Steven Price Creates Soaring Score for Discovery's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Coverage

Steven Price Creates Soaring Score for Discovery's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Coverage

20th April 2021

The road to Tokyo edges closer for millions of sports fans across Europe this week with Discovery launching new and original compelling formats, as well as a sneak preview of its brand new anthem, composed by Oscar-award winner Steven Price at Abbey Road, which is set to be the soundtrack of the Olympic summer.


Produced exclusively for Discovery, fans have been given a sneak peek of its new on-air Olympic anthem for the very first time. composer Steven Price has collaborated with the London Symphony Orchestra to record the four-minute anthem at Abbey Road Studios.
 
The new percussion-driven anthem illustrates all of the emotions and moments athletes and fans will experience on the way to the Games. The piano-driven segment that opens the piece of music is synonymous with the anticipation of Games-time itself and as the anthem accelerates, the tempo of the anthem builds slowly eventually into a crescendo representing that the Games have arrived.

The ‘calm’ section of the anthem will be used within the 100 Days to Go 60-second on-air spot to fit the idea that final preparations on the journey for any Olympian competing at the Games start now, the quiet moment when an athlete builds up to their big moment. Clips from the stunning piece of music will be heard by fans on intros and outros for all Olympic programming on Eurosport platforms in the lead-up to, and during, Games-time.

The anthem will be used for all Tokyo 2020 content and programming, living beyond to Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Games Paris 2024 to make it synonymous with all of discovery+ and Eurosport’s coverage of the Olympics.
 
 
On the journey to producing the new anthem, Steven Price explains: “It was an interesting brief. The start is all about the energy and excitement of the Olympics, a little bit of mystery, we’ve got the journey of the individual, the quiet little moment when you feel someone build up to their moment.

“So it was finding all these themes and managing to make them work as a four minute continuous piece but something you can take a certain section of it and feel a certain way – it’s been an adventure of trying to tell a story in a very small amount of space but on a scale you would use in a movie.”
 
 

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