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Coming December 23 at The Legacy of John Williams, an exclusive video event with the great Los Angeles studio musicians reuniting for the first time in years to celebrate John Williams. https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2021/12/16/announcing-la-studio-legends/ This is going to be very special. I hope you will tune in to watch this

What is clear is that a lot of people were just waiting for something like The Legacy series to come along, a reason to talk about their experiences with an extraordinary man, and it just took a person with the passion and energy to bring it all together. Thank you, Maurizio, your work is a gift to all JWFans!

BBC4 will broadcast a 1 hour 21 minutes version of the concert on Christmas evening in the UK 😁

"My upcoming project is writing a book on John Powell’s music for the How to Train Your Dragon films. Both John and Batu Sener have been instrumental (ha!) in getting materials to me and have both been extremely kind and supportive of the project. I’m using Doug Adams’s book on the music in the Lord of the Rings films as a model, and hope that I can successfully navigate the space between too academic and not musical-theoretical enough. I have a sabbatical lined up in the Fall of 2021 to do much of the work, but don’t count on seeing it published in the next 24 months!" http://filmmusiccritics.org/2021/04/introducing-the-critic-erik-heine/

It's been nearly 24 hours since Jay posted that LLL has a TikTok and I'm really the first one to post this?

That's a shame. I was willing to give Giacchino the benefit of the doubt here as Far From Home was surprisingly good but nothing I've heard from the score really warrants him being chosen over Elfman or Young. Just a really lackluster and perfunctory effort.

Digital releases like Intrada and Varese are already doing would be a lot better way to do that.

Did it ever occur to you that that is the reason they have created a TikTok page? They're trying to expand their buyer base. It's a smart business decision.

The end is nigh.

This is gonna be good!! Merry Christmas to all JWFans!

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that this is how Willem Dafoe showed up to the premiere? Like I can't even right now.

Philosophers Stone has one of the greatest scores and I've been listening it all day! (It's just soooo magical!) Other than that, Zimmer's "Illuminati" score is also really cool! (Especially the religious choir and bells!)

Keanu would still look the same as today.

They should've waited 79 years until 01.01.01 to release it.

He's just more "in" with Marvel than Elfman (and certainly Young). In this age of Hollywood, he's done an admirable job holding onto large franchises to complete musical trilogies (Jurassic, Spiderman, Star Trek). Wouldn't be surprised if Batman is next. I think Marvel have put more effort into composer choices lately (moving towards the likes of Giacchino, Silvestri, Elfman and Gorannson) so it's understandable they wanted Gia to complete his trilogy (especially with Doctor Strange 2 going to Elfman).

Well the fact that it keeps all of the original themes is a huge part of it for me. It's one of the few times where I think it was necessary to bring in additional composers to bring back Elfman's love theme. Young's is good, but there's no topping the original. As for Young's material, it's just so memorable and distinct for me. You can hear echoes of Hellraiser, and some of his other work very easily, the action writing is phenomenally exciting, and while his use of his own and Elfman's themes are often far more straightforward than the previous two scores, he executes it with such intensity and bombast that it makes up for that. The black suit is a fantastic theme, sounding epic and powerful with a touch of villainous, Sandman's theme is course and rough like sand itself (insert Attack of the Clones meme here), as well as having a unique structure to it, plus of course well fitting emotional themes for Penny, and Marko himself that fit very well into the Spider-Man films' sound. Then you have Venom's theme which still hasn't been topped, being a pure horror piece that seems to be an inverse of Spider-Man's theme (going down a minor third rather than up one in the beginning), with elements of the black suit theme. Young also composed a new Peter Parker theme that's more simple, which I think makes perfect sense as Peter is not nearly as responsible, and isn't even his normal self for most of the movie. We even get two new themes for Harry, one being more simplistic and noble sounding, and one that seems to be a hybrid of Elfman's Goblin, and Young's Harry themes that plays when MJ kisses him and leaves. Obviously I can't speak for anyone else's reasoning, but that's mine. Young just did a great job at being loyal to Elfman's work, while not only forming his own identity, but composing a plethora of thematic material that elevates the series' musical complexity and ensures the score never gets boring for me.

I guess I need to really listen to Spider-Man 3. I thought it was fine. I remember being more sad that Danny didn’t score it and it seemed obvious that Christopher Young was trying to tap into Elfman’s Batman/Darkman mode for the Venom/Symbiot theme. Can I ask what makes Spider-Man 3 so special for fans of the score? Is it the Sandman stuff? That’s kinda pretty I suppose. (It certainly can’t be the film itself that elevates the score!😆)

Thanks. It's beautiful. I also just saw on the end credits of season 5 'Themes From Endgame' is credited again. So I went back to the episode. The 'Vormir' theme is used again at 23:22 in the episode when Clint is at the memorial plate. This time played on piano. Very beautiful again. Great use of this theme! Beck is great!

I'm in the movie theater for only the second time since 2019, seeing Spider-Man. The trailer for The Batman is more impressive on the big screen than on a computer monitor... Holy cow so many trailers, my 6:20 showing is finally starting now at 6:45...

I just watched "Elf" for the first time... At the begining I was not sure but at the end I shed a tear or two... Nice John Debney score too!!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tGWIhQp7CM3QgPMptsFrDzyKgXGpkgE_/view?usp=drivesdk sorry, revised it a bit. Thought I uploaded the folder Access, but I onyl gave it for the file.

That was the original plan! https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-12-14/spider-man-no-way-home-premiere?_amp=true

when the edible hits

If you say you like a JW and a Zimmer score in the same post, don't expect "Likes"!

Lacrimosa! Can't go wrong with that!

2001: A Space Odyseey. Slow as hell, but interesting (and the music is phenomenal too!)

John Powell, aka one of the greatest composers of modern cinema! I really don't like Zimmer as much as Powell, because, at least to me, Powell has more creativity and depth in his compositions! I'm not saying that Interstellar or The DaVinci Code don't have much depth to them, but Powell somehow sounds more "rich", at least to me.

The BBC (not just BBC4) have gotten very artsy this Xmas period.. and it’s very much welcome

Hydroxychloroquin?

That's kind of the problem with Doctor Who. With the Time Lords it should be "everything all the time". But in the 1960's the Doctor and his "friends" stumbled across this nobody little race called the Daleks. Think of all of the adversaries the Doctor discovered that he'd never heard of that went on to become "a name feared throughout the cosmos". Taken to that conclusion it can make things really static. "It does start to happen, yes." I never considered the accidental genius of "no hanky panky in the TARDIS". It keeps Rose unique for one thing. Has someone made some sort of chart of crew size and composition over the years? We didn't really get "The Doctor and his Lovely Assistant" until Tom Baker, did we? (UNIT muddies the waters a bit for Pertwee.) It's funny. For all of the changes that the new regeneration was supposed to bring the assumption is that the Doctor still likes the laaaaadies.

Zimmer teams up with Fleming again, after HILLBILLY ELEGY. The score is quite good -- can best be decribed as a lot of "shimmering" textures, with voices, el guitars and synths. Whether there's enough to "hold on to" in terms of keeping it in my collection, I don't know yet. Perhaps. The film was released on Netflix a few days ago, I've added it to my watch list (never seen the original UK show it's based on).

Having rewatched Spider-Man 2002 recently, I can verify that it is a modern masterpiece and an incredible career achievement for Elfman.

Yep! Confirmed on Twitter.

Software updates

Forget younger people. Even the general public couldn't care less about Titanic or Potter. Very sad, but true.

Here's the new interview video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-IreuMDUDM

Yea, you submitted your post the same time I submitted mine. I was replying to the posts before yours and hadn't seen your post yet when I typed all that

I don't think they'll succeed if that is their goal, because the younger generations of Tiktok users don't buy CDs, specially soundtrack albums of movies released in the 70s, 80s, 90s... But I hope I'm wrong and they can expand their consumer base.

In addition to literally every Mario RPG yet made (more because Mario is my main gaming interest so I want to see what they do in that world even if the gameplay doesn't agree with me), I've played Final Fantasy 6, Dragon Quest 5, Golden Sun, Pokemon Blue/X/Shield, Skies of Arcadia, Xenoblade Chronicles, Fire Emblem Awakening, Etrian Odyssey Untold, and probably more but that's just off the top of my head. I finally stopped wasting my money trying to make myself like them about 6 years ago.

No Silksong? I sleep Strange upload, the actual presentation doesn't start until 29 1/2 minutes into the thing Woah, Sea of Stars looks dope! Strange that it's a prequel to The Messenger though, instead of its own thing.

Apparently someone's been hired to write a book about the score in all 3 movies: "Umm, I just finished a full draft of my book, The Music of the How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy. Had a little cry. I’ve done little else besides this for six months. It means a lot to me. Hopefully you can hold a copy next Christmas." source: https://twitter.com/erikjheine/status/1471181371964108804 So maybe the Expanded releases of 2 and 3, and the Omni books for 2 and 3, will also both be out by next Christmas?

Yes you bloody well can use that term!!! The "timeless child" shit, is bollocks! Hartnell was #1, and he always will be!!

Is that why my DG Zimmer album is 60 minutes of silence?

Glory is one of the most worthy OST->Complete upgrades we've had in a while

The new themes sound extremely generic. And the main theme is already generic. (I will show myself out.)

After reading the replacement news, I revisited the score and decided to do a little write-up on the themes that develop throughtout the first season's score, masterfully crafted by Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli. The score of the show is a great example of leitmotivic writing, with several themes developing through the season, and interacting with each other as the characters storylines mingle with each other. What makes it also especially interesting it’s the instrumentation, unique to each of the themes, which sometimes transfers to another theme to further explore the relationships between the characters. Geralt’s Theme (Main Theme) Ciri’s Theme Yennefer’s Theme Nilfgaard’s Theme Renfri’s Theme (Song of the White Wolf) Some episodes have some standalone ideas that relate to places or characters that only appear in one episode Standalone Themes / Motifs So this is it. There are a lot of different motifs that play through the season and I hope that Trapanese can expand at least some of these, and I really hope that he can maintain at least some of that energy that the score for the first season has. Whether it be the catchy main Geralt theme, the emotional developmentof Ciri's theme or the beauty in the simplicty of Yenenfer's theme, I think the composers crafted a score that really delivered on what the show needed to stand out, at least in terms of its musical tapestry. And I must say that it's one of my most listened scores of the past few years, especialy because of the pure entertainment value of it. Altough I must say thatt¡ the album situation is quite a mess and really needs some trimming down and some rearranging of the tracks, but it's still quite a great listening experience, which I highly recommend. Enjoy the write-up and feel free to leave any comment or correction.

Oh no! Why. Will they throw out the themes. Season 1 had several well established themes for several of the characters and concepts. Why do franchises today do this. If the actor can't be discarded wily nily and replaced (nor the showrunner) then neither can be the composer or at the very least the musical themes. So disappointing!

HOLY SHIT What a neat idea, this would be so nice to have!

John Williams, the classical guitar horn player.

They should put down those crappy shaky cellphone videos in Youtube. You practise whole your live to get the best sound from your instrument. Then someone put a crappy video on youtube, great!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️