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I couldn't find a previous thread on this piece. Anyways, I just revisited it on the Yo-Yo Ma CD, and it's such a heartfelt piece with shades of SCHINDLER'S LIST. Does anyone know whose funeral it was written for, back when it was 'elegy for cello and piano'? Edit: Well, it's always useful to read the liner notes before I ask questions. In it, Williams says:

Someone should have a go at restoring that recording of the Mephisto Waltz sessions. Fascinating watch.

It's much less obvious and clear-cut of a choice choice than I thought, say, a few days ago. Karol

THE RIVER WILD - Jerry Goldsmith As drab as i remembered it. A quick cleaner job after Maurice Jarre's more archaic take got the boot, Jerry really did a sit-down-strike on creativity to deliver what is essentially an expansive 100-piece orchestra doing second-hand imitations of RAMBO and THE WALTONS. While being much too slick and professional to be called bad, it's so uninspired and mechanical in its very calculated effects that it - Murphy's Law! - figures that it is the sole candidate from Goldsmith's vast library of genius to receive the honor of being featured as the only in-depth demonstration of the composer at work for Fred Karlin's docu. After receiving much more unbelievable expansions of movie soundtracks in the last 10 years, it isn't really hurting the cause (that Jarre's vastly more engaging score is on disc 2 helps enormously) though it still figures that now even Jeff Bond of FSM regards this as something to remember. Trivia note: this was the first of Goldsmith 'wet' scores after being a relatively dry fellow before - this one really sounds huge and epic though it sadly doesn't help to hide its vacuousness.

Scroll up a few posts and see how to properly use it! The search engine works completely fine; There's user error preventing you guys from getting the results you want, not any problems with the search engine itself. Use it properly, and it works great. Garbage in, garbage out.

I'm sticking only to the official information (i.e. stuff that's released by Lucasfilm or Bad Robot). I don't want to know any more. I am a bit STARVED for new info, though, since the last thing we really got was the teaser trailer over 2 months ago (I guess also the character name cards shortly after). Hopefully more info will float out on SW.com, or in the Star Wars magazines, etc, soon. In the meantime, I'm enjoying SW Rebels and am looking forward to the second issue of Marvel's comic tomorrow.

Yes, it's one of JW's most heartfelt and moving pieces ever. The theme is actually an expansion of an idea originally found in the score for Seven Years In Tibet (the final cue, "Regaining a Son")

The bastards at Sony Classical would surely enchant it with a divine spell causing everyone taking any CD out of it to be instantly electrocuted, leaving the box behind for them to recollect. Then again, what are they going to do with all the recollected arks?

It belongs in a museum.

So Jaws 4 gets a comprehensive C & C score release before Jaws and Jaws 2 get one?

This is what you're talking about, right? Although it sound exactly like an audio rip and not part of an "expanded soundtrack."

You can tell by the crosh shectionsh.

Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.

That's right. The music collection coffret would be in the shape of the Ark of the Covenant, with the logo title of the collection on the frontispiece. How's this for a description? ================================================================= Universal Studios proudly presents... The Limited Edition Steven Spielberg & John Williams 40th Anniversary Music Box Collection! Casing - Original casing crafted to look like the Ark of the Covenant from Raiders of the Lost Ark ~ Built-in music chip that plays "The Map Room Dawn" when the casing is opened (hinged lid; music chip can be switched on and off) Contents - 26 soundtracks from Jaws to Lincoln, each in a soft sleeve with original album art - Limited Edition Bonus CD #27 signed by John Williams himself - DVD with interviews and conversations with Spielberg & Williams (and Easter Eggs, too) - From Sharks to Dinosaurs: 40 years of Steven Spielberg & John Williams, a 10x10, 300+ page book of liner notes w/ foreword by Harrison Ford - A USB drive in the shape of Marion Ravenwood's Medallion stocked with all of the material on the CDs (not to scale) ================================================================= It's a start. I might need to tweak some parameters some smore. But right now, this is just a proof of concept. What do you think so far?

I saw a trailer for this today, it looks ridiculously stupid. I'll probably go see it.

Memoirs of a Geisha Music composed and conducted by John Williams Siamese 19th century percussions perfiormed by the Hung Lo chamber orchestra 01-Xing Xing 1781 02-Tea and Fortune Cookies 03-The Meditation Scene 04-Walking Along the Pond 05-The Divas Catfight 06-Reading the Scriptures 07-The Tortoise Race 08-The Long Afternoon Nap 09-The Snail Hunt 10-The Supper Sequence 11-The Hours Between 12-Reading the Letter 13-Chang's Theme 14-Stories for Bedtime/Late Night Prayers 15-Writing the Diary 16--End Credits K.M.