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Well the oratorio, The Prussian Requiem now has a premiere date! March 6, 2016! http://issuu.com/southbank_centre/docs/classical_guide_2015_16

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9585/.f Not unexpected, but finally!

After taking another listen I have to say this is a neater score than I remembered. It has gotten better with time.

You're not funny. It's a big deal.

It's times like this that you come to realize how much the LOTR SE behind-the-scenes documentaries made you feel like you knew these people. I spent hours with this guy, and we never even met. I spent even more hours watching his work, and it's disheartening to think we'll never see any more of it. Thank you, Mr. Lesnie.

Oh no, by nerd I mean someone who remembers every frame by heart and who says 'what the' when somebody else doesn't remember every little detail.

And by "nerd" you mean "a person with minimal observation skills?"

There's that sand again. We all hate it. It's rough, irritating and gets everywhere.

Everybody do the Star Wars dance! I want this as a poster!

Then please, John Ford, Anthony Mann and Howard Hawks of the new superhero mythos, stand up and do something!

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR - Bernard Herrmann Still prime Herrmann, and uncommon for him, occasionally very gentle - as it is fitting for Joe Mankiewicz's sweetly haunted love story, in contrast to Hitchcock's often oppressive/obsessive pictures (THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY excepted). The spooky rising arpeggios that open the main title are gripping and when Herrmann uses them later as hypnotic harp solo, it's moody film music heaven. The yearning theme for Mrs. Muir is lovely, though it's for me really the more dramatic and atmospheric stuff that makes this music special to me. One cue of note that doesn't fit right in is 'Andante Cantabile', which plays more like a classical string lament. It's unfortunately missing from the otherwise perfect Bernstein re-recording.

Reckon you're cultivating a Frankfurt accent, and relocating to London to start working on independent films. Mine and your opinions on this matter (pen and paper vs. MIDI, film music vs. concert music) are like night and day, so I'm not going to enter a big argument over it. But good luck with your new career, and hope it gives you the fulfilment you've not yet found from writing independently. This bit might sound daft, but have you consisted forming some kind of band or collective? You obviously have some serious skills to play those great French organ works, and you value free, associative creation rather over a more clinical approach, along with collaboration of course. I dunno, give it some thought.

I sold those laserdiscs as soon as I got Harmy's Despecialized Editions on Blu.

Howard Shore/LOTR fans will love this one.

Disney Concert Hall: Age Of Utzon

Nah. "Alien 3", where it doesn't resolve. Brilliant. it really sets the scene for the whole film.

I've never heard it sound any better.

Nothing can beat this!