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Strong Songs

John Williams' Star Wars Legacy, with Dan Golding

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Author and composer Dan Golding joins Kirk for a deep dive into one of John Williams' greatest scores.

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0:00.0

That's only one part of what makes Williams a great film composer and so effective.

0:09.4

I actually think that one of his great gifts is a sympathy for the audience and that I

0:15.8

think he's always writing and composing and thinking with what does the audience need

0:21.0

musically here.

0:23.0

And you know, that's what all composers, what all screen composers I think should be doing.

0:28.8

But I think he has a gift for it.

0:30.2

I think he has a very high kind of emotional sympathy and you know, a kind of understanding

0:37.3

of the audience and what you might need.

0:40.8

Hello everyone, Kirk here with a new episode that I am so excited to share with you all.

0:48.7

Just last week I hopped on a call with Dan Golding, an Australian writer, composer and

0:53.4

podcaster who I've been wanting to have on the show for ages.

0:57.4

Dan and I first met or met in quotes the way that online people meet when we were both

1:02.1

writing about video games back in the heady, briny, blogosphere days of the late Aughts.

1:07.7

These days he's a lecturer at Swinburn University of Technology.

1:11.2

He's a regular host of musical concert events in Melbourne and Sydney.

1:14.8

He is author of the book Star Wars after Lucas, a critical guide to the future of the galaxy.

1:19.4

And along with all of that, he's also a prolific radio host and podcaster.

1:23.7

He hosts the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Screen Sounds Show, which is a super smart

1:28.4

tour of the world of film music.

1:30.3

And similarly he's a co-host of the wonderful podcast Art of the Score in which he and

1:35.7

two other musicians take deep dives into the compositional techniques of many beloved

1:40.2

and famous film scores.

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