Jay

Season 2 begins on April 22nd.

First Contact is the first score on this list that I owned, buying the OST album right when it came out. (I only got into film scores in 1994). I always loved that score. I need to rewatch the original Trek films and get into their scores more. I have played the scores to 1-3 countless times, but the scores to 4-7 either very little or never at all.

I knew she was his partner, but I hadn't known that he had gotten remarried!

I discovered that movie when it was new and bought it on DVD, and watched it a few times with different friends into those kinds of movies. None of them had ever heard of it before I brought it up, and they all liked it after we watched it. Then someone stole my DVD, and I haven't seen it since

This is the first time I've ever read anyone say that Outland is set in the same universe as Alien. Some quick googling shows me that there's some fans who think it could be, not there's absolutely no official connection whatsoever, despite sharing many of the same people behind the scenes.

I am honored to have been nominated for a GRAMMY in the category of "Best Historical Album" for THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Super Deluxe Edition). I think I'm correct that this is the first time a singular film score has been nominated in this category, with very few instances of music for the movies EVER being acknowledged. I share this momentous occasion with all who love film music and recognize the power that music in general has in our lives, which Rodgers and Hammerstein's great work so indelibly captures. A huge thank you to everyone at Craft Recordings / Concord Music who believed in this project and made it a reality. Mike on Facebook

And I mean sequel films where he scored the original, so no Psycho II, US Marshals, Along Came A Spider, The Sum of All Fears, etc. Jerry wrote 12 sequel scores in the last 35 years of his career, or about 1 every 3 years. I think he did a great job with sequel scores, always bringing something new to the table while honoring the original

Alan Silvestri - Preadator 2 (Deluxe Edition) Wow, what a fun score. I guess I had never listened to it with good headphones before, because on this listen I was noticing tons of cool orchestration details. There's a wind sound used a few times that pretty neat. But overall I just love how this score works as both a sequel to his Predator score while taking things so far in a new direction its often more of its own thing. Great stuff.

Looking like shipping will commence on Nov 15 now. Sorry about the delay MV https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=158289&forumID=1&archive=0

It's on 'indefinite hold' (reportedly)

We watched the movie last weekend and.... I LOVED IT! Almost right away I was really into it, and never lost that feeling throughout. I thought it was so cool how Williams narrates a large part of it himself basically, by Laurent asking him the right questions to get him to answer in a way that it could basically function as narration. All the stuff about his childhood, family, first marriage, etc was so much better being told by him than someone else doing it! I liked when they would put up movie posters for scores they were covering that they didn't have time to go fully into, and that some scores they didn't get into snuck in elsewhere ( like 1941 for his Air Force days or Hook for the end credits). I really just thought the whole thing was really enjoyable, and affecting. I was most affected by Ke Huy Quan's segment. What a wonderful comeback story he's had, and how sweet was it when he talked about people coming up to him asking him about his Williams' theme and how saying how cool that was. I loved it! Sure, it was very fast paced at times and I would have LOVED a longer version (the sudden death of his first wive is not given a lot of time and his second wife is never heard from!). Maybe Disney will grant an extended cut or a multi-part series extended version! I'd watch it! I hope this comes to physical media too.

Apple TV is killing it. We gotta resubscribe soon to catch the second seasons of The Afterparty, Shrinking, and Severance - and probably check out shows we haven't seen yet like Silo, Masters of the Air, Adventures of Dick Turpin, Bad Monkey, Palm Royale, The New Look, Constellation, Disclaimer...

The track called "The Lost World" on the Lost World OST or LLL edition(s) is indeed a concert arrangement of the theme, though technically its both that and what he wrote for the end credits. After recording it, he updated the opening of it THREE more times, so there's a total of FOUR versions! The first revised opening happened almost right away, while they were still recording cues for the film, so it was recorded then. It was put into the end credits of the film itself, and also opens the track "The Lost World (Alternate)" on the LLL edition(s). The next revised opening also happened only a short time later. It is what got published as the official "The Lost World" track that can be played by orchestras, and Williams himself debuted it in concert in London in 1998. This version is what Erich Kunzel used for his recording: Some years later, Williams revised the opening again. This 4th opening can be heard in the FSO recording: I would assume this is the opening you heard at your concert -- I haven't heard of a fifth opening existing, at least! ~ The track called "A Window To The Past" on the Azkaban OST album is actually an assembly of various different recordings from the Azkaban film scoring sessions. It's this, specifically: 0:00-1:04 (1:04) = (unknown number and name) - A unique recorder solo, potentially recorded specifically for the album 1:04-2:28 (1:24) = 7M12 End Credits - just a portion of the full cue (which can be heard in its entirely in the OST track "Mischief Managed") 2:28-3:26 (0:58) = 4M3-4NN Woods Walk and Birds Flight - just a portion of the full cue (which can be heard in its entirety in the LLL track "A Walk in the Woods and Bird’s Flight") 3:26-end (0:32) = 7M2 Insert - this presents the Insert on its own (you can hear the insert integrated into the 7M2 cue as intended in the OST/LLL track "Lupin’s Transformation") Williams did eventually compose a proper concert arrangement of this theme, but it wasn't recorded at the Azkaban scoring sessions so probably only came about later when prepping the Azkaban suite for concerts. This arrangement has been recorded by the City of Prague orchestra, and probably others. I'd assume that arrangement is what you heard at your concert. ~ Incidentally, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull went through the same exact thing as both of these scores. The track "Irina's Theme" on the soundtrack album is actually just bits of 3 cues edited together. 0:00-0:41 is from 1M4NR Irina Spalko 0:41-2:00 is from 7M56 End Credit 2:00-end is from 3M28 Russians Reappear He later wrote out a proper arrangement of her theme, also titled "Irina's Theme", and debuted it live in concert that summer. Luckily, that finally got a good recording released earlier this year ~ Also incidentally, this process of making a de facto concert arrangement by editing bits of film cues together is something Williams' has done for most of his career. For Superman, for example, the track titled "Theme From Superman (Main Title)" on the OST album is actually bits of 3 film cues edited together 0:00-0:25 is from New 1M1 Main Title Part 1 0:25-4:13 is from End Title 4:13-end is from New 1M1 Pt 2 Main Title Pt. 2 This edit was so popular it was immediately written down and published as "Theme From Superman" to be played in concerts, and Williams himself recorded it in 1980 with the Boston Pops for his first Philips/Pops album And of course the year prior, the track "Main Title" on the Star Wars album is really the main title cue combined with the end credits, and that combo was immediately recreated on paper and performed in concerts that way too...

There's samples on LLL's website. https://lalalandrecords.com/jurassic-park-iii-remastered-expanded-limited-edition-2-cd-set/