Murray Gold
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Kicking things off at 8 pm British Standard Time (3 pm Eastern Time in the United States), Cook was joined by former series music composer Murray Gold, episode director Farren Blackburn, Head of Millennium FX Kate Walsh, and actor Chris Anderson (The Chorister) to offer their personal perspectives and insights into the episode.[caption id="attachment_1212262" align="aligncenter" width="600"][...]
Joining the livetweet will be former series music composer Murray Gold Episode director Farren Blackburn and Kate Walsh, the Head of Millennium FX, the Special Effects house that handled the CGI FX for the episode will also be live-tweeting.[caption id="attachment_1211108" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Doctor Who - Rings of Akhaten Lockdown Rewatch Art[/caption]No one has unified the[...]
That’s why I didn’t remember it.
Poetry and Emotion
Hm, there’s the 11th Doctor’s melancholy speech about his memories from “The Rings of Akhaten” with the choral accompaniment of Murray Gold’s score There’s the 12th Doctor’s first big speech about being the man who fights the monsters Then it jumps ahead to Series 11 to highlight the[...]
I miss that sense of epic, poetic romance in the writing for the 13th Doctor’s first series.[caption id="attachment_1115792" align="alignnone" width="1200"] BBC[/caption]
Let’s Not Forget Murray Gold
Murray Gold’s music defined Capaldi's time as much as Capaldi and Moffat did Gold’s classical compositions, which drew on Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven and modern Jazz, created the bombast, humour, heroism, sadness, romance[...]
Murray Gold became the composer for the show over its next ten series, creating not just music cues but also entire orchestral suites and symphonies the way composers like John Williams and Howard Shore composed for big Hollywood epics like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings Gold’s music often did the emotional heavy-lifting for[...]
And the music has become as much a major character in the show as the people in it.Composer Murray Gold is the most underrated and unsung hero of the show, having been there at the start of the 2005 revival of the show under Russell T Davies’ run and continuing to the present day, composing[...]