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He probably still practices today. He was obsessive so the title of this thread is at best, misleading. Conrad and Johnny's brother both said he spent an entire year in high school playing with his left hand only. Generally, right hand plays melody and left hand plays harmony which is more static (like accompaniment). Young pianists struggle with music like JS Bach where right and left are treated equally and have to switch during a canon or fugue who has the lead line (or the primary voice) and who is the accompaniment. You basically have to train yourself to be somewhat ambidextrous. When I was a piano student, I recall when a melodic line switches from the dominant hand to the other hand, you have to slow the tempo way down to play the right notes because it is so unnatural to use your less dominant hand that way. Teachers will tell you to play the tempo consistently so you have to play the right hand much slower than you want so the left-hand tempo can keep up. So, what JW did as a teen is spent an entire year playing everything only with the left hand to fix this issue at the start. This shows a phenomenal level of practice and self-discipline. He didn't have to do that, he chose to do it the harder way to get better with the weaker hand. All indications including his attitude to this day is he was disciplined and obsessive about practice. Totally agree with this post. Don said even to this day, Johnny studies and works at his craft and Don doesn't even understand where that urge in him comes from. One other comment from Conrad, he once said he's "never seen anyone work on a problem harder than John". I'm sure that applies to his practice too. I also would add, JW might have *thought* he was a slacker but he might define hard worker as someone spending more time than he did in practice. His work ethic is legendary.

Realizing he wasn't on the same level as John Browning or Van Cliburn, fellow Julliard students doesn't means he was lazy in his practicing habits. Actually, Donald Williams recently remembered how his older brother would be always late for the meals as he wouldn't leave the piano mid way his exercises. He was good enough to be a student of the most sought after piano pedagoge in the US, Rhosina Levine. His interest in arranging and composing started in his teens, even though he still had an eye on a concert pianist carreer. That's what changed while at Julliard. Yet, when we returned to LA he become one of the two top studio pianists in town, the other being Jimmy Rowells. There is this story of Johnny Mandel working on a recording with a singer I can't recall the name right now, and for the final session, Rowells wasn't available, so they called for young Williams, who Mandel described to the singer, as a more classical oriented pianist. Marty Paich also praised Williams for his hability to play exclently both classical and jazz music. I recall a story, though I have no real details, that he got fed up with that work, during the West Side Story sessions, and from then on he concentrated more as a studio conductor and in composing.

They're keeping it secret because John Williams scored the whole thing

This is a game where you can click a setting to change the dialogue to mumbles and click another setting to change the gun sound effects to people going “pew pew.” It’s not a cinematic experience. Were you guys really expecting music editing to be the priority here?

For Phantom Thread, I count three American production companies, one Chinese, and one British (Joanne Sellar). So yeah, mystery solved. It's a Chinese movie!

I'm currently playing this and can't wrap my head around the fact, that given the back catalogue of Williams' music to go through at their disposal, the producers of this game hired 'Non Williams' when it was completely unnecessary. It felt like a betrayal. There's something indescribably depressing about being in the Coruscant hub area and hearing something that is a useless imitation. I have to point out this is completely the fault of the producers and not whomever they hired to write it... As discussed earlier, the editing of the music is insane. Clearly a lot of effort was put into the editing to cut it to sync with the wacky goofs in the cutscenes, but it's butchered to hell. It's a clear departure from the earlier Lego games which would have some weird editing choices, but at least respected the music more than this.

For those of us unable to by in NYC on Thursday (or unable to obtain tickets), it does appear that the concert will be broadcast live on WQXR and streamed online. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Watch-and-Listen/WQXR-Broadcasts I doubt that this will be available on demand but I could be wrong. I was also hoping Carnegie+ on AppleTV would broadcast a video, and if that is happening, I don’t see any evidence yet. I guess it could show up for on demand after the fact. Since it is not in the announcement, I doubt that we will get more than audio. However, I am very happy to have that! (The same concert in Philadelphia on Tuesday does not appear to be streamed as the Philadelphia Orchestra site shows their next streaming audio concert to be April 20, the day after the JW/ASM concert in that city.)

Right after Kerak, before Saladin reconvenes at his camp.

If the DC had been on Disney+, I would have! I may buy the DC blu-ray anyway as the Sibylla story line didn't have any real substance and it would be nice to see that fleshed out more.

My favorite Bible movie is still The Prince of Egypt. Great animation and awesome score (and songs) by Hans Zimmer.

Indeed. It will be interesting to see how his character is developed.

Unfortunately not in the film though. But then again the first film only treated him like an incidental bit character.

I believe its when Balian knights the Bishop's page.

We talked about this recently, in this thread or another one, I forget. Anyways, it's my favourite Kraftwerk.

Ethan Hawke's villain character here is really great. Like Thanos he is not just cruel and aiming for more power. He has from his history a clear comprehensible motivation. I like that.

The only important cue missing from the deluxe version of Interstellar is Quantifiable Connection, but the FYC version of that cue is unlistenably corrupted anyway.

@Michael G. Here you go: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-_oF-uU0AAKl5D?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Should have watched the director’s cut!

Moore should have been a must for this film. But as always it seems for studios nostalgia only works from the first film. Like when lando was not there until rise of skywalker….and the afroamerican pilot girl could well have been kelly! and tim and lex could be there managing hammonds state….trying to fix things…

Either the editor wasn't aware that was an issue, as if they were unfamiliar with the music, or (for the Coruscant area) it was a stupid directive that they needed music that fit the playful whimsy of the area whilst sounding like Star Wars and they didn't want to loop a cue. Either way is foolish. Needlessly cut down when they could've played the entire crawl at normal speed and give people the option to skip of they want to - that was how it was in the last LEGO games, IIRC...

A wonderful sweeping/mushy theme that holds its own against things like 'Out of Africa' and the patented Barry underwater music from 'Thunderball' and 'The Deep'. Skip tracks 3-8 and enjoy Easter Sunday.

The way they cut the main title down completely rhythmlessly... the awfully nonmatching loops they gave some cues like DotF... The worst is jumping between JW music and Non-JW, hearing a cue with the Force Theme and immediately going to a Non-Force Theme, a copyright avoiding imitation... WHYYY??? It's right there!!!

Of course he didn't practice too much; that, by definition, would be too much.

Life of Brian is a film I've seen so many times, and from a rather early age (for the first several years only in German, obviously; and it's a rare case of an actually really good dub - within the possibilities, they did have to change a lot of jokes, obviously), that I'm still finding little bits and pieces that are probably obvious, but "new" to me. I remember only consciously acknowledging that the Pythons all play multiple characters years after first seeing it. This time, I was amused that the crowd that starts following Brian as the Messiah is actually the same that just a scene earlier was objecting to his calling the birds lazy. I had a few friends over for watching it (most of whom had already seen it many times) and set them the additional task of spotting Kenneth Colley and George Harrison. Also, the Bond series obviously has given us a good number of outstanding title songs, but as Bond songs go, Brian still has one of the best.

Back home, and just checked - it’s between the end of track 12 and the beginning of 13, and you need to listen carefully/use headphones/crank the volume up to hear it, but it’s definitely there. Listening to it for the first time in a while, it definitely sounds like Him. Mark

Atlantis: The Lost Empire - James Newton Howard Another magnificent score from Howard for a Disney film. I am still in disbelieve that they didn't add the opening cue from the film and the5-minute final battle cue to the album. I found a promotional release a while back and made my own edit with these cues edited into the album + I added the film version of The Submarine. I think these 3 cues make the score even better.

No Julianne Moore, no sale. Karol

That reminds me: there’s a little pre-gap to one of the later tracks on the Sabrina OST where the strings have just tailed off a quiet chord and you can just hear someone (surely JW himself?) just say ‘Lovely’ in the short time before the next track starts. I’m not at home at the moment, so can’t check, but I’m sure someone else will find it and post the exact chapter & verse. It’s a lovely little example of something slipping through the editing net. Anyone know of any others?

And, as someone once pointed out, probably more grubbily realistic too (in the sense everyone is dirty and dusty). But yeah great film even if my favourite python movie scene is the Holy Grail discussion about magical swords from watery bints not being a sound basis for a system of government (I may be paraphrasing somewhat but the full length scene is hysterical).

Same.

'80s pop at its very best!

Life Of Brian - annual Easter rewatch. Still a joyfully irreverent comedy masterpiece (and about half the length of those interminable Biblical epics).

Horner only had 2 weeks, there's no way anyone can write that amount of music in 2 weeks. I'd barely be humming one tune that I thought was appropriate by that time let alone have anything on paper! ROFL Williams make's sure he has PLENTY of tie to write his scores and would never accept anything with less than a few months turnaround as far as I know.

Only a few more days until the big night! I am so excited!

There aren't any antics and there's nothing controversial, unless you find the very act of being a practicing Christian controversial or "cringe." And on the spectrum of American Christianity you would have to consider Pratt's politics basically moderately left of center. AKA he's just a normal dude, certainly for a movie star.

Almost all of the final battle music is on the OST, just split between tracks 4, 5, 7, and 12, and combined with other cues. All that's missing is the first half of 9M2A The British Counter-attack. The second half is 0:51-end of 'The Colonial Cause'. There's also an unused insert 9M2AX Over the Top, though we don't know yet whether it was recorded.

Nothing particularly noteworthy, but he’s one of those guys that, if you hear anything about his personal life, MIGHT rub you the wrong way. That’s a might. To say more would probably violate forum rules on politics and religion, but you could Google around a bit.

Really? Some of the best moments of my life happened in the movie theater, whether I was a child, teenager or adult.

I think we know the answer to that! Especially if a theoretical new expansion is stuck in approval hell.

Now the question is, if there' a new expansion in the works, would they have said "nah wait a year we got something better" or just give no shits and collect the free money.

What the? Why?!?

lol i got halfway through this before realising it wasn't JNHFan's spoiler free review

Who animated this? Who wrote that line? Who was responsible for the graphics?

Film music fans remain the last strange group of movie fans who still can't accept collaboration. Directors have second units, and there is a reason why the cinematographer is called Director of Photography. Actors have stunt doubles to make them look superhuman and body doubles to do what they don't want. Writers write together in writers' rooms and many people go uncredited. Joe Kramer said literally only a handful of composers do not write in teams. And yet people romanticize about a solo artist toiling away. Why? I am not sure. And this goes beyond Hollywood as well. Novelists write in pairs, uses ghostwriters, additional writers, etc. Stephen King and Peter Straub wrote The Talisman and Black House together, but those novels are referred to as Stephen King's novels. When you read a novel written by two novelists, do you endless complain about the fact you don't know which line is written by which author? Film music fans are a strange bunch.

I tried making this particular point in a different thread (before the person I spoke to misunderstood me), but there's generally too much of Zimmer's own DNA throughout most of his scores to where it can be that easy to pick out moments where it definitely isn't him. You have to be super dedicated to the whole RCP empire to pick out the little things that sound more like the supporting crew, but even that's subject to much scrutiny when very few tidbits have been confirmed or heavily rumored. After a certain point: you just decide there's no point in figuring it out and simply enjoy the music regardless of who did what.

One of my absolute favorite parts of the TROS score is the way JW transforms Kylo Ren's theme from a villain theme into a heroic theme in the second half of the score. It's brilliantly done, and every single statement of the new theme is unique, exciting, and unforgettable. He didn't put any cues that contained this development on the OST album, nor the FYC album.

This is a videogame not a soundtrack release

Through some rabbitholes I found myself starting to explore electronic/ambient as an evening listen or work background music. Tidal's genre category led me to 3 albums I really liked: From what I hear, Apollo's somewhat of a classic, I find it very calming and satisfying, with even somewhat of an arc to it as it grows from colder less varying textures to more melodic ideas by the end. Sowiesoso's less refined but in a similar vein. Jacaszek's Glimmer is a very different, more out there concept melding acoustics with noises and it hits my spots just right!

So I finally rewatched this film thanks to the 4K remaster, now I want an expansion more than ever! What a fantastic resource this thread is, with the cue list and OST breakdown. Of course the gorgeous wedding cues are unreleased... All the source music is fantastic too! Hopefully JW allows those on an expansion (these aren't a Superman situation where they're unrelated musical genres heard on a car radio; they're appropriate for the time period and blend with the score proper). It's interesting that he included lots of fragments of source music on his OST, but none of the source music he composed himself (only existing pieces he arranged). As @BrotherSound said, there's enough material to fill out a very healthy 2-CD expansion someday! Fingers crossed it's the next score on Intrada's list, I'd pick this up in a heartbeat.