Miguel Andrade

I have a cd he recorded for Chandos in the early 80's, with some quiet good music. Other was not that interesting. And recently got a concert in vhs, featuring him conducting many Hollywood classics, including Williams Jurassic Park.

But yes there his, Stefancos... Waht came first, the egg or the chicken?

The Unfinished Journey premiere performance is available as private cd, as well as are dvd rips of both Jurassic Park and The Lost World (both with sound effects) And Stefancos, you forgot Hook! There are two diferent boots, both with diferent stuff. One is almost complete, but with poor sound, other witha much better sound, but misses a lot of thing. Addittionally, there are a number of private versions of Hook, combining this two, plus the official release and some dvd ripped cues.

Very rare! Haven't seen a copy in years. I love the score, although some of the songs on the cd really annoy me. I want to get the dvd of this to see if I'm able to get some alternate versions out of it. This was a very particular experience, since Williams recorded many of the main pieces before the filming started, so that Stone could get into the mood of the film! Williams retunrned then later just to work out some sinconizations problems. He made this into a 3 movement suite (Prologue -- The Motorcade -- Arlington), sadly not comercial available, but you may find it in some private concert recordings made by fans. The concert versionof Prologue is available on Edel's "Giants of Cinema -- the best of John Williams" (1993; EDL2748-2) with the L.A. Symphonic Orchestra (in fact the City of Prague Philharmonic), under William Motzing. As for getting the cd... Get one for you. The other, only buy if you want to get this to anyone who might be looking for it. Otherwise, leave it there so soemone else can find it and love it.

They are both based on the same story. Rózsa score is aavilable on several cd's, and I should point out the suite, recosntructed by Patrick Russ and Jon Kull on Koch (3-7375-2-H1), performed by the New Zealand Symphony, under James Sedares. The music is on Rózsa'z film noir mode. The later version, satrring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes and former US President Ronald Reagan, has incidental score by young Johnny Williams, ona somewhat jazzier register, with main and end titles by Henry Mancine (in fact teaken from Touch of Evil), as well as the song "Too Little Time", by Mancini and Don Raye, and sung by Nancy Wilson. The whole thing (except the main/end titles) was conducted by Revue Studios (Universal's tv studio, for wich the film was originally intended) music director Stanley Wilson. Needless to say the Mr. Williams score was never released, but a private cd, with some 15 minurtes of score (including some sfx), plus Mancini's theme and song, floats around.

Good for you! Getting married was on of the best things in my life. And as far as a wedding march is concerned, i always wanted the Throne Room march from Star Wars, but both me and my brothere weren't able to get anyone who would play it well enought... So we kept with Mendelshon's march.

Well, they are an ocen apart, so I guess that will also be somewhat hard.

You know, I keep going back to old recordings more and more. Analogical recordings. For some reason they have a sound that sometimes lacks on modern digital recordings. Maybe it's only an emotional response... but that is what happens to me. Not always, but sometimes. For example, I really don't like the last remastering of E.T. I prefer the original cd release, even with a poorer sound.

So, please step outside, so we can clear this up! You are not a jedi yet. Romao, AKA Alf Jedi But who told you I was the jedi emoticon... I want o be the bad guy

Williams *tried* to make the c.d. less boring . K.M. I love the score sans narration, I think this one of Williams finest work. But with the words from the book is just marvelous. Maybe it's only because I love the book so much... In fact I intend to read it again soon.

And did you had to reply three times?

K.M., this is the list of Chris: The first one is likelly to be made of the mp3 that were made available some two months prior to the cd release. Then you have the 5 diferent releases of the cd itself. Finally there's the promo single, also made available to radio stations, that I got from the net in mp3 format, and send Chris a copy. The Jedi Maestro programs was also available on-line here: http://www.wguc.org/content/starwars.asp I got a cd-r copy of that from a fellow JW collector who happens to work on the mass media.

This is not a bootleg. This was made by Sony for promotion on radio stations.

... but I just found out that their bio is very good right now

Do I hear some patriotic pride? But you're absolutelly right. The Vienna Philharmonic is great, one of the finest!

It is rather good, isn't it?! I haven't checked their Williams bio in along time, but the earlier version I knew about was very poor and with a ot of mistakes.

Now, I would love to get a copy of that tape...

I believe your talking about some work he done for silent movies, right? Most of that were only doing a main/end titles music, and jump to the next. On the beginning, "talkies" only had main and end titles, no underscoring.

Sadly, the original recordings were never released -- I think that only a few things by Elfman came out on a compilation. Williams staded in 93, during an interview that he would love to have recorded some of this music on his first Spileberg/Williams cd with the Pops, but none of them thought of that then... But later, in 95, while recording a new compilation, he lacked the oportunity again. What remaisn unreleased now, is only the music for Ghost Train, the first show of the series, also directed by Spileberg, a momo-thematic score, very dreamy sounding. The Mission, available on Varese, or the original recording on bootleg, is much more of an adventure score, and both include the main and end credits theme.

So, please step outside, so we can clear this up!

That's quiet impossible. The two orchestras are the same. Only 12 of the principal members are replaced by others during hte Pops season -- so the best you would got, as the BSO + 12 musicians. On the other hand, The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, is a totally diferent orchestra, made up of freelance musicians, even if soem of them come also from the BSO. That's because, as I'm told, in the studio, que orchestra is very closed recorded, with the mics right in front of the musicians, while on a concert all, this does not happens and you also capture the ambience of the hall In fact the LSO is strong mainly for their extraordinary brass section. But I also find the BSO/BPO a top flight orchestra -- in fact I believe that the BSO is usually named among the top 5 orchestras in the US.

Totally agree... was thinking about that earlier today... I'm sorry, but is that a joke? The only recording of the Pops under Williams I really have something to say about, is his own Liberty Fanfare in "By Request" cd. But getting back to stuff I would like to see Williams recording with the Boston Pops/Symphnony... I really would love him to do his Tuba Concerto, that was composed for the Pops centennial in 1985, and all the other fanfares he has done while he was their music director. I would love that he re-record 350 Jubilee Fanfare, since I think this recording lacks the warm string sound of the BPO/BSO.

1. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 2. Schindler's List 3. Angela's Ashes 4. The Empire Strikes Back 5. Jurassic Park 6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7. Nixon 8. Jane Eyre 9. Sabrina 10. The Accidental Tourist ---- Now for some personal notes... This is something very hard to do for me. There are many scores I would love to have included, and I'm regreting the way I ordered this already... It all depends a lot of my mood. Nevertheless, E.T. has always been my number one favorite. For some reason I keep coming back to it. And just for curiosity, if I could, I would include as my second favourite Williams work, his marvelous Cello Concerto -- but I supose we are only talking about movie scores.

... otherwise, what?

I don't know Hannibal's soundtrack. But I believe in you.