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Interesting interview with JG about religion and its influence on his life and music: Source: http://jewishjournal.com/old_stories/1351/

One of my favorite Williams action cues: Not all of the stylistic shifting in this score works, but this track is so muscular it sits well with past Indy setpieces. Particularly this segment, ending at 2:57...wow. Imagine how this sound with a gutsier, rougher recording like the first two Indy scores!

Surprise! It's kind of heavily microedited, and I don't have the patience to restore everything especially with how low it's mixed. So I synced up the end, and the rest works out kinda well.

Lincoln - John Williams It is that time of year again.

You're thinking of John Williams. https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/may-the-fourth-spotlight-on-joann-kane-music/ Maybe there's some small adjustment here and there by the time his sketches are sent to the scoring stage, but I bet you that no one wants to be the guy who bungles up a John Williams cue, or surprises him when he gets up to the conductor's stand. Williams knows exactly what he wants in terms of sound and orchestration and no one is going to stand in his way. That "imitation sound" could be him trying to replicate a style from many years ago that he's sort of gotten past in his everyday writing.

I did this one first, but the length made the upload time longer. Reminiscence Therapy slight microedits (lengthening a held note twice) restored, syncs up pretty much like in the film. Then I tried doing the Maw by syncing up the beginning, and very interesting things come out of it, if obviously wrong by the end. Not wanting to waste hours restoring who knows how many and how fine microedits, I did the previous video, that one's probably better for the Maw part. Don't plan on doing the entire movie at the moment. Watching the movie, both my Maws are all kinds of wrong, but the film edit is a royal mess.

It's worse than tinnitus!

That FIFA piece bought me a 6th house.

Exactly!

I think the real takeaway from this is that there are more Williams releases in the works. Sure, I too thought we'd have more to celebrate by now. There is some disappointment, but I'm not in anyway annoyed at the label for their annoucement which at least up until today hasn't exactly lived up to its promise. There are still a few months left though, and I won't complain if some of the releases expected this year are released next year. The sooner the better though^ I'm sure it's been said by others, but these projects can get delayed and put in hybernation at the last minute waiting for some legal matter to be resolved and/or for someone in authority with a busy schedule to say "yes".

Cinema Paradiso - Such a beautiful film, and a wonderful tribute to film as a whole. I still cry everytime I watch this. - 9.5 / 10

Since when is LLL our favorite label? Intrada is... oh wait, they fucked up The Mummy... okay, it IS our favorite label.

That’s because it’s the better score.

I still have yet to finish the original without zoning out. Schwarzenegger was never my idea of cool. Danny Glover, on the other hand? That's MY idea of cool. He wrecks the predator's ass way more than Arnie ever could. Predator 2 is glorious. Both movie and score (my favorite Silvestri). It's way nuttier than the first one, so much more to my liking.

Nope. He writes very detailed sketches that is essentially a condensed orchestral score. When time allows, he actually does the orchestrations himself in full score. Really, the orchestrators are more like glorified copyists, extracting the sketches into full score.

So, finally it has been demonstrated beyond any possible doubt that ESB is twice as great as The Lord of the Rings concert (240 great musical moments against 120). This closes a lot of long-standing debates!

Shh.

Parts of it were good and rather "old school", others quite generic and buried in the sound mix. Several references to Silvestri's theme, but it somehow didn't sound right. Like some notes were missing or something, even if the basic ostinato was there. Weird. Maybe it's the sound mix's fault again. I think I'll have to listen to it on album to get a better grasp of it.

Interesting unreleased bits of music: I'll leave the ripping to Grandmaster @Falafel.

First we must ask ourselves, what is art?

You forgot to mention ToD, whose density-greatness-score is in the 1000s at least.

I just recommended this album for a friend that just break-up with his boyfriend. What a great album. The darkness and the light. A posthumous album released in 1992, 4 years after Roy Orbison's passing. Some singles, some demos finished especially for this album. I listened this album (and Mystery Girl, 1988) for months and months, over and over when I was a young adult...

Independence Day: Resurgence.

Nice! I’ve ordered the Deluxe version. Can’t wait to have it in my hands.

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It not "Solo's theme", it's "this guy's who is apparently supposed to represent Han Solo theme". And it fits to the character, that's its problem. LLL had no chance not to fuck it up - Williams' meddling and missing sources! Intrada fucked up, although they had all the elements in perfect condition. If Goldsmith had still been alive, he would probably have prevented that occasionally weird mix and the terrible film edits idea. And Varese - well, they fucked up too much in the past. But right now they reach for the stars!

R.I.P. I will maintain that BvS, the expanded cut, is a good film.

The way it played somehow gave me a feel of that Spielbergian suspense.

Why people forget the rerelease of superman iv? It counts as a williams release too

Meh, that Fifa piece is okay and no doubt fulfils their brief, but feels very template-like. There are lots of other composers who could've done a more inspired job than this.

Hp3 pls

Usually yes But this is an unusual and really not essential expansion.

Hey, there's a high bar for ceiling tiles!

He would berate you for your rubbish ceiling tiles, and your relative lack of knowledge concerning ceiling tiles. Josh is just a bellend.

No. he meant what he said, "even when the original arrangements are available", obviously there are times where the original arrangements are not available, he is not talking about those.

The problem is that we were promised this year was gonna be "one for the books". So far, except for Schindler's List, which is only due in november or december, nothing much happened. A year ago tomorrow, on September 12th, E.T. was up for sale already, and I think word was out that CE3K was coming soon as well, or it was announced already. SPR is a great score, but not enough to be released in the last quarter of the "book year". It's kind of disappointing.

Your right... It already was a great score!

The fact that Maestro John Williams generously agreed to conduct his Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra and his Theme from Born On the Fourth of July and record both (the former of which has never been recorded with him conducting it) for release on CD, that private donors have generously contributed to this project, the fact that this has been a dream of Thomas Hooten to make this recording (and that he wants no financial gain from this), and that people are giving their time to make this project a reality makes this worth while.

Wasn't it because Spielberg won a bet with Lucas about how well the movie would do?

Superman is as good as guaranteed.

It wouldn't surprise me if they threw in Hooten's rendition of "With Malice Toward None" as a bonus track.

I hope this recording will be the start of a series of recordings with JW conducting his concert works.

I'm sure he prefers that others cover the bill, as most composers would. It's not cool to have to pay for people to record or perform your own music. So if JW does donate, I guess he'll do it anonymously.

@TGP is an important voice here. Don't frustrate him into giving up on this place! At any rate, Zimmer/Barne's FIFA piece is okay. It is not the most imaginative piece ever, but it gets the job done. It doesn't show that Zimmer has no talent whatsoever: it just shows he is in a profitable comfort zone.

Cubism?

Really, the edits in dessert chase are very jarring to me. Normally Williams microedits, if you haven't heard the full cue in the film.could pass unnoticeable on cd. But that raiders cue is offensive to my ears.

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.

This is not completely correct. Wagner's compositional procedure was quite complex and went through many stages, from preliminary sketches to the finished full score. Even if some very partial sketches were developed in a different order, what matters in assessing whether the style is unified is the final product, because that is what we get to hear and since the evolution from the sketch to the full score might involve significant changes. With respect to this, (just check on wikipedia) he completed the full score of Das Rheingold in 1854, Die Walkure in 1856, Siegfried Act I in 1857, a draft of the second act was done in 1857 (not orchestrated), then he stopped to do other works and completed Siegfried in 1871 (!) and Gotterdammerung was finished in 1874. And to be honest, I really do perceive very significant stylistic differences between Rheingold and Gotterdammerung, which were the product of both the general evolution of music and orchestras, and Wagner's own researches. It should not be forgotten that, in the "break" between the two parts of Siegfried, he wrote (among other things) Tristan und Isolde, a work that marked a huge change in his conception of harmony. And indeed, Gotterdammerung sounds very different from Rheingold (melodies of some recurring leitmotiven apart). Even the last act of Siegfried sounds very different from the first two (and closer to the general atmosphere of Gotterdammerung, which was in fact composed almost at the same time). In my eyes, this is not a defect: evolution happens in art, mirroring the evolution of the artist's life. On a different scale, Williams' own stylistic evolution in the SW saga reflected the change of style in the movies.

I feel comfortable with comparing John Williams to Cthulu. His turtlenecks a fabulous, formless darkness....

Horner was and continues to be better than everyone.