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But JW's "Anything Goes" arrangement is awesome!! Brilliant orchestration.

Yeah, but did you forget that the score continues right after the dance number? I mean, what follows is JW at the very top of his game! Such breathtaking, mesmerising, hilarious, unbelievably fitting non-stop action music: Indy Negotiates, The Nightclub Brawl, Fast Street of Shanghai, Map/Out of Fuel, Slalom on Mt. Humol.....

You pick that moment out? I mean i like it. But its just SW reference box ticking. The whole first act of the film, up untill when they escape from Jakkuu is very good film making. I especially like how JJ gets the audience to bond with Rey before she's even said a word.

Hi all! This is Tom Hooten. Thanks for sharing on the project! For those upset that the $50 is a lot for a CD, the premise is more as a tax deductible donation to help fund the project, and the signed CD is more of a free "thank you," along with the digital download and thank you note (the previous level rewards). I hope that makes sense. About timing, I actually have 2 large donors that are funding enough of the project to hire the musicians and book the studio. The whole project costs about $100k! This money being raised here is mostly for the post-production costs (editing it all together, printing CD's, making it digital, among other fees that add up). So we are set for the recording session with the previous donors, but this helps to finish the project! Just to answer some questions. I hope that makes sense. Thanks again for all of your support! Best, Tom Hooten

Hi all! I wanted to share a project that I"m doing very soon. You can read more about it on the kickstarter page, but I'm recording John's Trumpet Concerto with a full orchestra, with John himself conducting! I've raised a majority of the funding for the full orchestra and recording fees, but am doing this campaign to raise the remaining gap. If any are interested in contributing or sharing, there are rewards on the page and I'd appreciate you all for helping to make this a reality!! Thanks for reading! Best, Tom Hooten, Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/williamshootencd/john-williams-and-thomas-hooten-recording-project?ref=user_menu

It's a fabulous intro because of the song (and arrangement), and I wouldn't change a thing about it.

This is a little different but maybe "West Side Story" will be interesting if JW arranges.

I would have loved for JW at some point to have been involved in a musical with the kind of "big" big band arrangements we see in Anything Goes. Like, imagine what he would have done had he arranged the music for a film version of "An American in Paris". He's so great at that kind of thing but it feels like we haven't seen enough of that side of him.

I'm pumped to hear how he does the second movement, which is in my shortlist of top pieces of music ever.

If a sudden dance sequence bothers you in Temple of Doom, you're not watching it right. Sit back, turn your brain off, go along with the ride and have fun. It's immensely entertaining.

Hello, The date is Sept 24th, coming up soon! I know that John is making a few orchestra revisions but I don't think it's anything major. At least I don't think, I'll find out soon when I get the parts. Thanks, Tom

I don't even know how I'd rank them. Each has such idiosyncratic flaws: TFA's been-there-done-that plot, Rogue One's underdeveloped characters, Solo's inoffensive overall blandness...and then there's TLJ, which constantly switches back and forth between great moments and terrible moments for me. My most joyous viewing experience was probably seeing TFA for the second time. If I had to watch one of them right now, I'd probably pick Rogue One. (Solo is the first Star Wars movie I only saw once in theaters; if it shows up on Netflix, I'm sure I'll watch it again eventually.)

Wow thank you!! I appreciate the support!!

It's clearly happening in her mind. That's why the film is rewinding when the dancing girls do the splits. Willie is a self-important dreamer, and she has an ego, to go with it. She wants more out of life, than to be the moll of a Chinese mafia boss. She wants to hit the big time, but she knows she'll never make it. That's why she overcompensates, with fantasies.

I hear the whole concerto as this great tribute to the traditional (American/European) flavors of the trumpet. Looking at the wide over-simplified view of the work: the heraldic opening movement, the bluesy lyrical second, and the trumpet as vehicle of wild, rhythmic complexity in the third (which sounds the most like how he sometimes uses the trumpet in his film action music to my ears). And then even within the movements, Williams calls for the performer to use radically different voicings and timbres often in quick succession. I find Sandoval's playing on that album to be a bit monochromatic, lacking the variety of style and color that I think Williams was asking for. It's a seriously virtuosic trumpet showcase, maybe Sandoval was just having a bad day

There's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's not like there are flubbed notes or anything. The performance is just not to my taste and I don't think it showcases what I love about Williams' writing for this piece. The Harjanne performance is excellent, but a recording conducted by Williams and recorded in an actual studio will almost certainly supercede that album for me. I think the piece calls for a subtler touch, personally. Sandoval is like a bull in a chinashop on that recording for me. Not to disrespect Sandoval generally of course, he's a great artist. (awaiting Thor to let us all know once again that the Sandoval recording is great and there's no reason to listen to any other)

This is also the first real, honest-to-God STUDIO recording of a Williams concert piece in many years. Lots of live recordings in the meantime of course. SO. EXCITING. Yes! Like Gershwin if he lived to become a modernist or something.

I really cannot thank you enough for making this project happen. Not only to have a new recording of my favorite Williams concerto featuring one of our finest trumpet players, but conducted by the Maestro himself.... I must be in heaven! Judging by your performance of the first movement with the Marine Band, I know we're all in for a real treat. Is this largely the same orchestra that recorded the new Spielberg/Williams volume in 2016?

Yes! The films works remarkably well up until they get to Maz's bar. It's still pretty good after that, but the opening act of the film is fantastic and great Star Wars.

Well...yes. But it's clearly intentional on Williams part. He's setting up Spielberg's subversive opening by giving the audience something over the top suspenseful, which is supposed to be paid off by the surprise dancing and singing. If the film didn't open with a dance number, I doubt Williams would have written in this way. It's very good, and memorable. But not subtle...more like Williams as Salieri. The whole thing is consistent with the kind of thing they did with the first film, just dialled up to 11...i.e. just when you think you're going to see some kind of straight up action scene involving a straight up action hero, you're thrown a curveball (Indy running from the boulder, Indy not knowing how to fly a plane, Indy shooting the guy with the sword, Indy's afraid of snakes, etc) As an aside, that film, including the marketing, is oddly self-aware.

I don't know how you all don't just get sick of the endless production line of origin stories, capes, warring factions, generic betrayal, flirty banter, cheesy wisecracks, predictable dilemmas and destructive invasion finales. It's like people want to be spoon fed the sugar hit which they seem to have unknowingly become hooked on with these things.

That! Still the best Disney Star Wars film, deriviative though it may be.

Are you complaining? This is not a score issue, it's a movie issue! If anything, the writers or Spielberg himself is responsible for putting the dance number there, and not considering the sensitive feelings of the legions of JW fans!

The OST one is not the true concert arrangement This extended version was recorded by the Prague orchestra and Williams played it several times at concerts

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes. These two really withstand repeat viewings. Two almost perfectly executed blockbusters. Dawn, with its pulpy and thoroughly engaging power play mixed gracefully with heady themes. And War, an impressively staged and photographed amalgamation of a western, Apocalypse Now, and the Great Escape featuring apes that you believe in. That it even works is a marvel, but for it to flow this organically? Damn. And both movies wear it's blockbuster sentiments proudly on their sleeves. 4.5/5 for both.

The Force Awakens Solo Rogue One The Last Jedi

Classic Bond!

This segment sounds a lot like Corellia Chase, Flying with Chewie, and Train Heist. It has that Powell SW vibe. Those almost muted brass trills that come in around 2:15 are the major echoes. Additionally, the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom theme (which is great) holds a similar melody to the Avengers theme (at least the first bit of the JW:FK theme). However, instead of doubling up on the first note (doo-doo da-doo doo {Avengers}) it's just a single note (doo da doo-doo). Anyways, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a really great score. Here's my favourites from this year. JW:FK is climbing it! 1. Solo: A Star Wars Story by John Powell 2. Darkest Hour by Dario Marianelli 3. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by Michael Giacchino 4. Incredibles 2 by Michael Giacchino 5. Avengers: Infinity War by Alan Silvestri

Star Wars: Rebels Without a Purpose

The fact that Maestro John Williams generously agreed to conduct his Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra and his Theme from Born On the Fourth of July and record both (the former of which has never been recorded with him conducting it) for release on CD, that private donors have generously contributed to this project, the fact that this has been a dream of Thomas Hooten to make this recording (and that he wants no financial gain from this), and that people are giving their time to make this project a reality makes this worth while.

Yeah, see: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=129861&forumID=1&archive=0 Specifically a quote from Bergersen via FB: What a monumental screw-up. I don't get why he's not more keen to fix the problem and get a properly mastered version out there *now*. It's the only reason I haven't purchased it yet.

That's too long, let's refer to these as Demastered from now on.

Funnily I looked up his dear friend Dudamel the other day- sadly he is conducting another concert in Berlin on the same day, so no chance of it being Dudamel if there is a guest MC

Answer to the thread question: The only thing I've ever wanted to hear live was PRELUDE AND MAIN TITLE - album version - from SUPERMAN. I've yet to hear it...

Well, the arrangements for the film version of West Side Story are perfect as they are! So are Singin' in the Rain. But those are from the 50s-60s, and the problem is that nobody really writes like that anymore because there's not as big of a demand for it now as there was then. But JW sure as hell can...and did, in his early days (e.g. "A Big Beautiful Ball" from Not With My Wife You Don't). I'd just like to hear more!

Everything goes? It's not a boot sale!

I hope they don't.

I think you will find it is both of you who are mistaken...about a great many things.

Yeah, that's what I meant, you should be enjoying the music, choreography and overall throwback-ness instead of analysing the logistics or realness. It sets up the stupid but over the top fun nature perfectly.

Just have Bond doing Bondian things with that cool music going. That shouldn't be that friggin' hard.

When you have to follow up Casino Royale and Skyfall? Yes, considerably hard.

I'd love a split of half the concert being classic, popular Williams and the other half being lesser known or at least not his most massive hits. E.g. First Half - Sabrina 1941 The Terminal Lincoln Stanley and Iris The Cowboys Etc etc Second Half - Jurassic Park Star Wars E.T Jaws Harry Potter War Horse Etc etc.

This is going to be a shame.

Hoping for: Aunt Marge’s Waltz The Presses Roll Fitzwilly You are the Pan The Hunt March from 1941 Suite from The BFG A man can dream!

That's surprisingly coherent for a Google Translate.

Okay guys, deposits were received and we're all booked in for 5PM on the night! Guests confirmed at Da Mario restaurant Kensington are as follows: Publicist Hornist Incanus Jim Ware +1 Obiwan71 Smeltington +1 Stefan Cosman Richard Townerfan +1 Fommes Jason LeBlanc +1 Crocodile Thor + 2 Chris Afonzo Marian Schedenig Quintus +1 Loert Jurassic Shark +1 Thank you for your cooperation and see you there!

Here is my educates guess. Bolded ones are already released. Some I am not sure on, could be swapped with others (those I punctuated with a question mark). I dont think there is any merging of tracks going on, outside of part 1/2s. One track was renamed it seems (Lava Land), and

$50 for a CD is outrageous. No fucking way.