Williams Has Yet to Peak (A Brief Post) ((By a JWFan with 11 Years More Under His Belt))

[Saxman717 22]

A brief post to contrast with my ridiculously long, honest & well-meaning but mainly misguided & hastily-formed opinion post from 2005:

 

JW has yet to peak.  Will it be for Episode VIII?  Episode IX?  Indy V?  Ready Player One??? (Last one doubtful)....    The man continues to refine his craft with every film score and concert work.  Stylistically, it may be different from the classic era that so many of us love and appreciate, but it is and continues to be further refined nonetheless. 

 

It is such a gift and privilege to us and to the world at large that he continues to share his amazing gift almost 60 years after the debut of his first feature film score. 

 

37 minutes ago, TownerFan said:

Every great artist has different phases in his life and it's quite natural to prefer a specific period over another. However, if you look at JW's career more like a student than a fan, I think it's pretty astonishing to see how consistent the overall quality of his music has always been.

 

As one very smart man once said, the work of a genius should not be critiqued, but only studied.

 

Quoted from the "other" thread..............well said and something for us all to bear in mind. 

 

 

[Jay 37,368]

Well said!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Jason, can you please combine this and his other thread?

 

Thank you.

[artguy360 1,843]

JW continues to mature as an artist. I find the JW of today has developed more of his own musical language over the decades that is more complex and more nuanced than his earlier 70s scores that sounded generally more straight forward. And in a general sense, he seems to have developed a greater sense of fun within his music in terms of doing musically interesting things and really playing with the medium that he had already mastered possibly decades ago. 

[Alex 2,835]

I remember seeing an interview with JW where he was asked what he considers to be his best score and he said something along the lines of he always hopes his next one will be