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No no no no. No. NO. No. The LSO is a concert orchestra. Sometimes they play new works, sometimes they record film scores, but mostly, like most other city orchestras, they play the same old tired repertoire because the artistic directors and symphony boards are unadventurous, conservative, boring. The LA musicians, however, play new music every week or so. With little rehearsal time. In extremely varying styles. And many of them are drawn from other groups that do what the LSO does, too. LSO more versatile? No. There is no comparison.

This guy was there! I saw him outside the theater and he still looks the same. Tim Matheson (with the same boyish voice) and the other leads were all there except Treat Williams who is in New Zealand and sent a nice letter. I still have a crush on both Dianne Kay and Nacny Allen (both were there and still lovely). The surprises for me were Bobby Di Cicco (who played the dance hero Wally) and the swimmer from Jaws with the nice ass were both there too. And oh yeah...the score from John Tiberius Williams was fantastic of course. Movie was loud and had mostly adolesent humor but still lots of nostalgic impact and historical too considering its place between Close Encounters and Raiders.

Happy Birthday to Captain James T. Kirk! After the loss of Leonard Nimoy, let's celebrate the larger than life living legend that is Bill Shatner. I made some Starfleet cupcakes in Shatner's honor. Staging the pictures was nerve wracking - I was convinced Mego Kirk would take a face plant right into the cupcakes, but he held firm. "How do I feel? Young! I feel young!!!"

But the LSO is a concert orchestra. They generally perform a (extensive) standard repertoire, and also do side projects like film scores, pop/rock stuff etc. But the LA players are collection of recording artists. They don't have a repertoire (not in their job as recording artists at least - they do if they also play in a regular orchestra). They literally perform entirely new works every day, and never again once they've recorded them. The sheer output must be considerably higher than that of any concert orchestra. And the styles, naturally, go across the entire spectrum, even more so than film scores themselves already do.

He will know how to put the concept on screen and make it come alive.

Oh, my God. George Lucas + Dune = the end of the world as we know it.

Awesome, welcome to the board and hope you enjoy the show! EDIT: Is there any reason you didn't post this message from your old account?

I'm confident that The B.F.G. (Big Friendly Giant) will be just as magical as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is.

And one more point, the LA musicians are not a random assortment of various skill levels that we are talking about. It is the first call group and I guarentee they all know each other and perform heroically together frequently. We are talking about the creme dela creme performers. If one hired the LSO, you would still get ringers and outsiders to fill in the ranks as the score needs so either way you have a group that frequently plays together under stressful scenarios and top levels.

A classic, in my book. I don't know any score that is more sad than this one. The recording puts you on the stage right in the middle of the string players. Very 3D! Alex

Your lists still follow an uncommon pattern, but thanks for making them Just a couple of comments: - As in the Superman single, the 1977 Star Wars single features an edited version of the Main Title. - The Five Sacred Trees was indeed composed in 1993 (and premiered two years later) but it wasn't released until 1997. - The original album of The Fury was re-released in 2002 (The Deluxe Edition) prior to the 2013 release (Limited Edition), both including the OST + the expanded original score. Also, you list the 2013 edition as "expanded original motion picture score", but only the OST was performed by the LSO. And I assume that your list does not include LSO recordings of JW works not conducted by himself.

I could ask if the fans of Superman 3 and 4 were upset that Superman Returns ignored them by serving as a second sequel timeline to Superman 2, but I don't think there are any fans of Superman 3 and 4 to ask.

Just got my ticket. Pretty sweet seat too. Section: Sec 2 Row: J Seat: 11

Wow that is a cool programme. I see they arranged it so that the brass section won't be in their death throes when all of this is done as a lot of this music features them quite heavily. I would love to hear the Shadows of the Empire suite sometime. The finale of the score, Destruction of Xizor's Palace, is one Prokofievian tour-de-force. Oh and yes Johnny's music is cool too!

Not entirety true. A few pieces of that were performed in Ubeda Spain some years ago. Its the premiere of that particular suite though.

Yes indeed, Ernst Van Tiel. Set-list - Star Wars Main Theme Phantom Menace Suite (The Flag Parade/Anakin's Theme/The Adventures Of Jar-Jar/Duel Of The Fates) Across The Stars (from Attack Of The Clones) Luke and Leia's Theme (from Return Of The Jedi) Interval The Imperial March Leia's Theme Battle Of The Heroes (from Revenge Of The Sith) Yoda's Theme Shadows Of The Empire Suite (The Seduction Of Princess Leia/The Destruction Of Xizor's Palace) Throne Room/Grand Finale (from A New Hope) Our 'special' thing was that it was a concert premiere for the Shadows Of The Empire music.

Duos for violin and viola by John Williams and others: John Williams: The Denver Brass Thirteen Days by Trevor Jones

Recording quality and performance is probably 10th in the hierarchical reasoning of doing this in LA vs the LSO. In Hollywood, production rules everything. It's all about the $$$, JJ Abrams and K.Kennedy are almost the best in the business at that. There were probably dozens of meetings about this decision. You do not write a contract with somebody like John and don't have all this written down. You accept that he's in his 80's when you sign the contract. There's leverage on everybody's side, then you find a common ground. Johnny can probably summon any key LSO member to play what part he wants him to play. Within 12 hours he's in L.A. recording the part. This decision screams "best of both worlds"

you guys are full of crap..Tintin sounds fine

Here comes the orchestra police. Were those timestamps actual mistakes or just bits you didn't like for some reason?

It has been a while since you heard the original trilogy, I take it? Remember that what was considered acceptable in the past is no longer acceptable with auto tune and excessive editing to remove all imperfections at the cost of music. You should hear what Rachmaninoff, Holst, Vaughan Williams sounded like. The point is, you are being pedantic in these references and LSO original trilogy would fail in spades if you applies the same level of scrutiny but our ears have evolved with the technology available. You really should compare era specific recordings. Modern LSO to modern LA and vintage LSO to vintage LA. You'll see it is your expectations that have changed.

He he he. Gotcha. Peter Jackson's Dune!

Tanglewood, a sequel/companion piece to Heartwood? If only....

I didn't laugh once. Great concept, poor execution

Episode 3 is The End of All Things John Williams as far as I'm concerned. K.M.