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The John Williams Fan Network is proud to premiere for the first time anywhere on the web, the first samples of the Lincoln soundtrack! http://www.jwfan.com/?p=4950 Enjoy everyone, and please post your thoughts!

Here's a place for all the photos I'm sure many of us shoot at various film music related events. For those cases where there's not enough to discuss to warrant a separate thread. I'll start with some photos from yesterday's annual Film Music Symposium in Vienna. As always, it's tied to a film music concert, which will take place on Monday. David Newman will conduct the RSO, and special guest Lalo Schifrin will be awarded the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award. David Newman: Lalo Schifrin: Nick Redman introducing Lalo Schifrin: More pics below.

I like it. Really like Freedom's Call.

Well I've listened to the entire OST CD. Here are my thoughts from ONE listen of it -Newman makes heavy use of the James Bond Theme, to the extent that its basically the main theme of the score. It starts with just the backing chords sprinkled throughout the first 10 tracks or so, but then more and more parts of the theme come into various tracks until by the end of the end of the CD its playing in just about every other track. The first half of "Breadcrumbs" is based heavily on the beginning of "The name's Bond... James Bond" from Casino Royale -I could discern NO original theme myself - no action theme, love theme, villain theme, nothing - and did not hear the melody of Adele's song in there at all -A few times it seems like he was forced to stay simliar to temp tracking from Arnold's Casino Royale score... I kept expecting the beginning of Komodo Dragon to go into the You Know My Name theme! -The action music gets boring and repetitive real quick. It's all in the modern action styling like the least interesting tracks from a modern JNH or Powell score, with awful electronics over it -A Lot of the score sounds like he's imitating David Arnold's Bond style, but poorly. This is especially true in the opening cues. The guitar in the opening track in cringe-inducing. -The movie is either almost relentless action, or they picked every single action track to be on the CD - the pace is high the entire time, seems like it never quiets down at all. The occasional moments where it does slow down are completely un-memorable, very forgettable underscore -The CD ends in a really weird way. Track 28 is the big climax and then tracks 29 and 30 are just... there. They don't feel like denoument or finale tracks at all, they just seem like random interstitial cues from the score. Very odd way to end the CD. The entire CD is clearly out of chronological order, as the track containing the music heard in both film clips that have come out (Bond climbing onto the train and M telling the girl to shoot Bond and the man he's chasing on the train) - which we know are from the pre-title sequence - appear in track 14! -I do LIKE some of the Bond Theme variations, and definitely want to give the CD a second chance..... but MAN was I COMPLETELY underwhelmed (BTW, I went in with no prior knowledge of Thomas Newman - I've never heard any of his scores before, so I cannot comment on whether this is typical Newman stuff or not. But it seems clear to me he was told by the producers to use the Bond Theme a lot and to sound like David Arnold)