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alainmayrand

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Hi guys, my name is Alain and I am a composer of both concert music and film music.

I was the composer on the Jackie Chan animated feature "The Legend of Silk Boy", a big live orchestral score that really was an opportunity to show my love for the adventure score of the 70's and 80's, especially those by the composer we are here to celebrate. That score was released on the Movie Score Media label, and ended up with great reviews, was on Jim Lochner's top 10 score of 2010, and was #12 on Critics Choice top 50 for 2010, tabulated by Soundtrack Geek.

I am a trained composer and currently composer-in-residence with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra.

John Williams is the reason I got into music, no doubt about it. My first musical love was that Star Wars, and I still own the original 1977 vinyl, which is here in my studio.

I invite you to my site

http://alainmayrand.com

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A Superman scene/score appreciation

04 February 2012 - 01:55 AM

Hello fellow JW Fans,

I have just written a short appreciation for the music in a scene from Superman, a look at how the music supports the storytelling.

I thought you all might be interested!

http://gettingthescore.com/?p=535

Hope you like it and please, leave a comment and subrscribe, I will be doing more on Williams scores in the coming while. He's turning 80 this year after all!

Chees,

Alain

John Williams score analysis on my blog

11 January 2012 - 05:31 AM

Hello all,

I've only posted here a handful of times but JWFan is my favourite film score related forum on the internet and the only one I peruse on a regular basis. So i can't believe I never mentioned this before...

I write a blog called "Getting the Score" where I share my observation on film scoring, which of course includes many posts about my favourite film composer, whose film music is a constant educational resource: John Williams.

Here's a link to get you started where I break down how many times the Hedgwig theme happens in the frst 20 minutes of Harry Potter I.
> How Many Times the Theme?

There are many more entries referring to John Williams' scores, you can use the search function of course, I won't burden you with that here.

Also, I plan to blog a lot more this year and I set up a poll to see what subjects you would like to read about. You can vote or add some ideas in the comment box. For example someone asked about insight into working as an orchestrator, so I alread asked an orchestrator I know who worked on films like "Secretariat" to answer a few questions for an upcomgin blog post.

Head over to the poll here.

Thanks to everyone, and thanks for the best film music forum on the web. Hope to see you on my blog!

Alain
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