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Scoring To the Center of the Earth

It's been over four decades since Bernard Herrmann took his music on a memorable JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH with a score whose organs and bizarre wind instruments conveyed a sense of subterranean majesty. Now, in the new millennium, composer Christopher Young is faced with a similarly daunting task. But THE CORE is far from the walk in the underground park that Herrmann took. Expect an ARMAGEDDON-like disaster epic in which a group of terranauts must ride a rocket into the Earth's heart if the planet is to be saved. And Young has little time for reflection in his CORE score.

"Bernard Herrmann had two things which I didn't," Young remarks. "One is a finished movie to score to. He didn't have to imagine what the lost city of Atlantis would look like. The other thing Herrmann didn't have to deal with was this 'ticking clock' aspect. Most of his score for JOURNEY was atmospheric and descriptive of the underworld environment. The majority of THE CORE's score is about time running out, so there are a lot of ostinatos in it!"