bollemanneke 3,342 Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 War Horse and CE3K have already been played. (Really liked The Mountain.) I think 12 entries is a first, so it's already a year for the books! dtw42 and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtw42 61 Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 It's probably because fans are disappointed that they stopped doing a dedicated "Movie Music Hall of Fame" (in which JW always did very well). bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 BTW, this playlist I made some times ago... is mainly based on all the "discoveries" and "novelties" found on the best USA Classical Music Radio playlists, including Classics FM, of course! It's really a sort of "best of" for the fans and classical music lovers, yes. Congrats to the Meastro, his rich and various music is still very present in our lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtw42 61 Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 For those interested, the positions so far (it's a countdown of listeners' top 300 pieces) are: 294. War Horse 292. CE3K 282. Superman 170. Born on the Fourth of July 164. War of the Worlds 152. E.T. 124. Raiders 81. Saving Private Ryan 45. Jurassic Park. ...I feel confident in predicting that the remaining three will be Harry Potter, Schindler's List and some obscure sci-fi thing, but in which order and where in the overall list ... remains to be seen. Bespin and bollemanneke 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted April 2, 2018 Author Share Posted April 2, 2018 Probably HP, SW and Schindler's List. I wish they'd get on with it so I could turn the radio off, SICK of all the piano concertos lasting 1546758 minutes. dtw42 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtw42 61 Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 ...there we go: 31. Harry Potter. 27. Star Wars 23. Schindler's List Now we can switch it off (and miss the surprise Jerry Goldsmith new entry at number 1 ... arf) bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted April 2, 2018 Author Share Posted April 2, 2018 And I had to miss all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,385 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 19 hours ago, dtw42 said: Now we can switch it off (and miss the surprise Jerry Goldsmith new entry at number 1 ... arf) Was he on the list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtw42 61 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 8 hours ago, Brundlefly said: Was he on the list? Nope. Nor Rozsa, Rota, Herrmann, Bernstein, etc. etc. Apart from JW, film music entries were Shore (LOTR, 29), Barry (Dances With Wolves, 49; Out of Africa, 111), Morricone (The Mission, 65), Shostakovich (The Gadfly, 84; The Unforgettable Year 1919, 160), Armstrong (Romeo+Juliet, 86), Zimmer (Gladiator, 90), Nigel Hess (Ladies in Lavender, 119 ... they seem to have a thing for that); Addinsell (Dangerous Moonlight, 120), Badelt [ahem] (PotC, 201), Vaughan Williams (49th Parallel, 251), Horner (Braveheart, 284), and Coates (The Dam Busters, 286). Korngold got in, but with Die Tote Stadt, not a film score. There were a couple of computer game scores, and I think the only TV one was Djawadi's GoT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,514 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 No IMAGES? Classic FM, Smashic FM, the Philistines. dtw42 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 I'd be so much more interested in that Hall of Fame if they instituted a ban on pieces longer than 6 minutes. That would disqualify a lot of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtw42 61 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 It would disqualify a lot of awesome music too. Why so down on longer tracks? Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 Because I lose interest. I mean, take JW as an example: he needs five minutes to make a 'point' about Star Wars and Harry Potter. Now compare that to Tchaikovksy's Romeo and Juliet. NIce piece, except that it would be ten times better if it was half as long. And dare I mention the wrethced dacapos in 95% of classical music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is perfect. dtw42 and Once 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,342 Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 Well to each his own, but those are the two things that made me turn away from classical music: the ridiculuous running times and the endless, idiotic repetitions. bollemanneke, listening to the re-recording of The Flying Sequence from Superman, four minutes of bliss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtw42 61 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 These youngsters and their short attention spans. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 7 hours ago, bollemanneke said: Well to each his own, but those are the two things that made me turn away from classical music: the ridiculuous running times and the endless, idiotic repetitions. bollemanneke, listening to the re-recording of The Flying Sequence from Superman, four minutes of bliss Some of JW's concert arrangements of film music have more thematic repetition than a lot of classical music with a much longer duration. Fabulin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,054 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 11:43 PM, bollemanneke said: Well to each his own, but those are the two things that made me turn away from classical music: the ridiculuous running times and the endless, idiotic repetitions. But you don't mind expanded score releases that go on forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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