Michael Giacchino is fast becoming one of my favorite composers in Hollywood. In the interview he discusses his influences and I can tell I’d like this guy. He lists his favorite and most influential composers as John Williams, Max Steiner, and Bernard Hermann. His score to UP was truly deserving of the Academy Award, I want to buy the soundtrack to The Incredibles on vinyl with my other Mancini records, and his work on Star Trek was fantastic. But he’s done plenty of other stuff, too. He did the iconic music for LOST. He also did music for games in the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series.
Predictably, he’s reteaming with Brad Bird for Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, but more exciting is this: He’s doing the music for John Carter of Mars.
There are 10 minutes of music from the John Carter of Mars score here in this interview and it’s pretty great. That movie sounds like it’s getting better and better all the time.
Aside from the music, this interview from WQXR’s Music on the Radio is a great listen. This is a perfect example of why we need to support our public radio stations.