Rousing early-ish Michael Giacchino score from popular Disney action/fantasy finally available at last!
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Rousing early-ish Michael Giacchino score from popular Disney action/fantasy finally available at last! 2005 super-hero tale features Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston with Mike Mitchell directing, Michael Giacchino scoring, Walt Disney Pictures presenting. Will Stronghold, son of legendary crime fighters Commander and Jetstream, has no particular superpowers of his own. Or does he? Time to enter Sky High, the high-tech school for young heroes-to-be and find out. Action takes front and center throughout with Giacchino flying into the excitement right alongside. His score launches in requisite super-hero manner but rhythmic activity adds unusual cadences courtesy orchestral hits just out of kilter with expected harmonic vernacular. Neat idea! Unrelenting musical action sequences offer busy, tour-de-force fanfares and flourishes that propel music forward. There is brief respite: “Lollipopless/The Secret Sanctum” adds series of moving major chords and elements of mystery while “Power Placement” brings in teen-pop sensibility. But dynamic big orchestral razzle dazzle clearly is the name of the game! The action includes elements of serious intensity but solid, tuneful main theme keeps everything in super-hero territory. Brass get a workout! Giacchino began career with plethora of game scores, television music, then landed plumb Disney assignment to score The Incredibles in 2004. Just one year later, Sky High helped his career truly soar. He hasn’t looked back since and is today one of the leading film composers in the entire film industry: Star Trek, Jurassic World, Star Wars are just three of the major franchises he now inhabits. He took home an Academy Award for his nostalgic and tuneful score for Disney-Pixar’s animated hit, Up. More awards are sure to follow. Sky High presented in stereo from two-track digital scoring session elements courtesy Disney and the composer. Tim Grieving provides informative notes, Kay Marshall designs the colorful flipper-style booklet. Tim Simonec, Jack Hayes lead orchestration team, Tim Simonec conducts. Intrada Special Collection release available while quantities and interest remain!
01. Sky High Opening (4:48) 02. Trouble Downtown (0:46) 03. Next Stop… Sky High (1:35) 04. Round-Up (0:36) 05. Welcome To Sky High (1:11) 06. Power Placement (Brandon Christy/Michael Giacchino) (2:31) 07. Still Looking/Stare Down (0:28) 08. Lollipopless/The Secret Sanctum (3:55) 09. Medulla All Blown-Uppa/I’m A Sidekick (1:41) 10. Vat’s An Idea!/Respect The Hat (1:14) 11. Cafeteria Brawl/Proud Papa (3:34) 12. Movin’ On Up (0:34) 13. A Friendly Wave (0:33) 14. Sidekicked Out (0:52) 15. Save The Citizen (Michael Giacchino/Kevin Riepl/Chris Tilton) And Private Tutor (4:04) 16. Kiss Of Death (0:56) 17. Homecoming News/Makeout Sanctum (1:28) 18. Keeping Promises (0:42)
The Extras (Additional Cues) 27. Bus Away (0:10) 28. Power Placement – Coda (Brandon Christy/Michael Giacchino)* (0:08) 29. Starting With You (0:10) 30. A Friendly Wave (Alternate Take)* (0:32) Extras Time: 1:04
*Not Featured in Film
Tech Talk From The Producer…
This premiere release of Michael Giacchino’s exciting and energeticscore for Disney’s action-packed Sky High is presented in chronological picture sequence, comprising complete cues as recorded rather than any truncat-ed versions as edited for the film. In a few instances, several short pieces appear-ing back-to-back were assembled when key signatures and thematic content were complementary.
We are featuring every cue conducted by Tim Simonec and mixed by Dan Wallin in May and June 2005 at the Eastwood Scoring Stage. The entire score ap-pears in crisp, detailed stereo direct from the two-track digital scoring session mixes, courtesy Walt Disney Productions and composer Giacchino. Two cues, “Weighting For This Day” (1M4) and “Door Jam” (3M11), appear to have been created editorially during postproduction and do not appear here.
The first three “extras” are cues that were too brief for inclusion in the main pro-gram. The fourth extra is an alternate take of “A Friendly Wave,” which is the same as track 13 but omits the muted trumpet phrase at the end.
Now, sign up for class with the superheroes of Sky High under Professor Michael Giacchino and his orchestra and chorus. This is music that will make you soar through the skies!
—Douglass Fake
Composed and Conducted by Tim Simonec. Sky High Recorded on May 3 and June 1, 2 & 3, 2005 at Eastwood Scoring Stage, Burbank, CA.
ORCHESTRA MANAGER Reggie Wilson
Constance A. Boylan (assistant)
VIOLINS Clayton Haslop
Kenneth Yerke
Richard L. Altenbach
Robert L. Brosseau
Rebecca Bunnell
Ron Clark
Charles H. Everett
Armen Garabedian
Berj Garabedian
Terence A. Glenny
Harris Goldman
Galina Golovin Zherdev
Alan H. Grunfield
Norman J. Hughes
Patricia Johnson
Peter Kent
Ezra Kliger
Razdan Kuyumjian
Sungil Lee
Robert J. Matsuda
Yoko Matsuda
Sid Page
Alyssa Park
Cameron N. Patrick
Richard Rintoul
Mark D. Robertson
Haim Shtrum
James F. Sitterly
Jean Sudbury Hugo
Shalini Vijayan
John J. Wittenberg
Shari Zippert
VIOLAS Darrin E. McCann
Matthew J. Funes
Jorge Moraga
Maria L. Newman
Karie L. Prescott
Shanti D. Randall
Harry Shirinian
David T. Stenske
Marda W. Todd
Evan N. Wilson
CELLI Larry Corbett
Matthew Cooker
Stefanie Fife
Suzie Katayama
Timothy E. Ladauer
Victor G. Lawrence
Richard K. Naill
Daniel W. Smith
Kevan M. Torfeh
BASSES David R. Stone
Nico C. Abondolo
Norman Ludwin
Edward Meares
Charles J. Nenneker
Karl Vincent
FLUTES Robert L. Shulgold
Richard A. Mitchell
OBOE John M. Yoakum
CLARINET Michael A. Vaccaro
John J. Mitchell
BASSOONS Peter E. Mandell
Andrew M. Radford
FRENCH HORNS Richard J. Todd
Steven B. Becknell
Joseph G. Meyer
Diane Muller
Brian D. A. O’Connor
John A. Reynolds
TRUMPETS Malcolm McNab
Jeff Bunnell
Paul J. Salvo
David W. Washburn
TROMBONES William F. Reichenbach
Aleander P. Iles
Alan L. Kaplan
Kenneth G. Kugler
Charles C. Loper
TUBA John Van Houten Jr.
John Tommy Johnson
PERCUSSION Daniel L. Greco
Emil J. Radocchia
Steven Schaeffer
Alan A. Vavrin
Donald J. Williams
HARP Gayle Levant
KEYBOARDS Mark Gasbarro
ORCHESTRATORS Mark Gasbarro
Jack Hayes
Larry Kenton
Chad A. Seiter
Tim Simonec
Chris Tilton
COPYISTS Booker White (supervisor)
Chris Anderson-Bazzoli
Brandon Bailo
David Beatty Hillburg
Marshall Bowen
Ernest Carlson
James L. Cowger
Kirby Furlong
David Giuli
Jennifer Hammond
Lisa Janacua
Valerie King
Frank Macchia
Gregg Nestor
Johanna M. Orquiza
Darren Otero
Larry B. Rench
Karen Marie Smith
Cathleen Heinrich
David Wells
