I was luckily enough to have been the timpanist/percussionist in this orchestra. A friend just sent me this. There is no better composer than Williams. He is a musical genius & a equally great composer/conductor.

@adamz0037

6 жыл бұрын

Are you serious? That’s awesome. How do you go about getting the part if you don’t mind me asking? Are you part of the LSO?

@dimension7prod

3 жыл бұрын

WWWWWHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!! THAT IS AWESOME MY DUDE!!

@jimjware

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegoodgeneral Don Williams is an LA-based musician. Attack of the Clones was recorded in London with the London Symphony Orchestra.

@iceomistar4302

Жыл бұрын

@@thegoodgeneral What are you on about? Don Williams doesn't play for the LSO if you even look at the credits of the CD release you will see it's the LSO, Don Williams plays for the Hollywood Studio Symphony a contract orchestra for the AFM not the UK. Stop spreading disinformation. John only employs his brother when he records in LA. I don't know where you people come from.

@bagelj

Жыл бұрын

Wow 😮. Cherish that memory forever my friend

It's always good to hear George Lucas admitting that Star Wars would've never worked without John Williams.

@brucewayne1662

3 жыл бұрын

But even the great John Williams has proven not to be quite as effective without Lucas.

@sj4632

3 жыл бұрын

@@brucewayne1662 They need each other. Williams is still the GOAT movie music composer.

@BaileyFamFC

Жыл бұрын

@@brucewayne1662 LOL, what? JW did Jaws, ET, Schindler's List, Superman, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, and dozens of others without Lucas.

@brucewayne1662

Жыл бұрын

@@BaileyFamFC And while those are good scores, I dont think any of them quite reach the level of Star Wars and Indiana Jones

@zoetropeguardian

5 ай бұрын

He's always said Star Wars is a silent film and the music tells the story. The visuals and music work in tandem. He's a pure filmmaker versus a literary filmmaker.

Across the Stars is a great song

@RedJLP

6 жыл бұрын

Lord Whitenorth It's a lovely love theme

@reyfernandezjr

6 жыл бұрын

You mean is a great orchestral piece, songs have lyrics ;-)

John Williams is GENIUS.

"The Star Wars films are basically silent movies" THAT is what JJ Abrams need to focus on: stunning visual with great plot and let the music do their job.

@sadenb

9 жыл бұрын

Anakin Skyobiliviator I kind of agree with you . However the sound mixing phase is the most critical

@AnakinSkyobiliviator

9 жыл бұрын

sanch Sanchayan That is what I mean, have the visuals tell a story and allow the music to bring it to life.

@sadenb

9 жыл бұрын

but the music can be as effective as the imagery no matter how good any musical score is..

@AnakinSkyobiliviator

9 жыл бұрын

sanch Sanchayan What do you mean?

@sadenb

9 жыл бұрын

For example if the battle was nicely shot the music would have swelled rather than being subdued

Across the stars has one of my favorite themes ever. Williams knows how to really make an effective melody: simple and memorable but still vertically very complex (as in many exciting harmonies underneath the motifs)

Love seeing that footage of the coruscant chase. Such exciting action music

It just might be the best theme Williams has crafted for Star Wars!

Across the stars

Rick McCallum doing Jabba the Hutt at 4:44.

@matthusmcclain

3 жыл бұрын

Well played sir. Just ran across this and that comment made my night

What he says about love stories then vs. now is so true. Just because the old Production Code is gone, and we CAN show sex scenes in love stories, doesn’t mean we HAVE to. Many modern filmmakers do not realize this. Indeed, the passion is more than efficiently conveyed through this stunning music.

I love that kind of video, when we can see the musical creation for a movie (especially when it's John Williams' music ^^).

Across the stars.

John did a good job for scoring all of the Star Wars films and this time he not gone for us in our QVC Adventure.

Is a beautiful love song, but at the same theme a tragic sad and dark music, it represents the inminent fall of the Republic and Anakin.

If you're a Hornplayer, you'll appreciate the relief when the conductor tells you not to play the high F 😂

Came to this right after re-watching AOTC!🔥

3:05 Five films with a huge glossary of themes, but we have no love theme. Han Solo and the Princess???

@murtazarizvi368

6 жыл бұрын

'Han Solo and the Princess' wasnt meant to be a prominent love theme because it was generic love between han and liea and not related to the galaxy's on going war. but emphasis was given to 'across the stars' because of how the love between anakin and padme was one of the reason the republic fell aka vader's rise and palpatine's manipulation

@budmb2

3 жыл бұрын

The love between Anakin and Padme drives the plot, whereas with Han Solo and Leia it's something you can ignore.

@julianbaxter2403

3 жыл бұрын

Your points are well thought. Which Is why i wish we heard ATC in the Sequel trilogy.

It’s kinda gratifying for me (as a clarinetist) to hear how raw they sound miked so closely. The sound needs space to develop and “mature,” if that makes sense. It’s fascinating to hear the clarinets playing those quick runs in Chase Through Coruscant so vividly; they’re mixed so far down in the final that all one can hear is the piccolos.

@thegoodgeneral

2 жыл бұрын

Shawn Murphy has talked about Williams’s mic mix preferences in the past, how it’s primarily decca tree and wide mics most of the time-with spot/section mics only occasionally, usually in quieter sections or for decorative parts like harp/glock etc.

Thanks for posting, I love those BTS moments.

''Let the music do the thing'' Something that JJ Abrams never understood while making Star Wars

@whitetownent

8 жыл бұрын

+sayenshin theres a lot of hidden gems in the soundtrack. First time seeing the movie, i completely agree with you. First time listening to the soundtrack, I completely agree with you. But Iv seen the movie three times now, and a lot of the soundtrack has grown on me. Everyone talks about rey's theme, but theres so much more on the soundtrack than just that. the falcon chase music is genius, march of the resistance is great. The star killer is a good orchestral song, and ;the raid on the jakku villiage; is one of my favorites. Listen to the soundtrack a few times through, and i guarantee you it will grow on you and you will find things you can't hear/didn't notice while watching the film. Unfortunately, soundtrack is almost unnoticeable in many parts.but as far as i'm concerned, the film did not do justice to the great music that is on the force awakens soundtrack. It's no duel of fates, but it's definitely another great star wars score.

@ILQA1

8 жыл бұрын

+sayenshin You serious? TFA soundtrack is amazing. It's not a pop album, it's an orchestral score that takes a little concentration to fully understand and digest. SPOILERS: The entire ending of the film (Rey flying to the island, climbing the steps and confronting Luke) is carried solely by the music, and brilliantly so. Farewell and the Trip + Jedi Steps on the soundtrack, go listen to it if you haven't already.

@sayenshin

8 жыл бұрын

Ilkka Pättikangas Absolutely, there're gems in the soundtrack. But I'm still disappointed because there's no grandeur scene in the movie where the music steals the show. In each Star Wars movie, there's always a scene where it does that, though I might actually be inclined to think the Luke scene was it. However, it never reaches what Lucas succeeded in doing. But that's just my personal opinion.

@ILQA1

8 жыл бұрын

Fair enough, I see your point :) I hope John Williams scores the next Episodes as well and we get a lot more of Rey's Theme and maybe also the new epic battle music ala Duel of the Fates or Battle of the Heroes

@LemonlyGamer

8 жыл бұрын

+sayenshin TFA is certainly missing some of the operatic qualities of earlier films - it wouldn't work as a "silent film" - but there are moments where the music is intended to be front and center. The entire opening five minutes is carried largely by the score; Rey's voyage through the desert; the Jedi Steps, all music. The script itself actually denotes moments where "MUSIC BUILDS" or something to that effect, which 99% of other movies do not.

Hopefully Across the Stars will return.

@julianbaxter2403

4 жыл бұрын

@Gerardo Gonzalez they Played Yoda's theme at the end of 9TROS, alongside Luke and Leia, when neither Luke, Leia, or Yoda were present. Anyway, Star Wars started with Anakin and Padme, so it is only fair that it somehow references it at the end.

3:52 lmao only a master musician would nitpick like that and thank god. All hail Williams

John Williams will score the Jim and Sandra QVC Adventure films and it make James Horner proud.

2:09 - 2:19 That's (I think) a memorable John Williams "Theme". A variation of this was also in Hook and I think many Movies with his Music have a variation of this Melody in 'em.

Lucas and Spielberg owe so much to John Williams. Jaws , the music substituted for the shark many times bc it didn't work. Imagine star wars without the imperial march or the opening crawl or luke looking at the twin sunsets in as new hope that scene is the most breathtaking of all the two suns setting luke looking to the future it's just chill inducing John Williams is a genius and that word gets thrown around too much but he really is a .modern day Mozart

SOme of the horns playing are doing da-da, de-da-da, cutting that second note short. They play it again as he describes it "da-dee,da-da-da"

Do I like the prequel trilogy? I don't know, maybe, but I love the scores.

Dos iconos del gran cine de siempre

03:03 - JW: "Five films with this huge glossary of themes but we have no love theme" GL: "Now we've completed the book" JW: "Almost" What did John mean by almost? What other kind of theme is missing in the films?

@danielmvids

5 жыл бұрын

Israel Raizer Cruvinel I think he may have just been referring to how they still had Episode III to do.

@jakegearhart

4 жыл бұрын

Still no waltz in Star Wars.

There were 66 comments before I post this . Therefore I have executed order 66

the mid horn is a little flat, but the length of the pitch is now uniform across the horns which is what he says just before they repeat it.

This is better than the recording session for episode 1 I found:)

poor dude being immortalised in this video as the one who did that extra useless f

Genius at work(Hopefully).

Anyone know what Documentary this is from?

@911gpd

9 жыл бұрын

Bonus in the DVD ;)

Star Wars

7:02 Someone's running away in the bottom right corner :D

Well, it was a lousy love story. But the music is one of the greatest love themes I've ever heard.

can you tell me the song being played in the very beginning?

@famousrapper8561

2 жыл бұрын

Across the stars

@famousrapper8561

2 жыл бұрын

Oops way too late

anyone know who is that guy on the clarinet?

@BrianBisetti

3 жыл бұрын

Chi-Yu Mo is his name.

@icebearisicebear

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrianBisetti ah thanks

I wonder what his favorite score is.

3:42 3:50

The guy in the red at 7:01is acting pretty shifty.

@andyjacobs7010

4 жыл бұрын

Someone had to go to the bathroom...

"five films but we have no love theme". I honestly thought Han and Leia's theme in ESB was a love theme. Geesh.

@ThinWhiteAxe

2 жыл бұрын

it was more of a variation on Leia's theme than anything tbh

They could of left out them rolling in the grass after he falls off the huge dog tick looking cow

The theme is my favorite SW theme amongst all of the themes .. Although Lucas' love story was visually nonsense

@sadenb

8 жыл бұрын

yep

@johndorch2333

7 жыл бұрын

Hard to hear more then once without tearing up.

@famousrapper8561

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up. Their romance was beautiful

Man, if only the prequels really were silent movies :)

I think George’s “silent movie” rap is just an excuse to justify the awful dialogue in these prequels, but I still love them!

Bad movie. Great music. Across the Stars is right there with the best Star Wars themes.

@jakegearhart

4 жыл бұрын

*Mediocre movie. Not bad.

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakegearhart Good movie.

@famousrapper8561

2 жыл бұрын

It's a masterpiece actually. You probably don't enjoy cringey love stuff

The prequels soundtrack is so great. The movies should be thrown in the garbage.

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

3 жыл бұрын

Movies are amazing.