rough cut

Fridays report:
 
Sole encore was James Bond theme. 

John Williams was in the audience, as was Alan Silvestri. 

I ask you… what is best in life?
 

I'll be there a that time too!!!!  Do you know if there will be a preconcert talk?  

My wife and I are actually going to this for the Sunday Performance!!

Thought I’d post the program since it’s now only available outside of JWFan.
 
Program
 
AlFRED NEWMAN, 20th Century Fox Fanfare ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, Main Title from Captain Blood MIKLÓS RÓZSA, Prelude (Main Title) from Ben-Hur FRANZ WAXMAN, Sunset Boulevard Suite BERNARD HERRMANN, Scène d’Amour from Vertigo ALEX NORTH, “Forest Meeting” and "March" from Spartacus ALFRED NEWMAN, Cathy’s Theme from Wuthering Heights (with Ms. Wang) MAURICE JARRE, Suite from Lawrence of Arabia Intermission DANNY ELFMAN, Main Title from Batman JOHN WILLIAMS, Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind JERRY GOLDSMITH, The Hunt from Planet of the Apes ENNIO MORRICONE, Main Title from Once Upon a Time in the West (with Ms. Newman) THOMAS NEWMAN, The Night Window from 1917 JOHN WILLIAMS, “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones NINO ROTA, Suite from The Godfather ALAN SILVESTRI, Suite from Back to the Future

Jurassic Shawm 

Thought I’d post the program since it’s now only available outside of JWFan.
 
Program
 
AlFRED NEWMAN, 20th Century Fox Fanfare ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, Main Title from Captain Blood MIKLÓS RÓZSA, Prelude (Main Title) from Ben-Hur FRANZ WAXMAN, Sunset Boulevard Suite BERNARD HERRMANN, Scène d’Amour from Vertigo ALEX NORTH, “Forest Meeting” and "March" from Spartacus ALFRED NEWMAN, Cathy’s Theme from Wuthering Heights (with Ms. Wang) MAURICE JARRE, Suite from Lawrence of Arabia Intermission DANNY ELFMAN, Main Title from Batman JOHN WILLIAMS, Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind JERRY GOLDSMITH, The Hunt from Planet of the Apes ENNIO MORRICONE, Main Title from Once Upon a Time in the West (with Ms. Newman) THOMAS NEWMAN, The Night Window from 1917 JOHN WILLIAMS, “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones NINO ROTA, Suite from The Godfather ALAN SILVESTRI, Suite from Back to the Future

Thought I’d post the program since it’s now only available outside of JWFan.
 
Program
 
AlFRED NEWMAN, 20th Century Fox Fanfare ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, Main Title from Captain Blood MIKLÓS RÓZSA, Prelude (Main Title) from Ben-Hur FRANZ WAXMAN, Sunset Boulevard Suite BERNARD HERRMANN, Scène d’Amour from Vertigo ALEX NORTH, “Forest Meeting” and "March" from Spartacus ALFRED NEWMAN, Cathy’s Theme from Wuthering Heights (with Ms. Wang) MAURICE JARRE, Suite from Lawrence of Arabia Intermission DANNY ELFMAN, Main Title from Batman JOHN WILLIAMS, Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind JERRY GOLDSMITH, The Hunt from Planet of the Apes ENNIO MORRICONE, Main Title from Once Upon a Time in the West (with Ms. Newman) THOMAS NEWMAN, The Night Window from 1917 JOHN WILLIAMS, “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones NINO ROTA, Suite from The Godfather ALAN SILVESTRI, Suite from Back to the Future

Thought I’d post the program since it’s now only available outside of JWFan.
 
Program
 
AlFRED NEWMAN, 20th Century Fox Fanfare ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, Main Title from Captain Blood MIKLÓS RÓZSA, Prelude (Main Title) from Ben-Hur FRANZ WAXMAN, Sunset Boulevard Suite BERNARD HERRMANN, Scène d’Amour from Vertigo ALEX NORTH, “Forest Meeting” and "March" from Spartacus ALFRED NEWMAN, Cathy’s Theme from Wuthering Heights (with Ms. Wang) MAURICE JARRE, Suite from Lawrence of Arabia Intermission DANNY ELFMAN, Main Title from Batman JOHN WILLIAMS, Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind JERRY GOLDSMITH, The Hunt from Planet of the Apes ENNIO MORRICONE, Main Title from Once Upon a Time in the West (with Ms. Newman) THOMAS NEWMAN, The Night Window from 1917 JOHN WILLIAMS, “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones NINO ROTA, Suite from The Godfather ALAN SILVESTRI, Suite from Back to the Future

COMING SOON!
Composer and conductor David Newman returns on The Legacy of John Williams podcast for a special video episode discussing the upcoming concert "A Century Of Film Music," a dazzling program curated by John Williams featuring selections from landmark film scores performed by the LA Phil and conducted by David Newman (on Feb 2, 3 and 4 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, link below).
The talk will feature an in-depth exploration of the challenges and the opportunities of presenting great film music in concert and how John Williams has been a trailblazer in making film scores widely accepted in the concert hall.
Joining David Newman is film music journalist and author of the upcoming John Williams biography Tim Greiving.
The episode will be available both as video and audio podcast. Get ready for another insightful episode!
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A Century Of Film Music
"John Williams Spotlight" Series
Los Angeles Philharmonic
David Newman, conductor
Diana Newman, soprano
Featuring music by Alfred Newman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Miklós Rózsa, Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, Alex North, Maurice Jarre, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri
February 2, 3 and 4, Walt Disney Concert Hall
Info & tickets: http://laphil.com/.../2024-02-02/a-century-of-film-music
 
https://www.facebook.com/thelegacyofjohnwilliams/posts/pfbid038CNNP4UKKzkpgSrbe6XiUnfJrUdWL1VHFRWFakY7m9uL5me4oYy1Pz3htx3uLUrHl

Just so those can't get the set can have a taste of this title. (Warner Bros. owns the National General Pictures library it looks like...)

Covers for the various fanmade 'Ultimate Edition' prequel soundtracks:

Taking inspiration from some previous covers, here's my updated artwork covers for the original six movies.
 


The artwork used are from Chris Valentine (I and II), Celebration 3 (III), and Ignacio RC (IV and V) with VI using the original 1980 poster artwork just shaded green.
 
Enjoy and download at your own leisure:)

I made a fairly basic cover art set based on the 2020 fan art that was put on Disney plus May the 4th of that year. I am providing the originals for anyone who has access to that new generative AI photo shop. I am hoping someone else likes it and wants to give this set a shot

Attempt no.2 at the covers

Beautiful 
 

Great discovery of the weekend!
While remembering the Blu-Ray menu gave us the clean version of the "Rey Training" cue which is unreleased, I wanted to see what the DVD menus had since those usually contain additional screens for the "Scene Selection" and "Language/Subtitles".
 
The amazing @crumbs found a complete DVD rip and we were able to find another previously unreleased cue, not featured on the Blu-Ray!!
 
It is the "Meditation" cue, featured in the "Scene Selection" menu:
 
tros-amp.mp3
 
 
Another DVD exclusive menu for the language setup comes with the section of "Reunion" that contains Rey & Yoda's Theme, which is on the OST, so no other unreleased music there.
 
This is all new information, right?

Hands down one of the greatest scores ever written and I'm so happy that it's back in stock for all of those who missed out on LLL brilliant presentation of the score!
 
-Erik-

My mom got me the John Williams Conducts John Williams Star Wars The Skywalker Symphony CD during a trip to London back in ’93. I was 13 years old. That was my first soundtrack CD, and my first introduction to proper film scores.
 
Back home in Stockholm, Sweden, my interest in film music took off, and I remember the excitement when I found the Star Wars Anthology Box in the biggest music shop in the city centre at the time. It must’ve been in 1994 or 1995, so I must’ve been 14 or 15.
 
The box set was locked inside one of those glass counters where they kept all the box sets (a rare thing in those days - these days box sets are a dime a dussin).
 
I remember looking at the cover wondering what music was hidden in side that box. All I knew was that there was a ton of music missing from my single Star Wars CD.

I used to visit that shop a lot, and just look at it, my hands pressed against the glass.
 
I remember thinking with anxiety that I would get to the shop one day and that it wouldn’t be there - that it’s been sold to someone else. I was so happy when I saved up enough money to buy it and bring it home.
 
I played those CDs to death. I transferred them to tape and played them in my Walkman all through high school.
 
In many ways, I guess that buying that box was when my true love for soundtracks, and the intricate world that it is, revealed itself.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
 
Another one I saw in the actual cinema this summer.  I never got around to saying much here about it, but I also don't know if I have any thoughts that haven't already been expressed a bunch around here.  I really didn't like how they turned our hero Indy into a sad old man with a dead son who had to win back Marion yet again, I didn't like how the villains murdered random innocents who had nothing to do with the things over and over again, I didn't like adding a sci-fi concept like time travel into the world (juts as bad as adding aliens in last time), I thought the de-aging in the prologue was terrible, I just generally didn't really like anything about this movie at all.  Except the score, which I quite enjoy!

Yes, I agree. One is within the tone of the movie/series whereas the other is not. Just pointing out the slightly absurd logic in my own complaint.

I finally got around and listened to disc 20, and have a few thoughts:
 
not too fond of the Ella Fitzgerald "Make Me Rainbows"; I've never cared much for her as a vocalist, though I had never heard of "The Same Hello, the Same Goodbye," so this was a pleasant surprise I'd heard the song "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting" before, but always in godawful quality; it sounds great here, and I finally dig this song I hope to someday hear more about the origin of "Come Tuesday," which is really much, MUCH too good a song to have been in a vault all these years I thought the Kyle Eastwood take on "The Eiger Sanction" kicked ass I had never heard "A Powdered Wig," which is awesome; Johnny is a real standout performer there I wish the Carol Burnett (no relation) version of "Love's the Only Game in Town," which is majestic, had been included instead of the Suzanne Stevens one; but this one is fine I liked the Lou Donaldson version of "The Long Goodbye" more than any on the actual soundtrack!  
Overall, this disc alone makes me happy to have bought the set.

I guess what makes that hit to Voller on the train goofy as hell is that I don't think any other baddies in the other films 'recover' from something like that and come back.

Because fans are sick and tired of greedy corporations destroying classic franchises that they grew up on. They’ve had enough of talentless hacks “subverting their expectations” which means completely deconstructing and bastardizing perfectly conceived beloved characters and making them look like buffoons and losers.

A Close Encounter of the revamped kind ...