Trash Panda
Clueless nitwit
My 1 year old son tries to sing Star Wars lines, and he hasn’t seen a single movie yet. He just hears me humming or singing them.Even more cliché, possibly, but "The Asteroid Field" from "The Empire Strikes Back". From its opening with the bombastic, slowed-down version of the Imperial March, through the long, gradual build of tension through the middle, to the soaring, propulsive melody of the asteroid field proper (repeated twice), followed by a brief bit of the "love theme" right at the end, it really shows off so much of what an orchestra can do. The nice thing is, I actually am able to hear it anew since I joined VI-C and gained even rudimentary knowledge of orchestration and which instruments I'm actually hearing in the piece.
A huge factor for me was that it was before the age of home video. Unless you were insane or had theater connections, you couldn't see a "Star Wars" movie every day, but you could listen to the score over and over, to the point that the score actually became the movie in most respects — I actually knew the score for all three original films better than I knew the movies, because I'd listened to them so many times by the time I was able to buy the movies and watch them at home. To this day, it's actually shocking to me how much the score for ESB is either edited out or buried in the mix in the final film (much of even my favorite piece is quite muted).
His favorite is “Da-daa-da! Da-daa-da! Da-daaaa! Da-da-da-da daa!”