EW Has an Exclusive Preview of Michael Giacchino’s Rogue One Music. Listen to it!
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive “first listen” of the Rogue One music composed by Michael Giacchino. In a 2 minute video you can see director Gareth Edwards speaking to the orchestra before they start conducting the music, and you can listen to two tracks from the movie: “Her Path Is Clear,” and “Approach to Eadu,”. Check it out.
Fun fact: the timpani player is Don Williams, brother of John Williams. 🙂
These brief minutes of Star Wars music really prove that John Williams has a worthy successor.
EW also posted the full interview (parts were posted a few weeks ago) with the composer.
Four weeks doesn’t seem like enough time.
It’s not really. But you work with the time you have. And I’m not a person that has a bunch of other composers working for me, so it’s just me sitting up here in this room doing it. But I’m pretty good at focusing and getting down to business. I saw the film and I really, really, really enjoyed it, so there was no lack of ideas or inspiration, that’s for sure. The only worry the whole time for me was just the schedule. But I mapped it out and I thought, okay, if I do this much a day and I get this done that will leave me time to go back and improve if I need to before having to orchestrate.
Make sure to check EW’s article for a full interview with Giacchino.
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music composed by Michael Giacchino sounds very good..
Very good so far imo.
wondering if the horn emphasis is a purposeful nod to the original Star War score
Well it sure sounds like Williams. The first piece is a riff on the Imperial March.
Man I got a little chill listening to that. It sounds so very Star Wars and has moments of tunes from Episode 4. I also thought at one point there was a little prequel music thrown in, which just makes it all the more perfect for a movie set between them.
Two songs? I didn’t hear any singing. I think the word you’re looking for is tracks.
Now we know why Desplat left — 4 weeks isn’t enough time.
I know its chliséd to say, but Jerry Goldsmith composed AND recorded Chinatown’s iconic soundtrack in just 10 days.
Giacchino said he was ready to compose this since he was a child.
Wow… nailed it.
again, it’s close enough to williams’ areangement style, and sounds almost the same. I’m happy with that, I was worried for a lot of time that Giacchino would decide to do his own stuff, wich I personally find too simplicistic, and here I’m referring to his live action movie scores. Jurassic World’s only relevant theme was the rehash of Williams’ original theme, and Giacchino chose to do hus own stuff in that film, which didn’t work much. Here it seems quite the opposite, that Giacchino kept close to the original thing.
cool beans. sounds like he was a great choice.
Wow. Sounds like he nailed it. Impressive.
That second piece sure seems to be the not-so-distant cousin of “The Asteroid Field” doesn’t it?
Why does Giacchino not conduct his own scores?
People forget how many scores the average working composer churns out within a year. A month to write the score is actually a pretty average amount of time. It’s the recording that takes weeks.
This is the 1st of 2 exclusive clips shown tonight on JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE. The 2nd one should be coming soon, not yet aired.
https://youtu.be/zaWyFFWJDAg
Any concerns I had about John Williams not scoring this film have dissipated. Got shivers from my neck to my feet. Wonderful!
https://youtu.be/m_st6PGnTsQ?t=3m18s
Nailed it.
Wow, it feels quite John Williams like to me, at least this one won’t be so far removed that it won’t feel like Star Wars. Impressive!
hh my brother is a genious, all I can do is play timpani