Listen To Composer Alan Silvestri’s Score For THE WALK

An impossible, but true story, the new film from Robert Zemeckis, THE WALK is a live-action, PG-rated entertainment for all audiences, ages 8 to 80. A love letter to the World Trade Center, the film is a 3D and IMAX visual experience, unlike anything audiences have seen.

On August 7, 1974 – the day before Richard Nixon announced he would be resigning from office – Philippe Petit, a French aerialist, surprised the city of New York with a high-wire walk between the towers of the almost-completed and partially occupied World Trade Center. Passersby without a moment to spare stopped in their tracks and looked up. They saw the impossible: a man dancing high in the sky, seemingly in the thin air.

Now, forty years later, Zemeckis – one of cinema’s most accomplished filmmakers at integrating technology in the service of emotional storytelling – is putting moviegoers in Petit’s shoes. THE WALK, an epic, big-screen cinematic spectacle, gives moviegoers the chance to go where only one man has been or ever will be – 110 stories in the air, on a wire, walking between the towers of the World Trade Center.

Alan Silvestri has composed the emotional music for Robert Zemeckis’ THE WALK.

Filled with a palette of horns, strings and percussion sections, listen to how HUGE the score sounds below. Silvestri’s cues accompanied with the tower and strength and the height of the World Trade Center and what Petit accomplished.

The 1970s witnessed the rise of energetic synth-pop scores, establishing Silvestri as the action rhythmatist for TV’s highway patrol hit “CHiPs.” This action driven score caught the ear of budding filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, whose hit film 1984’s Romancing the Stone was the perfect first date for the composer and director and its success became the basis of a decades long collaboration between the filmmaker and composer that continues to the current day. Their numerous collaborations have taken them through many fascinating landscapes and stylistic variations, from the Back to the Future trilogy and the jazzy world of Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? to the tension filled rooms of What Lies Beneath and Death Becomes Her, from the cosmic wonder of Contact to the emotional isolation of Cast Away, and from the Wagnerian brawl of Beowulf to the magic of The Christmas Carol and Polar Express, whose song “Believe” garnered an Oscar nomination.

But perhaps no film partnership defines their creative relationship better than Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture winner Forrest Gump, for which Silvestri’s gift for melodically beautiful themes earned him an Oscar® nomination and the affection of film music lovers everywhere.

Though the Zemeckis/Silvestri collaboration is legendary, Silvestri has scored well over 100 films of every imaginable style and genre. His energy and experimentation has brought excitement and emotion to the hard-hitting orchestral/percussion scores of Predator, Judge Dredd, and James Cameron’s The Abyss and lent thrills to the effects-driven scores for The Mummy Returns and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. His ethnic rhythms for Soapdish and The Mexican segue to the raucus fun of family entertainments like Stuart Little 1 and 2 and Disney’s Lilo and Stitch as well as the Night at the Museum trilogy. The gripping tension of Blown Away and Identity yield to the romantic film noir of The Bodyguard while edgy comedies like Mousehunt and romantic comedies like The Father of the Bride 1 and 2, Parent Trap and What Women Want bring heart felt warmth. But Silvestri has also proven adept at riding the western range of Young Guns 2 and The Quick and the Dead while also providing thrilling macho muscle for Van Helsing and The A-Team.

Silvestri’s talent for a dynamically heroic sound has helped propel such Marvel superheroes as Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers to spectacular world-wide success, even as he provided the restrained, anguished sound for the alcoholic pilot of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight. Silvestri’s rambunctious orchestral cheer has also helped to create the hit caveman family film The Croods.

Order the soundtrack here: http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B011TT2AQM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1443194983&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Walk

THE WALK will be the opening night film at the 53rd New York Film Festival and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon and James Badge Dale.

Experience the first step of the impossible dream of THE WALK in IMAX 3D and large format screens on Sept. 30 and everywhere October 8!

Rated PG for thematic elements involving perilous situations, and for some nudity, language, brief drug references and smoking.

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