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    eitam reacted to Bayesian in John Williams Writes New Theme for ESPN College Football Championship - OF GRIT AND GLORY   
    A bit of a tangent, but who could have imagined even a decade ago we'd read words like this in 2023?
     
    JW is not just still working, but working in ways that impacts contemporary culture just as hard as his music did when he was 80... and 70 before that. Good grief. 
     
    It's a good thing I love this man because if I had any problem with him or his career, I'd be exasperated as fuck that he just keeps coming like this.
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    eitam reacted to Jay in Mike Matessino: "At least 5" new Williams releases due this year   
    I can't follow this logic.  By my count, we got 8 new albums for Williams' 90th year?
    The Berlin Concert (Feb 4) SpaceCamp (May 13) Presumed Innocent (May 20) A Gathering of Friends (May 20) Violin Concerto No. 2 And Selected Film Themes (June 3) Jurassic Park (July 5) The Fabelmans (Nov 11) Amistad (Nov 29) Plus 4 major reissues?
    The Complete Philips Recordings (Jan 21) Close Encounters (Aug 9) E.T. (Aug 9) The Cowboys (Nov 30) And a bunch of new compositions
    Fanfare for Solo Trumpet To Celebrate the Reopening of David Geffen Hall (Mar 22) Obi-Wan (May 26) Centennial Overture (Jun 3) Helena's Theme (Sep 3) Plus the man conducted major concerts all over the world
    Vienna (March 12-13) Philadelphia (Apr 19) Carnegie Hall (Apr 21) Pittsburgh (Apr 25) Hollywood Bowl (Sep2-4) Cleveland (Nov 13) Milan (Dec 12) What more do you want?
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    eitam reacted to TolkienSS in Avatar 2, 3 and 4 or how James Cameron stopped worrying and pulled The Hobbit on us   
    These movies must be the most expensive movies ever made that remain culturally completely irrelevant.
    The first Avatar left absolutely zero impact, and so will this one because there is nothing in there that's faintly original.
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    eitam reacted to DangerMotif in John Williams Writes New Theme for ESPN College Football Championship - OF GRIT AND GLORY   
    https://variety.com/2023/music/news/john-williams-writes-new-theme-for-espn-college-football-1235480841/
    Legendary composer John Williams has written an original theme for ESPN’s College Football Playoff National Championship, airing at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Monday night prior to the TCU-Georgia game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
    Titled “Of Grit and Glory,” it runs three and a half minutes and will score a specially created series of visuals that convey “the feeling behind the night, fear and anticipation, triumph and failure,” ESPN co-director and producer Martin Khodabakhshian tells Variety.
    Williams’ new theme – previewed for Variety late Thursday – plays like a joyful overture, opening with fanfares and shifting seamlessly from martial urgency to anthemic splendor, all richly orchestrated and instantly memorable.
    Khodabakhshian and his co-director and editor Michael Sciallis of Victory Pictures had dreamed about getting the world’s most famous film composer to write music for their opening sequence. So three months ago, at the urging of lead game producer Bill Bonnell (who had worked with the composer on past Olympic events), they wrote what Khodabakhshian calls “a love letter” to Williams, outlining their thoughts and gently inquiring about the possibility of an original theme.
    “There’s no better person on the planet to write about emotions and the things that come with the biggest night on ESPN’s biggest stage, our Super Bowl, than John Williams,” Khodabakhshian says. Adds Sciallis: “We wrote about the emotions of bringing people together, not just the competition side of it, but how audiences are affected.”
    Two days later, word came back: “He’s started writing something.” The ESPN team jumped into action, conceiving a visual sequence that would feature “college football heroes and legends from all eras” but also add “the beauty of Hollywood and California,” where the game would take place, Khodabakhshian notes.
    Williams conducted a 96-piece orchestra on the Sony scoring stage on Dec. 21. And ESPN was there with seven cameras, shooting the entire three-hour recording session, parts of which will be intertwined throughout the opening segment – “so you feel the energy of those orchestra members, and of John, playing this music for the first time, so the audience gets to feel that as well,” Sciallis says.
    The “giddiness and excitement” associated with a new Williams anthem for their big college football game was palpable throughout the ESPN executive suites, Sciallis says. Yet it remained top secret until today. On Saturday, ESPN will tease the opening and the Williams score during its NFL Wild Card Doubleheader.
    Williams’ new music will be heard throughout the TCU-Georgia matchup. He recorded several takes of the main piece as well as briefer excerpts, “a re-join piece and a vamp,” Sciallis reports; “cutdowns and stingers,” shorter pieces that could be useful during the game itself, were edited in the days following the Dec. 21 session.
    “He captured the spirit of the night,” says Sciallis. Khodabakhshian confesses he broke down in tears after the recording session. “I’m so overwhelmed and grateful because he’s the GOAT!”
    This is believed to be the largest-scale musical commission ever for the sports network. What will happen with the piece after Monday night is not clear. ESPN could theoretically use it in future college football broadcasts; no plans for a commercial release have apparently been discussed.
    In terms of music for athletic competition, the five-time Oscar winner has written four Olympic fanfares, a gridiron march for NBC’s football coverage, and the score for Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning short “Dear Basketball.” He hasn’t written music for television since his “Great Performances” theme for PBS, which won a 2009 Emmy.
    Williams, 90, was unavailable for comment. He is currently on the Oscar shortlist for his music for Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” and has been working for the past several months on the score for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” slated for release June 30.
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    eitam reacted to Naïve Old Fart in Star Wars Disenchantment   
    I've always wondered: is there any significance in "66", or is it just a random number?
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    eitam reacted to Jurassic Shark in Avatar 2, 3 and 4 or how James Cameron stopped worrying and pulled The Hobbit on us   
    It's a good thing to know yourself!
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    eitam reacted to Luke Skywalker in After reading this, who still thinks 'Dial of Destiny' will be Williams' last score?   
    The only fault of Tintin is not having the two planned sequels.
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    eitam reacted to Tom in [Betting Poll] Will The Fabelmans be nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar?   
    I would be shocked if it was not nomimated, though not as much as the shock I would experience if it won.   
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    eitam reacted to Jay in [Betting Poll] Will The Fabelmans be nominated for a Best Original Score Oscar?   
    The Fabelmans has made the Academy Award (Oscars) shortlist of 15 scores, one step closer to being one of the 5 nominees
     
    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-shortlists-95th-academy-awards-unveiled-1235285262/
     
    https://deadline.com/2022/12/oscar-shortlists-2023-categories-international-documentary-shorts-1235204412/
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    eitam reacted to Amvanquish in Am I reading this right- a new ending for Indiana Jones 5 and which needs to be scored?   
    How do you know that?? 
    The greatest art of deception sometimes is to make out that you are somebody else who spins a line but creates a conversation that questions the narrative
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    eitam reacted to Chewy in John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!   
    Any other positive thoughts? @bollemanneke
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    eitam reacted to mstrox in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, June 30 2023)   
    The original ending had Ford riding off into the sunset, but Mangold got so tired of the whiny chuds on the Internet that he filmed a new ending where Some Lady blows Indy up with a bazooka, puts his hat on, and says “I’m Indiana Jones now, and the real adventure is only beginning.”
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    eitam reacted to BB-8 in John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!   
    What a great CD cover this would have made...alas, it's history now.
     

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    eitam reacted to MisterXDTV in John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!   
    I was there guys!!
     
    Here are official photos from la Filarmonica
     







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    eitam reacted to Biodome in John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!   
    I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!
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    eitam reacted to crumbs in John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!   
    On the train from Florence to Milan and, honestly, it still doesn't feel real!
     
    Just knowing I'll be in the same city as the Maestro is quite a surreal emotion, on top of all the excitement of experiencing this beautiful country for the first time. 
     
    It definitely hasn't sunk in yet...
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    eitam reacted to AOP in John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!   
    Just about to board here in Tokyo! Will be a looong flight, but more than enough time to reacquaint myself with my favorite JW themes!
     
    Onwards!!
     
     
     
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    eitam reacted to Marvit in John Williams conducts Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, Italy, 12 December 2022!   
    John Williams has arrived in Milan.
    Source: filarmonica della scala (account Instagram)
    317767060_5554736484621873_3050689665627807447_n.mp4 An other video from the Filarmonica
    319000239_4936180026485725_2743850812614632773_n.mp4
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    eitam reacted to mrbellamy in 1975 movie Jeanne Dielman is chosen by critics as the best movie ever made   
    Spielberg has never made the critics' 100, I don't think. Jaws is in the directors' 100 list this year.
     
    I haven't seen Jeanne Dielman, Beau Travail, Killer of Sheep, Wanda, News From Home, Contempt, Sans Soleil, Daughters of the Dust, Touki Bouki, A Brighter Summer Day, Satantango, Histoire du Cinema, Black Girl, or Tropical Malady. Some of them are just so damn long, idk. Now excuse me while I go watch LOTR again. 
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    eitam reacted to Biodome in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I decided to settle the argument with a conclusive proof that John Williams wrote the trailer music. I simply asked ChatGPT, the world's most knowledgeable AI chat bot:

     
    UPDATE: After voicing my doubts to the chat bot regarding its last reply, it suddenly decided that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a non-existent film, and, thus, no trailer, let alone trailer music, exists for it:

     
     
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    eitam reacted to Not Mr. Big in DID JOHN WILLIAMS COMPOSE THE IJ DIAL OF DESTINY TRAILER MUSIC?   
    I can confirm that JW composed the trailer music.  It sounds just like him 
     
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    eitam reacted to Jay in AMISTAD (1997) - NEW! 2-CD 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition produced by Mike Matessino (2022)   
    I don't know what to say about this album, except that it's a masterpiece on multiple levels.
     
    It's a masterpiece of a film score - from themes to underscore to orchestration to soloist work.... I continue to be astounded by this score's many stand-out moments
     
    It's a masterpiece of a recording - say what you want about other recordings of his, but Shawn Murphy was at the top of his game in 1997 and this recording is one of the most satisfying recordings of his I've ever had the pleasure of listening to
     
    It's a masterpiece of album production - the main program is paced brilliantly, finally showcasing what Williams did for this film in a way the old score album couldn't come close to, and even the film does not.  The main program flows so perfectly into the bonus track section you just want to keep listening and don't even feel like you're in a bonus track section.  Any so many specific decisions were made to fit everything recorded for the score into 2 discs, but still keep a great flow throughout... Mike's instincts have never been better are how to take a big score and make it listenable.  And time I listen to a random track, I just keep listening to the album from there.
     
    There is no album of music of any genre I've listened to more than this since getting it.  It's an amazing release and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.  It's a must-have for any Williams fan.
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