ASMAC presents Jo: The Little Women Musical, Creating a Studio Cast Album

Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 12pm PDT (19:00 UTC)

Join Symbols of Sound’s Danita Ng-Poss and Jason Poss and the creative team of Jo: The Little Women Musical online for a free, in-depth look at creating a studio cast album. Presented by the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC), the discussion will be hosted by Nan Schwartz and Conrad Pope.

The Jo creative team, and maybe a cast member or two, will share their thoughts about the show, the music, process, and the studio cast album recorded at Abbey Road Studios.

Guests will include Dan Redfeld (composer); Christina Harding, & John Koladziej (lyricists); JoAnn M. Hunter (director); nigel wright (co-producer); Nick Pugh (music engineer); music prep team of Danita Ng-Poss, Jason Poss, and Chris Siddall; plus cast members Laura Benanti and Christine Allado.

Click here to register for the online event, Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 7pm PDT (19:00 UTC).

Fantastic Four: First Steps

Symbols of Sound’s latest project is Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps. SoS provided music transcription for localization of soundtrack vocals for Marvel’s first family.

Fantastic Four: First Steps released on July 25, 2025.

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4

Singing, dancing, summer camp, football, cheerleaders, zombies, werewolves, aliens, AND vampires? YES!

Disney’s biggest teenage musical films since the “High School Musical” series are back with Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires. Symbols of Sound has been a part of the Zombies films since the beginning. Danita Ng-Poss and Jason Poss transcribed the vocals for all Zombies 4 songs and created sheet music for international dubbing and localization. This was a large project with over a half hour of complex vocals. All songs were transcribed and notated from audio.

The Zombies films feature a unique blend of monsters, aliens, high school sports, singing, and dance. They feature wholesome themes of accepting differences and learning to work together to overcome common challenges. Each film’s unexpectedly well produced music has provided SoS a surprisingly positive experience while working.

We’ll admit it. We may not be the intended audience, but we do have fun working on these films!

Jo – The Little Women Musical

We are thrilled with the release of the beautiful London recording of Jo – The Little Women Musical. For three years, SoS has been working with composer Dan Redfeld on the new musical based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. SoS has provided music preparation for multiple orchestral recording sessions in Los Angeles and London. Jason Poss was in the engineer’s booth as score reader and providing feedback during the initial orchestral and vocal recordings in Los Angeles.

With the song “Fly Away” already an internet sensation, the full album release is over 2 hours of music by Dan Redfeld, book and lyrics by Christina Harding and John Gabriel Koladziej. Jo features a mix of Broadway, West End, and international stars and a 29-piece orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The album is produced by five-time Grammy nominee and three-time Emmy winner Nigel Wright and Dan Redfeld.

The cast includes Tony Award winner and five-time Tony Award nominee Laura Benanti as Marmee March, two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole as Aunt March, Olivier nominated West End and Broadway star Julian Ovenden as Father, Grammy Award nominated Christine Allado as Jo March, two-time Tony Award nominee Bob Gunton as Grandfather, West End star Kelly Mathieson as Meg March, TV star Sophie Pollono as Amy March, Eleanor Grant as Beth March, Rob Houchen as Theodore “Laurie” Laurence, Chris Mann as Professor Bhaer, Liam Tamne as John Brooke, Tobias Turley as Fred Vaughn, and Miyuki Miyagi as Sallie Gardiner.

For more information along with videos, audio, and links to purchase sheet music, to visit the Jo – The Little Women Musical website.

Stitch and Lilo nose to nose.
Lilo & Stich releases May 23, 2025

Lilo & Stitch

Creating trouble worldwide

Our latest Disney project is the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. This version features the original 2002 animated film’s writer/director Chris Sanders once again as the voice of Stitch. SoS transcribed sung vocals from the film to create sheet music for localization.

To learn more about how our work helps Disney characters sing in dozens of languages, see the news from some of our other recent projects like, Snow White, Moana 2, and Mufasa. For those who want to dive deep, watch SoS’ Danita Ng-Poss and Jason Poss in a YouTube interview about transcribing Moana 2 alongside film composer Mark Mancina.

Lilo & Stitch is in theaters May 23, 2025.