This is a unique opportunity and it's never happened in any in the theater and film whatever

Where a composer can keep working on the same body of work and continue to add to it. What a privilege is that? The Oh, Hello John Bl fans, indie fans and Star Wars fans.

Welcome to John Williams Special Number 47, our annual holiday special,

and I hope everyone is having a great holiday and I hope this

special makes it even better because today we will be discussing the latest Star Wars movie

The Rise of Skywalker and of course breaking down the soundtrack and as you can tell I'm pretty excited to talk about it

But first let me introduce my partner Laird Mal event how you doing Laird.

Ron, I'm great. Hello fans, happy holidays to any holidays you are celebrating, have celebrated.

You'll be getting this on New Year's, which is when there's server space, but also it's a great way to kick off the year as we ended the year, a tremendous job Williams year actually, with the brand new score to the rise of Skywalker the ninth entry in the

Skywalker saga the ninth film full film done by John Williams for Star Wars and

he says his last which I think is probably true and it's just

been a joy to receive new music and then we will talk about you know what we think

of that new music and how we think it stands on the album, how it works in the film, and you know, everywhere else in between this course with any new release, it's a big deal and as I said this year we have

had an incredible really given there's only one movie John Williams year and so

I'm just excited to talk about this movie and and we'll catch

the last news items and we'll you know and we'll just see where it goes that's

right and you know I always like to just preface this I if you have not seen the movie

spoiler alert so go see it hurry up and then you know listen to this podcast but I and another thing too just so everybody is aware

Laird and I had not spoken about this movie at all.

We have not discussed the soundtrack, so we're going to share our thoughts.

So it's always exciting to see what Laird thought about the latest movie.

But before we began, as Laird mentioned, we do have some news items, but before the news items Laird, you want to make a special announcement?

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