And I said: “Ed, you can’t tell when I play it on the piano, because it does, it really does sound crappy here and it does sound like it should be in Summer of 42 and not in Glory. I didn’t see it as a beautiful theme, I saw it as a yearning theme, it was longing. It’s beautiful theme it’s in the wrong movie.” And I knew he was wrong. One of the themes that I wrote, he thought was in the wrong movie. But with Glory, I played everything or most everything, most of the themes, on the piano, which is the best I can do for him. And over the course of eight weeks, you gradually change somebody’s mind, you gently work the situation. He wanted Battle Hymn of the Republic, he wanted all the battle sequences to be scored, it was more like How The West Was Won than what I did. But when we first started, Civil War score was Battle Hymn of the Republic. In a 1992 UCLA talk, James Horner had this to say about the genesis of the Glory score: “ Because music is so abstract, and a director says: I want a Civil War score from you Civil War score to me meant what I did for Glory. Thus the stage is set for Zwick’s epic film.īeing their first collaboration, it took some time and effort for the composer and the director come to agreement on the musical direction for the film. After the Battle of Antietam (1862), president Abraham Lincoln issued the Proclamation Emancipation, freeing the blacks and bringing an end, at least nominally, to slavery. The Southern States, however, were attempting to secede from the Union to form a new nation, known as the Confederate States of America. The Northern states, which wished to both preserve the union of all the states while abolishing slavery, came to be known as the Unionists or Abolitionists. It is these broader economic differences rather than just the issue of slavery that sparked the Civil War (1861-1865). The Northern states, with their budding industry, faced different economic challenges than the Southerners, who were still a rural society centered around lavish plantations heavily reliant on a black labor force. With the overseas oppressor out of the way, the newly united states faced the daunting task of constructing a nation. A brief primer for readers not familiar with US history: After the War of Independence in 1776, America had wrested itself free from the British crown.
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