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It was announced some time ago that the score for the new movie was to be written by John Williams, possibly best known for the music of the Star Wars films.

This music is currently being toured in the U.S. in a multimedia extravaganza called Star Wars: In Concert, which began in California on the first of this month - having debuted at the the O2 Arena in London in April as Star Wars: The Musical Journey.

These concerts are being conducted by Dirk Brossé, a Belgian composer and musician, who previously wrote the score to the musical extravaganza Tintin: Le Temple du Soleil (Prisoners of the Sun).

It’s a small world after all…

I think that John Williams is a relatively good choice. I've enjoyed listening to the Star Wars music, and I consider it to be one of the best parts of the series. However, I really enjoy Howard Shore's music for The Lord of the Rings, so I was actually kind of disappointed that he wasn't chosen. Oh, and in relation to there being a Star Wars concert, there is actually also a Lord of the Rings one, which I will be attending on friday. The entire score of The Fellowship of the Ring performed live to film! With Howard Shore himself in attendance!

He is good but hes not Ennio Morricone,Milkoz Rosla or Marruice Jarre.Im sure The Tintin score will be great it has to be quite fun not a dramatic symphony theme.

I’d not really intended that this become a discussion of the merits or otherwise of music for the film, I was only pointing out a nice little connection between two Tintin composers… ;-)


Oh he’s every bit as good, and I think you’d be hard pressed to find any professional who would say otherwise; he’s maybe not a favourite of yours, but his body of work is outstanding… (And what? No Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the great symphonic film score composer, or Elmer Bernstein?)

John Williams probably written more catchy themes than even those on your list (Miklós Rózsa may have written for many great films, but about the only bit of his that I could hum would be “Dah-de-dunh-dunh!”from The Killers, but better known when reused as the opening of Dragnet…).

Yea but Miklos Rozsa and Elmer Berstein are better composers than John Williams, whose music is commercialized somewhat.

Well, we’ll have to agree to differ; I can’t see how it can be measured, and I don’t think either of us are musicologists, so it will all be down to taste.

Well, that's just the way it is with film score composers. Their work is rather commercialized because it appears in films, which are almost always widely watched, and there is quite a market for soundtracks, not that I have a problem with that, since they are my favorite kind of music to listen to.