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JW looked spry and anticipating the orchestra and music rather than following. (I last saw him in Chicago and Boston about 3 years ago and he looked fatigued/distracted.) Typical recent concert fare. Three encores. The highlight of the evening was the ‘84 (?) Olympic theme set to recent highlights of winter and summer games. This was truly phenomenal video editing and synchronization. The audience loved it. I would love to see it released.

Going thru entry, I’ve not seen any programs or merch (shirts, posters) for sale. 😢 Have usually passed a couple of spots by now in previous years.

Nice to see Adventures of Han getting another run!

That is very incomplete, it's just 1 hour of highlights. The LLL main program is 85 minutes, and after that there's a wealth of alternates that are actually interesting to listen to, which is not always the case with expansions. https://lalalandrecords.com/star-trek-the-motion-picture-limited-edition-3-cd-set/

Jay is now recognized as an official retailer for the Fiddler on the Roof 30th anniversary CD, please ask him in private for an order. All profits will be given to the poor guy trying to keep the discography up to date on the main page!

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I was pretty ignorant of Herrmann in general save for a few general pieces of pop culture absorption, and remedying that was in the back of my mind for a while. This Decca Phase 4 set came at a perfect time, and, though it's "just" a reissue of all 7 albums of his released under this label, it happens to be the perfect overview and thus entry point into his works. Represented here are rerecordings/rearrangements of pieces and suites from his Hitchcock and Harryhausen collaboration strings, genres ranging from thriller to fantasy, sci-fi, romantic or adventure, rerecordings of others' works, as well as a proper OST of one of his last scores. The set is very well presented, a nice sturdy cardboard box housing a booklet with detailed album and track information and a small essay about the composer's career and more important works, and of course the discs themselves in cardboard sleeves that are CD-sized facsimiles of the original LP art, front and back - meaning original liner notes with context and track-by track descriptions are also included instead of being lost to time, forgotten or ignored, which I'm always very happy about. I enjoyed reading along, though the font obviously becomes very small and tough to read - bring a magnifier glass or take a photo and zoom in! The sound is what it is, less busy sections mostly sound pretty good, but in grander parts the brass and percussion can suffer. The performances are all very good of course. Overall the set paints the picture of an artist in his last decade not only caring about preserving and commercially presenting his own legacy (not unlike Williams revisiting his own works in concert, for new albums, and of course the remastered expanded reissues), but that of his other fellow film composers as well. I barely skimmed the tracklist and bought this set mostly blind, but I come away with a much more pleasant mental image of Herrmann than what I had before (based on throwaway remarks and anecdotes), and some killer albums to replay!

It's not composed as a joke. It is of course written to overwhelm the singer unless she is very strong, but it's still well written. The Gerhardt recording with Te Kanawa is stunning.

Did anyone else attend the BBC Prom concert of British film music on Thursday? It was wonderful. Here is the programme: For The Belles of St. Trinian’s, the seven percussionists (all men) donned St. Trinian’s boaters, badges and pigtails. The encore was another Malcolm Arnold classic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which the audience joined in whistling the Colonel Bogey March.

Finally saw this in its entirety. Great conversation overall, and even Horner was a big fan of Hook!

https://thedigitalbits.com/item/star-trek-original-4-movie-4k-uhd-2021 Review of the new release of films #1-4. TMP has isolated score!

I have to say the performance of the Olympic Fanfare and Theme was really excellent -- it is also one of my all-time favorite JW pieces and I am always happy when it shows up on a program.

Either that or no one bought a single copy this year

That was a good part of the appeal of Anne-Sophie Mutter's presence in Vienna: it meant that lesser-known pieces were played (Sabrina, Cinderella Liberty, Donnybrook Fair), and a few of the better-known had a fresh spin put on them (Hedwig's Theme, Devil's Dance). Though I'm selfishly content she won't play in Berlin, otherwise the concert would feel too much like Vienna bis. I did, and it didn't, sadly.

I'm happy Mutter isn't there. Loved her with the 2. concerto but the encore was awful in TW. I agree with eitam about Yoda's theme, wonderful in the film but in concert of this caliber, meh. Great arrangement with ASM doesn't help. I loved Vienna concert but it was too much ASM.

10:30.

Only two types of creature get fun in the desert: Bedouins and gods. Dune has both. I don't think @Chen G. loves the desert and desolate places the way us Englishmen do.

Lean wanted us to see the beauty of the desert.

I hope he conducts a more interesting progamm than in Boston and LA this year... Really.

Yep it went flying and he finished without it! And then joked around a bit. I didn’t catch how or when it returned to his stand, but he turned around and there it was. Kobe was mentioned prior to the piece in a brief, loving statement from JW and that’s when the audience went wild. They definitely reacted during the clip of him, but it was less celebratory if I recall correctly.

The movies would kill him at the beginning of the story. The books would kill him at the end. Most permanently at the end of From Russia With Love. Going from memory: Left Universal Exports at the end of Casino Royale, comes back when Vesper kills herself. Killed at the end of From Russia With Love. Dr. No: Only mostly dead but gets his Walther. Leaves at the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, comes back... Well, you know. Leaves the 00 division at the beginning of You Only Live Twice (becomes 777?), presumed killed at the end but actually has amnesia and heads to the Soviet Union. Man with the Golden Gun: comes back brainwashed and tries to kill M, sent on a suicide mission. At this point Fleming doesn't survive.

I wasn't a big fan of Arrival either.

Simone was the biggest. But a lot of them got significant applause/cheering, actually. Bolt. Phelps. The Williams sisters. You could also tell the audience really connected when the music got intense towards the final build up when the athletes were showing their preparation and nervousness before starting. Awesome stuff. Being from Wisconsin, I whooped when they showed the gold medal winning curling team. Probably startled/confused the locals.

Lol Thanks for the warning, I already fixed my post.

Perils of gaming with small children: Wii U gamepad stylus is missing Switch game cards for Mario Kart 8 and Captain Toad are missing Game card for Animal Crossing was left at beach house earlier this summer

You mean Christopher Tenet?

“Limpy’s got cancer, Limpy’s got cancer…”

True, although it us funny when he talks about the necessity of creating something brand new with each score and being uncomfortable about copying concert music. 😂 Karol

Apparently they didn't secure all necessary rights and released an illegal product, as far as I recall. https://theseconddisc.com/2011/04/28/keeping-score-on-a-soundtrack-label-controversy/

Er, pretty sure he's never died (unless you're counting his faked death in YOLT and the 'missing presumed dead' in Skyfall). Oh, and the brief bit of audience wrong-footing at the start of FRWL.

Don't you EVER say his name!!!!!

Nothing.

Yes, it's brilliant. It has a very Adams/Harmonielehre vibe about it at times, but through Goldenthal's unique lens.

I'd never heard this story before. So I asked a few of my English friends if they thought the Harry Potter theme sounded Russian. They either said something like "yes" or "I can see that". And having lived in Russia for a few years, I have several Russian friends, and I asked a few of them if they thought the Harry Potter themed sounded "Russian". Every one of them said no. One laughed. Well, not actually laughed, this was a text, so to quote her it was . Another thought Williams sounded more like Holst. Mentioning Tchaikovsky's influence on JW didn't move the needle. So there it is. As for me, I think it sounds vaguely Russian the way non-Russians imagine Russian music to sound. Or more specifically, I find vaguely suggestive of old Russia. But then again, I'm not Russian.

That has more to do with my personal response to the film than with the quality itself. I started to lose interest after a while (and even looked at the clock too many times) so I can't give it more than 5/10.

I’m gonna vote yes. I like him and think he’s very good in the right role, but he is often given the top accolades and I don’t consider him a master of the craft. Frank Caliendo does the perfect impersonation.

What is it with this connection between a love of action films and aversion to bathing?

I don't really subscribe to the "Harry Potter shouldn't sound Russian" belief. Having a variety of cultural influences makes the world feel more fleshed out and intriguing (as opposed to it just feeling like a British boarding school movie)

I predict, October, November, December, January 2022, February, March, April, May, June, July, or August will have something interesting

Then I would say that your major issue is David Yates. I've never understand how he did succeed to stay here for so long especially after the last Fantastic Beasts

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As far as I know, it's first and only mention is by this user.

Yea probably

I think the date change was good. It gives Lorne Balfe more time to study the Dark Knight Rises/Inception scores so he can emulate them properly in his new M: I.

I want to hear them play 1941. I think that would be the moment.

It's like with Star Wars episodes and authors of childrens' books...Charly and the Chocolat Factory, etc.

Dartmoor 1912 Jay 😂

As a friendly, unsolicited reminder, do not let your expectations for a program (ideal or otherwise) lead to disappointment with the actual one--life is too short for such things.