Duel of the Fates | Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - The Tabernacle Choir

Music video of The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square performing "Duel of the Fates" from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

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Find the Choir's rendition of "Duel of the Fates," along with additional "movie music" on the Choir's EP, "When You Believe": https://www.thetabernaclechoir.org/sh...

*This video was filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Legendary film composer John Williams wrote the music for each of the nine Star Wars saga films, spanning more than forty years from 1977 to 2019.
For Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), Williams composed “Duel of the Fates” for orchestra and chorus, accompanying a climactic lightsaber duel. The words are a fragment of an ancient Welsh poem that Williams had translated into Sanskrit—he then rearranged the syllables himself to make the text essentially meaningless, while still retaining a forceful chant-like power. He intended the choral singing itself to give the scene an explicitly religious feel, as if it were a ceremony of some kind. “Duel of the Fates” went on to become a defining musical feature of the prequel trilogy, a symbol of the saga’s broad focus on the cosmic struggle between darkness and light.

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