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look at jw's starstrucked face! he's all like "omgomgomgomgomgbecool..."

Have a word with yourself, Richard! I have attended many film music concerts with Tommy Pearson presenting and he knows his onions when it comes to film music, make no mistake - he will be presenting the RPO's John Williams concert in October at the Royal Albert Hall, for example (completely sold out, by the way, as is the LSO concert to which Tim refers) and has performed similar duties for the LSO, CBSO, etc. Much as I would have loved to hear Williams quizzed about The Plainsman, Images and Heartbeeps, a) the maestro probably would not remember having scored them and b) most of the Classic FM audience would not have had a clue what they were on about. I enjoyed the interview very much. I felt that there were enough new insights from Johnny to maintain the interest of the hardcore fans such as us while covering the bases for the casual Classic FM listener, familiar with whatever Williams selections the station deigns to air and no more.

One of the best Williams interviews has to be the Q/A at the Thornton School of Music at USC in 2006 for a group of students, where Maestro himself gave a fairly long presentation of his early years and background, again showing how good speaker he is. The questions themselves were less revelatory but still pretty interesting stuff besides the general questions people, even professional musicians, tend to ask. John Burlingame was a great host as well. The interview/Q&A ran for about an hour if I remember correctly and was really fascinating. I do not know however whether the video or videos are available anywhere at the moment.

because I don't want the complete set and I don't want to pay that much, and who the fk wants the hassle of selling movies you purchased, I'm not a retailer or wholesaler.

Not cool, Koray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyRBEXrpKsY Alexandre Desplat: EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE Varied and melancholy Desplat effort from 2011, written in a hurry as a replacement for Nico Muhly's score in late 2011. It clocks in at over 1 hour and while it isn't a shining beacon of originality (lots of piano, flurry flutes and strings) it certainly is one of the best showcases of what Desplat has to offer. The portentous film is kitsch éxtraordinaire, so the score has to do a lot of heavy lifting - resulting in a fluid and multi-thematic score which rarely fails to offer something new (i counted at least 5 themes/motifs, all of them varied permanently). It's certainly more entertaining than the HARRY POTTER stuff Desplat wrote.

Ha. That sounds exactly like what happened to me Me too.