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The best part is that after doing it, he told Columbus "you need a better whistler than me for this", and he replied "I know, but if I have to read this joke one more time, you won't live to 89." (No, seriously, he said he wasn't very good, listen to the interview)

Made a mini-mockup of a small cue 3m23 No, No... No! from TFA. This cue is completely cut from the film, but some bits remain in one of the documentaries. The cue is intended for the scene where Rey and Finn are trying to fix the ship and Finn talks about "his" base. One interesting thing about this cue is the nice "quiet" use of the Pursuit theme in a slightly ironic context. There are at least two versions of this cue - but the "revised" version is a slightly abridged version of the original, adapted for new cut. Something like this would look like a scene with this music (here I used the "Revised" version, but I had to adapt some shots, since the cue was even shorter than the scene). And here is the original version separately, if anyone is interested. ragoz350 · TFA 3M23 No, No... No!

okay you know what, I ordered this as well. i had no interest in it at first (never seen the movie or listened to the score ---- and up until this announcement, probably couldn't pick out the main theme if it was played to me) but i'm sure one day i'll give it a listen and grow to love it. that's the good thing about having an honest backlog of scores to discover. also......it just feels weird not supporting these expansions. MM and company are crushing it.

I finished up my attempt just yesterday. I had wanted to do the Westworld one last time but never finished what I started.

He's inhabiting the role of Harry when he's whistling there! Harry would be a mediocre whistler for sure. Williams is a master whistle-actor. We can now say Harry is a character brought to life by Joe Pesci and John Williams.

Are Kari & Kyrin from the same part of the Appendices as Tauriel? I wonder if the guy playing Sauron will portray him as all brooding & angsty. Sort of like a doomed Kylo Ren, only without the shot at redemption. I bet they have him turn bad because Galadriel rejects him. Sauron: "Then she said, 'put a ring on it', and I took that personally".

It's really cool but my brain won't click onto how/where that is the Burglar theme or what part of it.

@Permanent WavesI did! I finished mine a week ago and I forgot to mention it here. I like your melding of electronics, sound design, and the orchestra. It sounds almost alien and distinctive. I did mine in a more traditional superhero style:

Mike Matessino just confirmed on the latest episode of Maurizio's podcast that this was in fact John Williams himself whistling the villain theme!

Indeed - usually, I’d suggest, because the composer won’t be a specialist in the relevant discipline so will have to write, on a synth part for example, ‘ominous whooshing tone’ rather than ‘double oscillators detuned with mild flanging, heavy phaser and 30% white noise’. With a bit of discussion and context, an experienced programmer/player would have little difficulty translating the former into the latter. Mark

KRULL came right in the middle of (for me) Horner's golden period. In the space of 4 1/2 years, he composed (among others) ST II, BRAINSTORM, GORKY PARK, this, ST III, ALIENS, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and COCOON, culminating with his masterpiece THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Our James could do no wrong. 4/5. PS, I'm not going to reveal how much I paid for the 2-CD set, in '98. Let's just say that I've been hopping around, ever since, and that I now wipe my bum with my left hand.

Rather than just post "Ordered!" Here is Co-Star Candice Rialson to say that "Hedji Ordered"

Nice work! It’s a fun variation of the Finn/chase material, and when an expansion finally comes out, I’m sure our great-great-grandchildren will enjoy it very much. 🤷‍♂️ Just wanted to link to the bit of the cue that’s leaked:

And we're missing the twinkle stinger when Harry the policeman winks at Kevin and his golden tooth flashes early in the movie.

You won't regret those! The River is my most-listened to album last year. Pleasant surprise seeing as I'd never heard of the score until Mike expanded it.

I can't remember. It's like with Star Wars episodes...

你很快就会知道的。 Nǐ hěn kuài jiù huì zhīdào de. No, I don't speak Chinese, but this translates to "You will know soon enough."

I figured the ones I did not name were not by the Maestro, except of course 0:00 to 0:40. Still, everything blended pretty well together. Though, the Maestro's music blended especially well together; that segue from his arrangement of "Bugler's Dream" to Olympic Theme for example!

0:00 to 0:40! Never heard that before! Wow!

@crumbs @Holko ?

I'm going to see the maestro for the first time in concert. He could even play some Balfe's scores that I would be in heaven!!! My program would be something like that with no peculiar order (I leave this to better hand than mine): Theme from Superman 4 Selections from Star Wars (Rey's Theme, Across the Stars, The Rise of Skywalker, The Rebel Fleet/End Title) 2 selections from Indiana Jones (The Basket Game, Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra) 3 selections from Harry Potter (A Window to the Past, Buckbeak's Flight, Harry Wonderous World) The Dialogue from CE3K Adventures on Earth from E.T. The Lost World Jaws: Main Title and some more rare stuff: The Key from How to Steel a Million Suite from The Post Jane Eyre Theme Sayuri's Theme Blood Moon from Images Hymn to the Fallen Abandonned in the Woods from A.I. Seven Years in Tibet Main Title from The Towering Inferno Dear Basketball

How long before someone declares the Home Alone ‘complete’ edition incomplete and totally unsatisfactory until it’s rereleased with this snippet included? Bonus points if it’s expressed in the form of furious rhetoric about how unforgivable the omission was and how their life will be unbearable until a properly Complete edition is released. Mark

He's a shy whistler

Did anyone else here write something for this? @superultramegaa? Here is my attempt:

Oh. Nitpick time: in the samples' metadata, the artist is "John WIlliams". Someone forgot to release shift in time. And someone forgot to double check.

JW's 1974-1976 is kinda interesting 1974 March 3 - Barbara's death March 15 - Conrack opens (no OST album released) March 30 - Sugarland Express opens (no OST album released) July 30 through August 1 - Earthquake score recorded {61 piece orchestra, Universal City Studios Scoring Stage} (first score written post-Barbara's death) August 19 & 20 - Earthquake album recorded {51 piece orchestra, RCA studio on Sunset Blvd} October 22 through November 11 - Towering Inferno score recorded {20th Century Fox Studios Scoring Stage} November 15 - Earthquake opens (re-recorded OST album released) December 14 - Towering Inferno opens (OST album released) 1975 January 29 through February 3 - The Eiger Sanction score recorded {Universal City Studios Scoring Stage} March 3,4,10 - Jaws score recorded {71 piece orchestra, 20th Century Fox Studios Scoring Stage} March 5 - Jaws source music recorded {Universal City Studios Scoring Stage} March 26 & 28 - Jaws test screenings that positively mention the score convince Universal execs to greenlight re-recorded score albums for both Jaws and Eiger Sanction April 17 & 18 - Jaws album recorded {Burbank Studios} May 12 & 13 - The Eiger Sanction album recorded {Burbank Studios} May 21 - The Eiger Sanction opens (re-recorded OST album released) June 20 - Jaws opens (re-recorded OST album released) December 2 & 3 - Midway score recorded {Universal City Studios Scoring Stage} 1976 January 12 through 14 - Family Plot score recorded {Universal City Studios Scoring Stage} February 28 - Jaws' album wins the Grammy early '76 - The Missouri Breaks score recorded {Kritzerland liner notes don't indicate exactly when or where} early '76 - The Missouri Breaks album recorded {Kritzerland liner notes don't indicate exactly when or where} March 29 - Jaws's score wins the Oscar April 9 - Family Plot opens (no OST album released) May 18 - Missouri Breaks opens (re-recorded OST album released) June 18 - Midway opens (no OST album released)

We already do.

How bout that Tuvix

He is very nice yes. I would glady be employed as "CD tester" by LLL, Intrada, LLL, etc... XD Why there is not a job for that?

Oh man, this little cue is so fun! I do agree that in the film itself, it makes more sense to let the scene play unscored. But what a fun track this will be on an eventual expanded score release!

There's also the chimes missing just after Kevin's parents have left. We're missing the bells mixed into Setting The Trap too. We're missing Mr Grinch as well. In short, a deeply flawed release.

I’m glad I waited to order mine.

Normally no. You can purchase just one CD if you want. It's strange that they told you that you needed a minimum order value.

Are you OK Bespin?

Ok I'll wait further instructions, you can continue to speak chinese.

Below are the comments I had included for my YouTube upload, which gives the names of the musical selections. The only selections which haven’t been released commercially are the “bells” arrangement of “Bugler’s Dream” (presumably by Williams) and “Contemporary Tease”. The two middle selections are not by Williams and are available on the respective commercial releases of the scores.

My dream program is JW conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker. If that happens, I'm happy with either title.

Such a boring title though. Hard to get excited saying aloud ‘I’m listening to Seven Years in Tibet today!’. Let’s refer to it as The Terror of Tibet. Or Tentacled Tyrants from Tibet. Seven Lesbian Werewolves in Tibet?

After egomaniacally securing tickets on Monday at 9, I checked the portal early this morning, just for interest. There were 1-3 single tickets going for Friday, which vanished in minutes. But it may be worth checking Kalender (berliner-philharmoniker.de) regularly this week. The subscriptions will be charged tomorrow and perhaps some payments won't be made or others may back out - so some residual tickets may show up.

I think it's just that the old LP was 36 minutes, and the new main program is 75 minutes, so people think "oh, 36 minutes was released before and 39 minutes is previously unreleased, ok I'll round up and say 40 minutes of unreleased music". Or something like that. But the truth is the new release is 2 hours and 8 minutes long and only 36 of that has ever been released before. And only 3/5s or so of what has not can even be heard in the film itself, leaving a huge portion of music being released here that few people on earth had ever heard in the past 46 years.

Helpful: yes Remaining three movements: yes, please.

It's like an early preview of what Spielberg and Lucas would do to his music later in his career :p

I can't understand how different scores have their elements preserved so differently, even when so many things are the same. Jaws and Eiger Sanction are both 1975 Universal Pictures films, whose scores where considered good enough to justify special recording sessions to re-record highlights to make albums out of to sell. The 1st gen master of Jaws' film tracks were already deteriorating when they pulled just 25 years later to make the new 5.1 mix of the film in 2000, and the album 1st gen masters burned up in the 2008 UMG fire before anyone got to ever revisit them for a remaster. Meanwhile Eiger Sanction's film tracks and album tracks are both found perfectly preserved 45 years down the road and we get this great new comprehensive and great sounding remaster of both. Go figure.

Intrada Records was kind enough to let JWFan premiere the tracklist, a sample track, and a preview of Jon Burlingame's liner notes and Kay Marshall's artwork. Check it out! https://www.jwfan.com/?p=13427

Now The Rise of Skywalker... Here is the mockup of the 2M1 Cockpit Dialogue, which was one of the first cues written for the film. It's believed that the cue is an early version of the Falcon Flight, and I thought so too, but judging by the sync hints in the sheets, this is not quite the case. I, of course, cannot be sure, but it looks like in the early cut (when there were 9 reels) there was some scene with a Poe and Finn's flight BEFORE getting the spy's message and lightspeed skipping. At the same time, Skipping itself, apparently, was cut out at that moment. Then they decided to greatly reduce this scene, but return the chase. Again, this is speculation, but I like this theory. Anyway, Williams moved some ideas into the Falcon Flight (same tempo, tremolo strings, Heroics theme). At the same time, 2M1 cue seems to have been recorded, since some bits can be heard in the film. In this case, it turns out that the Falcon Flight had 2 versions, and 1 insert, and they were all recorded for the first reel. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to fill in a lot of the missing video material, so I just inserted the hints from the sketch. Also, towards the end, some shots don't sync well (in particular, when TIEs arrive). Also, many thanks to @BrotherSound for breakdown the cues, and their hypothetical chronological order.

The Green Knight That was indeed, very good. It's been about a year since I've been to the cinema and that was for the awful Tenet. So it was nice to come back to a journey film that actually feels complete and full. If you were to tackle a contemporary retelling of an Arthurian legend, Lowery's take is probably the way to do it. The cynics and traditionalists might scoff at it, for it is abundant in style. But ultimately, very much grounded in its earnestness. This is a story about how Gawain finds his courage, and it takes that task seriously. It probes the tropes and trappings of the Arthurian legend without ever getting stuck up its own arse about it, or undercutting its stakes in a fourth-wall meta-way (I'm looking at you Marvel). It is a slow burn, but it is very evocative and leaves you with many compelling images and ideas going out of the theatre. The only place where you feel the whole film sort of stop is the chapter with the castle, but then it jumps back from it. Dev Patel is a great leading man, the production design is impeccable and the visual composition is often beautiful (shaky VFX giants aside...). Amazon LOTR...please take notes. Daniel Hart's score, with its chromatic medieval choral clusters, folk song and string bariolages do a great job enriching the tapestry of the whole thing. 'Twas was a good night. Have I sufficiently overhyped it enough for you guys yet?