Omen II

Thanks Ricard & Jason. Hope to see many JWFans in London next month. Something special is also being planned the day before this concert so mark your diary. More info soon!
 
Oh, and seeing as you asked so nicely:
 

Episode 1: The Phantom Menace 
 
Star Wars Main Theme and Arrival at Naboo (03:00)
 
The Flag Parade (03:00)
 
Anakin’s Theme (04:00)
 
Duel of the Fates (04:00) with SATB Choir
 
Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
 
Across the Stars (05:00)
 
Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
 
Battle of the Heroes (04:00) with SATB Choir
 
Episode 4: A New Hope
 
The Cantina Band (02:00)
 
Here They Come! (02:00)
 
Princess Leia’s Theme (04:00)
 
Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back
 
The Asteroid Field (04:00)
 
Yoda’s Theme (03:00)
 
Han Solo and the Princess (05:00)
 
Carbon Freeze & The Imperial March (04:00)
 
 
--------- Interval -----------
 
 
LUCASFILM LOGO FANFARE (30 secs)
 
Episode 6: Return of the Jedi
 
The Forest Battle (04:00)
 
Luke and Leia (05:00)
 
Parade of the Ewoks (04:00)
 
Episode 7: The Force Awakens
 
March of the Resistance (02:00)
 
Rey’s Theme (03:00)
 
X-Wing Scherzo (2:30)
 
Episode 8: The Last Jedi
 
The Rebellion is Reborn (04:00)
 
Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker
 
The Rise of Skywalker (5:00)
 
Rey and Ben (3:00)
 
The Adventures of Han Solo from Solo: A Star Wars Story (04:00)
 
 

🥸
 
Ha!  I might have a bit of trouble perfecting the @mahler3 Norn Iron brogue but will give it a stab if called upon for the old announcing.
 
I booked my ticket for this a while ago and will be in the choir (the choir seats that is, not the actual choir).  There were a lot of flyers for this concert when I was at RAH for the Proms on Wednesday.

Not quite sure where to put this, but it looks like the CD is not the only thing missing teeth... (from Quito, Ecuador) 
 

Can't recommend this highly enough.

Wiped clean by the wrath of Emporium 

HEADS UP PEOPLE: the CD is available for pre-order! Go get it!
 
https://www.disneymusicemporium.com/product/XVCD60/john-williams-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny
 
Shipping date of October 18th so you have to assume they're printing another batch.
 
(20:40 UK time)

Andris Nelsons, the Latvian conductor.

Andris Nelsons, the Latvian conductor.

wow, nicest Williams photo i’ve seen in a while

These must be preserved for future generations!
 

Yef we should.

Yeah, who has time for all this photoshop nonsense??

 
 
 
 
 
Edit for posterity: When I first posted this comment, I'd just made the following image my new avatar:
 

Hattie Jacques: “I’m a simple woman with simple tastes and I want to be wooed.”
 
Kenneth Williams: ”Oh, you can be as wude as you like with me!”

Growing up he was my favorite actor, from the Carry On comedies. I never realize someone dubbed his voice on top of Darth Vader, lol. No one might get it but thought I'd share!
 
 

I had the pleasure of attending a live to picture performance of Things to Come (1936) with the London Symphony Orchestra playing Arthur Bliss's amazing score at the Barbican yesterday.  Both the film and score are two of my absolute favourites and I never dreamed that I would one day be able to witness the whole score played live to picture.
 
The film opens with the London Films logo and it was great to hear one of the percussionists play the logo music - essentially the chimes of Big Ben - on the tubular bells!  For those of you familiar with the score, the LSO also played the Christmas carols heard near the beginning of the film (with the choir heard on the film soundtrack) and gave us the whole of the famous march to lead into the interval.  Better still, at the end of the film the orchestra played the entire Epilogue music, one of my favourite pieces of film music ever.  Frank Strobel conducted.
 
Interestingly, the film itself had subtitles only for the sequences in which dialogue is underscored, while the scenes without music played without subtitles.  The film is scarily prophetic, predicting war in Europe, helicopters, a global pandemic, the European Union, the moon landing and even smart watches and tablets.
 

RIP Carl Davis.
 

I'm not going to lie—I was excitedly curious how quickly this news would hit JWFan!
 
For those who don't know me, I've been writing about film music and interviewing composers (and directors and actors) professionally for the past decade. Besides the many liner notes, I also write articles and create radio stories for mainstream news outlets like the L.A. Times and NPR. I teach a film music history course at USC. And I've been a card-carrying member of this site since 2003.
 
I won't divulge too much just yet, because it's still a little early, but I was excited to finally make it public that this book is happening. I've been working on it for three years now, and I've interviewed approximately 150 people. The big kahuna, of course, is John Williams. I plan to share the story of how that happened one day, but not yet.

Thanks for your excitement! I can promise you that there are many things (stories, facts, quotes) in this book you have never heard...
 
Tim

1959-1969
1970-1974
1975-1984
1986-1996
1997-2005
2008-2023
 

The JWFan website was a mistake... 

Don't know if this New York Times article has been shared here, but here it is (my gift):
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/movies/john-williams-indiana-jones-dial-of-destiny.html?unlocked_article_code=80wcQSOOVSi4HIv5N7l4DFf7HscNSwr06N8eLKYHOOc4LJyo9p_irWXkgHY_gB7nbA81oAIKXpvnBFWFERngH4F28u8HA_58evP9cSDc-QhENy1QNdg_6-O5fJeMSgAfVhxFyELwFyuR-mw-8aJrQhns8BMRIGrslj9tfAHMA5b_G2LMRtsbxWW4xMc8qAfZRrDQ3JMm2WGW2hZ-X4XMvC_vMPkP33RylOj5Sl09_-DPNDoig44AU_T0DHVDfVR2ZnkyBPrP04zUojbg72eOU5fy7HAU-dA26LjuFvzQvvnc8zo4_Axi-G0H_oc1m8pxAeemKVTMUZaIaTIa9bG1HohIDAa-2fBG-i52H7Rlw1m_0wag&smid=url-share

Same here, but the LSO conducted by Richard Hickox.  Anyone English who doesn't love the fourth movement of the third and the third movement of the fifth should be deported immediately for treason and be thankful that they have been shown a degree of clemency.
 
I went to a nice concert on Thursday at St. Giles-without-Cripplegate, the finale of the annual Summer Music in City Churches festival.  The first half was Haydn's Nelson Mass which I know well, but I was completely unfamiliar with Sir Arthur Bliss's Pastoral: "Lie Strewn the White Flocks" which made up the second half of the concert.  It was rather good - here is one of the movements, which includes some great lines such as:
 
Boil the lentils better, thou miserly steward; take heed lest thou chop thy fingers when thou'rt splitting cumin-seed.
 
We've all been there.
 
 

Same here, but the LSO conducted by Richard Hickox.  Anyone English who doesn't love the fourth movement of the third and the third movement of the fifth should be deported immediately for treason and be thankful that they have been shown a degree of clemency.
 
I went to a nice concert on Thursday at St. Giles-without-Cripplegate, the finale of the annual Summer Music in City Churches festival.  The first half was Haydn's Nelson Mass which I know well, but I was completely unfamiliar with Sir Arthur Bliss's Pastoral: "Lie Strewn the White Flocks" which made up the second half of the concert.  It was rather good - here is one of the movements, which includes some great lines such as:
 
Boil the lentils better, thou miserly steward; take heed lest thou chop thy fingers when thou'rt splitting cumin-seed.
 
We've all been there.
 
 

Ralph Vaughn Williams.
A twofer, of SYMPHONY 3, and SYMPHONY 5. The RPO, conducted by Roger Norrington.
Sublime.

It's all Greek to me.