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 Posted:   Jul 3, 2024 - 11:39 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/07/03/john-powell-scoring-jon-m-chus-wicked/
I guess he'll be doing adapting...

 
 Posted:   Jul 3, 2024 - 12:19 PM   
 By:   brysenji   (Member)

This pleases me.

 
 Posted:   Jul 5, 2024 - 1:50 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Hopefully come the soundtrack album it's more like Danny Elfman on Chicago and not John Debney on The Greatest Showman.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 5, 2024 - 3:42 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

I'd hope more for a GREATEST DAYS or SUNSHINE ON LEITH type CD release, wherein most of the score tracks are all accounted for, in and amongst the songs from the film.

 
 Posted:   Jul 5, 2024 - 3:47 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Meanwhile, it's a damn shame we'll never get an Ariana Grande/James Horner collaboration.

 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2024 - 4:07 PM   
 By:   brysenji   (Member)

https://www.theschwartzscene.com/quarterly-newsletter/issue-78-summer-2024-wicked-soundtrack/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0BdWYlngVNJitiEbmSaTZxY-Co3NcGdG-Kv80rOYA8C7XhQuckMbxlnD4_aem_SVdbto-dnlDqfi4SEJD6TA


Carol de Giere: How much is film scoring a different type of storytelling from writing an original musical? Do you have the image of the film in front of you?

Stephen Schwartz: I didn’t find the kind of scoring I did very different from underscoring a show. John Powell, as an experienced movie score composer, has a somewhat different approach, but we believe the two will meld seamlessly. And yes, of course, it’s impossible to score the film without watching it. I got and learned a new computer program (Logic) in order to allow me to score to picture.


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de Giere: Did you expand the musical themes you already created or create new ones? What was it like writing for and working with a full orchestra compared with a Broadway orchestra?

Schwartz: I basically used the existing themes. John Powell may wind up creating some new themes, but I didn’t.

The orchestrations for the songs are by Jeff Atmajian, whom I found to be enormously gifted and who really seemed to get my style and intentions. They were based in most cases on the original Broadway orchestrations, but of course an orchestra of eighty or so musicians is going to have much more richness of sound than is achievable on Broadway.

The orchestra, made up of superb British musicians, was conducted by Stephen Oremus for the song cues, assisted by Dominic Amendum, and since both of them have spent years conducting and supervising the Broadway and touring shows, they know very well what is needed. The recording was done in the famous AIR Studios in London, which is a converted church with magnificent acoustics, especially for strings.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2024 - 5:08 PM   
 By:   jgb   (Member)

Interesting. So Powell isn't involved in arranging Schwartz's songs this time, which I believe stands in contrast to earlier Schwartz film musicals where the score composer also arranged the songs (Menken on Pocahontas, Hunchback, Tangled + Zimmer & team on The Prince of Egypt).

Although Powell did once say that he did demo arrangements of several rejected songs Schwartz did for The Prince of Egypt ("I guess I proved they didn't work"), so maybe this is just sound planning on his part! big grin

 
 Posted:   Sep 23, 2024 - 11:53 AM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)

Score cue heard at this promotional website after clicking Enter:

https://www.shizuniversity.com/en

Direct links to the music

https://www.shizuniversity.com/sounds/music-home.mp3
https://www.shizuniversity.com/sounds/music-popular.mp3

 
 Posted:   Sep 23, 2024 - 6:41 PM   
 By:   Dr. Nigel Channing   (Member)

Great find! Love the first one! The second one sounds like song underscore. Really looking forward to this.

 
 Posted:   Sep 23, 2024 - 7:15 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

The second one sounds like song underscore.

It is! As the file name suggests, it's underscore for the song "Popular," which is one of the most… um… popular songs from the musical.

 
 Posted:   Sep 23, 2024 - 9:14 PM   
 By:   Dr. Nigel Channing   (Member)

Haha, how did I not notice that!?

 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 1:58 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Sounds like proper Disney Princess music.

Once again I lament that James Horner never got to work with Ariana Grande.

 
 Posted:   Oct 8, 2024 - 6:22 AM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)

Score clips are showing up on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/wickedthesoundtrack/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAt-FIQNijt/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAoHxpKMXAD/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA3PmwpuuYK/

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 8, 2024 - 6:49 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

That trailer has a lot of bad visual effects

 
 Posted:   Oct 8, 2024 - 8:25 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The film looks dreadful but I'm all in for some new JP.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 8, 2024 - 8:34 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I have zero interest in WICKED in any of its incarnations, but I'm ready to have some good Powell again. It's been a while. I think maybe SOLO, which is already six years old. Not sure it'll come from this, but who knows?

 
 Posted:   Oct 10, 2024 - 9:19 AM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)



1. No One Mourns the Wicked (feat. Andy Nyman & Courtney Mae-Briggs & Jeff Goldblum & Sharon D. Clarke & Jenna Boyd) – Wicked Movie Cast & Ariana Grande
2. Dear Old Shiz (feat. Ariana Grande) – Wicked Movie Cast & Shiz University Choir
3. The Wizard and I (feat. Michelle Yeoh) – Cynthia Erivo
4. What Is This Feeling? – Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo
5. Something Bad (feat. Cynthia Erivo) – Peter Dinklage
6. Dancing Through Life (feat. Ariana Grande & Ethan Slater & Marissa Bode & Cynthia Erivo) – Jonathan Bailey
7. Popular – Ariana Grande
8. I’m Not That Girl – Cynthia Erivo
9. One Short Day – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande
10. A Sentimental Man – Jeff Goldblum
11. Defying Gravity (feat. Ariana Grande) – Cynthia Erivo
12. Ozdust Duet (Bonus Track) – The Wicked Orchestra

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJHJVWZ6
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPQ5KPQ

 
 Posted:   Oct 10, 2024 - 6:11 PM   
 By:   Dr. Nigel Channing   (Member)

OK, now where's the score?

 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2024 - 7:22 AM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)


Score cue heard at this promotional website after clicking Enter:

https://www.shizuniversity.com/en

Direct links to the music

https://www.shizuniversity.com/sounds/music-home.mp3
https://www.shizuniversity.com/sounds/music-popular.mp3


Third track up now:

https://www.shizuniversity.com/sounds/music-dorm.mp3

 
 Posted:   Oct 23, 2024 - 7:47 PM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)

Another one:

https://www.shizuniversity.com/sounds/music-classroom.mp3

And this:

 
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