Nick Parker

Yeah, Gospel John is pretty good.

EDIT: Never mind.

Wouldn't admitting to this with a disclaimer like "I know it's weird..." only propagate the idea that listening to movie music is strange?

Practically everything Nino Rota ever did was absolutely amazing, with some of my sentimental favorites being Il Casanova (with its very 1970's trippiness) and La Strada.







I like also Astor Piazzolla's occasional forays into movie scores.

Thank you very much, Jason, but I am not sure how long I will stay. I think I read somewhere from a post by king mark that people who prefer A.I. to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone are not true John Williams fans so I decided to just drop the facade altogether...dumb joking aside, the primary reason I stopped visiting this website was that I felt that I had nothing left to contribute (well, to be more accurate, I never had anything to contribute, it just took me a while to realize it), and honestly that feeling has not truly left me. Part of my interest in this website was re-kindled by the release of The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, but I mostly came back to shamelessly advertise an arrangement my friend and I made of "John Williams is the Man" (like you never heard it before, with all-new EXPANDED material!), and a hopefully-soon-to-be-recorded arrangement I just finished of "Reflections" featuring Fender Rhodes, trumpet, double bass, drums, and of course the alto saxophone. We shall see, though.

Regarding War of the Worlds, I have not listened to the album in years, but I remember it being a lot of fun (I absolutely love it when John Williams writes stuff like the end of "Separation of the Family"). Personally I think much of the score is John Williams in top form, but I am not the kind of person to think he ever lost anything, anyways. As time goes by, I begin to view his oeuvre as a "nebulous" single entity consisting of just the good and bad (relatively speaking, in most cases) as opposed to a series of rigidly designed "periods".