Joe Brausam

I will be there for the Friday night show.

I'll be heading to this...but no idea which night yet!  

JWFan was born 25 years ago today! 
 
Hard to imagine back then that the site would still be up and running two and a half decades later, let alone that the Maestro would still be active after having composed nearly thirty more film scores and a similar number of concert works, as well as conducting over 200 concerts including Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Japan!
 
Dozens of his film scores have received perfect releases during all this time, providing fans with the confidence that many more will come in the future, while maintaining and further enhancing the collective appreciation and admiration for the music we all love and which will remain with us for the rest of our lives.
 
The analysis and discussion of his work has reached such level of comprehensiveness and detail, that our forums have become an essential reference for fans and scholars, while fomenting the creation of fascinating projects that expand and deepen the study of the Maestro’s oeuvre and contribute to increasing its appreciation by future generations who, without doubt, will continue to ensure that his name is in the place it deserves in the history of music and cinema.
 
Thank you, Mr. Williams, and thanks to all those who have contributed during this time to make the site such a wonderful place. Here’s to 25 more!
 
PS. The following quoted post, written for this thread 10 years ago, provides a short summary of the origins of the site:
 
 
 

Star Wars/Close Encounters of the third kind
The Adventures of Tintin/War Horse
 

Uh oh, maybe we failed at press release writing if that wasn't obvious.
 
Yes, this is not just a new main program followed by a long bonus track collection.
 
This is two albums in one. First a new 2-disc album of the complete score that includes the film's three finished songs.
 
Then Disc 3 is a carefully curated and arranged album that takes you through the story in a whole new way. Every track is carefully placed to not only create a strong narrative, but to showcase the musical that almost was in the best way possible.
 
Mike, John (Takis), Deniz and I all really hope people will listen to the main program of Disc 3 as it is when their set arrives, as opposed to cherry picking tracks and jumping around to start. You'll have the rest of your life to listen to all this music in any manner you like, but only one chance to introduce yourself to the songs the way they are presented here, which was in full consultation with Williams and Bricusse.
 
It's amazing how the songs strengthen the score and the score strengthens the songs. It's like a continually rewarding experience for a long while after you get it. I've never experienced anything quite like it in all my years of film music collecting. I hope everyone finds it as rewarding as I do.
 
Oh, and the extra space at the end of discs 2 and 3 was a great place to be able make the overall release complete, while still maintaining the integrity of the two new albums within it. Everything worked out beautifully!

It's real. It exists.
 


 
Pictures courtesy Mike Matessino, who shares them with this message
 
Once again it didn't feel real until I actually saw and held it as a three dimensional object. So much work went into this with so many people involved. It's taken years but here it is!

I can't emphasize strongly enough that listeners should enjoy the crafted album experience of Disc 3 as we've presented it. I'm so thrilled this can finally be shared.

You jest, but I remember an early tracklist for the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack making its way online. It contained a track called I Am the Senate that was nowhere to be found on the final album.  When we all realised this scored a key scene and was impossible to rip cleanly from the surround mix, some people were... dismayed, to say the least.
 
For some of us, twenty years of people ripping video games has thankfully filled in a lot of the gaps in this score. But officially, this still remains unreleased. 

I remember talking about Temple of Doom a lot twenty years ago.
 
Just sayin'. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All jokes aside; what an age we live in. I still can't wait for this one.

BTW it's great Jay your working on these expanded editions , you might have some insight into the mind of a JWfan that MM might not even have

All precisely intended

Really cool!  This is such a fun score.

Reprint of the DoD OST?

10 years ago!?!?!
 
 

left to right: @Joe Brausam, @Foxfan, @#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal, @Jay, ???, ???, @obiwan71, @josefsuma

LIVE from Lincoln Center!
 

Now in the floor-level lobby near the bar.
And another!

The Academy voters at large have this fucking beef with John Williams 
But All Quiet is better than Everything Everywhere at least, which is on the level of the midi underscore you'd hear in a Rick and Morty episode 
 

I think the wording can be skewed that way, but what they mean is that the original 5.1 and stereo mixes were by Rhodes and Murray.

Last time it was a touring orchestra from Europe.
 
Chances of it being NY Phil players are slim though, a lot of these concert are performed by freelancers via the local AFM.  Sometimes it’s folks from the major orchestras, but generally not.

I would love to see Avatar 2 beat Endgame. I'll do my part by seeing it again, this time in a proper theater setting, as opposed to the shitty Regal Edwards in Fairfield, which was the only one available on opening weekend.

Yes, that link works, and it is a re-share of the video that Rian Johnson posted to twitter and vimeo on January 23rd of 2018
 
The tweet is gone now, but this is the vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/252417024
 
It's been discussed on JWFan before here and here

Avatar is a 5 star score.

Sounds like Horner!  I’m excited to hear something original, but I’m equally excited to be immersed in the soundscapes Horner created.

Sounds like Horner!  I’m excited to hear something original, but I’m equally excited to be immersed in the soundscapes Horner created.

WOW!  I called it 13 years ago??  😂