[Are there no JW fans in Asia and why so many in Holland?]

With Memoirs just released it kind of made me realize that all the members here are from Holland (and some from other European countries, the US, Australia and some more minor countries), but none from the Asian countries.

Why is that? And why are so many members here from The Netherlands anyway? I mean; what do we have, like only 16 million people or something?  

Why is that?

John Williams following in Japan is huge, but they have their own forums in their own language that's why you very rarely if ever see any asian people here.

One of the biggest Williams sites from Japan:

http://jwfc.oc.to/

This is possibly the only "official" John Williams club in the world, having being acknowledged by Williams himself, not to mention he wrote a theme for the club:

[The JWFan.net Symphony Orchestra]

By the way, where's Dani?

If we can't find her do you want to be a castrati?

Neil

So, do you sing alto or soprano?

[LOTR in Memoirs]

Memoirs is a very beautiful score IMO, best one this year (VERY oscar worthy), but i keep on hearing a snippet of LOTR. Does anyone else hear the Gondor theme? This is in one of the most beautiful tracks, Confluence at segment 3.20. I know the melodies are similar and no one was plagiarizing the other. But the fact that the horn plays DAG, in the same key that the horn plays it in the Gondor track of the ROTK score keeps on making me think OMG LOTR! Maybe it's just me. anyone else have this problem?

There's klingons, Braveheart, Indiana Jones and mexican hat dance in LOTR

[The JWFan.net Symphony Orchestra]

Trombone, here

[Potterdom Film/Score Series Thread]

Hairy Pooper

[Piano Parts in Williams' Scores]

you can hear Williams playing in old Goldsmith scores

[The FULL Scoop on the Tanglewood Webcast]

so you can sneak us some recordings of Williams concerts from their archives we won't tell anyone

[Who will score Star Trek films now?]

how about Joel Goldsmith?

NO!

[Jerry Goldsmith 1929 - 2004]

Two pieces of bad news on the front JWfan.net page.  "Williams not doing Harry Potter 4" and "Jerry Goldsmith Passes Away".

Putting the Williams not doing Potter as bad news next to Goldsmith's passing is an insult.

[Ann Hobson Pilot and the Lames of Limerick]

She played that on John Williams' concert in 2000.

John Williams adapted his score for narrator, cello and orchestra. Yo-Yo Ma and Frank McCourt were for this special performance and was taped for the Evening at Pops TV show. Pilot played the solo harp piece beautifully, I think one or two measures were different, I guess Williams changed something he might not have liked. When I heard The Reivers with narrator it reminded me of Angela's Ashes (which I heard first) and the finale is different from the one in the film's score.

Williams Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt, narrator

Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Ann Hobson Pilot, harp

The Boston Pops Orchestra

John Williams

[The JWFAN MB Consensus Top 10 JW scores]

1. E.T.

2. Superman

3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

5. The Empire Strikes Back

6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

7. Star Wars

8. Jurassic Park

9. Hook

10. Schindler´s List

[Motif in THE LOST WORLD]

Danger motif? That´s like a step back for Williams :dontgetit:

[What JW score are you looking forward to the most?]

Indy 4 !!!!!

[Your Favorite Thing to Drink While Watching JW]

Hahaha!! Horner, leftovers LOL