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"Indy's Very First Adventure" from The Last Crusade is a cue that is a downright tour de force of inventiveness. It includes a great many of Williams' typical techniques: atonal chords with a tonally suggestive bass, leitmotivic references, parallelism, scherzo-esque textures, rollicking good tunes, big brassiness, and colorful orchestration. It's not just that these techniques are there, but that they're fused into a coherent, engaging, and exciting whole in a way that only Williams could do. If that ain't inventive, I don't know what is.

A pretty interesting blog I stumbled upon this afternoon. Gives some insight into Williams humble abode and claims that a new recording of the flute concerto was done with Slatkin. http://blogs.chapman.edu/copa/2014/03/25/were-off-to-see-the-wizard-a-meeting-with-composer-john-williams/

That's nice, but I wish they got to the unreleased concert works instead of those that already have a recording. Or a new recording of the clarinet concerto, which sounds like crap.

Perhaps like this from 3:23 onward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9INHPNnEEWo

"The Land Race" from Far and Away It has a lot of Williams-isms: big brassy melody and counterpoint, lush lyrical strings, woodwinds runs, frequent modulation and key change, percussive flare with the cymbals and bass drum, and conservative sprinklings on the glockenspiel. Also, his use of pipes, penny whistles, fiddles and bodhrans in some lovely lyrical passages. In a way, however, it feels a lot like the music is more easily associated with the unfettered freedom and thematics of aviation and aircraft than the Oklahoma Land Rush. If it weren't for the film, I would probably never make the connection despite the cue's title. Despite this, I find it to be an inventive cue, even if it feels a lot like leftovers from "Hook".

2001: A Space Odyssey Probably one of the best edited films ever. The 2 and a half hours flew by. Not much else to say about this one that hasn't already been said. A landmark in cinema.

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