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Marvelous. I've often wondered why it is that Williams conjures such beautiful tonal music almost exclusively for programmatic assignments. It's as if his mind works in completely different registers for pure music and for film/celebratory music. I know there are various exceptions to this rule, but I think the general trend is obvious, and it makes me wonder what he would do if you said to him something like, "Compose a suite telling the story of The Frog Prince." Which composer would show up? I bring this up now, on this thread, because Helena's Theme seems like the clearest example of Williams composing something gorgeous and tonal that's totally out of step with the wheeling, dealing, double-crossing, hard-edged character it's associated with on screen, and it makes me think he had something else in mind.

Can you say more about this? I'm a cinematography neophyte (I notice camera movement and funny angles but that's it), and I'm curious what you see in Marvel movies that strikes you.

If you liquefied Episode IX and put it in a bowl, you could slurp Rise.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Post of the decade!

HE CANNOT BE STOPPED. This isn't the May the 4th news I came for, but I'll take it!

Now do Leia's Theme.

Love that Danish version! As for how to "get" this piece, here's how I get it: a brilliant composer had gallons of creative juice left in the tank but was presented with a plot offering almost no new characters or settings compelling enough to warrant a dynamite theme. He wrote one anyway, slapped it on Rose Tico, and then elevated the most theme-like of his one-off ideas from elsewhere in the score to serve as a B section and call it a day. Why Williams took this Quasimodo of a piece and repeatedly trotted it out with the greatest orchestras in the world but never publicly conducted "The Rise of Skywalker" is a head-scratcher worthy of Robert Graves.

Unrelated: that's an incredibly diverse and original program! Somebody should put that Blu-Ray on the market!

It's an awful, halfhearted theme park that was conceived in a miserly spirit, which they're now spending $2 billion to not-really-fix. Hopefully a fair chunk of that cash went to Rombi!

Rombi just composed 45 minutes of gorgeous, melodic, sonic lipstick for the pig that is Walt Disney Studios Paris Disney Adventure World. Just play this music and imagine you're walking through a theme park of the mind... Also, his new Children of the Resistance score is fantastic if you haven't tried it.

I'm flabbergasted that no one has posted this yet, but I'm pleased to report that Ax will be bringing the Williams concerto to (a tony suburb of) Chicago this summer at Ravinia! https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/emanuel-ax-john-williams-concerto-260801

I'm such a cinematography neophyte, at least when it comes to comparison between "old" and "new" styles. Can anyone point me to a video comparing Spielberg's various cinematographers or providing context for what's different about Kaminski versus, say, Slocombe?

I'm sure with the intervening advent of AI, they could now make that 2018 cover look like Botticelli by comparison.