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Plus, it looks like the Clinton speech was from the day before the fanfare performance. EDIT: Um, guys? I've found it. Repeat: I've found it.

I wouldn't want a Giacchino-Williams collaboration. Also, this "film composers aren't real composers/artists" attitude is what composers like Williams fought against their entire careers. Your first statement is a perpetuation of a stereotype that has plagued wonderful artists from the Steiners and Roszas to our modern day Williams. It seems you have adopted the stereotype, but tweaked it just enough to let John Williams in, in the process missing the spirit of these men's efforts against this stereotype for the last century. What a shame.

I think it's likely that a whole host of themes will show up in some kind of guise or disguise. Williams generally treats his leitmotifs quite freely; they may represent more than one specific thing. Very often, they work by means of broader association, and subsequently, they are used just as much for musical effect as for specific characterization, as long as they are dramatically effective

I'm so thrilled that Williams seems genuinely excited to do this! Williams isn't a "collaborative" composer, for many -and very good- reasons: -Williams is a composer first and film composer second; there is an artistic integrity, core and soul to his work that would be lost were he to collaborate with anyone. I'm sure such a prospect would seem very uncomfortable (and uninteresting) to him. -His skill and expertise (I will refrain from mentioning talent) is presently unmatched (in Hollywood) to such an extent that unless someone were to bring an entirely different (non-classical, non-orchestral) approach, there wouldn't be room for any real contribution; all anyone could offer would really be a diminishing of quality. And I'm sure JJ Abrams and Michael Giacchino know this very well. There is a reason why Williams is such a revered figure in Hollywood. And a reason why Giacchino responded not as a colleague, not as a competitor, but as a fan.

I'm probably one of the few pro JW fans on this board bothering to post anything in response to the anti Williams stance that some of you try to show in many threads. If Blumenkohl or Koray think that this is strange just look at the title of this forum.. It certainly isn't Giacchinofan.net or Zimmerfan.net and never will be! JJ Abrams is a true Starwars fan and for a true fan the first choice of composer always is John Williams. He is no puppet but i am sure the film deal will have included JW as composer choice and Abrams agreed like anyone with a sane mind would.

All right, at my gf's insistence, I'm 40 minutes shy of seeing this on the big screen. The things I do for love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chE-vay66vc

Musically speaking also, I think it's a great little motif, very tasty and used to great effect in Empire, it's very subtle and Williams couldn't have wrote anything better to plant in our minds preparing us for it's dark presentation in 'The Clash Of Lightsabers'. It seems that Williams did revisit the idea, at least to me anyway, the basic idea of up a tone and down a minor third is fundamental to the melody of 'Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah'. I find it very hard to believe it's only a coincidence.