Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. Our show is about to begin.

For the Empire Strikes Back, John Williams carefully crafted a highly detailed score, covering almost everything in the film.

From there, a team of filmmakers use that score to strike a perfect tone and balance, turning Empire

into the masterpiece that it became.

This is the soundtrack show. The Well, the first thing I think about is that when I look at a film all put together,

it's dead. It's like lively death.

The film moves in its action pace, but there's sometimes nothing behind the eyes of the movie.

And for me, music has always brought out a kind of spirit, and the soul of the movie is evident once there is music to the soundtrack show. I'm your host David W Collins and in this episode

we are continuing our study of the first sequel to Star Wars called Star Wars

episode 5 The Empire Strikes Back, a film from 1980 with a musical score by John

Williams.

In the last episode, we discussed three major themes that were new, important additions to the Star Wars universe when this film debuted.

Today, we're going to look at some other moments in the film that features stunning new music.

Music that perfectly captured either the film's exotic new locations or battle sequences or were perhaps additions of character, even vehicles,

using the full expressive power of the London Symphony Orchestra to breathe life or oxygen into this new exotic tale in outer space.

But my friends, I'm here not only to point out the music, but to offer you another twist in the story of making

the Empire Strikes Back. And that is this, more than any other Star Wars film, Empire features long passages of music that were fully

written, orchestrated, performed and recorded for the film, and that were ultimately cut.

Today, we'll begin to compare and contrast some of those moments

and talk about the tricky creative balance

that Kirsch and other filmmakers were trying to achieve with Empire.

Truly a fascinating glimpse into the decisions that went into making this classic.

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