Soundtrack info, from Alan Rickman newsletter - 3 June, 2001

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 20005

I'd have posted this to Announcements, but I'm not sure how many of you are there. For the legal-minded, the compiler of the newsletter has given me permission to post tidbits here, provided I give the source info.
--Amanda

Rickman Fans wrote:

<lots of the issue snipped>

> 10. MAKING MUSIC
>
> Recognised Hollywood music composer, John Williams,
> has already begun to compose music for the Harry
> Potter movie due out at the end of this year. In a
> very enlightening article to Australian newspaper, The
> Courier Mail (2 June, 2001), Williams talked about the
> process he is currently going through to compose for
> the Harry Potter music. He mentioned what he had seen
> so far:
>
> "I've actually seen a little of the film already,"
> Williams says. "A couple of months ago I saw the first
> trailer, which is 110 seconds long, and I wrote and
> recorded some music for it."
> The trailer is now on the Web (a
> href=http://harrypotter.com/>harrypotter.com), where
> it has been minutely analysed and hotly discussed. In
> it we see the Hogwarts Express depart from Platform 9
> at King's Cross Station and catch glimpses of some of
> the key characters - Harry, of course (Daniel
> Radcliffe), his nemesis Draco Malfoy, his best friends
> Hermione and Ron, Hagrid the giant, and the Durleys,
> his awful muggle family. We also see Alan Rickman as
> Professor Snape, Dame Maggie Smith as Professor
> McGonagall, and Hedwig the bird.
>
> There is little dialogue: what carries the trailer
> along is a darkly alluring orchestral waltz by
> Williams.
> "I developed a theme for Hedwig," Williams says.
> "Everyone seemed to like it, so I will probably use
> that music as one thread in the tapestry."
> Williams does not yet know the score's length, but he
> says: "I imagine there will be a lot of music in the
> film, and Chris Columbus has told me that the film is
> long and that he needs to whittle it down. That's a
> very hard and heartbreaking process for a director,
> and it's very difficult for a composer, too. "
>
> You can read the rest of this interesting article at:
> http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,2063650%255E7642,00.html
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