[John Williams returns to Berlin for three concerts, June 5-7 2025]

That's great ! I'll absolutely try to get tickets. 

It's really perplexing that there is still no news of a concert in London and/or with the LSO. Maybe John Williams is superstitious and doesn't want to try again after the 2018 miss 

[BREAKING NEWS: Disney Records to never release STAR WARS & INDIANA JONES Complete Collection Boxsets]

Sadly I'm not yet at the point where I can just laugh about this. 

[NEW book by Frank Lehman - The Skywalker Symphonies: Musical Storytelling in Star Wars]

Can't wait to read this ! 

 

17 hours ago, Falstaft said:

Incidentally: I don't see it trumpeted nearly enough on these boards but Chloé Huvet came out with a book on SW music (mainly the OT and PT) a couple years ago that is absolutely brilliant and similarly synthetic in approach. 

 

Ordered ! Strange that this escaped my notice. 

[The Doctor Who Thread.....]

Great news ! Given what he had said, I didn't dare hope he would return so fast. 

[The Official Zbigniew Preisner Thread]

I love his work too, thank you @Thorfor the tip about his new album !

 

To the ones you've already mentionned, I'll add Silence Night and Dream, and 10 Pieces for orchestra (both non film). 

[John Williams In Tokyo - New live concert album coming May 3rd, 2024 from Deutsche Grammophon]

2 hours ago, BB-8 said:

He looks exhausted...like any other conductor of that age.

 

Yes, that's more likely. 

[John Williams In Tokyo - New live concert album coming May 3rd, 2024 from Deutsche Grammophon]

6 hours ago, ricsim88 said:

Video of Superman march. Didn’t see it posted.

 

 

 

Great video, but is it me or does John look incredibly bored during the performance ? 

[Your Top 10 Howard Shore non-Middle Earth Scores]

I like a lot of his scores, but here are my favourite non-Tolkien :

 

Silence of the Lambs 

Looking for Richard 

Esther Kahn

The Cell

The Yards

The Aviator

Eastern Promises 

[20 years ago: remembering the best scores from 2004]

There was also Steamboy (my favourite Jablonsky, and a great movie too), Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki + Hisaishi, what more need be said), and the first season of Battlestar Galactica which put Bear McCreary on the map.

[How to Pronounce Film Composers’ Names]

The "t" is silent but not the "s". Desspla. 

Here he pronounces his own name (thanks Wikipedia) : 

 

[Will JW score the Rey Skywalker movie?]

It's not too late for Williams to write a theme for Rey. Remember, he had to wait till Attack of the Clones before he could write the series' first love theme. 

[Hayao Miyazaki Retires From Feature Directing]

2 hours ago, mrbellamy said:

This thread title gets funnier with every new piece of Boy and the Heron info and marketing and should never be changed 

To be fair, reading the first posts of the thread (minus all the blank posts), people weren't fooled by the anouncement. 

[Ecoutez le cinéma John Williams release - The Legend of John Williams 20CD box set]

You're right, there never was an OST album for this one... Well, the word used in the interview is "re-edition", but I hope it means "release"! 

[Ecoutez le cinéma John Williams release - The Legend of John Williams 20CD box set]

An interview (in French) with Stéphane Lerouge on underscores, about the making of the box set:

https://www.underscores.fr/chroniques/disques/2023/10/the-legend-of-john-williams/

 

It's a very nice read. My main takeaway is that apparently a Rare Breed reedition is in the works.

[The official "I just saw an awesome concert" thread.]

Danny Elfman's music for Tim Burton's movies, yesterday evening at the Royal Albert Hall. 

 

Overall I liked it, I was glad to hear for the first time live some great music from Beetlejuice, Batman & Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride. But the main attraction was hearing the man himself (looking weird and fit at 70) perform songs from the Nightmare before Christmas.

 

Main gripe was the bad electronic amplification. The music was loud most of the time, even in what should be quiet moments, and in the most orchestrally dense moments it was sometimes illegible. It also drowned out Danny Elfman's voice at several points, which, come on, I'm no expert but can't they do better than this? 

[Mission: Impossible 7 & 8]

13 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Not only is Benji's trip across Vienna very confused (he leaves U2, which would have taken him to Karlsplatz stations (where the State Opera is located), at Schottenring station, and seems to change to U4, which *could* take him there as well (the same station, so still no need to change in the first place), only he goes to the wrong platform for the other direction; he never actually gets *on* a train there though, but suddenly emerges at Karlsplatz station - 5 stops away) - he doesn't even take the correct exit. There's one that emerges right next to the opera house, but he takes the one across the street instead, which means he then has to cross the Ringstraße (5 lanes, plus two tramway lanes and a bike lane), right between two pedestrian crossings.

 

 

 

I'm not as familiar as you with the Vienna subway, but I understood it as Benji taking a voluntarily circuitous path to make sure he had no tail, as instructed by Ethan. 

[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Cannes Score reactions)]

It's that time again, maybe for the last time, when only a select few people have seen JW's latest movie and can offer frustratingly vague and arbitrary comments on the score. 

It's part of the process of jwfan. 

[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, June 30 2023)]

I'm a little surprised by the RT score so far, reviews here in France are mostly positive. 

[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Cannes Score reactions)]

16 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said:

I think there are some straight lifts from Tintin. I think the Tintin End Credits piece is ripped off for one of the set pieces. Almost note for note.

 

Weird, but rather this than a straight lift from Adventures of Mutt... 

 

18 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said:

• B part of Indy's theme is also used.

 

YES ! 

[What are the best, most elegant and listenable horror scores?]

I'm very partial to Brian Tyler's The Killing Room (maybe not exactly horror ? I've never seen the movie), and Howard Shore's The Cell. 

[Williams "didn't stop until he had written over two hours of music" for Indiana Jones 5]

https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destinys-director-explains-the-complex-process-of-getting-john-williams-to-score-the-film

 

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It's even more complex than that. I was thrilled beyond belief, but at first he was going to write some themes, you know, and then hire some people to help arrange it throughout the movie. And then he saw the movie. And then he started writing themes, and then he just didn't stop until he had written over two hours of music. In pencil!

 

So I'm confused, I thought Williams had been confirmed way before the movie shooting was completed ? 

 

 

EDIT sorry, didn't see it's already being discussed in General Discussion 

[John Williams interviewed on Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on CNN, Sunday March 5]

2 hours ago, Alex said:

although he does look tired.

 

Probably because of the 13 interviews he's done in the past week

[Cues that sound better when segued together]

19 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Did you download that from Napster 20 years ago? 

 

OK that was subtle, i didn't realize I was off topic

 

Return to Marlinspike Hall & Finale, followed by The Adventure Continues. The last minute of the Finale always gets my blood pumping in anticipation of the sequel... and then I remember. 

 

[Cues that sound better when segued together]

Quartz Shipment, followed by Battle at the Pyramid, from Stargate. 

[John Williams Writes New Theme for ESPN College Football Championship - OF GRIT AND GLORY]

"shifting seamlessly from martial urgency to anthemic splendor, all richly orchestrated and instantly mémorable" 

Can't wait to hear it 

 

If he's still around in 2028, he WILL write something for the olympics.