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This piece is fantastic!!

Here's an upload of the Main Title: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KUrZ0RZwmpXV7g-3bcgT3DBaFdSyu4ER/view?usp=sharing

Clear as the plot to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

The score I loved so much it got me to come back to the JWFan fold.

Powell's percussion is actually less repetitive than you might think. If you listen closely, you will hear that the percussion is constantly changing, measure by measure, to support what's going on around it at that moment. It's a mistake to think that, just because Powell uses what SOUNDS like a percussion loop, means that it is strictly a percussion loop.

Unless it is pasted with care. Solo does it with taste.

I definitely liked that piece more on one listen than any of his other concert works that come to mind.

One of his best concert works, no doubt. Utterly excellent. The music takes the listener on such a varied journey, many surprises. Great virtuosity writing and dynamic range. And lovely lyrical writing as well. Structure was strong and John used the orchestra to great effect, integrating things better than in many of his other concerti. Well, hopefully @Bespin has a fuller one. I thought about making a recording, but didn't set things up on time.

Very ghostly! I'm digging it.

The JW piece will start any moment now!! So start listening if you're not already.

Copland’s music is about the simple pleasures of life and hard work (one might even say the simple gifts ). Working hard and enjoying the simple rewards of your labor I should say. It stirs something fundamental in me always. Even and especially the earlier and latter parts of his career. It’s probably just my Protestant upbringing lol (ironic yes since Copland is a Brooklyn Jew).

Copland piece started. I am home in my soul.

It has been played because the concert took place at 14:30. WCRB's Sunday concerts aren't live broadcasts. Sorry for creating such confusion.

The show starts only at 19h. Like usual I will have to disconnect, as I will record the show. See ya tomorrow! Bartok... my god, I will hate that I'm sure....

Kathleen Kennedy: Nice to meet with you Rian. JJ tells me good things about you. I really liked Hooper. Ryan Johnson: Looper. KK: Whatever. So what's your vision for Episode VIII? RJ: Well Kathy, I'd like to make a film that serves as a deconstruction of Star Wars and its tropes. KK: "Deconstruct Star Wars?" You want to deconstruct the most beloved film series of all time? Ambitious and daring idea! Do you think the fans will go for that? RJ: Absolutely. KK: Good enough for me. You're hired!

It just has to be Daisy Ridley.

Are you seriously complaining about this one friggin' elephant that you as you said "like"?! Please, let me keep this one fucking plushie that keeps the CDs from falling off the shelf! It has a tiny school bag, never forget that!

Listen to that obnoxious percussion, especially the snare drum...god, what did Williams do, Ctrl+C and V a bar loop until he dragged it through most of the piece?

Percussion, when used effectively and musically, is wonderful. ('Desert Chase' from RAIDERS, for example) But when it's just one big copy/paste, often from an a loop library, it's *is* generic and repetitive and boring.

I find it very intriguing that the instsnt someone throws down percussion, the words "generic" and/or "repetitive" get used. Is it people thinking the percussion defiles the "purity" of The Orchestra (Blessed Be)? Also, John Williams uses tons of ostinati in his work.

It's an honour when someone else conducts it.

Yeah, that's it. Not enough endless looped booming electronic drums! Williams' problem is that he just hasn't made his music generic and repetitive enough.

Most agitated and interesting Desplat in a while - for the famous story of the Mossad snatching Eichmann and bringing him to trial...at least it's not as static as a lot of his work in that genre often tends to be. His best since 'The Ghost Writer', i'd wager. Channeling nervous 60's Goldsmith (Satan Bug) it's good to see a filmmaker like Paul Weitz not requesting bland anonymous chords.

Concord is a good label, don't be dissin' it just 'cause you didn't get a 5 second stinger crammed in a disc so you can say it's complete! John Williams produces an album: "I really want to create a satisfying listening experience by having music play in an order outside of the film, combining tracks where I think it's appropriate." Soundtrack fans: "FUCK YOU! Just write your music and hand it off to someone who knows how produce an album we WANT!" Mike Mattesino produces Close Encounters of the Kind: "Hey guys, we're gonna do something a little different here...usually, we like to produce albums where the music plays in the order of the film, and we include every cue we can find...But here, we're going to try creating a satisfying listening experience by having the music play in an order outside the film, and not worry about including every cue in the main program for the sake of completeness." Soundtrack fans: "Wow, how interesting! That's such a novel approach, I'm very excited to hear how it will turn out! Thank you Mike Mattesino! Please have my babies!"

How greedy!

I personally prefer my main program without Main Title and The Encounter but with The Kiss and Levitation.

JW will make the ghost sounds.

Kate Capshaw never bothered me at any time in ToD, in fact I always liked her character and performance. I thought it suited the comical nature of the movie.

This leaves me in awe and ecstasy every time I hear it.

Proof I don’t have as many film scores as some of you think I have. Although I cleared out a lotta “junk” a while back and I don’t keep the original releases once an expanded / complete score is issued unless there’s something unique to the first release.

It is of the highest quality, no doubt.

http://www.classicalwcrb.org/post/world-premiere-yo-yo-ma#stream/0

Clear as a crystal cliche!

Ferdinand - John Powell* I'll admit - the first time I heard this score I had absolutely no desire to listen again (aside from one specific moment in "Finale"). I seem to remember it striking me as boring Spanish pastiche. It seemed to be missing that sea-faring, swashbuckling sound we got in HTTYD and Pan. After listening again today, I'm a bit mystified at how I could have dismissed the score so easily. While it's not as good as Solo or HTTYD (and maybe even Pan) in my book, it is nonetheless a very well-done score with cool classical influences (mixed, of course, with modern percussion!). The themes are very catchy, if perhaps not as enjoyable melodically as, say, Chewie's theme or the "Test Drive" theme. *More than half of the cues are co-credited to Batu Sener or Anthony Willis, so this was seemingly quite a team effort -- not everything on the album is necessarily by Powell.

We're just emulating Powell and his drum library loops.

Ad hominem is when a person goes after the other personally. I said nothing disparaging of you, or indeed anything of you at all, only the rhetoric you used in your claim.

Steven Spielberg Stanley Kubrick Wes Anderson Martin Scorsese 70s-era Francis Ford Coppola

Too bad you don't know how to use it!

I’m way way more of a Trek fan than an SW fan and I agree with this. Abrams made his Trek what it was because he never dreamed he’d get actual Star Wars, so he just made a very Star Warsian Trek. Then he got actual SW and said forget that Roddenberry stuff

I'll actually have a listen to that album in a bit. There's a few excellent performances on it. Hymn To The Fallen is very good, as are the CMIYC pieces.

Expanded HA2 is anything but easy to replicate into the OST version.

It's one hell of a rollercoaster ride.

The more I listen to this, the less I like the heavy percussions. JW would never use anything like this. Horner did something similar in his Spiderman score and I didn't like it

"I think you should listen only to composers whose names you can spell correctly".

Pendant? Those bastards.

Just listened to Banning Back Home last night; fun track! Goes to show that even when he has to follow some trend or temp track, he has the musical depth and chops to really pull it off! Interesting to hear a time when John Williams was still a film composer in that sense. No, @Bespin, it doesn't count!

Interview with the harpist who will preform the piece tomorrow: http://www.wamc.org/post/harpist-jessica-zhou-premiere-new-john-williams-andris-nelsons-yo-yo-ma-and-tmc-orchestra

An update of my collection: Boxsets and John Williams Charles Aznavour, Roy Orbison, Joe Dassin, Classical music, etc. It's complicated.... Pfffffff....

STAR TREK is better than everything (except for BABYLON 5, THUNDERBIRDS, and...DOCTOR WHO!)