Artist behind EPCOT's Luminous original songs confirms plans to bring soundtrack to streaming platforms

Feb 05, 2024 in "Luminous the Symphony of Us"

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Posted: Monday February 5, 2024 9:16am Et by WDWMAGIC Staff

Sheléa Melody McDonald, who performs the two original songs in EPCOT's new nighttime spectacular Luninous, has confirmed plans to bring the soundtrack to streaming platforms.

Luminous the Symphony of Us show

In a recent post on Instagram, Sheléa replied to a request for the soundtrack to come to streaming and replied, "We're working on it!"

Alongside new arrangements of Disney songs, Luminous includes the original tracks "Heartbeat Symphony," written by Scott Hoying, A.J. Sealy, Sheléa Melody McDonald, and "Beating of Our Hearts," by The Heavyweights - Jack Kugell, Jamie Jones, and Matt Wong.

Luminous the Symphony of Us show

Disney has released soundtracks on streaming platforms for several recent theme park additions, including Harmonious and Journey of Water - Inspired by Moana. The Harmonious soundtrack came to streaming about a month after debuting at EPCOT.

Watch EPCOT's new 'Luminous The Symphony of Us' in this multi-angle video shot over the course of the opening week's performances.

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pigglewiggle6 hours ago

Maybe reservations at restaurants are down in Epcot because people choose to eat/graze at the festival booths, which are there a lot. I know we do that.

TTA947 hours ago

Curious about this to. Luminous isn’t a bad show but I doubt it’s up to HEA popularity and I assume that’s something they’ve been wanting for Epcot but struggle to achieve.

trainplane37 hours ago

Fair. It's just funny to me how a 4 year gone show has been haunting them ever since getting rid of it. I still enjoy Luminous for what it is, much more then Harmonious.

Andrew257 hours ago

The show is great, and from my multiple viewings of it, the crowd is reacting far more positively than Harmonious. As for restaurant reservations, I think it's a bit unfair to tie the success of Luminous w/ whether or not Epcot dining reservations are up. Far too many variables to consider (people arriving at Epcot far earlier in the day than before, cost of visiting, economic/budgetary reasons, etc.)

Starship8248 hours ago

So do we know how it's doing overall though? Like restaurant reservations?

pigglewiggle8 hours ago

I watch a lot of videos of this show, even very recent ones (I like fireworks, what can I say) and I hear a lot of cheering beginning, during and at the end of this show. A lot more than I ever heard in Harmonious videos. I can actually hear ooohs and aaahs. 😂

wdwmagic8 hours ago

RoE has been the benchmark that they are striving to meet or exceed. Harmonious is to be forgotten.

doctornick20 hours ago

I’m not sure I understand the issue. Wouldn’t they want to see what people think about it compared to a popular past show? Isn’t that the point of the survey?

trainplane321 hours ago

I thought the same but

aladdin200721 hours ago

I don't think they helped themselves any by calling it Luminious,,they should have gone a different direction. Its way too much like its predecessor and basically sounds/looks the same in terms of titles.

wbostic1221 hours ago

No insider knowledge, but in my way of thinking, I think they know that no one was really going to compare Luminous to Harmonious, it was always going to be looked at (in the long run) in comparison to ROE. It seemed to me that they were less trying to go above the bar of Harmonious, but instead get closer to that of Illuminations. I also feel like Disney would love to make sure everyone forgets about Harmonious as fast as possible.