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Karol

I downloaded it on October 26, 2010, so it must have been around that time. I remember that and the CoS leak very well. They were big moments in my life... moments that I wasn't able to share with the important people in my life, because nobody cared. Haha

Just came in the post. I think I know what score I'll be listening to this evening!

It was too good to be true, and still is! I was in a hotel, where a client had put me up for the week, with my DESKTOP computer that I brought with me because I didn't have a laptop at the time. I downloaded the HPSS sessions over the hotel wifi, and the first thing I listened to was Voldemort's Theme from the Children's Suite. When Chamber leaked, and I first listened to it, I was at home in Atlanta, and it was the day before John Williams conducted the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. At the concert, JW included Fawkes the Phoenix B-) Perfect synergy! Maybe he knew......

Poor Bespin was too ahead of his time!!

They'll put a higher value if you ask them for a lower one?

Way to rep Vermont JWFans, Archer, that's a solid list! Come to think of it, does that mean JWFans make up half the population of Vermont?

See, this is how you can tell a true JW Fan. You remember where you were when the HPSS sessions dropped

I had to go to my friend’s house because my internet was not stable enough to get the HPSS leak without the download dropping. Good times

It took John Williams a couple of tries to get the cue to that place, maybe you just need a couple of tries too!

Season 8 will arrive April 2019

Yawn. Off to JWFan Pro.

Ah, Merry Christmas Mr. Bean. Great episode.

Very nice! I prefer it to the final film version. I guess the scene was changed, hence the cue had to be rewritten.

Lost: The Final Season by Michael Giacchino: This and The Last Episodes discs feature some of the best music of the show and everything really comes together wonderfully with ever a steady flow of new ideas wedded into the already impressive collection of themes and motifs. Slight lack of development of ideas like Jacob's theme is the only small complaint I have as Giacchino seems to be happy to repeat these ideas in the same form ad infinitum, only ever elaborating on their orchestrations but not their form, although I think this is entirely out of conscious planning and musical characterization rather than pure oversight. Listening to this music always reminds me how distinct this scoring is, so instantly recognizable in style and orchestrations and its dramatic language developed over 6 seasons. Surely one of the composer's biggest accomplishments.

So I've gone all this time without having a clue that there was an alternate ending to Azkaban leading into the end credits. I was looking at the score today and saw the cue "A New Broomstick" and decided to have a go at mocking it up together with the originally planned end credits going into Hedwig's Theme. I then found Datameister's great version but kept going anyway. Have a listen if you'd like: Anticipation levels at an all time high.

The title says it all. I was just going through some of my Powell collection, and I was taken by just how good so much of it is. Just about all of the scores of his I've heard retain their excitment and interest time and time again. I won't say his scores are perfect or perfectly consistant...but there's more interesting music in your average Powell album than just about any other composer working today. No one can touch him action-wise nowadays. The man actually uses strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion in ways that sound individually conceived. He can have 5 different interesting things going on at once. And he can still bring it all together for a splendid moment of the big theme. Along with Desplat and Giacchino, Powell's the most exciting voice to be introduced to film music in my life as a film-score collector. Just needed to say that yet again. Tangiers from The Bourne Ultimatum by John Powell (my favorite action cue of the past couple of year, hands down)

Well I paid 95$ CDN just for Dracula and Cowboys because of the exchange rate

Dracula by John Williams. My first listen of the new set. Karol

What I love is how enthusiastic Matessino sounds. You can genuinely feel he's passionate about making these releases as perfect as possible (yeah, take that, Didier Deutsche). When I heard this, I just knew deep down that every single pre-2005 Williams score is in very, very safe hands indeed.

TLJ didn't appear on the Disney FYC site until after the movie was released in the theaters in December, and the score page didn't appear until January as I recall. I don't think it bodes well that Solo didn't appear right from the get-go on the FYC site. FWIW, Disney never added The BFG back in 2016.

I only remember when Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows dropped. I was studying for a Spanish grammar exam when I suddenly got hold of them. Sweating and discarding all the Spanish tenses, I listened to some tracks, had crazy and feverish conversations with a few fellow HP fans and even passed the exam the next morning.

I'm glad you liked it! Just keep in mind, some of the best Christopher Columbus cues are missing from the album. We need a Deluxe Edition for this one, definitely. Yavar

Mrs. Fielding!!!

More dull than it is now.

I prefer The Love Scene to Night Journeys

I don't think it is. It's possible these are going to be hot items and not sure how many to have on hand directly in time before Christmas.

Jaws by John Williams Jaws 2 by John Williams Midnight Run by Danny Elfman Black Beauty by Danny Elfman

Had to justify the 3 discs and price somehow, I guess. As I look at the tracklist, a perfectly adequate score+select alternates presentation with no source or tracked music easily could've fit on 2 discs, but maybe they wanted to go ultra-definitive so they'll never have to reach back to this score again.

Pity there's no Solo on the Disney site, although perhaps they'll add it later (as happened with TLJ last year).

And so it did end. Disappointingly so. After the comparatively contemplative DH7.1 this one suffers from a severe case of blockbusteritis: loud, overlong effect/action scenes (check), annoying speechifying (double check) and irritatingly fleeting appearances of past characters like collecting merchandise (double check). While i appreciate the bloodletting, there's only one reason to see this, and it's the long Snape flashback scene, which finally gives the character justice and feels really well-written/directed. While the obvious Christ-allusions of the story would have meant for the boy die together with Voldemort, i can live with the ending they chose to go with: why so anally explain the machinations behind it only Rowlings and Kloves know - do it through images, it's a picture, folks! Desplat's score this time felt rather helpless and out of its element with the Zimmerized battle stuff and apart from a few good mystical moments has zero to contribute. I should have heeded Brundlefly's warning...

Bespin was a visionary! Btw, I haven't been on the Discord in a long time. What have I missed?

I wish I could have sex as satisfying as the build up in "The Love Scene (Extended Version)." 👌

Love it. I lose it every single time Bean forgets to turn the imaginary volume knob up.

If you're going to steal, you might as well steal from the very best

I was eagerly awaiting my lovely new Dracula: The Motion Picture CD twofer by John Williams today but instead returned home from work to find the dreaded grey 'Fee to Pay' card from Royal Mail, surely a visitation more terrifying than that of the Transylvanian count himself. The scoundrels have levied an extra £14.20 customs charge, including an £8 'handling charge' (🤯) for the privilege of gleefully kicking my package around the floor of the delivery office for an extra day or two. Royal Mail should change the wording on the card from "Unfortunately we can't deliver your item because there is a fee to pay" to "Fortunately we won't deliver your item until you give us some beer money, you streak of piss." Oh well, what can you do?

Me if anything HP-related pops up in ten days:

1999- 2010 The dark days . All Williams expansions were but a distant mirage while we had to endure multiple Goldsmith releases of the same title nobody wanted like Poltergeist 2 All we had to do was slavishly editing SW prequels expanded scores from nano seconds of video game file. And when we did have a Williams release it'd be screwed up like the Indy box Actually the End of the Dark Days was the HPSS sessions leak, which led to multiple JW sessions leak within a few months and the start of LLL expanded releases.. when was that?

Wayyyy too late

Great mock-up! Love the detailed violin mix!

Redman, Matessino, Bulk!

I am waiting for a Lord of the Rings spin-off, The Lord of the Rings - Detective Gandalf. The LotR people would surely come.

Like Bryce Dallas Howard!

MM will tackle them by bending down to their height so they feel more comfortable talking to longer cues.

I think Pixar has earned the right to make these movies. If they feel they have a good story to tell and the Toy Story franchise is the vehicle for them to do it, I'm fine with it. I'm interested in seeing what they do with this movie. It might not be up to the level of the original movies but I'm not going to dismiss it simply because it has a 4 behind its title.

Hi all, Here's a couple of new pieces I recently did for the blog: Memoirs from London and Vienna https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2018/11/05/memoirs-from-london-and-vienna/ Exclusive interview with Richard Kaufman: https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2018/11/12/interview-richard-kaufman/ New exclusive interviews and content coming soon in the next few weeks Thanks for listening!

In a momentary lapse of reason, I ordered... it.

One thing I noticed

He adapted his main theme beautifully throughout. These are the moments they happen from what I remember from first listen. I'm sure I'll find even more as I listen on. 1:51 3:24 0:07 0:15 0:22 3:40 3:55