Harry Gregson-Williams: To Aslan’s Camp The Music Although with a short running time of around 3 minutes, ‘To Aslan’s Camp’ is bold, heroic and highly symbolic. The strong trumpet fanfare that opens this track coincides with the group travelling towards the true hero of this tale: Aslan. The use of Read more…
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Context Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on August 25th, 1918. The son of Ukrainian Jewish parents, Bernstein’s interest in music education was initially opposed by his father, who was a business man in the area. His father’s attitude began to Read more…
John Williams: Theme from Jurassic Park Context Composed for the 1993 Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park, the theme to the film has remained one of John Williams’ most iconic works. The soundtrack was conducted a month after its composition, with Williams conducting a large proportion of the recording. However, after Read more…
Patrick Doyle: Harry in Winter Context With the first three Harry Potter films accompanied by music from American composer John Williams, the fourth installment, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, saw music by Scottish film composer Patrick Doyle. Doyle only composed for this one film in the Harry Potter Read more…
Bear McCreary: Godzilla Main Title Context The American film, TV and video game composer Bear McCreary (1979-) is one of the leaders in mainstream composition. He is best-known for his work on the new Battlestar Galactica (2004-09) TV series, as well as other popular shows such as The Walking Dead Read more…
Danny Elfman: Grand Finale (from Edward Scissorhands) Context Danny Elfman was born in LA in 1953, and has had an incredibly successful career in the music industry. Elfman is best-known for his collaboratory work with director, Tim Burton. He has produced film scores with Burton for films such as: Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Read more…
Hans Zimmer: ‘This Land’ from The Lion King Welcome back to the Classicalexburns mini blog series on some of the most fantastic film music scores. Today’s offering is about Hans Zimmer’s score for the ever-popular Disney film, The Lion King. Although the whole score for this film is cleverly crafted, I have decided Read more…
John Williams: ‘Leaving Hogwarts’ from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Welcome Classicalexburns readers to the next exciting instalment on the site. Recently, I have been listening to a lot of film soundtracks, so I thought I’d share with you one of my favourite short tracks from the first Harry Potter Read more…
Greetings dearest readers! Today’s blog is going to be a very exciting one on John Williams’ incredibly famous work from ‘Star Wars’: The Imperial March. The inspiration for this blog has come from the fact that I have recently played in a concert with Sheffield University Wind Orchestra, and we Read more…
Hello readers! It’s the last day of my August Alphabet Challenge *sobs* – I’ve done it! 26 brand-spanking new blogs written daily throughout August coinciding with the alphabet! That’s 26 NEW composers spanning from 1713 all the way to 2015 – what a journey it has been! I do hope Read more…