Horn Player on Original Star Wars Tells Story of Recording Leia's Theme

[Disco Stu 15,495]

 

A wonderful story and his horn performance was just beautiful.

[bollemanneke 3,337]

Poor brass section...

[Loert 2,510]

...AND he has to make it high-pitched AND he has to make it soft. It's like Williams is writing tricky music on purpose.

[ricsim88 244]

Unbelievable! Made my day. Thanks 

 

3 session days...ouch

[Incanus 5,713]

That was a lovely little story! Thanks Stu for posting this!  

[TownerFan 4,983]

It's always great to hear stories from people who performed on those iconic scores.

 

Here's also LSO's then-Principal Timpanist Kurt Hans Goedicke sharing his Star Wars memories:

 

 

[voltisubito 42]

Here is a longer panel discussion featuring David Cripps reflecting on the recording of Star Wars and Superman, and fellow hornist Dylan Hart who played on The Force Awakens:

 

 

Another French Horn great, Terry Johns, who also played on the OT soundtracks and was 1st horn on Return of the Jedi is interviewed here by Sarah Willis of the Berlin Phil (Star Wars memories begin at 30:43):

 

 

[aviazn 273]

Wow, that's a great find. It's hard to tell how accurate the minute details of his recollections are—all the movies seem to blur together and he keeps saying Star Wars was in 1975—but at 33:30, he says that The Asteroid Field was an overnight rewrite (!) of a cue Lucas and co. vetoed the day before. I'm taking that with a big grain of salt, but is there any known kernel of truth to that?

[Faleel 5,340]

Maybe he is thinking of Sail Barge Assault? (Or more unlikely Binary Sunset.)

[nightscape94 965]

Can't wait to watch these when I get home.  Love hearing this type of stuff from the people who performed the music.