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    Falstaft reacted to Trent B in Star Wars Prequel Music Resource (part 2)   
    Using the MVSEP and the one that Jay uses I was able to get the missing segment of "Palpatine's Big Pitch" more cleaned up.  I'm happy with the results so here's my edit of the cue for you all.
    3m4 Palpatine's Big Pitch.flac
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Manakin Skywalker in [GAME] Sheet music extract : find the score   
    This is a hard one! My first thought was something from the Essay for Strings -- the rising octatonic sixteenth run and extremely chromatic, disjunct melody that follows is something that happens a lot in that piece, but never in exactly this way. Then I remembered that a certain cue starts with rising octatonic lines in several instrumental groups. Very tricky for not giving us the primary melodic line, @Manakin Skywalker!
     
     
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    Falstaft reacted to Jay in Mark Graham just picked up a John Williams sketch and is "in a rush"! Any ideas?   
    New Mark Graham video. 
     
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4tHYdwvAhR/
     
    Here's some screen caps as I watch
     


     
    He says the sketch he picked up from Williams a few weeks ago was updates to an arrangement for a concert
     
    And then he said that at 11AM PST today, there is a recording of Star Wars music.  Maybe Williams wrote something for The Acolyte?
     
     
    Goldsmith The Omen:
     

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    Falstaft reacted to CGCJ in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Score in the film) - SPOILERS ALLOWED!   
    Mark Graham briefly showed off some sketches during an Instagram live! (Right near the end at 46:26)
     
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4tHYdwvAhR/
     
    5m3 Water Ballet
    [6?]m1 To [Illegible]
    6m3 Centipedes
    7m[10?] Part 1
    9m[?] Part 1
    Helena's Theme [Illegible] (Rev?)
    Helena in Action
    End Credit Part III
     
    Sadly, it's all mostly out of focus.
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    Falstaft reacted to Jay in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Score in the film) - SPOILERS ALLOWED!   
    Here's some screencaps
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Falstaft reacted to Tom in The Legacy of John Williams (Website & Podcast)   
    The website is fantastic--thank you for all of your hard work on behalf of us fans and those wishing to learn more about JW.   
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    Falstaft got a reaction from Will in Quess the temp-track from whole JW's career   
    Yeah, this is indisputable. And well-justified too, given the strong linkage of the Barber adagio with Kennedy -- both as a piece he personally admired and one that was indelibly linked with his memorialization following his death. It's also a piece Stone had already mined in Platoon, directly as well as the the original Delerue score that at times is undisguised Barber pastiche. And of course Williams had already channeled another Barber work, the Violin Concerto, if anything more pervasively in Born on the Fourth of July.
     
    Sources: Larson, The Saddest Music Ever Written; Howard, "The Popular Reception of Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'", Audissino, John Williams's Film Music, this earlier thread: 
     
     
     
    I've also always been struck by the affinity between this cue from Jaws and the mysterious coda at the end of Vaughan Williams's Second Symphony. It's not the only place in the Jaws score that seems to draw from that coda (the end of "Preparing the Cage" too). And Goldsmith also drew a lot from this piece, and RVW more generally, esp. in Alien. 
     
     
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    Falstaft reacted to Trumpeteer in Discussing John Williams' final Original Song Oscar nomination   
    On episode 63 of The Best Song Podcast, I discuss the stories behind the creation of the five songs nominated for the 1995 Original Song Oscar. That includes "Moonlight" from the remake of Sabrina, a song written by John Williams and Alan & Marilyn Bergman. For all three of them, this would be their final Oscar nominations in the original song category. I covered this film in episode 77 of The Baton, but it would be great for you to hear the song stacked up with its Oscar competition, and celebrate John Williams' final original song nomination.
     
    Competition was tough for this Oscar, though Disney went all-in for Alan Menken's chance to win a fourth Oscar for original song with "Colors of the Wind," and Bryan Adams had a #1 hit song with "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman." While the five nominees are great, you'll hear some songs that failed to get nominated, including a very popular song by Whitney Houston.

     
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    Falstaft reacted to Miguel Andrade in The Legacy of John Williams (Website & Podcast)   
    Well, good for you!
    If wearing turtlenecks most of the year (because I do feel cold most of the time) and having a similar trimmed beard, having had for about a decade the only website in Portuguese dedicated to Williams and at the time, the most complete and well constructed discography on the web, makes me an obsessed fellow, well, that's my problem isn't it? Because, trust me, I can out run Maurizio... Because, believe it or not, my sons are called João (in memory of my late grandfather) and Guilherme (because my ex-wife felt he was her prince and need a prince worthy name) which can translate to John and William. As many friends have pointed out  over the past 21 years, that can't be a coincidence... maybe it wasn't at some unconscious level.
    That does make look like an obsessed guy about an 92 year young composer... maybe it does, and probably I am. And let me tell you, that never affected the remaining and multiple aspects of my daily life. And I'm sure the same applies to Maurizio. If there is some sort of obsession is still as healthy as it could be, not overlapping with any other needed and healthy daily routine (my current job at the school board is probably less healthier than being obsessed about John Williams...)
    I just really fail why that is such of a big deal to you. You've grown up and don't worship and old man. Great. I don't mind not growing up. Isn't it great we live in a free world when we can make those choices? If you feel that Maurizio's "obsessive"  website isn't worth your attention, just move on to what you find is worth instead of complaining about it. That surely will be and healthy decision.
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    Falstaft reacted to Ricard in The Legacy of John Williams (Website & Podcast)   
    Personal attacks are NOT ALLOWED on JWFan.  Please restrain from using our website to attack other members, either publicly or privately.
     
     
     
     
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    Falstaft reacted to JTN in The Legacy of John Williams (Website & Podcast)   
    I don’t think there is anything but his music that people should learn about John Williams, by simply listening to it. This level of obsession about another person - any person for that matter - is nothing short of toxic and borderline neurotic. Just listen to the man’s music and stop analyzing every single thing he said and did, like he was Jesus. The guy even dresses like JW, he looks like an obsessed person. And he is supported in this obsession by some people like it was a normal thing. The amount of time and money he must be putting into worshiping another man is crazy. I really feel sorry for this guy for not finding something truly meaningful in his life other than worshiping a 92-year-old American composer.
    Pathetic and revolting.
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    Falstaft reacted to Faleel in Star Wars Prequel Music Resource (part 2)   
    Oh wow, I didn't even notice, music editors being too clever for their own good!
    Another bit, the ending of I Am the Senate, less clean:
     
    i-am-the-senate-vader-theme-ending-front-ld._bandit_music_[mvsep.com].mp3  
     
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    Falstaft reacted to Manakin Skywalker in Star Wars Prequel Music Resource (part 2)   
    I never realized that appeared anywhere! First time I'm hearing it as a non-mockup! 
     
    (EDIT: Specifically the part at 0:09)
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    Falstaft reacted to Madmartigan JC in John Williams receives 54th Oscar nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!   
    Nice find! Just found the full speech in better quality HERE.
    He looks great. I too was worried when he didn't appear in tonight's broadcast.

     
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    Falstaft reacted to mrbellamy in John Williams receives 54th Oscar nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!   
    I've honestly never felt like he's gotten remotely as close to winning as he was for Memoirs. That was in the bag.
     
     
    Seems fine here
     
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    Falstaft reacted to Mr. Hooper in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    He's got my vote!
     

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    Falstaft got a reaction from Brando in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    The smirk and glint in his eye when he says this...
     

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    Falstaft got a reaction from Trope in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    The smirk and glint in his eye when he says this...
     

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    Falstaft reacted to Tom in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    I think he is asked so much that large stretches without anything rarely come up.  He talks about the tuba and viola concerto being somewhat spontaneous.  Heartwood probably the same.  I wonder how much the piano concerto is him and how much Ax asking.  
     
    I do think that he loves the popular vein of composing more than he realizes or at least sometimes lets on.  Jumping at the ESPN thing the way he did and the comments in this interview point to him wanting more than just concert-hall composing.  
     
    50 years from now, musicologists are going to be dumbfounded that he pulled off a lifetime worth of work for the concert hall and a lifetime worth of work for movies (and a hell of a lot of occasion pieces to boot).   
     
    He seems so balanced.  His comments on Goldsmith and others being unhappy due to their career frustrations is so perceptive.  He found the recipe for a lifetime of happiness as a composer--something that very, very few composers (from Mozart to Beethoven to Goldsmith) have pulled off.  
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    Falstaft reacted to Cerebral Cortex in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    I quite liked this post from a Reddit thread on the video:
     
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    Falstaft reacted to Chewy in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    The man looks and sounds GREAT in this  
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    Falstaft got a reaction from crumbs in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    The smirk and glint in his eye when he says this...
     

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    Falstaft got a reaction from din_zav in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    Alright, who's going to "ENHANCE!" this so we can speculate wildly on his current project:
     

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    Falstaft got a reaction from BrotherSound in John Williams on Variety Cover (article & video)   
    The smirk and glint in his eye when he says this...
     

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