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This is an awesome project. The ET track sounds nice. I love interesting new arrangements of JW music.

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/03/22/john-williams-reimagined-album-to-be-released/
 

 
 
Warner Classics will release John Williams Reimagined, a new album featuring music by the Academy Award-winning composer arranged for chamber trio of flute, cello, and piano. The 2-CD set is produced by Robert Townson and the music is performed by flutist Sara Andon, cellist Cécilia Tsan, and pianist Simone Pedroni. The album covers Williams’ career from his early Emmy Award-winning score for the 1970 television film Jane Eyre to the main theme of 2022’s The Fabelmans, and includes such titles as Star Wars, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Jurassic Park, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Hook, The Accidental Tourist, The Witches of Eastwick, Dracula, The Sugarland Express, The Patriot and War Horse. A first track (Over the Moon from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) has just been released today and is now available to stream/download now on all major digital music services and can also be checked out after the jump.
 
Here’s the album track list (per Slovenia’s NIKA):
 
Disc 1:
1. Star Wars: Princess Leia’s Theme
2. Jane Eyre: To Thornfield
3. Jane Eyre: Reunion
4. Memoirs of a Geisha: Sayuri’s Theme
5. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Dream Discarded
6. Memoirs of a Geisha: Going to School
7. Images: In Search of Unicorns
8. The River: Growing Up
9. The River: The Pony Ride
10. The River: Love Theme
11. The River: Young Friend’s Farewell
12. The Sugarland Express: Theme
13. The Sugarland Express: Elegy
14. A.I.: The Reunion
15. The Empire Strikes Back: Han Solo and the Princess
16. Far and Away: County Galway, Joseph and Shannon, Blowing Off Steam, Finale
 
Disc 2:
1. The Fabelmans
2. Seven Years in Tibet
3. Jurassic Park: A Tree for My Bed
4. Hook: The Face of Pan
5. The Accidental Tourist
6. Schindler’s List: Theme
7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Double Trouble
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: A Window to the Past
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Hagrid the Professor
10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Chasing Scabbers/Hagrid’s Friendly Bird and The Snowball Fight
11. Dracula: End Credits
12. War Horse: Dartmoor 1912, Bringing Joey Home and Bonding, The Death of Topthorn, Finale and The Homecoming
13. The Patriot
14. Sabrina: How Can I Remember?
15. The Witches of Eastwick: The Tennis Game
16. The Witches of Eastwick: The Seduction of Suki and The Ballroom Sequence
17. The Witches of Eastwick: Devil’s Dance
18. E.T.: Over the Moon
 
 

I usually hear William Ross, uncredited. 

This march towards doom is one of my favorite John Williams action moments of all time 
 
 

Rey's theme played on piano by JW himself no less!

I like the orchestrations and the mood/atmosphere of the piece. I think it makes use of a sax for a good bit. But the melody itself is a little too repetitive and kind of goes nowhere, not a lot of melodic development. In terms of a femme fatale golden age theme, I think Helena's theme is far better.

"i know, but they're all snobs."

I'd love to hear pieces based on the seven note melodies that Williams prefered over the five-note CE3k signal! I'd heard the story before, but it just struck how many unused precious gems could be found on scraps of paper in Williams' office and in linen cupboards in his home.
 
But it's fascinating to know of Spielberg's influence regarding musical decisions: combining and using the two Indy melodies. the preference for Remembrances and Schindler's List theme as the score's main theme, and keeping the CE3K signal to five notes. And Spielberg urging Williams to conduct the ET finale without looking at the footage. There must be so many other examples - decisions from every score I'm sure - where one influenced/nudged the other to achieve the results we all know and love. All without ever having an argument. I think they must have the most trusting and respectful relationship between two humans in the history of the world!
 
I'll love the upcoming doc and book - that's just a given, but I would really love to be able to learn of more similar examples.

Great video! He looks very healthy and full of life.

Great video! He looks very healthy and full of life.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/john-williams-oscars-star-wars-steven-spielberg-collaborations-1235929403/

I started the TV series yesterday. I just realized that the series is set thousands of years before the events of LOTR, as Sauron hadn't forged the rings yet. From now on, Mr. Bear's music seems very appropriate, and its praise seems well deserved.

I mean, its not unusual for musical works to appear in cut forms, often sanctioned by the composer, including dropping movements from symphonic works, redacting scenes from operas, etc... that's ostensibly what the OST is, with the added perk that the OST gives us alternates that we wouldn't otherwise have.

How is this for irony?  With the original Star Wars, JW thinks he is scoring a B-movie that might make for nice lazy Sunday afternoon movie.  Then, with the last one, he scores just that movie.  

But then the guitarist would've had to change his name, too. 

Just found it:
 
 
And there we have the piano concerto! ;-)

i don't really care for the concert suite.  but when this part comes on.....
 
 
 

I would definitely add some pieces by Shiro Sagisu, perhaps most well known for composing all the Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes and movies. He also did a great job with Shin Godzilla.

The rhythmic world of Koji Kondo, maestro of Mario
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/02/26/koji-kondo-mario-zelda-nintendo/

I like the orchestrations and the mood/atmosphere of the piece. I think it makes use of a sax for a good bit. But the melody itself is a little too repetitive and kind of goes nowhere, not a lot of melodic development. In terms of a femme fatale golden age theme, I think Helena's theme is far better.

I'm interested in hearing the performance of The Rebellion is Reborn. I wish something from TROS would be played in concert conducted by JW.

I would have given it to Joe Hisaishi for The Boy and the Heron which did win for animated film score, but I think also deserves overall score of the year.

I would have given it to Joe Hisaishi for The Boy and the Heron which did win for animated film score, but I think also deserves overall score of the year.

I'm only familiar with the prequel, "Presumed".

Funny how JW calls Thomas Newman Tommy Newman.