thx99 1,740 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Not the full theme but it's clean...http://video.pbs.org/video/2365434931/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,465 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Not the full theme but it's clean...http://video.pbs.org/video/2365434931/Only available in the US. I'm not sure where Edward Hall resides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHall 30 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thank you for the link. Yes, I am in the US. I actually DVR'ed that PBS broadcast on Italian film music from a few weeks ago which is what started me thinking about a complete performance of JW's Great Performances theme. The broadcast actually includes 1 minute 15 seconds of the theme, which I think is the entire piece because it had a very natural, Williams-esque ending. Unfortunately there was narration over most of the second half. I guess this will have to do until it's recorded at some point. I should make an MP3, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mari 279 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 All week PBS have been highlighting John Williams in advance of the Great Performances broadcast Friday night of the Dudamel / LA Philharmonic Celebration concert. Today's item is the Emmy award winning theme for Great Performances. The article includes a video of the rehearsal / recording as well as a stand alone audio of the complete theme (regional restrictions may apply):http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/john-williams-great-performances-theme-song-and-interview/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,634 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I could watch the behind the scenes stuff like that all day. a superb little video showing Williams at work.edit: it is nice to see that a poll about foul language is generating more interest than both the video and release of a clean version of the work itself. crumbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I can't view itIs the sound quality better than 128kbps?Anyways it would be nice if someone could make an audio file of the clean version of theme in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Oh this is on tonight? Had no idea. Just saw it on the schedule thingy. Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mari 279 Posted July 25, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2015 PBS has uploaded John Williams rehearsing/recording the theme to youtube: Omen II, Cerebral Cortex, Muad'Dib and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth 67 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 This is such a neat little piece; I really appreciate that he kept it from being too self-serious and ponderous, which could have been a real temptation given the situation. It really reminds me of a more grown-up version of the Amazing Stories theme--it wouldn't sound too out of place mixed in with a lot of his work from the mid-80s, I don't think. The behind-the-scenes stuff is really great too; his process is just fascinating to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 it sounds like an alternate E.T. theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Seeing the usual suspects of the studio musicians from Tim Morrison to Donald Williams and Steve Erdody on that video was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Mari 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 A while ago, JoAnn Kane Music Service posted a photograph of half a sketch page for this particular piece on their Facebook page Mari 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,792 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 what a neat little tune. How great it is to have it clean! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I watched the full broadcast last night. Why did they cut out the middle of Soundings? Infuriating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 In the thumbnail, it looks like Williams is having problems with his back. Bespin and crumbs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 yeah,I noticed that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 It really reminds me of a more grown-up version of the Amazing Stories theme--it wouldn't sound too out of place mixed in with a lot of his work from the mid-80s, I don't think.Agreed, it sounds totally mid-'80s to me, from TOD to AS to SpaceCamp to Witches of Eastwick. I love when Williams time travels and delivers such magical pieces. Joni Wiljami 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx99 1,740 Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 FYI, the audio in both the PBS and YouTube videos is 2-channel mono (same information in both channels), whereas the MP3 file is stereo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 To be perfectly honest, I enjoy this theme more than any of the scores he's done since 2005. It took me a little while to warm up to it, but after listening to a clean recording, I realized that it sounds exactly like his 80s music that we all know and love. I think he actually composed it back then for NBC News or something and dusted it off for Great Performances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 But Williams' 80's music didn't have the brilliance and sophistication of the later output. A.I., WOTW, ROTS etc... Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 FYI, the audio in both the PBS and YouTube videos is 2-channel mono (same information in both channels), whereas the MP3 file is stereo.Would someone upload an MP3 stereo file of the complete performance of the Maestro's Theme for Great Performances, if possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Johnny, the mp3 were talking about is right there on the PBS page Mari posted: All week PBS have been highlighting John Williams in advance of the Great Performances broadcast Friday night of the Dudamel / LA Philharmonic Celebration concert. Today's item is the Emmy award winning theme for Great Performances. The article includes a video of the rehearsal / recording as well as a stand alone audio of the complete theme (regional restrictions may apply): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/john-williams-great-performances-theme-song-and-interview/ Right under where it says "Hear John Williams’ 2009 Emmy Award-winning theme song for Great Performances (1 min, 18 seconds):" Here's the mp3 file they are using: http://s3.amazonaws.com/pbs-ingest/wnet/GPER/JohnWilliamsTheme.mp3 http://s3.amazonaws.com/pbs-ingest/wnet/GPER/JohnWilliamsTheme.mp3 EDIT: I Just realized if you are outside of the US, the mp3 file might be blocked. Is that your issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Johnny, the mp3 were talking about is right there on the PBS page Mari posted:All week PBS have been highlighting John Williams in advance of the Great Performances broadcast Friday night of the Dudamel / LA Philharmonic Celebration concert. Today's item is the Emmy award winning theme for Great Performances. The article includes a video of the rehearsal / recording as well as a stand alone audio of the complete theme (regional restrictions may apply):http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/john-williams-great-performances-theme-song-and-interview/ Right under where it says "Hear John Williams’ 2009 Emmy Award-winning theme song for Great Performances (1 min, 18 seconds):"Here's the mp3 file they are using:http://s3.amazonaws.com/pbs-ingest/wnet/GPER/JohnWilliamsTheme.mp3 http://s3.amazonaws.com/pbs-ingest/wnet/GPER/JohnWilliamsTheme.mp3EDIT: I Just realized if you are outside of the US, the mp3 file might be blocked. Is that your issue?Oh, thank you. I live in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I listened to the mp3 a few times now - damn catchy theme, ain't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I listened to the mp3 a few times now - damn catchy theme, ain't it?Well, it is Maestro John Williams. I expected nothing less. It is a phenomenal piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 The MP3 can be downloaded from outside the US Rapidly becoming one of my favorite non-film music JW themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Too bad they put a 160kbps mp3 on the site instead of a 320kbps one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Too bad they put a 160kbps mp3 on the site instead of a 320kbps one.I was able to convert the audio file into 256 kbps. The sound quality is quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 ....Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 ....Wow.Yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I wish JohnnyD had converted it to FLAC, so that we would have it in lossless format. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Johnny, converting a 160kbps mp3 to a 256kbps mp3 does not actually increase the sound quality of the file; In fact, it DECREASES It because you are re-encoding the whole thing from scratch. Everytime you "convert" you will lose more quality, unless you convert the original mp3 into WAV (and then convert that into FLAC or ALAC). But then you will be increasing the file size with no gain in resolution.The file was downgraded to 160kbps by the PBS guys, and that's all we can get. You can't magically re-gain the information they lost when they encoded it just be re-encoding it to a different bitrate of format.I hope this makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I thought everyone knew this by now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I guess not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Johnny, converting a 160kbps mp3 to a 256kbps mp3 does not actually increase the sound quality of the file; In fact, it DECREASES It because you are re-encoding the whole thing from scratch. Everytime you "convert" you will lose more quality, unless you convert the original mp3 into WAV (and then convert that into FLAC or ALAC). But then you will be increasing the file size with no gain in resolution.The file was downgraded to 160kbps by the PBS guys, and that's all we can get. You can't magically re-gain the information they lost when they encoded it just be re-encoding it to a different bitrate of format.I hope this makes sense.Well, I actually converted the file first into WAV and then ALAC, and the sound quality of the music is quite good. What you said does make sense, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 All you did by doing that was increase the file size without gaining any extra audio definition. You wasted your time and hard drive space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 And our time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I honestly don't mind educating people on the ins and outs of digital audio manipulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 And our time!Like you had anything better to do today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Everybody's gotta learn somehow, at some point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 All you did by doing that was increase the file size without gaining any extra audio definition. You wasted your time and hard drive space.The file size is increased, true, but the music quality does sound quite good. That is all I'm saying. Besides, it does not cover a great amount of space on my hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Of course not, no. But it should sound IDENTICAL to the original untouched file (unless of course you also increased the volume or played with the EQ or did any other kind of manipulation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Of course not, no. But it should sound IDENTICAL to the original untouched file (unless of course you also increased the volume or played with the EQ or did any other kind of manipulation)I increased the volume slightly, but that is all. Until the piece gets an official release, I do not mind having it in this format, as it sounds pretty good.By the way, I did not know that Great Performances aired "A John Williams Celebration." That is great. I have the DVD of the concert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Why DVD and not Blu-Ray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,220 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Why DVD and not Blu-Ray?I do not have a Blu-Ray player, nor do I need one at the present time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,465 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 If anyone has a clean recording of the theme as featured in the video, I'd be delighted to receive it. I'm not quite sure about the technical aspects of ripping it. I already have a version of the theme, but I think the audio of this is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17311&page=2#entry1152435http://s3.amazonaws.com/pbs-ingest/wnet/GPER/JohnWilliamsTheme.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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