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The concert last night was spectacular! I was very pleased with both the program and the performance of the orchestra. Seeing these familiar pieces performed live is like hearing them for the first time, instruments like double-basses and tuba especially are so much richer sounding than they ever can be on a recording. This was the program: Olympic Fanfare and Theme Getting out the Vote from Lincoln Flight to Neverland from Hook Across the Stars from Attack of the Clones Jaws Theme Jurassic Park Theme From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Hedwig's Theme Nimbus 2000 Harry's Wondrous World --Intermission-- Adventures on Earth from E.T. () Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark Schindler's List Theme The Imperial March from Empire Strikes Back Princess Leia's Theme from Star Wars Main Title from Star Wars --Encore-- Superman March I somehow had not even known that Williams had composed a concert arrangement for "Getting Out the Vote" from Lincoln and I was so pleased to hear it. It's a lot more satisfying than the OST track of the same name. I kinda wish it was on the Spielberg/Williams Collaboration album now. It was also cool to hear Nimbus 2000, the woodwind only arrangement live; the flutists were amazing! I was most pleased that they played the full "Adventures on Earth" piece from E.T. I had fully expected them to just play the shorter "Flying Theme." It's my absolute favorite piece of film music ever written, so I was walking on air for that entire performance. There was a strict policy about no recording for the performance, but I managed to film "Flight To Neverland" for like 30 seconds before an usher walking through gave me a nasty look. Here's the video, with quick lowering of phone upon being caught included I may or may not have also surreptitiously recorded just the audio of "Adventures on Earth" for my own listening pleasure Here's a few pictures of the evening:

Getting ready to unleash these Dino scores today...

Oooooooooook, let's return to discussion about the Jurassic Park set in this thread now. Wojo and Stefan, you guys can continue your conversation elsewhere thanks.

Memoirs of a Geisha (Concert Suite) It's good, but I prefer the OST. What can I say? I'm a sucker for the Japanese traditional instruments. Munich It's a masterpiece!

I enjoyed this: The entire CD is excellent if you like Finnish songs by the great Sibelius and Rautavaara with some fantastic word paintings, hues, and harmonies. The songs that Rautavaara set are so idiomatic and I love that it was one of the very last things he did since it is a reminder of how one of the last things Sibelius did was to recommend Rautavaara to recieve a Juilliard scholarship in 1954.

I cant believe hard core fans here have not listened to all released Williams' OSTs. I mean when i started my collection i went on a frenzy of getting everything available. And when something was not (ie out of print), well, there were other means. How can anyone not have wanted to search for more Williams music...for 20-30 years!

I've been listening to Don Davis' JP3 score lately and I'm surprised I don't hear more positive things about it on this forum. Its a pretty convincing JW imitation without sounding pastiche or off-kilter. Davis reuses a few motifs like the JP main theme and the carnivore motif and they sound appropriate, not rushed or out of place. Don Davis clearly put his JW hat on to write this score. Overall, the music is not amazing but I do find the fact that Don Davis so seamlessly worked in JW's musical language (without achieving the same heights) pretty remarkable. Here's one example of the action music:

We finished the series last night. The show absolutely gets better as it goes along, though its never great by any means. Occasionally funny and that's good enough for a casual watch. The biggest flaw I think they made was spending 8 hours in this world and only barely hinting at the larger picture - ie, why their parents died, what the secret society is, etc. I completely understand that they don't want to reveal everything in the first season when they knew 2 more were practically guaranteed, but shit, give us SOMETHING to make us want to come back next year. As for the score, I thought that the Chris Bacon music in episodes 7 and 8 was EASILY the best music in the entire season! They actually let the score be loud, interesting, and take center stage in some montage sequences there. He should score the rest of the series!

Like a lot of franchises the original is still the best.

If you want Terminator, better watch T1 or T2, because any new one has nothing to add.

I've only seen the Cuba Gooding Jr. one. Didn't even know the other one existed.

What about Jurassic Park?

You should be ashamed of yourself. I'm sure it makes you only happy that I am repulsed by you. Whatever.

Yes, @Disco Stu, that Getting Out the Vote arrangement is awesome!!! A really under-appreciated gem. You were so lucky to get to see it performed live! (and it's particularly great for you given how highly you think of that score) Here's another performance, from the Boston Pops recording of the full three piece suite:

Because that's how evolution works...

There's nothing wrong with that...but what's wrong with making a few bucks, on the side?

I did?

Yes..but not by me. In fact, it's one of the best things about the whole post-TLW mess.

Screw the feathers! None of the dinos in JP and TLW had feathers! The toys should reflect the dinos in the movies...

It's fun. Shits all over Giacchino's, but that doesn't sound too hard.

Star Wars always does. Jurassic Park always does. Hell, even Always might. LOL.

Hi MovieMorty. After listening to the two passages you cite, I think what you might be hearing in both is an unusual progression from a form of the iii chord to the major bVII chord a tritone away. In "Leaving Home", the progression is between 1:47-1:51 and would be analyzed in E major as V7 / vi - bVII or if thought of more in relation to the home key, more like III7 - bVII In Horner's "The Place Where Dreams Come True", the progression is between 4:44-4:48 and would be analyzed in G major as: iii - bVII It's funny you seem to be pointing out this progression, because I've long noticed it in a couple of places in Morricone. In "The Carriage of the Spirits", from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, it occurs in 1:25-1:33: again analyzed as iii - bVII (this time in Bb major) And in "The Man with the Harmonica" from Once Upon a Time in the West, from 1:36-1:48: Here, though, it's in a minor key (A minor), and the first chord is diminished rather than major or minor, so it would be analyzed as: ii7 (no 5th) - bVI This last example has a hauntingly fateful air to it, especially when that bVI chord moves to V in 1:48. The other examples, though, are all in major keys and move to a bVII chord. When combined with the root motion by a tritone, it creates for me (and I suspect for you too) a feeling of transforming something rather negative into something extremely positive, perhaps explaining the profound effect it seems to have.

I bought it two days ago.

I bought it two weeks ago. 😕

Enjoy LLL.

Like almost every time travel film ever done the BTTF films do not make any sense if you apply real quantum theory to them. It's sci-fi plot time travel, which is far more convinient, and far more entertaining for your average audience member.

No expenses spared.... It depends. They are not cheap, for plastic toys, but they are far less than premium figures, and the quality is great. Prices range from 10 to 35 $/€ and you can find some sales sometimes Look in amazon ie Papo "dinosaur name" and they are all there. The newer ones are being less and less JP in designs so i dont buy them anymore.

Believe it. The only notes from Stan and Iris that I've heard are the notes Williams used in his more popular scores. These weird obscure titles that aren't sold anymore, yeah, it's too hard or expensive to track them down. Why would you make your music hard to listen to? That seems very mean. I don't listen to mean people's music.

I was sent the printed program from a friend who attended the event. Quite lavish for an event booklet, almost like a small book. So I have a kind of 'souvenir' without actually having attended. If this box only contains the movies featured on the program, it isn't very interesting.

Guys, they are the French Papo toys...they are not offcial products, but probably the best JP toys out there anyway. Azahid, did you get them pretty cheap? That is awesome specially since they are the 1st versions of the Rex and raptor they did, and are now years out of print and very sought out by collectors. I'll photograph my collection

No little green dinosaurs came to greet you from the jungle? With violently chirping accompanying music?

I haven't heard a note from this score, either. I like that Williams is so open to revisiting and remastering his older scores, forgotten gems. It makes for a nice appetiser between the flagship releases like JP. There's so much to his filmography outside the Spielberg and Star Wars bubble. And MM yet again! Gotta wonder if any other producer will touch a Williams expansion ever again? I hope not!

I had never heard it until yesterday!

You're welcome. If you put in the largest size, say 5000x5000, iTunes will rename the file as such but the image will still only be the largest size they have on file such as 1500x1500.

Half is being generous. Nothing particularly good came out of that franchise other than First Contact.

That is one of my favorite moments in the whole score. I sounds like the Moog that John Barry used to use. (He used it on the Black Hole and I think The Persuaders.) The whole track has a bit of a Barry feel, to me. OK, I’ve read this “The Hope Theme is The Imperial March in disguise” BS several times. It’s pissing me off. The track title is “Hope”. It is not the Hope Theme, right?. The track “Jyn Erso & Hope Suite” has the Hope Theme. That’s what plays over the titles of the movie, isn't it? It’s only used twice (three times?) in the whole film. The title, and when Jyn is giving her Rousing Speech. Oh, and somewhere in The Big Battle at the end. Yes, Hope starts out with a variation of The Imperial March. It’s what’s playing over Vader taking apart the Rebels. What did they expect to play? It's the last four notes of the End Titles of The Empire Strikes Back which is The Imperial March. Then when the Blockade Runner takes off and leaves Vader standing in fury and (momentary) defeat there is a much more straightforward statement of the March. Then they play the beginning of Imperial Attack from Star Wars and we all go nuts. I mean... WE all knew this right?

Last week I was very busy listening to the new Jurassic Park Boxset in Martinique, having these wonderful landscapes right before my eyes!

It's not really a show where the music ever takes center stage. If the exact same music was in these episodes but it was written entirely by guys we'd never heard of, there would be practically no discussion of it anywhere. But since its JNH it gets discussed. We've finished episode 6 now and the show truly seems to be getting a little better with each episode. I think NPH has finally sunk into Olaf (his sailor character was the least Olaf-like acting yet) and the kids are better too. It's still not a great show by any means, but its fine enough. Hopefully the next 2 episodes will be really interesting since there's no movie equivalent to compare to any more.

Anybody else joining me on going "full media blackout" with Episode VIII marketing? It's obviously impossible not to see some images, like what appears on website front pages and magazine covers, but I'm not going to watch any of the trailers or read interviews or anything like that. I will look at posters, which I still think are the coolest way to market a movie if done right.

I wonder if Kobe's had the animators bumped off.

I wouldn't exactly call it hidden as much as an outright and very obvious statement of Vader's theme (granted, not the full melody line) in orchestra and choir lol The music is obvious enough but as soon as you look at what it accompanies in the film there really is no way it can be anything else.

Here's another great head-bobbing moment; the orchestral interlude from the first act of Strauss' "Die Frau ohne Schatten":

Oh I like the way you are thinking ! Another film music restoration and STAR WARS Analysis expert Chris Malone wrote and requested to Sony Classical about being involved in last years Original Trilogy /STAR WARS reissues only to be told that along the lines of 'Aw shucks! we just wrapped it, You're late!! ' With Intrada's Disney involvement; Im sure folks at Disney Music know who Mike Matessino is. Presumably, he moves in well known circles and is well respected in the Industry.

This whole track is great, but the bit from 1:16 till the big thematic statement from 2:03 is extraordinary! I just love how Goldsmith commands the meter with seemingly no effort.

For me it's one of the more frustrating pieces, as it sounds like he thought of writing a fugato-like piece, or at least something contrapuntally interesting... and instead he dropped the ball off almost immediately.

The plot is actually 416 years old

It's the one missing cue. Fuck,

This one's closer!

Hell Yeah!!!!