It's definitely a beautiful piece of music... and not to diminish the composition or his writing skills, but writing music and then arranging that music for a full orchestra are two very different things... you could write a simple melody line, but arranging that simple melody line for a full orchestra is not the same thing, that requires an obviously very detailed and highly skilled and talented orchestral composer and arranger... so, I have to ask, did he also write the orchestral arrangement??? If so, then that is a stunning musical talent for someone whose energy is primarily focused on acting and live behavioral theatrics... most definitely a mammoth feat...
Writing and arranging for a full orchestra is anything but easy, and doing it well is an extremely arduous task, even for those who are musically inclined... it requires enormous depth of music theory and musical harmony and counterpoint, as well as a full understanding and working knowledge of the ranges and musical keys of each and every instrument in the ensemble, and when that ensemble is a full orchestra, then writing becomes a huge task beyond belief...
Honestly, it's really very hard to believe he could have all done this without a life long study of music and music composition... I believe he wrote the melody line, but if he did also arrange his composition for full orchestra, then I would have to believe this was also not his first composition... he had to have written lots of music previously, not even Mozart wrote full orchestral works without writing for a single instrument first, Mozart wrote for piano... and this can be said for Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, or any of the great musical composers...
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