I'm on the fence with Giacchino. He certainly has some talent but none of his music really does it for me. I am very familiar with all of his TV work, his short film stuff (at least some of it), all of his film music and have heard clips of this 'symphony' he composed. His music in film seems to fit nicely, however, the concert music I have heard of his has no advanced grasp of form. Concert music can reveal a composer's weaknesses in no time at all. Not to say that those composers who happen to write film music and are great at doing it can't be called great composers, but the Giacchino concert music I have heard is average at best. It's hard to judge a symphony without hearing the whole thing, but what I did hear was basic sonata form, which is ok, but it in no way pushed any envelope in the symphonic musical lexicon. Each is entitled to his opinion, and there is certainly a lot of his music that I like, but this does not mean, at least for me, that it's great music. It's entirely possible to love a piece of music that truly sucks as a composition. The chase through San Francisco cue from 'The Rock' by Hans ZImmer is a good example. I love this track, but it's horrible music. I wish people more often could separate great music from music that you love. My assessment of Giacchino's music as art is best summed up as music that sounds like a bad class composition exercise.