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Listening to Goreckis second. I think we should all just take the day off and listen to some Gorecki

If you want some more cool Polish concert music check out this:

Karol

"Synthesised Wallpaper Labourer"

Nah the standard will be two discs:

First disc called Flight of the Dragon

Second disc called Experiments from the Vatican with a 28 minute track called "Conrad Pope's Original Sketchbook".

Here's hoping for a Bilbo line like this: "Is that a fourth leg, Smaug the Magnificent, or are you just pleased to see me?"
Don't think it can't happen.

One problem with comparing Zimmer with more traditional film music composers is that Zimmer still works very much from a pop background.
While a composer like JW writes every note himself and his orchestrators do little more then copyist work. Zimmer is a collaborator. He invloves others in the writing and production of his music. This is perfectly normal in the pop world, where songs usually arent the sole result of a single artist.
And like the pop scene, Zimmer credits his collaborators on the CD.

Fake? Fake what?

Generally, yes.
One of my favourite 'dark' Williams cues. Lowest octave of the piano with pedal down, bass drum pulse, swiped gongs, dense string clusters, muted trombones/horns, string portamenti, high polytonal rolled chords on the piano/celeste etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBN5JSAbI4
Would love to interview Williams about this material, while he's still with us.

The beginning of TEotW is IMO the best theme on the album.

In the first game Marty had a relatively minuscule musical budget and made do with the synth and instrumentals he had at his disposal. I love the original score. The second game saw him awarded a small orchestra and the quality of writing did scale beautifully with the more sophisticated audio, but it was indeed Halo 3 where O'Donnell embraced full melodic arc and the big sweeping statements of romantic science fiction wholeheartedly. An amazing score in places, with some odd atonal electro stuff which suited the game just fine but undermined the album a bit.
I LOVE Marty's melding of styles with a passion, but as you know he doesn't just write in that way. His versatility sees him deliver cues which are fully orchestral affairs and others which experiment with electric guitars and synth etc - but always the harmonies are strong, which for me is absolutely key.
A cue like this I find friggin' epic:

This is something that happens virtually in every message board after a long time, mainly because the people who post more frequently start to get used to each other and to the respective POVs about most of the topics in discussion, especially in cases of very specific, niche-like subjects like film scores. It's part of the game, I guess, and the reason why many people in the end feel more comfortable in some boards than others.
However, that's also a sign that more often than not the subject of the discussions themselves probably arrived at a dead point. I mean, how long we can discuss perspectives, ideas and point of views about a certain topic, especially a very specific one (like, say, the aesthetic of Hans Zimmer's music or Williams' current style or complete & chronological release vs. album presentation, etc.) after years and years of debate and confrontation? The repetition of the very same concepts and threads is certainly something that speaks more about people's passion for a certain argument than the validity of the argument itself. I mean, we're not UN ambassadors talking about how keeping peace between countries (it's a stretch, I know, but take it as the ultimate example). Certain topics have only a delimited area of discussion that, after a certain amount of time, arrive at its natural end.
That's not to say people cannot nor shouldn't discuss any of those topics--this is a message board after all! But the insistence on certain arguments and the fact that, like you pointed, the subject changes rapidly from "what we're discussing" to "how we're discussing it" is likely a sign that we maybe prefer contributing because we want mainly our voice to be heard, we want to see our opinion valued and appreciated by other fellow members so that we can feel more at ease with our own point of view on certain things. At the very end, we will have always the evergreen "It's all personal taste, you know!" argument on our side, which is usually the killer of any good exchange of POVs. Because let's be frank: what we probably care the most is our own personal opinion about certain things.
I know, this very post is an example of what I just said, but actually this is the reason why I don't post much here nor any other board. I still prefer the "what" than the "how", in this very case. And that's usually much easier and funnier to do in real life conversation than in virtual places. I'd love to see more people getting engaged into speaking WHY they LOVE something instead of getting into pointless bickering about the same old things all the time and getting defensive about certain things or offensive about others. I'm not talking about personal attacks of course, those are simply a sign of disrespect and incivility.

Howard Shore is slowly approaching 70. Maybe the mad schedules of Peter Jackson don't agree with him. He seems more of a intellectual type of person who likes to work in peace. That's how I see it.
Karol

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the score! I want the goddamn score!

Agreed, very fine
Yet here you are on a film music message board! Music should be all kinds of things, not just calm and noble. Bach recognized that.

When did I say anything about appeal? I said the connection between the artist and the audience. I mean this quite literally. An artist creates the art, the audience then consumes it. There is a direct line drawn between the two. What I feel when I listen to a piece of music or watch a film is exclusive to me. I am the one that qualifies the work based on my own personal experience with it. Therefore making someone elses own criteria for qualifying the same type of art completely irrelevant. It's all about taste. Someone could love Uwe Bol enough to fund his next movie on Kickstarter, which people have, but that doesn't mean anything to me. I think he's one of the worst filmmakers ever.

Enescu isn't all that well known, except for his Romanian Rhapsodies
Here is his Symphony No. 3.

I'll throw a shorter piece in here.
Ravel's "Le jardin féerique" from his Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose) suite

Nice article. But Pope directing something to be erased from the performers' parts? Fear, fire, foes, it's true! He's hijacking the score!

Agreed, very fine
Yet here you are on a film music message board! Music should be all kinds of things, not just calm and noble. Bach recognized that.

Not really. It's just a traditional precedent that some choose to follow for no real apparent reason, much like other things in human society. No, a collective opinion of your cultural scholars does not matter to me. When it comes to art, the only thing that matters is the connection between the artist and the audience.

Buraaarum, nobody cares about living music anymore, little Zimmer. They come with samples, they come with computers - hacking, droning, copying, pasting! Hacks and destroyers, curse them!!!

No amount of CGI can trump beautiful cinematography of Yosemite.

At the end of the day Mr Shore wrote possibly the greatest achievement in all of film scoring to date and demonstrated a mastery of thematic arc composition pretty much unparalleled in music, ever. Happy Birthday.

Yes, phantom menace avatar guy.

Never quite got all the hate towards Star Trek V. It's a very watchable film. Laughable, sure, but enjoyable.
Karol

Heh, praise doesn't get much bigger than this: http://theverge.com/2013/10/14/4837394/anthony-hopkins-calls-breaking-bad-confidence-restoring-epic-work
Scroll down to Hopkins' letter!
The Welsh master knows his shit, and just what a kind gesture.