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I respectfully disagree. Nocturnal Activities deserved to be adapted into a concert version of Willie’s Theme.

The website is fantastic--thank you for all of your hard work on behalf of us fans and those wishing to learn more about JW.

Breaking just now... The Supreme Court on Saturday agreed to decide whether the love theme "A Time of Quiet Between the Storms" can also act as a representation for House Atreides. In a one-page unsigned order, the justices ordered a federal appeals court to continue to keep on hold the distribution of the Dune: Part One sketchbook album in order to mitigate the possibility of evidence tempering. Composer Hans Zimmer dismissed the case, arguing that he has Oscar immunity, and cannot be persecuted for musical abstraction, a crime that carries up to 20 years in Clemmensen asylum. "I hate to call it a love theme," he added, "because it is so much more." He has yet to explain what "more" means. His assistant composer Steve Mazzaro emotionally urged the court to drop the case pleading that "Love is universal and can represent all things." Source: Deadline

I was in a bit of a Terrence Malick mood today. Days of Heaven The New World

It appears that a Florida State concert from 2022 has been released on CD and digitally. Available at Presto, Qobuz and probably most other sites (but I have not checked them). From the Mark Records website: ALBUM NOTES John Williams is, without question, one of Americas greatest composers. His vast career began in the 1950s and has continued for seven decades. During this time he has received twenty-five Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, and countless other awards and recognitions. In 2005, his soundtrack to the film Star Wars (1977) was selected by the American Film Institute as the greatest movie score of all time. While he is best known for his collaborations with Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas, his vast body of work includes television, music composed specifically for the Olympic Games, stand-alone classical compositions, and a thirteen-year tenure as conductor of the world-renowned Boston Pops Orchestra. Tonights concert is a celebration of this extraordinary composer in the year of his ninetieth birthday. We are pleased to feature music from his most popular and enduring film scores. All of the arrangements used this evening were created at Williams request specifically for the two occasions when he conducted the The Presidents Own United States Marine Band. We hope you enjoy our tribute to this musical genius. NOTES ON THE PROGRAM The premieres for the following John Williams Signature Edition arrangements for wind ensemble coincided with the 205th and 210th anniversaries of the United States Marine Band - in 2003 and 2008 respectively - performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington D.C. and conducted by the legendary composer, John Williams. The subsequent program notes are John Williams original words relayed here for you from the conductors scores, including edits for content and length. 1. Overture To The Cowboys (1972) 2. The Jedi Steps & Finale (2015) 3. Viktors Tale (2004) Deborah Bish, clarinet 4. Adventures On Earth (1982) 5. Raiders March (1981) Nickolas Doshier, graduate associate conductor 6. Theme From Schindlers List (1993) Benjamin Sung, violin 7. The Imperial March (Darth Vaders Theme) (1980) 8. Star Wars Main Title (1977)

dad. what. Dad! What? DAD! WHAT!?

I almost didn't go into this thread but I was like maybe I'll look and then I saw your question and I was like let me see if I have pics because I was on my phone with my wife while I was walking around and I told her I was really glad I waited and called because I would've been disappointed. Also, if you do wait around after the concert(best to wait also due to the mass exit), you might get to see JW whisked away via golf cart. Had I had my phone ready I would've gotten a video but I was within 20 feet of him watching him being driven away to his vehicle haha.

Sky Pirates - Brian May Not every score needs to be sophisticated, and Sky Pirates is clearly just for fun. I didn’t really arrive at Brian May the usual way through The Road Warrior, but instead through his Cloak and Dagger score. He has a fun, light on the feet style with, as Roger Fiegelson pointed out, “he uses LOTS of triangle” May is scoring this Raiders Ripoff by appropriately ripping off the Raiders March. But in this case, the B-Theme of Williams’ composition. And then a descending figure reminiscent of Lee Holdridge’s Beastmaster (itself a lift of Stu Phillips’ Battlestar Galactica). It gets repeated a lot, so you’ll be humming it long after. There’s a bit of underdeveloped romantic material too, but this is one I see myself returning to when I just need some light fun. It accomplishes what it’s supposed to. 4/5

I concur with Thor; this score is a masterpiece which I grew up with. Unfortunately, the Varese album is only about half the score and leaves off a great deal of the darker material that I like better. But try this cue on for size, for something really lovely: Yavar

I've heard REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND, and I like it a lot. I find DEKALOG painful to watch, but I'll seek it out, again, if only for the music.

I used to think he was my role model. Then I realized that just because I enjoy his music, he isn’t my friend or my mentor or anything like that. He’s just a man who writes good music. And that my true role models were right there with me: my parents. My Dad, and now that he’s gone, my Mom, the best role model I could have.

@Andy Had another go at Sheena - that poster was crying out to be utilized for the purposes of a CD cover. Omen II and III variants Ransom The Edge

We're just getting Giacchino again aren't we. I mean, I like his JW scores. But I think it's time for someone else now. Don Davis would be cool. But it'll never in a million years happen.

Don't hate, but I could be on board for bring Don Davis (from III) back to score.

I recommend arriving early anyway so you can walk the grounds a bit before they close some time before the concert. They're magical.

"Our situation has not improved"

"Who? Attila the Professor? He was never giddy, even when he was a school boy." dude the lines in that movie are unreal.

"But if you are Scottish lord, then I am Mickey Mouse!"

i'm fighting the urge to turn this into a Last Crusade quote-athon!! but screw it.... "I THOUGHT I LOST YOU, BOY!"

“My boy, I’ve lost him and I never told him anything. I just wasn’t ready Marcus. Five minutes would have been enough.”

So when I remembered the tickets went on sale, I was too late to get a seat so I opted for a lawn seat. However, getting closer to the date I wasn't sure how the view was going to be, so taking other peoples advice I waited and checked and rechecked for seats and found some available, called the BSO, and was able to transfer my ticket to another ticket and got an actual seat, and just paid the upcharge, and I'm glad I did, because the second picture is the view from my seat and the first picture is when I got there and was walking around, and I'm sure the sound was good but the view is terrible if you don't get there early enough and are far away in the back. If you zoom in, you can just barely see the stage. Also, the traffic on that one lane road leading up to the venue was awful, I sat in it for a long while, so if you are going keep that in mind. Yes yes yes!! Jay even got a really good seat the day of, I remember.

Williams demanded a decked out trailer and insisted on his own hair guy.

Listening to Bruno Walter rehearsing the Linz symphony. This feels like such a privilege. My goodness.

It is an open secret in Hollywood that Williams is a demanding and difficult actor to work with.

This is the best thing he’s written in twenty years!

Well, back in late 2016 some idiot at Universal uploaded to the internet a version of The Mummy trailer without music or sound effects. Of course it was taken over, but before that the internet had already replicated it all over Twitter, YouTube, etc. Now it lives as a hilarious meme, and the most memorable thing about that movie. Tom Cruise's screams as the airplane falls is one of the funniest things I ever saw, especially if you imagine him at a recording booth screaming like that.

Those are lovely

"Zay belong here Mozambique"

"My balloons. Those are my balloons. He stole my balloons! Why didn't anyone tell me he had one of those... things? Bob, gun."

It lends the sequence a bit more of a mythical feel as you're not seeing any real characters except Sauron. The final bit with the one ring is a bit underwhelming though.

Yep. Also Tibetan singing bowls (a Smaug-y sound!), wooden fish and the now-mandatory taikos. Gallagher also told someone in his notices that there are more medieval instruments yet to come! I kind of did a roundup of the orchestrations from what I could tell from the pictures and partitura: Strings: 10 Violins I, 8 Violins II, 6 Viola, 4 Violoncelli, 2 Contrabasses. Woodwinds: 2 Flutes and 1 Piccolo, 2 Oboes and 1 Cor Anglais, 2 Clarinets and 1 Bass Clarinet, 2 Basoons and 1 Contraforte; at least two Crumhorns, doubling multiple registers, seemingly bass, tenor and soprano; at least two shawms also doubling several registers and on Rauschpfeife and Dulcian. Brass: 6 horns, 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones and 1 Bass Trombone. Keyboards: 1 Grand Piano Percussion: At least 2 percussionists on Taiko (O-Daiko, Chu-Daiko, Hira-Daiko and Shime-Daiko), gong, fish temple blocks, tibetan singing bowls, possibly vibraphone. Interesting to imagine what some of these colours are for: Even not bearing the Shore scores in mind, I'm having a hard time imagining Helm striding into Meduseld and hearing singing bowls, and somehow it also doesn't strike me as a Dunlending sound: Maybe for the Southrons?

Great composer, his music is melodic with great use of piano and strings. My favorite scores: 1. It's all About Love 2. Lost and Love 3. Menachem & Fred 4. When a Man Loves a Woman 5. The Beautiful Country 6. Anonyma, Eine Frau in Berlin 7. Aglaja 8. Bleu/Rouge/Blanc 9. Feast of July 10. Un Secret

"Helmet! So, at last we meet, for the first time, for the last time."

Well, good for you! If wearing turtlenecks most of the year (because I do feel cold most of the time) and having a similar trimmed beard, having had for about a decade the only website in Portuguese dedicated to Williams and at the time, the most complete and well constructed discography on the web, makes me an obsessed fellow, well, that's my problem isn't it? Because, trust me, I can out run Maurizio... Because, believe it or not, my sons are called João (in memory of my late grandfather) and Guilherme (because my ex-wife felt he was her prince and need a prince worthy name) which can translate to John and William. As many friends have pointed out over the past 21 years, that can't be a coincidence... maybe it wasn't at some unconscious level. That does make look like an obsessed guy about an 92 year young composer... maybe it does, and probably I am. And let me tell you, that never affected the remaining and multiple aspects of my daily life. And I'm sure the same applies to Maurizio. If there is some sort of obsession is still as healthy as it could be, not overlapping with any other needed and healthy daily routine (my current job at the school board is probably less healthier than being obsessed about John Williams...) I just really fail why that is such of a big deal to you. You've grown up and don't worship and old man. Great. I don't mind not growing up. Isn't it great we live in a free world when we can make those choices? If you feel that Maurizio's "obsessive" website isn't worth your attention, just move on to what you find is worth instead of complaining about it. That surely will be and healthy decision.

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That’s where I almost, kinda fell out of love with JP. As much as I adored his Bourne scores (especially the first two), and his X-Men 3 score, and even his first HTTYD, he started to become “too much” for me at that time, where I just couldn’t listen to any of his scores all the way through. And as much as I like the HTTYD films, and I have all 3 scores both as OSTs and the extended editions, I don’t listen to them, or only a few cues, than I grow tired of them and put on something else. It’s the same with Solo. And I genuinely like the guy and his music, but not in great portions I guess. And I chose HTTYD3 over Hellboy 2.

His music had a background cameo

A.I ""artists"" should be put in prison unless it's for funny meme photo prompts like "Santa getting arrested"

Last year I spent $65.50 per ticket, including fees, to sit in section 20. I recommend the shed, and not the lawn, if you want to see the stage. And buy your tickets right at the onsale time, because they usually sell pretty fast. Excited for you!

I want it to go to some third-tier RCP composer and their own bench of additionals so I have zero reason to think or care about Jurassic Park 7.

I kinda want an Alan Silvestri JP score. John Powell would be great too, but he'd never do it. I suppose Desplat is most likely?

Oh wow, I hoped for Gareth Edwards to helm this but I didn't actually expect it to be the case. Great news - I feel like his Godzilla was an attempt at making Jurassic Park, but it was probably not the best fit (people just want to see the kaiju in kaiju films, Spilebergian suspense was maybe a bad call), though I still really liked it a lot. The more exciting prospect is that Desplat might get a shot at this - assuming there was no fallout from his Rogue One exit. I suspect that really was a scheduling issue caused by executive meddling, considering the film was essentially taken out of Edwards' hands towards the end of production. If not Desplat then Britell please. Just no Giacchino; I can't stomach any more of his saccharine attempts or clumsy handling of Williams' themes.

Powell would be fantastic, but I don't see it happening unless Williams or Spielberg lobby for it. Giacchino did admirable work on the trilogy but it's time for fresh blood. The series needs to reinvent itself and not simply be Jurassic World 4. Make it Jurassic Era 1 or whatever, the start of something new. Dominion left a bad taste in people's mouths; the best approach here is a clean slate. New characters, new locations, and a story worth telling.

And during the suspense scenes, you will hear a clock ticking.

So he is going to quote The Lost World?

Julia Roberts - Hook and Stepmom Robin Williams - Hook and A.I. Artificial Intelligence Dustin Hoffman - Hook and Sleepers Kevin Costner - Amazing Stories and JFK Brad Pitt - Sleepers and Seven Years in Tibet Anthony Hopkins - Nixon and Amistad Mel Gibson - The River and The Patriot

Yeah, this is indisputable. And well-justified too, given the strong linkage of the Barber adagio with Kennedy -- both as a piece he personally admired and one that was indelibly linked with his memorialization following his death. It's also a piece Stone had already mined in Platoon, directly as well as the the original Delerue score that at times is undisguised Barber pastiche. And of course Williams had already channeled another Barber work, the Violin Concerto, if anything more pervasively in Born on the Fourth of July. Sources: Larson, The Saddest Music Ever Written; Howard, "The Popular Reception of Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'", Audissino, John Williams's Film Music, this earlier thread: I've also always been struck by the affinity between this cue from Jaws and the mysterious coda at the end of Vaughan Williams's Second Symphony. It's not the only place in the Jaws score that seems to draw from that coda (the end of "Preparing the Cage" too). And Goldsmith also drew a lot from this piece, and RVW more generally, esp. in Alien.