I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.'
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.
Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.
When I listen to symphonies, or long pieces of music, there are so many different moods and movements, and things that are really beautiful going to something with a lot of tension.
You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want all the songs to push story forward. That's the same whether it's for stage or film or television or whatever.
Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.
There should always be some sort of conclusion or climax to your solos.
Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.
