles and Deliverance, Meg remains commited to helping childhood trauma
survivors connect to the healing power of their own creativity and realize that, in the words of Pablo Casals:
that since the beginning of the world there has
never been, and until the end of the world there
will not be, another child like him.”
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