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Revolution: John Corigliano. I hated the film when I saw the film in the '80s. The score isn't all that bad though. Very unWilliams is a time when everything was Williams. Alex

Since Copernicus' Star was highly recommended, ordered it with The Untouchable, Shane, The Phantom, Greystoke, A Walk in the Clouds and Black Rain.

I have no freaking clue http://www.jwfan.com/?p=5463 http://www.jwfan.com/?p=5715 http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22987 http://www.bsomusic.org/main.taf?erube_fh=tessitura&tessitura.submit.CalendarPerfLink=1&PerfNo=12360

Have fun guys! P.S.: just a reminder that once again the annual Pops concert with JW will be available as on-demand streaming listening on WGBH Boston website: http://www.wgbh.org/995/bso.cfm

what is your favorite score of his? do you like it? NP:

As do I! I've been thinking of getting this for a while and decided to finally order it.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

I have, an insane number of times. To Rich directly too. To you too! Who reads the booklets?? Blah, blah, blah...

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airmanjerm: I think you've just hit the nail on the head there. One of the problems with a lot of post-war musical academe is its myopia - an inability to see the wood from the trees. Reducing everything to the smallest components, and not seeing the big picture. Either unable or unwilling to. There's also a lot of mini-dictators in that field... You know the kind. Rejected by the mainstream and pursuing their small (almost autistic) interests, and looking down at everyone else from their ivory towers. Though thankfully, most of these guys tend to mellow out as they get older (i.e. Boulez), and become less aggressively radical. That said, two wrongs don't make a right. Or as Gandhi famously stated 'an eye for an eye, and the whole world goes blind.' Just because there's a lot of snobbery and elitism on one side of wall, that doesn't mean you should return the favour either. And I suspect that kind of mutual antagonism is one of the things that's widening the gap between the mainstream public and these academic institutions. So snubbing Frank Ticheli or declaring 12 tone technique a 'disease' are both equally destructive. As a composer myself, I try my best to not only write in a more traditional style, along with that of the contemporary avant garde - but to converge them too. The best of both worlds. P.S. You studied under Mario Davidovsky? Wow, that's a big honour. Did you study electro-acoustic composition as well?