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I made a mockup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ezZ791ExZI Beautiful!

Williams: part-time composer, full-time deity.

Horns, Horns of Doom in the deep! They are coming!

Jackson and three-dimensional? Unless Walsh and Boyens did the script alone, the only three-dimensional aspect of Tauriel will be her image in HFR.

Don't we all?

You know what I like about Howard Shore? No populist interviews about how using a special instrument is the most revolutionary idea since original coke.

I really would like a complete score of "Dracula" !!!

Jackson is scoring? What happened to Shore?

I've been thinking on starting a thread about old and folkloric music from around the world. It's become a surprisingly large part of what I listen to.

Angelica Huston please!

Hey one's in my hometown. I imagine it'd be at my local arthouse but the site doesn't give you the theater name.

By nightfall these hills will be swarming with ghostwriters! We HAVE to reach the deadline!

I should obviously start writing Fifty Shades of Gandalf the Grey!

Not a fan of Mendelssohn?

Just listen to her talk about the inner workings of a cathode-ray television.

Sure, Björk has had all her hits, awards and international acclaim only in The Netherlands!

I thought Doug played percussion! Perhaps a full 10 minute timpani solo for Doug!

I have to admit Tauriel is one of the reasons I am looking forward to DoS.

Nimoy!!!

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Now that this possibility has been brought up, the credits song will be announced just to disappoint everyone

Both.

Yes, that's why I admitted this in the original post. Does anyone know of cases where JW spent quite a long time on "pre-composition", i.e., coming up with themes to use as material for the score? (And I don't mean CE3K, where he wrote some dozens of themes and it was up to Spielberg to decide which one to use - that's a different matter. I mean personally struggling to come up with the music.) My understanding is he considers his work more of a craft. I don't think he has a "Eureka - that's it" moment while working but rather works very hard to refine it and is self critical so when it passes his self assessment (which is a struggle given the high standards), then it will have all the Williamsims that we know and love and like all great works, will have a sense of inevitability when one hears it that it couldn't have been any other way. I once asked one of his kids if they recall any moments where he came out of his study/office screaming "Wow, I just nailed this...Eureka, come and listen!" and the response was that it was more like he was just at work and there seemed to be just focus, intent effort rather than a sense of "this will be my great work" meanwhile these masterworks were being created. Don, his brother, said of JW that his idea of a fun relaxing evening was working. When going on vacation, he'd have a piano brought in to their hotel while the family is out at the pool...that was just how he would relax. The sense I got was that it was a job he did very well and cared about the quality of his work deeply and thoroughly, but he was just doing his thing - putting great effort - no lazy bone in his body (or mind), and he has been at it a very long time so has a good sense if something is going to work or not before putting in the work. Conrad Pope once said he's never seen anyone attack a musical problem as hard as JW does when working and this is the same sense I hear from many others. With that said, I don't consider JW the modern equal of Mozart. Apologies if this was already covered earlier in the thread, but here are some differences: 1. Mozart was a revolutionary composer; Williams is ultimately a composer who looks to the past mostly. Mozart had tremendous impact on the course of western music with greater role of dynamics, duration, orchestration, drama, form, intensity, etc. He laid the groundwork for Beethoven and the end of the Classical period as it shifted to Romantic. In contrast, I view JW as the last of a line of craft oriented composers who were well studied, hard workers, but ultimately brilliant because of their work quality, ethic, and practical training since he's from the tradition of Korngold, Herrmann, Mancini, Goldsmith, Bernstein, etc. 2. I believe Mozart might have been a high functioning aspergers/autistic person. His musical memory of other people's music is not normal. I don't have evidence for this and since his body isn't found and there aren't descendants to positively match DNA with, I doubt we'll ever know for sure other than through anecdotal evidence if this hunch is true. 3. To Mozart, composition came easily saying: " got to write at breakneck speed—everything's composed—but not written yet." whereas JW is a craftsman who takes care of each note and idea. Mozart might have had ADD, and OCD whereas JW is a workaholic. The end result is two great but different composers.

No, you get interviews like: "I wrote the music just to fit this orchestra" "I wrote music for Bilbo that would reveal his inner soul, and reveal his hardcore side"

Maybe he'll ask us to submit vocal recordings of fans to be used in the film.

Oh god, please don't let the extensions be simple edits!

IMO, the perfect list would have both. A list that has all the compositions, and when you click them, you can see if it's available on disc(s) or not. Or just list the discs under the title, if there are any.

The best films are the best films.

How dare you?!? Our dear lord John Williams prepared this listening experience especially for you to enjoy! Karol

To be fair, there hasn't been a fart joke in The Hobbit films to date. FOTR holds that dubious honour...

Boringly predictable list.

Maybe he's using UJam.

We don't know what kind of music lessons Jackson's been taking in the past 10 years. Now might be his time to shine.

Now now, don't be silly, Conrad. You'll be home for Christmas Eve, rather. Next year. Karol

What if you saw this?

It sounds like it's recorded in a very bassy closed cucumber jar. I'm certain it's a mastering problem, around that time alot of Williams recordings, i. e. 7 YEARS IN TIBET or THE PATRIOT were plagued by this overbassed but strangely distant sound, none more so than A. I.

Hell of a good birthday wish though.

(not a score) Breton dance performed by Galician musician Carlos Núñez. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76WwmDoQBnY Basque song by Benito Lertxundi

It is only one scene: 14 additional minutes of the trolls burping, farting, and snotting.