{"id":485427,"date":"2019-05-04T12:27:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=831352"},"modified":"2019-05-04T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T18:27:39","slug":"hear-john-williams-soaring-new-star-wars-theme-for-galaxys-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-john-williams-soaring-new-star-wars-theme-for-galaxys-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear John Williams\u2019 Soaring New \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Theme for \u2018Galaxy\u2019s Edge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/6326369al.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/best-star-wars-toys-gifts-collectibles-828847\/\">celebrate May the 4th<\/a>, the annual \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/star-wars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_star-wars\" data-tag=\"star-wars\">Star Wars<\/a> Day,\u201d the franchise\u2019s long-awaited <em>Galaxy\u2019s Edge<\/em> theme park opened within Disneyland. The theme park comes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-williams-star-wars-galaxys-edge-theme-757866\/\">new music created by S<em>tar Wars<\/em>\u2018 longtime composer John Williams<\/a>; a portion of that score, \u201cStar Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge Symphonic Suite,\u201d premiered in full Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The soaring 5-minute piece, which features elements of Williams\u2019 iconic <em>Star Wars<\/em> work, was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has contributed to the score to all eight \u201cEpisodes\u201d in the&nbsp;<em>Star Wars<\/em>&nbsp;saga \u2013 from 1977\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A New Hope<\/em>&nbsp;to 2017\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Last Jedi<\/em>, with the composer stating that his work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker-trailer-821611\/\">the upcoming <em>The Rise of Skywalker<\/em><\/a> will be his last for the Star Wars franchise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Williams first ushered us into the world of&nbsp;Star Wars&nbsp;with his powerful original score more than 40 years ago, the legendary composer has been crafting the emotional musical beats that complete the storytelling magic from a galaxy far, far away,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/hear-the-new-john-williams-suite-from-star-wars-galaxys-edge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">StarWars.com said<\/a> of the Williams\u2019 work.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy\u2019s Edge pieces also mark the first time Williams and London Symphony Orchestra made music together since 2005\u2019s <em>Revenge of the Sith<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-williams-new-star-wars-theme-galaxys-edge-831352\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate May the 4th, the annual \u201cStar Wars Day,\u201d the franchise\u2019s long-awaited Galaxy\u2019s Edge theme park opened within Disneyland. The theme park comes with new music created by Star Wars\u2018 longtime composer John Williams; a portion of that score, \u201cStar Wars: Galaxy\u2019s Edge Symphonic Suite,\u201d premiered in full Sunday. The soaring 5-minute piece, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 15:35:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}