• Bear McCreary

    Composer for film, television and videogames. Credits include "Battlestar Galactica," "The Walking Dead," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Caprica," Step Up 3D, "The Cape," "Human Target," "Dark Void," "SOCOM 4," "Trauma," Wrong Turn 2, "Eureka" and the Rest Stop films. This blog focuses on the scores to "Battlestar Galactica" but other projects and various aspects of film music are frequently discussed.
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    BG Concert Update!

    Posted by Bear McCreary on February 22nd, 2008

         I know I’ve been promising locked concert details for the better part of a year, but hang tight…  it’s all coming together and I will make a formal announcement within the next two weeks.  Expect the concert to take place in mid-April.  

         This year’s show will eclipse the 2006 event in every way.  We’ll have a larger band, playing music from all four seasons of Battlestar Galactica, more taikos, more strings and more soloists in the group.  We’re also producing an all-new video presentation / documentary which will premiere at the concert.  And there are some very special guests coming too.  That’s all I can say at the moment, and of course, nothing is official for another couple weeks.  But, hopefully we’ll see you there!

         In other BG news, frequent Galactica vocalist Raya Yarbrough is releasing her self-titled debut album on Telarc Records!  The record, produced by Galactica and Oingo Boingo guitar maestro Steve Bartek, includes the single “Lord Knows I Would” as featured in seasons three and four of Battlestar Galactica.  The CD Release show is this Tuesday, February 26th at The Mint in Los Angeles.  She’ll also be playing South By Southwest in March, if Austin is closer to your neck of the woods.

         As for BG Season 4, scoring is going very well.  We had to press ahead with scoring the first half of season 4 during the WGA strike, but now the entire writing staff has returned to Galactica!  It’s wonderful to have them back on board and I can’t wait to see where they take us for the finale.

    So Say We All,

    -Bear 

    Posted by Bear McCreary on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm.

    14 Responses to This Blog Entry:

    This is great news!

    Sure wish those of us out here in the heartland could get out there for a taste of that live BSG music!

    After the over 100 inches of snow up here in Wisconsin, this sucks! I’m ready to see grass again!

    Left by fanningp on February 22nd, 2008

    Oh Bear, how could you not come on down to Australia to have a concert? Seriously, you should consider it. There are so many people here who would die to listen to your music live, myself being one.

    Goodluck with finishing up your scoring with BSG4, I can already tell it’s going to be good. I’m currently addicted to the previous three soundtracks, and the show itself, and I’m definite you won’t disappoint.

    Keep up the good work and enjoy the concert.

    Left by Tristan_Dustfoot on February 23rd, 2008

    Fantastic. Let us know where and when, and we’ll be there !!!

    Left by OneBuckFilms on February 23rd, 2008

    Bear: Now if I can only persuade my girlfriend to fly here so I can bring her along to see y’all!

    /waiting_with_baited_breath

    Left by Macker on February 25th, 2008

    Awesome!

    Left by Shaggy_SoCal on February 26th, 2008

    Come to Australia! Come to Adelaide! Please!

    Also: I am trying to transcribe “Violence and Variations” for solo piano =D

    I already transcribed the Roslin and Adama theme, and I attempted a transcription of the ending of Prelude To War.

    Thankyou for creating nice music =D

    Left by Darkcraft on February 29th, 2008

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    Left by Galactica Watercooler » Blog Archive » Bear McCreary & BSG Live, April 13th on March 1st, 2008

    @ Darkcraft: Wow, I’d love to have a transcribed version of Violence and Variations. Any chance you could share this with us when you’ve finished it?

    Left by Thomas on March 1st, 2008

    Loved the last BSG concert and look forward to the next one.

    Left by Nora on March 2nd, 2008

    Sorry Thomas, I only began it recently and so far it isn’t sounding very nice.

    I am not sure whether Bear would be ok with me sharing his hard work with the world anyway.

    Though it would be very nice of Bear if he would release the orchestrated sheets to Violence And Variations for free =D
    That would make transcribing much easier.

    Left by Darkcraft on March 3rd, 2008

    Sorry double post.

    If Bear said he was ok with it, I might write down my attempted transcription of Roslin And Adama and post it on the internet.

    Left by Darkcraft on March 3rd, 2008

    Darkcraft…

    When you’re done with the R&A arrangement, send it to me first. I’ll check it over for ya, if you don’t mind.

    Left by Bear McCreary on March 3rd, 2008

    Hi! Are the tickets on sale yet? I went to the ticketmaster site, but couldn’t find the concert listed…

    Left by BSGFan on March 5th, 2008

    Thanks Darkcraft and Bear. I’m looking forward to the R&A arrangement.

    Left by Thomas on March 7th, 2008

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