Saxman717

yes, as beautiful as Across the Stars was, AOTC depended way way way way way too much on it at the expense of the rest of the themes. A little atypical of JW, wasn't it?

Dunno if this has been polled before, but I just listened to Anakin's Theme for the first time in about 5 months and was WOWed by it. Got me curious :)

Op, and just in case you're wondering, that Guest above is me, having forgotten to login :-P :roll:

I have returned! I've been keeping an eye on this forum but haven't had the time to reply until now. Anyway, just have to point something out about this scene you guys keep referring to abotu the sarlaac pit burping. This burping definitely was intentionally put in and was not just meant to be a crude joke to please the children. Watch the movie again. This burp occurs right after Boba Fett smashes into the Sail Barge and is swallowed by the Pit. It works perfectly because of Boba Fett and is a fitting end to the character who captured Han Solo. However, I do agree that the burp scene with the random animal outside Jabba's palace was specifically geared towards a random humorous blurb for the audience. It was not necessary, but it is certainly less offending to me than, say, the EXTREMELY childish fart scene right before the pod race in TPM or the Jar-Jar stepping in poodoo in Mos Espa...... As for my take on the main topic of this thread.........Yoda Da Man....blah :cry:

That's exactly what I thought, as a matter of fact. I've been really really disappointed by it, since it really does go well with Episode II, but I do have this funny feeling that it'll make it's way to the end of the credits of Episode III......the only trouble is, it's not nearly dark enough for the ending of episode III. It has just enough spirit, beauty, and depth to be at the end of Episode II, the cliffhanger, where Anakin is at the stage between his childhood and adulthood(aka Vader), and the love theme is mixed in there. I really think this should be at the end of Episode II, and that a darker, heavier, more dramatic close to Episode III should be written.......I sort of feel gypped having only 2 end credit music endings written for 3 star wars movies......(hehe, well also 1 version of the main title music, for that matter :-P) -Steve

- Saxophone(mainly Alto, some Soprano, Tenor and Bari) for Cornell University Wind Ensemble - some keyboard -Steve :-)

Hey thanks for the feedback Jeff......wow, I posted that awhile back! Yes, I've been listening to various reditions of the Imperial March for about 20 years now and definitely identify that section from 2:56-3:13 with that theme whenever I hear it....I don't think it's the exact same rhythem, but it at least uses many similar notes and similar chords. The link to the Imperial March is also strengthened by what is happening onscreen at this point......this is right after Anakin saved Obi-Wan from falling to his death, and they are talking. Anakin is showing his cockiness as he mouths off about needing to find the right speeder, and then claiming that he rivals Master Yoda as a swordsman.....I very much believe Williams wrote this segment of music similar to the Imperial March for symbolic reasons! Let me know if I'm crazy -Steve

Yep, the Star Wars arrangements were done by Hunsberger himself, I believe

Yeah lots of people shy away from Ithaca 'cause it's like hicksville :-) Where'd u end up rogueleader? Blue Shades was the first Ticheli piece I ever played, we played it in my HS wind ensemble and yeah that was our favorite piece throughout all of HS. It remains one of my absolute favs to this day! Postcard is right alongside it 'cause it is so similar....you heard that one?

Haha, too many cows and farms rogueleader? It's nice but doesn't have much city life just lots and lots of frats :roll: Hey we played To Tame the Perilous Skies my freshman year, that was fun.....really really intense piece of music. Hmmmm, fondest memory of wind ensemble......there have been many! One of the most recent ones was this past semester......in 1 concert we played pieces by 3 of my favorite wind ensemble composers, Ticheli, Husa, and Hindemith. We played Postcard, and I had a bunch of sax solos in there, and Music for Prague 1968, the most intense piece of music I've ever played, with the 2nd movement being a sax quintet(with Bass sax!!) with the wind ensemble accompanying, and then the 4th Movement (the March) from Hindemith's Metamorphosis. That concert ties the "Space-Themed" concert as my favorite ever....and both happened in the same year! Last year is going to be hard to top

A concert note: The Encore of Imperial March after the Star Wars Main Theme was conducted by "Darth Vader", Mark Scatterday wearing a full vader outfit......the depth and intensity of the encore compared to the 1st movement when it was played is considerably greater....playing the theme of the character who was conducting us was truely one of the most awesome musical moments of my life so far. Everyone was so completely into it! Can any of you sense the difference in intensity? I sure can(especially having played in it), and I think it's really cool.

Yup, Hunsberger is throwing in the towel after like 30-40 years of conducting......you were conducted by him? Were you at Eastman? I'm at Cornell University now, a Junior studying electrical engineering, and am in the wind ensemble here.

Good! I like them too, a unique orchestration of all 5 pieces. It was awesome performing them in concert setting too :-)

no prob, enjoy

Mark Davis Scatterday. This Fall of 2002 he is replacing Donald Hundsberger as the Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble conductor -Steve

For anyone new to the board and for those who missed these links last time, here's a repost of The Planets and of the Donald Hundsburger Suite of Star Wars themes performed by the Fall 2001 Cornell University Wind Symphony.....enjoy! And thanks again to ecurbh for allowing me to post them on his FTP! -Steve www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_imperial_march.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_leia_theme.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_battle_in_the_forest.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_yoda_theme_main_title_encore.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_mars.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_venus.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_jupiter.mp3 www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_wind_symphony_uranus.mp3

have any episode II games for PC even been released yet?

no one has heard anything? :?:

Hey everyone! I'm curious.....has any progress been made on isolating some of the unreleased music in Episode II? I remember for Episode I, there were tons of great mp3s with such music, and I'm excited to start making my own customized Episode II soundtrack CD :-) Any news on that? -Steve

OK, excellent! I look forward to hearing those....does anyone else have personal recordings that they can share? I know I for one would be interested:-)

Oops, sorry ecurbh, the right link for Maslanka's MorningStar shoudl be: www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/cu_david_maslanka_morning_star.mp3

Also, now that I have a reliable FTP site, I can post any other requests that people have of works that we've performed at my school. We've done Copland, Husa, Hindemith, Ticheli, and many many others. I'll provide a short list of some of our highlights if anyone's interested

My pleasure! Oh, ecurbh, I'm uploading MorningStar for you in case you'd like to have a listen. I didn't play in that piece last year 'cause i was only soprano sax for that concert, and the tempo seemed a little slow to me at the time, but I like it for the most part! www.ecurbh.com/~saxman/CU_David_Maslanka_Morning_Star.mp3

Yup, we did! Last Spring, our wind ensemble played Maslanka's MorningStar.....fun piece of music!

Oh, one neat point of interest, too, our conductor for that concert and this whole past year was Mark Davis Scatterday.....he has been the Cornell Music Dept. chair for the past like 10 or so years......and this coming Fall, he is leaving us to become the new Eastman Wind Ensemble director, replacing Donald Hundsburger! It was a big priviledge playing under such an amazing conductor, and I'm sure the quality of music of these recordings were largely due to his conducting skills :-)