Joe Brausam

Oh, nice news about the Philly Orchestra performance, maybe I'll be able to get a comp for that. I'll definitely be there either way! They're doing Gladiator live as well on July 18th, and West Side Story on the 30th. I was there for West Side Story live last time they did it, excellent performance.

I like the Brachiosaurs!

I'm in. Really it would look nice in an album frame, I have the original Star Wars LP framed as well.

Kevin Kiner is returning to score Star Wars Rebels. Important points: Using a 30 piece orchestra for the show, which is really quite large.Using more of John Williams' themes on this show than he did on Clone WarsMusic will become more experimental toward the end of season 1, for a story reasonAlso posted was a recording of his titles music for Rebels, sounds like a synth demo. Very heavily influenced by 3 themes - the rebel fanfare, the motif from "Into the Trap", and the Force theme. Sounds much closer to the John Williams sound than his previous militaristic main title music for Clone Wars. https://soundcloud.com/theforcenet/star-wars-rebels-theme Also linked to this article is an L.A. Times interview with Kiner. http://www.theforce.net/story/front/Star_Wars_Rebels_Reveals_Theme_Music_Introduces_Composer_At_WonderCon_Panel_157463.asp

The Gabrielli music they're doing is just as incredible, if no one's ever heard the album "The Antiphonal Gabrielli" it's really worth checking out.

On Thursday June 12th, brass players from many of the major orchestras in the US (Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, San Francisco, L.A., Detroit,many Chicago's orchestras are all represented) will gather in California as the "National Brass Ensemble" to perform a concert of music by the renaissance composer Gabrielli, which is exciting on it's own! How does this relate to us? Apparently John Williams was commissioned to write a new work for brass especially for this occasion. I believe this performance is supposed to be recorded as well. This ought to be incredible. Check out the link! http://gmc.sonoma.edu/event/2170779-national-brass-ensemble-in-concert

The Duck Tour really is fun to do, some of the drivers are especially amusing.

I don't know about recordings, though some can be heard on his website. I've played his horn sonata, and his trumpet solo Excursions is working its way very quickly into standard recital repertoire. He's a name that people know, and many of them not for his film music.

Any Broughton is a safe bet. If he were still writing for movies today he would really be the only film composer that could truly hold a candle to Williams. Luckily we still have him writing in the concert world, and his music is very well respected.

It seems as if no one has noticed Intrada announced Young Sherlock Holmes is coming next week, along with a new Excalibur collection Rózsa recording! It'll be a great week!

This is cool. You could do some Olivier Messiaen type stuff with this!

Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Michel Legrand.

William Ross has been amazing. They just did Umbrellas of Cherbourg, love it!

Somewhere In Time, Jesus! I'm listening to this half-asleep, and still recognised it. I guessed it eventually! A lot of Barry music is just way too nondescript and neutral to me.

The problem is that it sounds so familiar. I know I own it, but I can't place it!

Somewhere in Time?

What score is in the memorial montage? I know I own it...is it Barry?

She took a breath in between practically every other word! Very annoying.

Mass woodwind quintet with the Philadelphia Orchestra principal players. You can see me in the horn section wearing a bright red sweater playing my fairly recently purchased triple horn.

The whole 2014-2015 schedule for the Philly Orchestra looks incredible, and this was such a welcome surprise.

Got mine yesterday. I haven't had a chance to comb through it, but it looks awesome. It'll be fun to check out when I have the time!

We get together before the Saturday night concert. I'm glad you're making it this year!

So despite some of the reservations that we may have regarding this...is anyone else just really excited that a new Star Wars movie is going to be filming in 4 months? I mean, I think that's really cool. Optimism!

Not that the instrument is easy, but I do think sometimes that the difficulty of it is overstated. It's just simply different, and falls sometimes in an awkward area of the harmonic series. But with double and triple horns most of those obstacles are overcome, or at least made into less of an issue. But many school music teachers, unless they're horn players, don't quite understand the instrument and get afraid to teach it and I think that also contributes to the difficulty stigma of it. Overall though, I don't feel it's any harder than other brass instruments...just different.

Oh wow, this looks awesome!