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Very interesting, but I wouldn't declare anything as a theme yet. This is comparable to sighting a UFO on a grainy potato phone video. But unlike UFOs, we'll have the answers soon enough. Good effort tho.

This my goto playlist for Joe Hisaishi's symphonic suites available on Spotify. It's pretty definitive I think. I tried as much as possible to not include anything from OSTs. Let's see if anything from this new album will make it in there:

Very curious what he cooked up for the "newly arranged" suites. As if his numerous suites with the New Japan Philharmonic WDO weren't already enough, but they're all live recordings. Love to see him on DG tho. Big thumbs up.

ohhhh at the start, he's playing the opening to the second movement of Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 again. He played that during the recording session for The Fabelmans when he was trying to impress Joanne Pearce Martin as shown in my profile pic. haha, i feel like that's his goto passage to show off his piano skills now in public.

holy...this arrangement is even more golden age sounding than the original!

oh yea i forgot that thread existed. its been awhile sorry.

John Williams - Of Grit and Glory.mp3 This should do for now. Enjoy.

who's got the clip?!?! help!!!!11

Yep, I'm reading it right now. I've read the 1st edition. This 2nd edition omits some stuff. He goes over the changes in this book. Overall, it's a solid book for anyone that wants to understand what the golden age style of film music was like and learning about how Williams still honors that tradition. I think there was a few pokes at Zimmer and his clone army too, but i think that was in the first edition. He removed it in this edition. Very fulfilling read.

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I'm indifferent. I care very little about the characters, story, or even music(unless Horner is still around). It's pure eye candy made with the latest tech. Sometimes it's nice to have some candy in moderation.

I didn't really notice the score in the film until some of Horner's themes came in. Franglen used them in the proper places. Otherwise it's a pretty average and serviceable action score that won't win any awards. It's quite sad knowing that James Horner could've been scoring this 3 hour epic.