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Thanks for posting the interview Jason / Ricard. Mike was a perfect guest and it was a joy to be able to weave the music in and out during the conversation. What a wonderful movie and score.

waiting for the recording

I thought it would be helpful to group all of John Williams' film scores by the studio that owns the rights. It helps to figure out what might be coming out by a label if they release some clues, etc. Beyond that, it's just kind of interesting to see what studios John has worked the most and least for. And which studios have been the best and worst at licensing their properties out to the specialty labels. This is basically an updated version of this original post here. Bold = has not been expanded in the modern era strikethrough = has been expanded in the modern era British Lion Film Corporation 1970 Jane Eyre (2023 Quartet) Disney 20th Century Studios 1962 Bachelor Flat (Intrada 2008) 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (FSM 2001) 1966 How To Steal A Million (Intrada 2008) 1967 A Guide For The Married Man (FSM 2000) 1967 Valley of the Dolls 1972 The Poseidon Adventure (La-La Land 2019) 1973 The Paper Chase (FSM 1998 released can be improved upon) 1973 Cinderella Liberty (Intrada 2008 release is not expanded) 1974 Conrack (FSM 1998 released can be improved upon) 1974 The Towering Inferno (La-La Land 2019) 1978 The Fury (La-La Land 2013) 1982 Monsignor (Intrada 2019) 1986 SpaceCamp (Intrada 2022) 1990 Home Alone (La-La Land 2015) 1992 Home Alone 2 (La-la Land 2012) 2002 Minority Report (La-La Land 2019) 2013 The Book Thief 2017 The Post Lucasfilm 1977 Star Wars(1997 RCA release is not complete) 1980 The Empire Strikes Back(1997 RCA release is not complete and has sound quality issues) 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark [Paramount still involved?] (2008 Concord release is not complete and has pitch issues) 1983 Return of the Jedi (1997 RCA release is not complete and has sound quality issues) 1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [Paramount still involved?] (2008 Concord release is not complete and has pitch issues) 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [Paramount still involved?] (2008 Concord release is not complete) 1999 The Phantom Menace (2000 Ultimate Edition is not complete and has many other problems) 2002 Attack of the Clones 2005 Revenge of the Sith 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [Paramount still involved?] Hollywood Pictures 1995 Nixon Touchstone Pictures 2011 War Horse 2012 Lincoln Disney 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2016 The BFG 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Handmade Films 1972 Images (Prometheus 2007 release and 2021 Quartet release is not expanded) MGM 1966 Penelope (FSM 2004) 1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (FSM 2006) 1973 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (FSM 2002) 1990 Stanley & Iris (Varese 2017) United Artists 1967 Fitzwilly (Music Box Records 2013) 1971 Fiddler On The Roof (La La Land 2021) 1973 The Long Goodbye (Quartet 2012) 1973 Tom Sawyer (Quartet 2015) 1976 The Missouri Breaks (Kritzerland 2013) Paramount Allied Artists 1960 I Passed For White National General Pictures 1969 The Reivers Paramount 1977 Black Sunday (FSM 2010) 1995 Sabrina (La-La Land 2023) 1999 Angela's Ashes 2011 The Adventures of Tintin Dreamworks 1997 Amistad (La-La Land 2022) 1998 Saving Private Ryan (La-La Land 2018) 2002 Catch Me If You Can 2004 The Terminal 2005 War of the Worlds (Intrada 2020) Sony Imperial Productions / American International Pictures 1958 Daddy-O Columbia Pictures 1960 Because They're Young 1963 Diamond Head (FSM 2006 release was not expanded) 1963 Gidget Goes To Rome 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (La-La Land 2017/2022) 1998 Stepmom 2000 The Patriot 2005 Memoirs Of A Geisha [Dreamworks co-production] Tri-Star Pictures 1991 Hook (La-La Land 2023) 1997 Seven Years In Tibet Universal 1961 The Secret Ways 1965 The Killers 1966 The Rare Breed 1966 The Plainsman 1970 Storia di una donna (Story of a Woman) 1972 Pete 'n' Tillie (Varese 2017) 1974 The Sugarland Express 1974 Earthquake (La-La Land 2019) 1975 The Eiger Sanction (Intrada 2021) 1975 Jaws (Intrada 2015) 1976 Family Plot (Varese 2010) 1976 Midway (Varese 2011) 1978 Jaws 2 (Intrada 2015) 1979 Dracula (Varese 2018) 1979 1941 (La-La Land 2011/2015) 1981 Heartbeeps (Varese 2001) 1982 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (La-La Land 2017/2022) 1984 The River (Intrada 2020) 1989 Born On The Fourth Of July 1989 Always (La-La Land 2021) 1992 Far And Away (La-La Land 2020) 1993 Jurassic Park (La-La Land 2022) 1993 Schindler's List (La-La Land 2018) 1997 The Lost World (La-La Land 2023) 2005 Munich [Dreamworks co-production] 2022 The Fabelmans Universal Television 1972 The Screaming Woman Warner Brothers 1965 None But The Brave (FSM 2009) 1966 Not With My Wife You Don't! (FSM 2006) 1972 The Cowboys (Varese 2018) 1978 Superman: The Movie (La-La Land 2019) 1987 The Witches Of Eastwick (Perseverance 2012 release is not expanded) 1987 Empire Of The Sun (La-La Land 2014) 1988 The Accidental Tourist (FSM 2008 release is not expanded) 1990 Presumed Innocent (Varese 2022) 1991 JFK 1996 Sleepers 1997 Rosewood (La-La Land 2013) 2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (La-La Land 2015/2021) 2001 Harry Potter 1 and the Sorcerer's Stone (2018 La-La Land) 2002 Harry Potter 2 and the Chamber of Secrets (2018 La-La Land) 2004 Harry Potter 3 and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2018 La-La Land) National Geographic Pictures 1969 Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

It may only be one track, but a live recording of the theme from Schindler's List has been released as part of a recent collection celebrating the tenure of the New York Philharmonic's concertmaster (just retired), Glenn Dicterow. The album may be found on iTunes here. The digital booklet contains a bio of JW amongst the other conductors, and the program notes for Schindler's List include a little note from Glenn Dicterow: "I knew John [Williams] from when I was in the LA Philharmonic. I did some commercial work and I played on the Jaws, Jaws 2, and Close encounters scores. He’s such a consummate musician. First of all he used to play in the studios as a pianist, so he’s a phenomenal pianist and can read anything, but he’s such a clever guy and such a great composer that I have always enjoyed working with him. When he came to the Philharmonic we renewed our relationship and I had the chance to play not only Schindler’s list, but we also worked on Fiddler on the Roof, this gigantic solo that he wrote for Isaac Stern initially. That was so beautifully done. So he and I go back a long way and who knows, maybe I’ll end up in another session when I go back to Los Angeles. You never know."

God, I love this album more and more with each listen. It's strikes just the right balance between warm, dark, mysterious and elusive. Karol

Clustral, aleatoric, spectral. Lots of string harmonics, maybe harmonic glissandos. I think Shore would have gone by the way of Death Marshes with Sprechstimme voices chanting the Cold Be Heart and Hand and Bone in Black Speech and perhaps the evil sheen of brooding low woodwinds and bowed cymbals and Footsteps of Doom motif. Some strident brass screams and pounding timpani and aleatoric double basses for Bombadil's breaking of the tomb and nice rendition of Bombadil's theme (obviously some kind of relation to the Nature's Reclamation in more rustic guise) for the subsequent scene where he sees the hobbits to the safe road to Bree.

Clustral, aleatoric, spectral. Lots of string harmonics, maybe harmonic glissandos.

All what i can get out of this is how Bay makes art, pardon, pop art, because these movies are needlessly inflated at 160 minutes. What's more, the palpable awe the author seems to feel at the shrine of the almighty Dollar shrouds any sensible judgment of the aesthetic and contentual impact these monsters deliver beyond their eye and ear candy - women are bimbos, great, disgusting racial caricatures, the heck, even the chinese laugh at them, military worship, awww come on... It's not that i see T1-4 as threat to humanity or something, but that all these very warranted objections are brushed aside because Michael Bay just wants to be a global artist for the common folk seems a tiny bit offensive to my weary eyes.

Ridley Scott looks fantastic for 78.

Yeah he's the rocker next to Ben Kingsley. Glad to see him getting more interesting roles.

How does a 'terrible' movie make $300 million in three days? http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/30/5857506/Transformers-bay-300-million Some interesting points raised. The closing one is probably the closest to the truth. Michael Bay understands the secret sauce of white 'Murica, there's no doubt about it.

Yeah, if we're going in that sort of direction all the better! For me, although I'm not especially fond of the "Paths of the Dead" sequence, or of the appearance of the Dead, or of the fact that they're brought directly to Minas Tirith, these are relatively minor complaints in the scheme of things; it becomes a disaster when they arrive at the Pelennor Fields and whizz around sweeping the baddies up like a cosmic vacuum cleaner. I think I could even forget the narrative problems this poses, and the silly look of it, but the jovial, celebratory mood of the scene (for which Howard Shore's music - though not necessarily Howard Shore - is partly responsible) is a real deal-breaker for me.

Just love this.

Black Gold by James Horner Less bombastic and mushy epic melodrama from Horner. Shorter album is a blessing, too. Fat-free and to the point. Good stuff. Karol

Perhaps something along these lines (the first four minutes or so): Or maybe something like this.

What's wrong with Electro stuff? Karol