Is Close Encounters Of The Third Kind the greatest John Williams score of all time..?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

He could write beautiful and very optimistic, heartsoaring music. If you haven't Lee, check out his The Three Musketeers score. The film is rubbish, but the score is wonderful.

No one did, or does this kinda thing better then Kamen did!

[Quintus 5,399]

I'll look into it.

[crocodile 8,012]

Kamen is terrific indeed. We need more of his stuff properly released.

Karol

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Quintus 5,399]

His orchestrations in Prince of Thieves had a distinctly British flavour to them, sort of mimicking Walton in the incidental underscore material. Never heard it done since.

[crocodile 8,012]

He had a talent for this kind of stuff. I mean, he used woodwinds like nobody else.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

His orchestrations in Prince of Thieves had a distinctly British flavour to them,

Marian will then come in and tell you that 12 orchestrators worked on Prince Of Thieves. (also a rubbish movie, but a wonderfully delightful one!)

[Quintus 5,399]

He had a talent for this kind of stuff. I mean, he used woodwinds like nobody else.

Karol

Yeah you just made me realise I meant to say Vaughn Williams.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

That's like saying "John Williams" when you have a really bad cold....

[Quintus 5,399]

His orchestrations in Prince of Thieves had a distinctly British flavour to them,

Marian will then come in and tell you that 12 orchestrators worked on Prince Of Thieves. (also a rubbish movie, but a wonderfully delightful one!)

Okay well then just swap "his" with "the".

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Only if Marian ever reads this.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Yeah!

Women!

[Quintus 5,399]

There's a little bit of Marian in us all, so in a sense he replies to each and every post here.

[crocodile 8,012]

Yeah, he's such a slag!

Karol

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

Seems things are running fine without me replying anyway, but still...:

Marian will then come in and tell you that 12 orchestrators worked on Prince Of Thieves. (also a rubbish movie, but a wonderfully delightful one!)

Was it only 12? I've never been fond of the orchestrations in that one. I'll revisit it whenever it gets an expanded release, I found it flawed but still fun. In general, what I've heard (not that much, in the end) of Kamen's scores rarely really got my interest. Though I've always been rather fond of his collaborations with Pink Floyd & Co.

Marian don't read threads anymore. He just pretends to. Remember when you wished him a happy birthday in The Birthday Thread? No even a 'Thank you'...

D'oh, I saw that, actually. Just a sec.

[Uni 306]

Robin Hood was GREAT rubbish. I got to see it on opening night at the Continental theater (yes, that's the same one where I'd watched Empire Strikes Back years earlier), which also happened to be the evening before the Renaissance Festival opened a few miles south of Denver. Everyone showed up in their medievals and laughed and cheered throughout the film. Sure, Kevin Costner had zero business even attempting to go British, but I'll never forget that moviegoing experience.

And I love that you put up "D'Artagnan" as a Kamen reference point. One of the best pieces of music he ever wrote.

Now I'm missing him again. Time to go put on some Highlander. . . .

- Uni

[crocodile 8,012]

And this, of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5jMGQdtc1k

Karol

[wanner251 17]

Kamen, the master of compound meter, or at least the over exploitation of it. There was a time during the Robin Hood/Mr. Hollands Opus/101 Dalmatians era when I promised myself that if I ever had to hear another Michael Kamen triplet scherzo I would go hang myself.

[wanner251 17]

Thankfully that was a while ago...