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Lincoln - John Williams A fine autumnal score. I'm a believer in clarity and economy of means, and this may be Williams' strongest effort to abide by those principles. It's exceptionally restrained music by his standards, which is appropriate for the historical figure and scenario it is paired with. Humble, quasi folky hymning sits comfortably alongside the resolute but transparent evolution of the Copland Americana idiom that Williams has toyed with throughout his career, fully explored here. In stripping away the superfluous - in notes, orchestrations, and dramatic thrust - a composer lays bare what their true musical constitution is. Here is proof of the musical elegance innate in John Williams, one of the finest scores of his career. Even in some of his spare, intimate chamber music, there isn't as much of that laying bare going on. This score is perhaps the closest we'll get from him to that musical striptease that is a string quartet.

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I don't agree with Disco Stu on this one

I generally defer to the cue list/composers original intent, like with The Palantir from Hobbit DOS.

This must be the system of the body that produces midichlorians

I don't know if any of you have seen this video yet, but I find it utterly fascinating. It's footage from a (presumably recent) private party where Morricone writes a theme -- on the spot -- for one of his friends: This is a cool, rare item in and of itself, but of course my mind starts to wander, and imagine how awesome it would have been to have a similar video for Williams.

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Agreed, although I did really enjoy A Beautiful Mind so did not mind hearing it again as an encore. As the Cinematic Sinfonia is doing three film music concerts in the space of less than a week at the Royal Albert Hall, I can understand if they did not have any 'new' encores planned. I thought all the soloists were brilliant, especially Eric Rigler (on the uilleiann pipes and whistles in Braveheart and Titanic) and Clara Sanabras, who I thought managed to sing My Heart Will Go On better than Celine Dion did back in the day. Did anyone else notice that they printed a picture of Basil the Great Mouse Detective in the programme by mistake, when I assume they wanted a picture of Fievel from An American Tail? £8 and they couldn't get the right cartoon mouse! This was the first time I had seen a whole concert devoted to James Horner's music. He was curiously reluctant to entertain the idea in his lifetime because he didn't think people would be interested enough. I wish he could have been there yesterday to witness the audience reaction to his music. Anyhoo, here are a few of my blurry pics as per. The top one shows (left to right at front of stage) conductor Ludwig Wicki, violinist Elizabeth Mooney (soloist in Iris), singers Alice Zawadski and Clara Sanabras, Eric Rigler. The choir was the Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Both Star Trek and Star Trek Beyond will be receiving the live in concert treatment again at the Royal Albert Hall on consecutive days next June. Tickets are on sale from Friday. Details here and there.

To Joeinar you listen!

Oh, you're not the only one. It's my favourite of the whole bunch by a considerable margin. Re: Ragnarok score. Lots of fun.

I am in the process of listening to Thor: Ragnarok and so far it's the coolest Thor score and I'm really enjoying it.

I had a good time at this. They played something from 7 of my top 10 Horner scores so I can't complain. Both act closers were particularly great and a special nod to Krull which I certainly never thought I'd get a chance to hear live. The orchestra did a great job for sure. The only slight downer was that they played A Beautiful Mind again as an encore over the end credits and the night just seemed to end on a bit of a whimper with the audience wanting/expecting more. At least that's how it felt to me. Still though, great music performed expertly well. Another night at the RAH to remember!

SoonTM You read wrong. That sentence is talking about MM's work, not BB's work.

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Awful movie.

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My Main Program is: Added The Encounter,The Kiss and Levitation to main score Added E.T. Adventure , E.T. and Me and Over the Moon as concert versions after the End Credits Also added a rip of the Overture

October 25, 2017. The day the tide turned against Disco Stu. SAD

Say it, Jay.

I'm very excited about this, I wish more Orchestra's did these kinds of Complications of music.

(I'm making fun, but I'm always here for more Star Wars recordings - especially ones from the prequels and sequels, which haven't been done as to-death as the original trilogy). I'll be interested in picking this up

So presumably you removed all music accompanying deleted scenes on the recent A.I., Hook and TLW releases?

the irony is that the Scorpion King track sounds more like Star Wars than the Rebels one!

The early films over-explain things, but the later films are loaded with confusing unexplained elements that presumably were explained in the books.

Eh?!

Its not exactly known. There's an interview with Akiva Goldsman a little bit up in this thread that goes into the continuity

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Oh, also a good point. Hope is still alive!

They would had to have filmed closer to the summer for TFA as well, considering most of the music heard, especially for the opening, are extremely different in the final (because they were eventually rescored).

Norman also said the following line: "Justin. Could I possibly see my Mother?" Most importantly, he removed the modern flat screen TV from the house and even dropped it on the stairs like Drax with his Sony Trinitron. You could swear I blacked out and wrote this shit.

That would be this guy.

Character depth is overrated anyway. A well fleshed out part is meaningless in a forgettable or unremarkable movie. Also, who wanted layers of an onion when they went to the pictures to see a guy clamber beneath a wagon, anyway? Ebert missing the point not for the first time. Not to mention that time has granted a reasonable degree of discernable nuance to the Indiana/Doctor Jones persona, in spite of the genre he embodies.

Church Lady approved

My enjoyment of the characters seen below is much more complete (but then, i always preferred comedies):

I was wondering: why did you choose to compare these ones?

Both are amazing themes are among the best Williams ever composed. Tough to choose, but right now I'll pick Rrey's Theme.

We’re currently in an age where media is run by people who grew up in the late 70s and early 80s and all polls and opinion pieces reflect this. Next!

And John Powell's Ferdinand!

I guess we're not getting a TLJ scoring session featurette from 60 Minutes this year. But maybe a short clip from TLJ at the AMAs like they did with TFA?

And I think that Rian Johnson especially is interested in the Force in this way, in its spiritual implications. Should be fascinating to watch at the very least! Come on December.

I came across this awhile ago and try to share it where I can because I think it's fascinating. Radio Garden is a website that shows you radio stations all over the world in an explore-able 3D environment. You click on any city and it lists available, live radio stations. It's compatible with any mobile device, and will play while the screen is shut off. I'm endlessly entertained by finding out what completely obscure countries listen to, like Weno, Micronesia which seems to only play lowfi christian baptist music 24/7. It's amazing how pop music sounds very similar across vast distances, that seemly opposite-minded countries listen to fairly similar-sounding music.