MICHAEL GIACCHINO

I must say though, while I really like Burton's film (a lot more than ANY Superman films), John Williams' main SUPERMAN concert suite just leaves about anything Elfman's ever written for dead, BATMAN included.

As to what film music people will be playing in concert halls in years to come... I think it will be those composers who invest more of their time in getting their film music into concert halls. There'll always be sellouts for Glass and Nyman - they're incredibly well-marketed in that field. (Glass comes up wit some inventive excuses for film music concerts - rescoring old silent films, for example.) There'll always be sellouts for Williams music, whether he's there or not. Same with Morricone. (But not Goldsmith. The films generally have to be icons, and he didn't have enough of the sort of films people remember now for their music.)

There'll always be sellouts for a Hitchcock retrospective concert, but you'd never push tickets for the same concert if you called it a Bernard Herrmann concert. You can sell Lord of the Rings at the moment - and I hope Shore produces a shorter version of his LOTR Symphony (a 40 minute suite of highlights), so that he can put stuff in from his other fine scores - Eastern Promises would be great in a concert hall with a good soloist. Debney's Passion Symphony would probably play to a packed house wherever it went. People like Tan Dun and John Corigliano spend most of their time pushing their wares to the concert hall crowd, so they can always sneak stuff from films in.

I wish concerts of modern program music would make a bit of a comeback. I know I prattle about Christopher Gordon a lot, but I think it's a shame that in his own country he can't get a slot with an orchestra to perform his elegiac suite from ON THE BEACH. (The same that played at Soncinemad.) It would be great to see a movement back to a kind of imagination-based musical storytelling like Rimsky-Korsakov's SCHEHEREZADE.

Has Giacchino ever done commissions for events? Had music performed on a concert program? (Earlier this year in Sydney, we had a 'videogame music' concert, but on hearing that all the music would be from Japanese games, and fine game scores by Giacchino, Shore and others would be overlooked, I didn't bother going.)

As some of you might know I've produced a couple of videos for Michael Giacchino over the years. Well, I finally got permission from the man himself to upload them to YouTube. Here is the first...

MERCENARIES MAIN THEME MUSIC VIDEO
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wkwXIPGA8H8

This video was intended to be used in the LucasArts video game, MERCENARIES. Unfortunately, at the last second, it was dropped from the game.

More to come...

-Erik-

He means the video was dropped.
Thx Erik!

My video was suppose to be included in the game. But for some reason at the last second they decided not to use it. My other videos were used for the end credit roll or a secret video that you would earn while you play the game. My SWON video is on disc two of the soundtrack, BTW. Not sure how they were going to use my Merc video but it doesn't matter now.

-Erik-

PS - As for tonyndbutt... ya... I just started up a YouTube account, picked a dumb name but never thought I'd use it. So, when I did want to upload videos instead of creating a new account I just used my old one.

SECRET WEAPONS OVER NORMANDY MUSIC VIDEO
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_rt2a1Rmk

This video was used in the LucasArts video game, SECRET WEAPONS OVER NORMANDY. You had to complete a certain level of the game in order for you to watch it. The video was also included on disc two of the SECRET WEAPONS OVER NORMANDY soundtrack released by La La Land Records.

More to come...

-Erik-

I'm not really too bothered whether I stay in the Top 10...

I'm not too bothered.

Please refer to previous 2 posts!

Hey, get off. Don´t bugger me so close, bugger.

Sorry!

+1

The music is from LOST. Hurley's Handouts. That's Liam's lullaby (the score is hanging on his wall) and I thought it would be great to use underneath the walking video. Had to do some editing do to the videos length and I wanted the last piano chord to hit right when Liam's bum hits the ground.

Glad you liked it.

-Erik-

ERIK!!!!!!!!!!

Demetris... if you don't mind... I'm going to copy and paste a post of yours from moviemusic.com deatiling why Michael Giacchino is easily the most talented of the new generation of composers.

"Michael Giacchino is easily the most inventive composer of the younger generation working out there today.

His musicianship, utter professionalism and talents are truly spectacular while he holds the highest possible technical level for all his compositions but simultaneously filtering it all through his vastly admirable capabilities for effective melodic creation and manipulation in ways rarely met today.

He is a man that doesn’t just underscore a scene; he’s a man that proceeds way beyond the surface, into the depth of the scene and its meaning, truly elevating it and really capturing the inner musical voice of each on-screen bit of visual he composes for.

As far as his musical approach is concerned, I’d say he’s one of the very few today who are really able to “turn back time a bit” and approach a movie truly thematically-centered, as opposed to the usual standard approach of 2-3 note motifs we get around these days, and the same time making his gorgeous themes sounding totally up to date, modern and genuinely melodic."

I couldn't have said it better myself.

-Erik-

Excuse me for being a slight ass here mate but that should answer your question. Give him time and space before you make up your mind.

Erik: no worries my friend, i was going to do so anyway if you hadn't; thanks!

He's not that bad. Although I do see why you complain about the French horns being mixed too low in The Incredibles, but perhaps that was intentional?