Joni Wiljami

Cookies and great german white wines.

Cookies... they are so many things, nice breakfast, wonderful dessert but they are also something very difficult to say no to.

Cookies... they are so many things, nice breakfast, wonderful dessert but they are also something very difficult to say no to.

Maybe they also used cookies to get him out into the public.
 

Cookies... they are so many things, nice breakfast, wonderful dessert but they are also something very difficult to say no to.

Cookies... they are so many things, nice breakfast, wonderful dessert but they are also something very difficult to say no to.

THIS is what John Williams sounds like.  Remember when that one guy thought the music in the Dial of Destiny trailer might have actually been Williams?  lol

I was in awe of the 80's LA sound like E.T., Empire of the Sun, and Temple of Doom...detailed and full without the issues of later or earlier recordings.

How did he conduct it to the picture when the recording session footage is in the picture? Mind blown!
 

Here's the whole video! 
 

The Last Jedi sounds pretty good actually. 
 
Karol

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.

You just never know when Williams is gonna blindside you with a new commission out of nowhere.
 
 
 
 

In the last 15 years, The Force Awakens tops the list for me.  Tintin was a big deal for me as it was the first cartoon (yes, I know) that Williams would score.  They were both slight initial letdowns to me, but that was due to my insane expectations more than anything else.  I still think had Williams opened with or at least included a concert version of the heroic version of Tintin's theme, it would be considered a top ten score for many more people.  

Recorded...without the distraction of the ball.

It is best viewed with a side of lefse and lutefisk.  

One of the finer examples of Newman's delicate writing. The piano figure from 4:30 is the sort of thing I don't personally get from Williams' score.
 
Actually, I'd love to hear what Newman would have done for this film.
 
 

I don't really see the point in debating something like "memorability" which is by definition completely an individual experience.  I loved the film and have spun the OST more than a dozen times, which has made it a very memorable experience for me.  It won't be for others.

I wouldn't want it to be any longer because its his worse score! I like his early tv scores better than this! Main theme aside its totally forgettable! Thank god for Indy 5

Ahem... hasn't left Finland, Korvatunturi yet. Pretty soon he will...

Hook didn't deserve a nomination 

We just need variants of the crying emoji.  Maybe one just for sadness and anger over various the nature of various JW releases.  Should we have a poll of which JWfanner's likeness we should use for that one?  

I'm always bad with the reactions, I would be so happy if that will ever happen, would make me cry like with the wonderful " score only" Last Jedi thing!!! Tears of happiness...

Posting this here since some people might not be in the other thread, but Mangold did reply to this tweet:

Mine has come aswell today. Just listened to it for the third time. Still does very little for me!  When I see the movie I might like the score more but at the minute.  I Will probably hardly ever listen to it . A shame!