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    Roy Budd

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    33 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

     

    How good is this score? Enough to warrant a CD purchase?

     

    I have never got round to buying it myself but it is certainly very good music and not typical of the sound I would associate with Roy Budd.  It sounded quite Wagnerian at times.  The trailer for the 2017 premiere gives you an idea of what to expect.

     

     

    BBC Proms 2017

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    The John Williams prom from 2017 will be broadcast again this evening on BBC Four at 10 p.m. (about an hour from now).  It can also be viewed if you have access to BBC iPlayer.

     

    A reminder that Keith Lockhart conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra.

    James Newton Howard thread

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    Attention fellow personages of the intersphere!

     

    The Philharmonia will be giving the European premieres of James Newton Howard's violin and cello concertos in June 2021 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.  The concert will also include selections from his film scores.  Both Esa Pekka Salonen and the composer himself are listed as conductors.  There is no word yet on the violinist for the violin concerto (I guess that James Ehnes or even Hilary Hahn might be possibilities?), while the cellist for the cello concerto will be Andrew Shulman.

     

    An Evening with James Newton Howard

     

    It is good to see film composers such as James Newton Howard and Danny Elfman programming some of their concert works in addition to their film music.  The concert is more than a year away yet on 4th June 2021, but no harm in pencilling it in the diary.

    What is the last piece of classical music you listened to?

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    8 hours ago, The Illustrious Jerry said:

    Symphony No. 2 (Elgar)

     

    The second movement, Larghetto, from Elgar's second really left its mark on me.

     

    This is one of my favourite movements from any symphony.  I first heard it shamefully recently at the BBC Proms in 2014 performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko.  I found it an incredibly moving performance.

     

    Luckily the concert was televised that season and is now available in full on YouTube (albeit not in optimum quality, although the sound is fine).  The second movement starts at about 18:30 and is highly recommended for anyone new to this symphony:

     

     

    How long is your commute?

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    25 minutes ago, Thor said:

     

    Yikes! Now THAT'S a proper commute!

     

    Tell me about it!  It's not actually particularly far as the crow flies, but just a really awkward cut across London without a direct route from where I live to where I work.  I've been able to cycle it quicker than it takes on public transport or driving, which tells you all you need to know about rush hour traffic.

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    What is the last piece of classical music you listened to?

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    The Barbican Centre in London had a special 'Beethoven Weekender' last Saturday and Sunday to celebrate the 250th anniversary year of Beethoven's birth.  Over the weekend all nine of Beethoven's symphonies were performed by five of the great UK orchestras (Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia and The Hallé) and introduced by broadcaster and Beethoven aficionado John Suchet (the brother of Poirot actor David).

     

    I went to the second day (Sunday) and it was really fantastic value.  The day tickets cost only £25 and you could attend as many or as few concerts as you wanted throughout the day.  On the Sunday the RNS under Lars Vogt played symphonies seven and eight before The Hallé and Hallé Choir performed number nine under Sir Mark Elder.  All the seating was unreserved so you could sit wherever you wanted.

     

    As well as the symphonies, there were performances of Beethoven's sonatas played by Tai Murray and on Beethoven's own violin by Daniel Sepec at Milton Court, as well as an exhibition featuring pages from Ludwig's original manuscripts, his ear trumpet and other items.  In the pit theatre the Carducci Quartet played selections from his string quartets, interspersed with extracts from Beethoven's letters read by actor Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral).  They even screened episodes of the bizarre 1970s cartoon Ludwig about a giant egg thing that likes Beethoven.

     

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    How long is your commute?

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    If I am working at my base location my commute can be anything from one hour at best (if I am lucky with all of my connections) to one and a half hours (on a bad day) each way.  However, I don't listen to music on my usual commute, partly because I prefer to have my wits about me on public transport and partly because my usual journey consists of five separate legs - two buses and three trains - so I am changing between different modes of transport quite frequently and I want to be able to hear the various announcements on the Tube, the bus and at stations.

     

    In the mornings I prefer to read the free paper, while in the evenings I like to read on my phone what all you reprobates have written about John Williams on the interweb while I have been hard at work.  I sometimes listen to music on longer distance train journeys outside London, for example if I am working in another city or going to watch a football match somewhere, but I do most of my music listening at home.

     

    2 hours ago, Richard Penna said:

     

    I drive a lot on Saturdays with my walking group.

     

    I think you might be missing the basic concept of a walking group there, Richard!

    John Williams' DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Earthquake) 4CD Box Set from La-La Land Records

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    10 hours ago, Brian99_1 said:

    Do we know, even roughly, if these 3 scores are complete here?

     

    Earthquake is not complete, as it does not include several source music cues composed by John Williams, approximately eight minutes of which are audible in the theatrical version of the film.

     

    As far as dramatic underscore goes, I think everything is included on the new CD but I would have to watch the film again to be sure (I have not watched it since I received the wonderful new CD set).  My uncertainty stems from the fact that there are a few scenes scored with music tracked from elsewhere in the film - the scene early in the film when Dr. Adams is buried alive is tracked mostly with music for The Death of Jody but I think there was music tracked from another cue as well.  Also late in the film the scenes where the Mulholland Dam bursts and floods the city are tracked with music from A Crack In The Dam, Motordrome and some of the cues featuring Jody's motif, but again I would have to rewatch the film anew to check if all the music is accounted for elsewhere.

     

    There are definitely several source music cues missing from the set, however.  First up is some easily listening jazz heard in the supermarket where Jody works (audible for about 38 seconds).  Interestingly, the cue was also heard in one of the additional scenes shot for the expanded TV version a few years later, as Rosa listens to the radio while she applies her make up in her apartment before an unexpected visit from the creepy Jody.

     

    Next is a groovy pop cue heard as Lew Slade (George Kennedy) drowns his sorrows in the bar.  The cue is audible for about 32 seconds in the movie.  Immediately following that is a lengthy [1:47] source cue for a bar room brawl, the music featuring saxophone and hammond organ and sounding a little like Tom Scott's Starsky and Hutch theme.  The same source cue can be heard again in the additional scene shot for the TV version mentioned above, as Rosa changes channels on the radio.

     

    The film version of Miles' Pool Hall is also not included.  While the full album rerecording is included, the film version [1:46] is markedly different from the album version.  Following that is another great piece of Williams source music [1:18] featuring hammond organ as Slade admires Rosa's T-shirt in the bar.  You can hear both of these cues in this clip:

     

     

    Later in the film another piece of source music is played on solo guitar by one of the survivors in the Wilson Plaza.  The music is heard when Walter Matthau's drunkard dances and again a little later when Remy (Ava Gardner) asks after her father's condition.  While I am not 100% certain that the guitar cue is by John Williams, I do not recognise it from elsewhere and think it likely to be by Williams unless anyone knows any better.  Completists will also have noticed the absence of the Hare Krishna chant and a brief snippet of Dee Barton's music for High Plains Drifter, the movie that Rosa is watching when the earthquake begins.  Producer Jennings Lang worked on both Universal movies, so the latter was a nice bit of 'product placement'.  The Hare Krishna scene permitted a little in-joke at actor Marjoe Gortner's expense, as he had risen to fame as a child evangelist:

     

     

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