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SKY HIGH
Composed and Conducted by MICHAEL GIACCHINO
INTRADA Special Collection 371

The 2005 Disney film Sky High was composer Michael Giacchino's first live-action feature for a major studio and, in hindsight, it was a natural leap from his early world of videogames and television into the stratosphere of blockbuster capes-and-space fare he now commands. Giacchino's bright, brassy march complements the film’s primary colors and superheroic posture, introduced under the comic book–styled main titles and called into action in a variety of creative costumes. Giacchino offers empathy with warm string chords, moments of danger feature itchy motif for tremolo strings akin to his Lost scoring and occasional layers of techno beats appear. The final showdown at the school unleashes weighty, thematic battle music for orchestra and choir that foreshadows Giacchino’s later work on the Star Trek films and other special-effects epics.

For this premiere release, the entire score appears in crisp, detailed stereo direct from the two-track digital scoring session mixes, courtesy Walt Disney Productions and composer Giacchino.

Led by young actors Michael Angarano and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as superheroes in a high school for superheroes, the adult cast is filled out with famous genre alumni and quirky comedians. Kurt Russell is The Commander with Kelly Preston at his side, and the teachers at Sky High include camp king Bruce Campbell, Kids in the Hall alums Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald and, as school principal, the original Wonder Woman: Lynda Carter.

INTRADA Special Collection 371
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