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Is that really the only time you go to the cinema? 
 
Holy moly I'd live there if I could. I used to see multiple movies a week! Now I have a family so it's less often but a theater is like church for me if church was awesome! 
 
Of course church doesn't charge you $20 for a ticket and popcorn.... 

I cannot wait to listen to that Overture. I have a feeling we'll have plenty of music here to enjoy for years to come. 

I cannot wait to listen to that Overture. I have a feeling we'll have plenty of music here to enjoy for years to come. 

I cannot wait to listen to that Overture. I have a feeling we'll have plenty of music here to enjoy for years to come. 

I cannot wait to listen to that Overture. I have a feeling we'll have plenty of music here to enjoy for years to come. 

This score is going to be amazing.

Here's the track listing, courtesy of Amazon UK:
 
1. Overture
2. The Witching Hour
3. To Giant Country
4. Dream Country
5. Sophie's Nightmare
6. Building Trust
7. Fleshlumpeater
8. Dream Jars
9. Frolic
10. Blowing Dreams
11. Snorting and Sniffing
12. Sophie's Future
13. There Was a Boy
14. The Queen's Dream
15. The Boy's Drawings
16. Meeting the Queen
17. Giants Netted
18. Finale
19. Sophie and the BFG
 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/BFG-Soundtrack/dp/B01EX1AUL0?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_6&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

It was a selection of scenes while he conducted the Jedi Steps and Finale.
 
He clearly had a crush on Rey! Confirmed by the maestro himself. He will not allow anyone else to write music for her (his own words).

Guys, the concert ended a little while ago and I honestly think it's the best and my favorite one I've been to! 
 
I've been going to the Williams / Symphony Hall concerts for about 10 years and this one was probably the most fun.
 
The program was excellent, loved hearing four huge new Star Wars pieces live.  I'm pretty sure they were all a little different from their CD counterparts.
 
But what made it extra special was Williams' banter in between pieces; it really was the best and funniest I've seen him!
 
His comments were all Star Wars related; he talked about how much he loved writing for Rey and how smitten he is by Daisy Ridley, how he wrote Leia's theme as a love theme (I'd never heard that before!), speculated about Rey's parentage, and more or less confirmed he's doing Episode 8! All his stories were ones I hadn't heard before, it was great!
 
Will write more when I get home!

I wonder how it really looks. I still think is a deserving treatment for such an iconic score, but I cannot help but being afraid that all these multiple releases on various formats will make a complete release of the seven scores far more difficult, at least in the near future.

I agree with most members here regarding Empire Strikes Back audio quality. The original album program is a really interesting way to enjoy the score, and the remaster really benefits the music. There are details in this higly coloristic orchestration that I've never heard before.
 
But the Finale was the down point for me, being one of my favorite pieces from the score. The most delicate details were completely lost, like the harp glissandi at the very begining, practically inaudible in this release. The horns and low strings are unbalanced with the rest of the orchestra, and stand out inappropriately at times when they should be supporting the high strings. This is especially audible in the last exposition of Han and Leia's theme. Finally, in the Imperial March, at 4:25, something I don't know how to describe happens with the audio, destabilising itself for a good couple of seconds.
 
I still enjoyed it, and wish we had this on CD!

And he gave total number.  Not half number, or, faith and begorrah, even less.  Total number.

And goodbye! (It was a spammer account).

I like this three Songs.
 
Am I Beautiful?
Man of Love
Improbable as Spring

Star Wars fans. despite his meme-status he's a very well-liked Star Wars character, been the subject of many parodies and praised for his charming performance in ROTJ. he was also brought back in for TFA so clearly there's some love going on with ol' fish-face.

That's not how the Force works!

He would have played Poe Damonron.

Here is why I thought it was interesting.  In London, the B flat trumpet is more common in symphonic settings but in the US, the C trumpet is more common. This being the first Star Wars performed in US, I wonder if that is why it was arranged for C unlike the previous Star Wars movies which were all B flat.  It also might indicate this is a gradual switch to C being the preference of the modern orchestral sound.  Yes, most players will decide on the instrument of choice, but there has been a gradual weaning off of B flat in the US.  Incidentally, Holst Planets and Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra were both using C trumpets.  It is a very minor point but just a little surprising. In the past, if you just thought "trumpet" generically, you were thinking of the B flat trumpet.  But it seems to be nowadays the generic trumpet is a C.  The C is considered slightly brighter than the B flat.  Maurice Murphy used a B flat in LSO Star Wars.

I think there is a good chance they have found better tapes in the intervening years. I am hoping for a completely new programme with improved sound.

MV Gerhard has officially confirmed on FSM that THE TOWERING INFERNO is upcoming from LLL:

" I am stating this right now -- Towering IS happening, but do not expect it for 2016"

He also added earlier:

"Some fantastic Williams planned, though...and a smattering of some other fantastic composers ranging from Mancina to Mancini!"

Just arrived!
 

 
And there's some great stuff inside!
 
Firstly, @Tom, you were wondering about whether MotR is extended. No it is not. The version in the score is the same as the concert suite on the album.
 
From a quick glance, Rey's Theme and Scherzo for X-Wings are identical to the album...
 
The handling of the Jedi Steps theme is interesting. Firstly, both in IV. and V., the orchestration is clearly different at the beginning. On the album, you've got a solo celeste playing the chords, and the initial rising melody is taken by the strings and flute. But in the sheet music, the celeste is doubled by flutes, and the rising melody is taken by strings + clarinet. Perhaps Williams decided in making the suite that this orchestration would sound preferable. I'm not sure...
 
Anyway, so what about the 3 min concert version of Jedi Steps?
 
Spoilers ahead!  
 
The music is identical to the last track in the album, up until about the 1:09 mark, where the strings combine with the horns to form a beautiful but dark melody. The strings continue for a bit, in Williams-like contrapuntal style, with sus chords a-plenty, but in particular strongly hinting at that Vader leit-harmonie (a bit like "Anakin's Theme" then...but NOT Anakin's Theme!).
 
Then, we go back to the original track, with the horns from about 1:09 on the album, but we're in Bb minor now, instead of G minor. And rather than going down in pitch, the horns simply restate the main motif (0:43 - 0:58).
 
Then, the dotted figure from 0:59 reappears, but orchestrated primarily for the brass. The dotted figure plays twice, but then the brass plunges into Vader territory, (note that only the brass is playing here), and we get a terrifying crescendo with the timpani from F# minor back into Bb minor (F# minor -> Bb minor is simply a transposition of Eb minor -> G minor, which are the chords which play on the 4th and 1st beat of the Imperial March, respectively). 
 
The brass is suddenly hushed, and we are back in Jedi Steps territory...but what is still unmistakably a variation on the opening chords of the Imperial March. But this again is hushed, and the winds resurface with a statement of the Jedi Steps motif. Although this time, the orchestra largely drops out for the final bar of this four bar phrase, and the final notes are changed slightly to emphasise a perfect cadence (F major add Db -> Bb minor) and to signify that this is the last time you'll hear the Jedi Steps motif.
 
After the cadence, the flutes finish off by playing Db -> Bb (a figure which is based off the first two notes of the Jedi Steps motif), and fading away on the Bb. The orchestra underpins this by playing the Vader leit-harmonie (Bb minor -> F# minor add Bb) three more times, before "degenerating" into a kind of perfect cadence (F-A-Bb -> Bb minor) but which still hints at the 'Dark Side'. While the orchestra is slowing down, the Db -> Bb figure is repeated, first in the violins, then the violas, then the cellos, i.e. descending through the "dying" orchestra.
 
We end with a low Bb minor chord in the strings, decorated by an upward Bb minor arpeggio in the harp...but it's not quite Bb minor.
 
All in all, an interesting suite which has plenty of Dark Side infused to keep the Star Wars fans guessing...
 
As for the actual ending suite: musically it's identical to the album version, apart from two places:
The Harry-Potter-esque bit at 2:58 is played twice, as in "Rey's Theme" The instance of Poe's theme which appears at 5:23 is extended by about 200%, to include the entirety of the theme (as it appears in 1:19 of "I Can Fly Anything" for example) The film ending is...identical to the film ending. The concert ending is the same as the ending in this video.
 
That's all I'll be saying about the suite for now.
 
EDIT: Just noticed that that first horn note at around 0:11 in Scherzo for X-Wings is an octave lower in the score.
 
 

Can this thread title be changed to "The BFG" so I don't keep seeing "John Williams announced as composer" when I glance at the forum while enjoying my morning coffee and think it's referring to Episode VIII?

He issss so baa - aaad... ve - eee -ry baa - aaad...
 
But it's very very saa - aaad... maybe he is not so baa- aaad....