VIDEO Luminous the Symphony of Us firework spectacular debuts in EPCOT at Walt Disney World

Dec 06, 2023 in "Luminous the Symphony of Us"

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Luminous preview show

Posted: Wednesday December 6, 2023 9:54pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Luminous the Symphony of Us made its debut this evening at EPCOT as the park's all-new daily nighttime spectacular.

Luminous preview show

Watch the video below to see the full show from tonight's very first public performance. (4K YouTube)

The 16-minute show features two new original songs "Heartbeat Symphony" and "Beating of our Hearts," and new arrangements of Disney movie songs including:

"I See the Light" - Tangled
"You've Got a Friend in Me" - Toy Story
"You'll Be in My Heart" - Tarzan
"Proud Corazon" - Coco
"Friend Like Me" - Aladdin
"So Close" - Enchanted
"When She Loved Me"- Toy Story 2
"Remember Me" - Coco
"Into the Unknown" - Frozen 2

Luminous is the long-term replacement for Harmonious and follows the interim show EPCOT Forever.

Luminous preview show

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doctornick6 hours ago

I’m not sure I understand the issue. Wouldn’t they want to see what people think about it compared to a popular past show? Isn’t that the point of the survey?

I don't think they helped themselves any by calling it Luminious,,they should have gone a different direction. Its way too much like its predecessor and basically sounds/looks the same in terms of titles.

wbostic127 hours ago

No insider knowledge, but in my way of thinking, I think they know that no one was really going to compare Luminous to Harmonious, it was always going to be looked at (in the long run) in comparison to ROE. It seemed to me that they were less trying to go above the bar of Harmonious, but instead get closer to that of Illuminations. I also feel like Disney would love to make sure everyone forgets about Harmonious as fast as possible.

mattpeto7 hours ago

I am not convinced that the show isn’t popular. I keep hearing rave reviews here. It’s gotta play out longer.

jrhwdw8 hours ago

Also, how are the Restaurants doing? Honeymoon's over for Luminous??? If true, what now Epcot?

trainplane38 hours ago

@wdwmagic How's the reception going with this show because the fact they're calling out RoE and not Harmonious doesn't seem good?

osian19 hours ago

Just quoting this because I think that's an amazing way of putting it.

Starship82419 hours ago

To me it seems like "Beating of our Hearts" was also going to be the ending song but I don't really know and we might never know. (Unless they shows it in the Epcot special I didn't watch lol, in which case call me out because I'm probably wrong)

TheEPCOTHistorian19 hours ago

Luminous was so different from a development standpoint. There never really was confirmation on just how extensive the musical rewrites were, but I think Heartbeat Symphony was always going to lead. Beating of our Hearts and One Heartbeat were most likely recorded as pop tracks, the post show versions of each. Seems like they then decided which they would use for the finale, and had it recorded with deliberate crescendos for pyrotechnic cues. Eric Tucker was brilliant in his work on Luminous, so that’s also a factor. Brilliant fireworks design will usually just *work* regardless of how the song is recorded because a good designer will know how to supplement the emotion of the audio in a show. This is what took I:RoE from one of the greatest compositions in the last 100 years to one of the greatest pieces of entertainment ever. No, I’m not biased. It’s like poetry, it rhymes. When it’s done right.

osian20 hours ago

I've wondered about this! Was the show built around the song that was presented, or was the song given a structure brief before it was written, e.g. break it down towards the end with a space for that trick, then provide an obvios heartbeat that could synchronise with the red hearts. I mean, the show story must have been designed and scripted and then they commissioned the beginning and ending songs to fit?? Like incidental music for movies - the composer is given the movie edit to fit the music to, right?

TheEPCOTHistorian21 hours ago

The gospel-esque ending of Beating of our Hearts is nearly perfect for the center barge’s final trick. Idk that One Heartbeat sells it as well and it’s such a repetitive song.