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Feb 18, 2020 · Includes reviews, audio clips, track listings, pictures, and other notes about the soundtrack for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by John Williams.
- 'Scherzo For X-Wings'
- 'The Birth of The Twins and Padme's Destiny'
- 'The Fathiers'
- 'Torn Apart'
- 'The Battle of Crait'
- 'The Immolation Scene'
- 'The Battle of Endor: Part II'
- 'Cantina Band'
- 'Anakin's Theme'
- 'Across The Stars'
By the time The Force Awakens arrived in 2015, John Williams had been associated with the franchise for 38 years. But far from experiencing creative burnout, he tacked JJ Abrams' triumphant Star Wars resurrection with the kind of zeal and enthusiasm befitting a person half his age. At this stage, Williams earned the right to become creative with hi...
Arguably the darkest and most despairing score in the Star Wars canon, Revenge of the Sith broils with a sense of impending tragedy. This is hardly a surprise: Williams is taking a cue from George Lucas himself, as he anticipates the mental and physical destruction of Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) before he's reborn as Darth Vader. As event...
Opinions rage as to the relevance of the Canto Bight scene in The Last Jedi. But there's no denying the characteristic exuberance of Williams' music, particularly when Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) and Finn (John Boyega) break out the fathiers from their pens, causing the creatures to go on the rampage. Appropriately enough, the stirring string/brass arr...
The Force Awakens mingles past and present in its music, as classic staples from the original trilogy blend with new character themes. The piece for the war-mongering Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) is more a motif for threatening brass and trombones, but it deepens during the pivotal stand-off scene with Ren's estranged father Han Solo (Harrison Ford). Wil...
You can always rely on Williams for a musical set-piece: he has a remarkable ability not just to engage with the specificity of the scene in question, but also contextualise it within the wider context of the saga. By interweaving individual character themes around the orchestral mayhem, Williams makes it abundantly clear what's at stake, and who t...
We've already mentioned the tragic overtones of the score for Revenge of the Sith. But few moments are as brooding or upsetting as The Immolation Scene, in which the orchestra plays at the lowest, most anguished end of its register to herald Anakin's eventual corruption by the dark side. Williams' music appears to be calling out in anguish as Anaki...
The final assault in Return of the Jedi spans land and space, as our heroes team with the Ewoks to battle the Empire's troops, while Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) pilots the Millennium Falcon to help destroy the second Death Star. Running in parallel with this is the pivotal, emotionally-charged showdown between Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)...
Did you know that John Williams first made his name as a jazz artist? He was initially credited as Johnny Williams, and provided scores for such frothy films as 1966's How To Steal A Million, starring Peter O'Toole. And those characteristics are on display in this famous piece of Star Wars source music, heard within the context of the scene (define...
Musical foreshadowing is another of Williams' formidable attributes. In the first Star Wars prequel movie, The Phantom Menace, we're witness to Anakin Skywalker as an innocent young boy (portrayed by Jake Lloyd), one completely unaware of the tortured, violent future that awaits him. Williams' music captures this duality, as lilting flute and strin...
Forget the forced dialogue and stilted acting of George Lucas' maligned movie. Instead, take solace in Williams' typically faultless score, which works overtime to find sincerity and emotional depths in a script seemingly devoid of such things. Attack of the Clones hinges on the emerging relationship between the older Anakin and Padme, and this sen...
Jan 9, 2020 · And for five decades, that sound was the work of one man, John Williams, who announced in 2018 that The Rise of Skywalker would be his last Star Wars soundtrack.
- Ben Lindbergh
- 5 min
Mar 27, 2020 · Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is available digitally now and arrives on Blu-ray and DVD March 31. John Williams finally got to act in a Star Wars film with The Rise of Skywalker, and J.J. Abrams and crew made sure it was something special.
With “The Rise of Skywalker,” set to open Dec. 20, composer John Williams closes the book on his 42-year history with “Star Wars” after nine films and more than 20 hours of some of the most...
Jan 1, 2020 · With the ninth episode, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, not only the saga about Luke, Leia and Han will end, but it is also the last Star Wars soundtrack by John Williams, after being an important part of the saga for more than forty years.
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Dec 30, 2019 · Legendary composer John Williams returns to score his final Star Wars film with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and its soundtrack combines many of his greatest musical themes from across the Skywalker saga.
