the music for the Tokyo DisneySea theme park attraction Journey to the Center of the Earth, which opened in 2001. Baker was named a "Disney Legend" in 1989. He has an honorary Main Street window over the Car Barn at Disneyland Park, which reads: "Plaza School of Music - Sheet Music – B. Baker." Awards and honors In 1998, Baker was inducted as a Disney Legend. Baker also received the honor of having his name appear on Main Street, U.S.A. windows at DisneyWorld. The window, which can be found above the Car Barn reads: Plaza School of Music - Sheet Music—-Baker. Later years and death Baker retired from Disney as the last staff composer still on contract at any studio. Although he occasionally returned to work on theme park, film and television projects, he spent most of his later years teaching film scoring at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he remained until his death from natural causes at age 84 in 2002. He was interred at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery. In 2004, his wife Charlotte donated his papers to the Fales Library at New York University. Selected filmography References External links The Fales Library Guide to the Buddy Baker Papers 1918 births 2002 deaths 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians American film score composers American male film score composers Animated film score composers Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Disney imagineers Exclusive Records artists Musicians from Springfield, Missouri Southwest Baptist University alumni USC Thornton School of Music faculty Walt Disney Animation Studios people Disney Legends