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Great little interview with Gil Shaham about the Violin Concerto and his working relationship with JW: http://blogs.wfmt.com/offmic/2013/11/08/web-exclusive-a-conversation-with-gil-shaham/ I returned home today from Chicago and I'm still digesting the whole experience. These concerts have been one of the most powerful musical experience I've ever had. I'll try to put down more articulate thoughts in the following days, now I'm too jetlagged

That's actually Across the Stars

Interesting part from interview with the director: Source: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/65060

No. Spider-Man beats the hell out of Amazing Spider-Man. TASM had a story that was a constructed piece of trash. Still better than SM3 though. It's same story from Spider-Man with a different villain.

I think the statement works well for what it is in AOTC. I just wish the theme had gotten some more workout in ROTS. That's one of the best, yes. I can understand why they replaced it with the more "generic" concert version in the film, but the original version is much more powerful. Well, the end titles all feature the concert versions of the new major themes, so Williams certainly spent plenty of time on them. He just wrote them in a way so that they could be separated from the rest, i.e. more as standalone pieces rather than integrating them into the end credits framework. I love the twist he put on the finale/end title transitions for the prequels though.

Angela's Ashes by John Williams The clear superior to The Book Thief. Not to say that TBT is weak per se, but this distant cousin doesn't reach the quality of its predecessor. A sublime work.

Huh, those pictures have a really different feeling about them. Interesting. I think Bard's character will be something we're glad PJ embellished.

Bruce Kimmel posted somewhere that that's coming from Intrada.

12 Years A Slave The most harrowing experience I've had with cinema since The Thin Red Line.

I like it. t's much better than that Brand New Day shit that was out a few years ago

"Do you like samples? Then let me give them to you!"

Well let's see. You've got the Clarinet Concerto, the Piano Concerto, the Pied Piper Fantasy, and Mr. Tambourine Man. Those might whet your appetite. I used to study with him.

Disney paid 4 billion, they're going to make sure their logo is in front. I doubt it will be the regular one, and might just be a static one with a new fanfare composed by Williams accompanying the logos before "A Long Time Ago...." Anyone who thought that Disney was going to make a deal to put FOX's logo in front of their film were crazy. Paramount already had a deal to release movies in place, that's why they got it for the Marvel films.

Plagiarist! Karol

Nicely put! My CD just arrived and I'm listening to it right now. It's nicely diverse with a wide range of moods going from bittersweet remembrance to harsh atonal action. Really unusual for a "Hollywood" film score these days, sure. Perhaps too unusual for the studio's tastes? And it's not because he's not a gifted writer, it's just that he doesn't know how to write film scores, real film scores like that. ...SCNR A pity that scores like this are so rare these days. One thing that tripped me up a bit was the passage right out of his percussion concerto in the track "Pursuit". I wonder which of those he wrote first, and if he perhaps tried to "rescue" some of his rejected score in the concert work. And I wonder if the end of the trumpet crescendo in the middle of "Revenge" was followed by a gunshot in the film, as it reminded me strongly of the end of his Symphony No. 3 "Circus Maximus".

igger6 thanks for that excellent write-up, it was a pleasure to read!

Thanks for the excellent write-up. Karol

Hell no, Spider-Man is still great, and SM2 remains in the top 5 best superhero movies ever. Spider-Man 3 simply falls in the good but not great category.

Happy birthday to the greatest film composer!