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I think it’s time for him to start his own vlog.

In fact, if you look really closely, you can make out 52 different objects all around the room representative of each of the films he has received Academy Award nominations for.

“Hello JAWSFANS.COM. I’m John Williams...”

The drums what is this a rock band? Stop this madness. I listened to John Powell and now never again. Don't listen to that man but John Towner Williams is my best friend, so keep that orchestra real man. Too loud for me all this rumble rumble stuff. My worn out shoe has more soul than this what the hell. And the drums again are awful I know my perucssion cuz my brother's physician's niece's godfather's second cousin Ted, he has a dog, and the guy who walks it is a part-time freelance timpanist and he told me all about cheap drums and omg these are those. Very cheap and I saw a little kid with this drums through the window of the dollar store and it's cheap imported plastic drums for sure. I cannot believe this hype I gotta go back to listen to Rogue One now bye-bye.

all that's left to do for him is start posting at JWfan

As long as his username is “This is- I’m John Williams”

I don't know if it has already been posted, but in case it hasn't been, I'm relaying the news: Link: https://www.asmac.org/?fbclid=IwAR2yqpY5R2RkVCq7iAkY2qRWQ5w3vXRvWKw32aqD0nKStSlwk4Rwi_-9yOQ

Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Performances From Recent Seasons Available for the First Time on Video and Audio Streams

Bye...

100% confirmed. John Williams leaves his Christmas decorations up all year. Also, congrats, @Will! I remember when you were just a youngling around here, back in the TFA days. Sorry your senior year had to end on Zoom, but at least you now have the choice of "The Rise of Skywalker" and "Reunion" to go along with "The Throne Room" and "Augie's Great Municipal Band" on your virtual graduation playlist!

Just listened to this. What a pleasure. Even if you aren't particularly interested in orchestration or Hollywood film music history, this chat is a delight.

I think that's part of the fun.

I miss several ones, can we talk about other things?

Heartbeeps is must have! So is Spacecamp and I have the Japanese OST too

I don't think Bespin would understand it.

Assistant: John, end the message with that Star Wars line, you know 'May the Force be with you'. JW: What? I'm not ending it with that cheesy- Assistant: Also, don't forget to remind them who you are. JW: -_- WTF, they know who I- Assistant: 3, 2, I... JW: Hello, this is... I'm John Williams... *internal agony*

The 16:9 Facebook video provides a wider view of Williams' working space:

Loving that John has embraced social media while in lockdown, bringing awareness to his passions. At least something positive out of this bad situation.

These videos are fantastic!!!!

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We need a separate John Williams COVID-19 Home Videos thread.

That sounds nothing like the piece Luke posted. It's still the fourth best cue named The Hunt though.

A year from now, the accepted wisdom at JWFan will be that Williams really wrote 90% of the score himself and Powell just came in after to overdub disco drums.

This fits so surprisingly well that I'm betting this was used as the temp score during editing:

Ferdinand definitely belongs in the discussion. I wouldn't credit Williams much with Powell's recent developments as a composer...I don't think there's any evidence for that. I feel like if anything the bigger influence would be the Star Wars score study he mentioned doing for Solo. He said it was "devastating him hard" reading that music so closely I think the fact that Powell started doing fewer movies may be one reason his music has gotten seemingly richer in recent years. It seems that he's also become more philosophical about the kinds of movies he chooses to do, giving his music a stronger point of view. For a long time he always struck me as a supreme work-for-hire talent but he's become more interesting lately, it feels like there's more authorship going on. Also the more heartbreaking side of it which can be tasteless to speculate too much, but he did lose his wife to cancer in 2016. It's been noted here before that Williams lost Barbara Ruick in 1974, just before he began a remarkable creative period. Coincidence, maybe.

Anonymous tipster has sent in this complete cue list for TFA. Discuss! 1M1 Main Title 1M1A 1M1A v2 (Longer) 1M1A v3 1M1A (Free Version) Starry Night 1M2R 1M2R (New Ending) 'Hand' Opening 1M2A Fix 1M2B (untitled) 1M3A 1M3AR The First Order Approaches 1M3B 1M3BR The Attack on the Village 1M3C I’ve Seen Too Much 1M3D The Attack on the Village 1M4 1M4R The Arrival of Kylo Ren 1M4A Introductions or Introduction 1M4B Landing 1M4D Fix on Fix 1M5 1M5 Alt New Intro 1M5 Alt 2 1M5 Alt 2 Insert 1M5 Alt 2R The Scavenger 1M6 1M6 Alt Seeing A Mother and Getting Rations 1M6 AltR One Quarter Portion 1M7 1M7 Flute Version Lunchtime with Rey or Lunchtime 1M8 Breakfast 2M11 Don’t Follow Me 2M11R 2M11R Alt BB + Rey or BB & Rey or BB and Rey 2M12 Poe Under Torture 2M12A (Old) 2M12A (Preferred) BB & Rey Cont. 2M13 2M13R The Droid Is Not For Sale or This Droid Is Not For Sale 2M14R Alt Intro 2M14R Alt Intro v2 Finn Helps Poe 2M14 2M14R I Can Fly Anything 2M15 2M15R 2M15R Insert The First Escape 2M16 I Don't Know What To Do 2M17 2M17R Kylo Ren 2M17A 2M17AR Finn's Trek 2M17B Kylo And Hux On The Bridge 2M18A That Lady with the Stick 2M18B Who's Luke Skywalker 2M18C 2M18CR 2M18C Insert 2M18C Insert II Follow Me 3M20 3M20R The Falcon Still Flies! 3M21 3M21R What's Your Name 3M22 3M22R Kylo and His Sword 3M23 3M23R No, No...No! 3M24 3M24R Hiding Under the Grate 3M26 3M26R You're Han Solo? 3M27 Rathars Appear 3M28 The Rathars Attack or The Rathtar Attack 3M28A 3M28AR Old Falcon to the Rescue 3M29 3M29R Leia, C3P0 and R2 4M30 4M30R Snoke 4M30A Starkiller Reading the Map 4M31R 4M31RR The Map Scene 4M31A 4M31A (New Ending) Talking With Grandfather 4M32 4M32R Green Planet or The Green Planet 4M33 4M33R You Gotta Name? or You Got A Name? 4M33R Insert Gotta Name? 4M35R Maz on the Table 4M36R I Ran Into You 4M37 I’ve Found the Droid 4M38 4M38R Into the Cellar 4M38A 4M38AR Rey’s Dream 4M39 R I Have to Get Back 5M40 5M40 (New Ending) The Beam is Released 5M41 Leia’s Condolence Speech 5M43R (Fix) Find Rey! 5M43A (Fix) Maz's Treasure Chest 5M44 5M44 Alt Intro v1 5M44 Alt Intro v2 Kylo Arrives at the Battle 5M45R v1 Back to Battle 5M45R Alt Finn Fight Alt 5M45 Fix Finn and Trooper Fight 5M46R Kylo Stalks Rey 5M47 5M47 v2 5M47 Possible Insert Good Guys Shooting 5M48 We’ve Got What We Need 5M49 5M49R 5M49A Fix 11-5-15 The Abduction of Rey 6M50R 6M50R v2 Han & Leia Reunion 6M51 6M51R Finn and Poe, United 6M52 R2 in Hibernation 6M53R Parental Discussion 6M53A We See Rey 6M54 6M54R Rey vs. Ren 6M54A New 6M54A R Bring Her to Me 6M54B You Will Remove These Restraints 6M55R Council Meeting 6M56 6M56R Preparing for the Mission 6M56BR v1 (new ending) Kylo’s Rage! 6M56C Fixed To Lightspeed 6M56D Ice Landing 6M56E Ren In Cockpit 6M56F Hey! 6M57 6M57R Rey’s Rope Climb 6M57R Alt Ending Rey On Wall 6M58 The Bombing Run 7M60 Hug Later 7M61 Guns A’blaze 7M62 I Can Get Us In 7M62A 7M62A Insert On the Inside 7M62B Shootout 7M65 Father and Son 7M65A Leia’s Grief 7M65B Father and Son 7M65C Leia Fix 7M66 The Control Room and Ren in the Forest 7M67 Rey Vs Ren 7M67R It Is You 7M67A Rey vs. Ren 7M67B Rey Gets the Saber 7M67BF Rey Catches Sword 7M67C Blowing Up The Oscillator 7M68 Flying Home 7M68A Light In The Snow and Flying Home 8M72 Finding the Map 8M73 The Complete Map 8M74 Climbing the Mountain 8M74A 8M74A v2 To Ending 8M75 End Credits Part 1 End Credits Part 2 Finale (9-23-15) Finale (11-11-15) Finale Tag 8M77 The Resistance Theme 8M78 Snoke 8M79 Rey's Theme Rey's Theme (6-6-15) Rey's Theme (Piano Version 9-14-15) Rey’s Theme (10-7-15 longer version) 8M80 8M80A (First Ending) 8M80A (Second Ending) Scherzo for X-Wings 8M81 Sunbeam Strings

I have many of those, though can't remember if I bothered to keep the Varese around or not. Below is my fav CE3K item:

Ghostbusters .The hype was so high

I don't buy CDs anymore.

What is in the film is tracked from the opening of Kylo and His Sword (Droid Stole a Freighter).

Used deals Very happy I found Mission to Mars at a bargain price of around $4.00 equivalent.

This is awesome!! I'm graduating high school this year and it's been quite a disappointing spring, to say the least, as all of our senior events have been canceled. Obviously this message is intended specifically for the Thornton school graduates, but I feel that it speaks to all of us graduates, wherever we may be. The little piano excerpt of Pomp & Circumstance is lovely. P.S. anyone have any idea what this thing (presumably a stuffed animal of some sort) is? Monkey stuffed animal?

I never got the How To Train Your Dragon hype either .I listened to it and maybe there was a cue or 2 I kind of liked

The first film and score win but I rather like Jerry's music for the sequel. The opening track in particular is amazing. One of my favourite Goldsmith cues of all time in fact. Karol

Hello and welcome! You’re right, harking back to the pivotal connection between fife and drum etc. We did actually mention The Patriot, also referencing a similarity to its finale, however we had to edit things down a bit.

I now see that your new moniker "moi" is not the French word for "me" but an acronym for "Man of Intellect"

KM is this guy who only ever gets off when stuff sounds like big orchestral Williams of a certain time period. He's deaf beyond that. Some of Goldsmith's manipulations of the 'evil' hymn tune is actually quite bold, harmonically and so on.

Its Synecdoche, New York.

Pretty sure JW played the tiny bit of Rey's theme on piano during the climax of TROS.

Somehow I doubt the removed music sounded anything like the Mustafar battle. For me, the tone of that music doesn't gel with the more brutal, emotive sequel fight. There's a pulpy sense of fun with the Mustafar battle (even though the circumstances are dire) which pairs brilliantly with JW's operatic music. Maybe it's the cartoony/over the top VFX, intercut with Palpatine's antics? TROS is comparatively grim, visually and emotionally. No one's having any fun there. Even without knowing how JW scored it, I can understand why he asked for it to be removed (especially if similar to the music which followed -- a bunch of timpani rolls, brassy Kylo Ren fanfares and tense strings). Mind you, that's an observation of the trilogy as a whole, not isolated to this one scene. The new films are a real downer compared to the first six. JW's sequel writing seems reflective of that, paired with the evolution of his sensibilities in the decade since ROTS.

The coda in the 1941 end credits always makes me happy. 0:00-1:20 of 'Journey to the Island'. With a cue that has both of the major themes from the score, the opening of this track is just so fucking beautiful, that sometimes I forget to appreciate it. 1:50-2:08 of 'Revisiting Normandy'. The movie and score have just begun and I already want to cry.

Imagine being in Vienna for the JW concert and he whips out “The Hunt” as an encore... with those Vienna horns. God.

Now I want to watch and listen to the 'The Hunt' performed at a concert.

JW and the VPO had a mutual courtship over the last few years. Both his management and the orchestra management worked really hard to make it happen (and thanks heaven it did just right before the epidemic crisis started). It's not unusual to take years for things like this to actually happen.

I'm fine with him taking a ship. I don't need him to fly.

I want to hear the piano version of Rey‘s theme, especially if that was performed by JW himself

Well, the "new" sets seem to be available in Europe. Here is the German release. I bet this has the isolated score (not confirmed!). Karol

Meet Han is one of my favorite tracks on the OST. Although you can hear many Powell-isms in it, the low brass and introduction of Han's theme seem very JW. Interesting to think that JW might have written an intro to a SW movie that didn't begin with the classic fanfare.

Again, to quote John Williams himself on this matter: As for the demos Williams wrote I bet they are just various variations on his theme. There are a lot of small bits here and there that sound like him. Like this, for example: Or this: Or this (not sure about 4:04-4:12 bit though): Perhaps...this? And definitely this: Karol