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Category: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
‘The Force Awakens’ Score Details – New Williams Interview for International Musician Magazine
“With the film’s premiere still months away, recording sessions for The Force Awakens are just getting started, with the initial sessions slated for the first week of June. Williams tackled earlier recordings for both trailers, with the second trailer being…
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Recording Sessions Begin
According to ScoringSessions.com (via their Facebook page), John Williams has started scoring Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Sony Scoring Stage in Los Angeles. Official sources recently revealed that recording sessions for the film would take place in June…
John Williams on ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ (Vanity Fair Interview)
“There are some scenes where we do make reference to earlier thematic pieces. We haven’t done it yet, but we’re planning to do it. It’s something that I think will seem very natural and right in the moments for which…
J.J. Abrams on Working with John Williams
Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams chats with StarWars.com at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2015 about the joy of working with John Williams on the film’s score and creating new themes (video) FULL TRANSCRIPT: “Talk about collaborating with…
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ – ‘Vanity Fair’ Photo
Members of the brain trust behind The Force Awakens: composer John Williams, producer and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, and director and co-writer Abrams, photographed at Bad Robot, Abrams’s production company, in Santa Monica. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.…
‘The Force Awakens’ Score to be Recorded “throughout the Summer”
Recording sessions for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will take place in June “and throughout the summer” according Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, who revealed the information in a recent interview at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim: “It’s not quite assembled., ”…
Watch the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Official Teaser #2
Teaser music rundown by Alexander (original forum post): 0:06 – Interesting Empire Strikes Back-like “gloomy” celesta figure. 0:16 – Very A New Hope-like, nostalgic incarnation of the Force theme. 0:23 – The double basses seem to add depth and a…
Williams Meets the LSO in Los Angeles
On March 24, John Williams visited the London Symphony Orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, coinciding with a rehearsal for the LSO’s current American Tour. Williams was reportedly “devastated” for not being able to record the…
John Williams to Record STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Score with an L.A. Orchestra
From StarWars.com: John Williams is currently hard at work composing the score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which will be recorded in Los Angeles. For the recording of the score, Williams will work with members of the superb freelance orchestra…