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To everyone at JWfan, MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!

Thankfully they cut the bit where he keeled over right after.

Complete score releases are built on hope!

Is it just me or does Williams sound really old and tired? :/

ghostwriters!

Couple tidbits from Rian Johnson

ABSOLUTELY there is. No, absolutely not. They were fine by 1997 standards, but completely outclassed by the great work the boutique labels have been doing since 2007-present. All three of those releases are incomplete, with much of their music sourced from inferior masters and/or remixed poorly. New editions would be better in every way. Put it this way: Matessino himself has publicly posted that he would love to tackle them all again and make them better if given the opportunity. We all want those as well.

AND ALSO WITH YOU!

Remembering Emilie and Finale has become one of my favorite JW cues. That piano solo followed by this delicate horn solo, and those strings ( the cellos especially....goosebumps) And this : Absolute beauty.

The Sand Pebbles

Roland Emmerich's finest hour. It's still a steaming pile of crap of course, yet somehow elevated by the performances from Wilkinson, Isaacs and the like. Eminently watchable Sunday afternoon fodder.

Doth mine ears deceive me? Do I hear the light sound of a celeste in the distance? Is it a snowy owl swooping in to save 2017?

http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/may-the-fourth-spotlight-on-joann-kane-music/ Interview with Mark Graham from Joann Kane was posted today in honor of May the 4th. He talks a lot about how Williams orchestration process has changed, and a fun anecdote about a Harry Potter cue that Williams forgot to write in on a sketch that he needed string parts for: Sound's like Knight Bus? Any other ideas? Tons of little tid-bits for discussion, so I thought I would start a thread.

Interesting article! I wonder if I'll live long enough to witness a commercial release of those Finale files...

No, just Rian and John

Oh my, that has made my day.

Desplat was absolutely on fire in 2014

Lynch gotta eat.

So many ageists around here!

He can still call his brother in case it doesn't work out.

Kyle MacLachlan is ageless.

Williams is a hack 100% confirmed!

What is this? Ghostwriting!!!!

http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/may-the-fourth-spotlight-on-joann-kane-music/

https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/posts/4485048/

I would say so, considering the overrated nature of his career. He's made, what, three truly good movies? Halloween, The Thing, and Christine? Then there is a smattering of passable junk entertainment, and others that are crap. Dolores Claiborne, Hearts in Atlantis, and 1408 are also a good King-adapted movie that weren't mentioned.

The day is not over yet! It's not over yet!

The Patriot is, of course, a terrible history movie, but decent entertainment. I did expect better from Robert Rodat, who was hot of the heals of Saving Private Ryan. I think people are going way too hard on it. I'd watch The Patriot a 100 times before I watch Independence Day. The Day After Tomorrow is also terrific entertainment, probably Emmerich's best, and I'm not sure it's close.

BECAUSE BECAUSE IT IS FUN TO SHOUUUUUUT!!!!!

So Jay knows, but he's not telling us.

I want my X-Men 😢

I thought John Williams was a Democrat!

Looks like I just found my new profile signature!

In Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, he's the young and inexperienced Bond. In Skyfall, he's suddenly an old agent struggling to stay relevant to the system. I feel like we missed a few Bond movies in between to show Bond in his prime, much like how there was no film in between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises to show Batman in his.

It's like poetry.

Connery could have probably pulled it of.

Oh Christ, A View To A Kill. Moore should've got out after either FYEO or Octopussy. James Bond being played by a man of 57 is a very, very bad idea.

Golden Gun is great fun!

I wanna know which ones! Now! And I want to get them! Now!

"The pitch is so midget-like." - John Williams I have no idea whether some of you have seen this but I hadn't till I noticed this YouTube video today.

Yes.

Oh yes. A few titles. Start saving😊

It may never have hit some of them. True story (as best I can recall it): When I was in high school, I went to Germany on an exchange program with a school in the town of Sigmaringen. One day, my exchange partner—who was as big a fan of Star Wars as I was—invited me to come along with him to his youth orchestra rehearsal after school. The reason I might be interested, he told me, was that their music director had played some brass instrument on some of the original Star Wars sessions with the LSO. "Ah yes, the old war stories," his dad snorted. "Always going on about his Star Wars glory days." But that sounded terrific to me, so I went, and sat through their entirely unremarkable rehearsal of school band arrangements of some classical standards and The Lion King, and when it was over I went up to the director (whose name I've long since forgotten) and asked him if it was true, if he'd really played on the Star Wars sessions. Yes, he said—he'd been a university student in London 1977, and his teacher was an LSO member. Since Williams asked for double brass, several of the players brought their students. Wide-eyed, I followed-up, "And did you guys know then how big the score was going to be?" He sneered and said, "Nah, we had no idea because it was nothing original. It was just second-rate neoromantic rip-offs. Nobody thought it was going to be anything. You want to know what was really special? A few weeks later, I sat in on another session at Abbey Road…" and he proceeded to tell me about a jazz ensemble that recorded a tremendously innovative record (whose name now escapes me), full of bold lines and unconventional time signatures. I nodded along, trying to hide how crestfallen I was, and never got another word out of him about Star Wars. As disappointed as 18-year-old me was, on its face, his recollection of the orchestra's reaction seemed plausible. Of course, it's entirely possible the guy is just a pretentious hater. Nevertheless, it always makes me think twice whenever I hear LSO players talking about how incredible it was to play on those sessions, and wonder how much of those glowing recollections are enhanced by time, and whether at the time they really thought anything much of John Williams at all. And also, I wish I'd remembered the name of that jazz group.

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