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  1. I'd like ask everyone here. Does anyone have a copy of the John Williams Kennedy Center Tribute? I'm willing to pay you for a copy. Thanks
  2. I just listened to the score to Broke Back Mountain. Are you Kidding me??!! My jaws dropped as to how ridiculous it is that Williams lost to this very short, very boring and very unskilled score. Unbelievable! It goes to show that you win or lose not on the basis of skill or talent, but on popularity. The last few years, Williams lost again and again to much inferior artists. And I mean MUCH!!! Very sad indeed.
  3. My wife and I thought to have a little celebration of our own, by buying a birthday cake that has Happy Birthday John Williams, 74, 2006 on it. We sang happy birthday and for he's a jolly good fellow, and took some photos and ate the cake. It's his birthday, so we wanted to honor him, and we had fun doing so.
  4. What an interesting statement! Do you think the same with Williams, for him not to push so hard when composing? I am guessing that you are not one to have a high goal for yourself? I would like to encourage you to do otherwise, and you'll see that you'll be happier within.
  5. I just read that Theron got her star today. Some while ago I read that Brittney Spears got her star. C'mon, Williams has been in the business for decades and single handledly changed the course of music in films and he still have not received his star yet??!! Yet, less minor people received their stars after only a few, very short years? What's your thoughts on this?
  6. Eric, What a wonderful thing it is to live in the very house that Williams grew up in. Let me tell you, cherish it, because that house will someday be a historical relic, a very important part of an American legend, much like Beethoven's and Mozart's homes are today. You have an advantage over others when it comes to contacting Williams, i.e., he is very much tied to that home as part of his history. Therefore, he is a million more times to respond to you over his "regular" fans. Hence, by all means, write to him, and tell him what you have. Invite him to take a tour and a family dinner. You have something powerful to Williams, and having a cement engraving of his father is something that will certainly mean a great deal for Williams. It will reconnect to his roots and his family. Go for it! He will respond to you, I am very confident of that.
  7. Would anyone who has a copy of the Goldsmith DVD tell me how many minutes total are the contents? Thanks so much.
  8. Miguel, My sincerest congratulations and best of wishes to you, your wife and your children. May life's blessings abundantly befalls all of you.
  9. Hello, my copy of this show I taped disappeared, wondering if else anyone taped it and kept it? Thanks so much.
  10. I understand that it's not the exact Dies Irae, but it's way too close for Williams to say, it was just a coincidence.
  11. It looks clear that Williams have full and deliberate intent by using the Dies Irae for ROTS. Plus, you can also tell there are a great deal of deliberate use of fire and damnation found in Verdi's requiem.
  12. The Williams JVC ad is an advertisement to sell a product, and it is all posed. I'd like to ask you, if this picture is not posed, then do you think he can play the piano with his left hand on those keys he has his fingers on, and right down notes with his right hand? Just picture in your mind how awkward that would be. Further proof that this picture is posed, is from the way Williams head faces the score. As you can see, it's too far angled to the right, looking more towards the edge of the piano. When you work on the piano composing, you face straight ahead a lot more then in that picture, looking towards the score in front of you. But photographic technique sometimes requires to exaggerate a point of view to give the camera a natural point of view. It occurs all the time in movies & TV series. E.g. 2 people faces each other conversing. They would angle their head more towards the each other's shoulder where the camera is pointing towards, to give the impression that he/she is looking straight into each other. Furthermore, one can't make the suggestion that this is a irrefutable and systematic way Williams works on his music. Remember, he has an architect table to the right of him loaded with pencils and erasers, which is where he writes down the notes. Plus, about violins on the right, yes, of course there are orchestras situated like that, and the Boston Symphony does that once in a while, but as far as I remember, not with the Pops. A right seated 2nd violin is fairly rare to find nowadays. Sometimes it's the violas that sits on the right stage, but that's rare also. Therefore, with Williams left hand baton, which is uncharacteristic of him, and the bow on his right, suggests strongly that the photo is printed backwards, which is not a rare thing for newspapers and magazines to do. Now, the harder question is, what brand, high end, Stereo System does Williams listen to at his home? And what high end, speakers does he have?
  13. Just a short note. The photo that appeared on the Canadian Newspaper is printed backwards, because Williams is right handed, plus, the violins are to the left of the orchestra, not the right, as the bow indicates on the photo.
  14. In the past several months, anytime Williams is on print or broadcasts, it appears he has lost weight. I was hoping that it was a healthy and deliberate loss, rather than due to an illness. Now that several months have passed and it's consistent that his weight loss is stable and most likely, his prefered weight, I am more at ease that he is in fine health. Also, I really did want him to win this year, the same way I want him to win every year. But it seems to be that, even though his scores are consistently superior to the ones that wins, it seems that his composing colleagues, that votes for the score category knows that Williams is really the best all time film composer, past and present, and it's way too easy for him to outmuscle them all, therefore, a living legend is way too big to contest, and his name appears so frequently on the nominations that the voters just take him for granted, and vote for the less commonly nominated composers. Therefore, recent winners such as Yared, Goldenthal, Corigliano, Shore and other names that rarely gets nominated tend to get more attention on the ballot and therefore ends up winning. But by no means are their scores better than Williams. Williams' virtuoso composing technique can run rings around all of them put together at any day of the week, every week. I only want Williams to win not to prove anything more for Williams, only for him to get a little extra joy & appreciation for his efforts, and to refresh his spirits up.
  15. Jesse, pretty good! I liked your samples, what do you use? Plus, am I making too much an assumption that you're highly influenced by Elfman & Thomas Newman?
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