Paul

I came across this news item over a year ago on the Music from the Movies website... "John Williams has recorded a concert suite featuringmusic from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In a recent interview with UK:s Classic FM radio station, John Williams said that the seven themes in the score has been turned into a seven movement concert piece which has been. Each movement highlights a section of the orchestra, so the recording is a little like "Peter and the Wolf" with a short and humorous naration before each section. The composer said that said that the recording wasn't intended to "cash in" on the Harry Potter phenomenon, but as a "serious attempt to introduce children to the orchestra"." Was this for real? It doesn't sound as tho he means the "concert" arrangements heard on the soundtrack CD. So, where is this recording? Anyone know? :? Paul

Do you suppose any more specific information regarding who did what will ever become available? i.e. which cues Williams himself scored specifically timed to picture, or which Ross composed (drawing from Williams' themes)? It is ironic indeed that it is now Mr. Williams who is ghostwriting for William Ross! Paul

"In the film Giagon Alley is actually track in with music from a later scene, were the new students enter the Great Hall for the first time. The cue on the CD is the one Williams originally intended for that scene." I ran the album version against the film, but it does not fit the timings (the scene is longer). I suspect that the album version is however based on Williams' original concept for the scene. It does create an appropriately "quaint" mood, tho I prefer the more wondrous tone of the film version. The later cue (where the kids enter the great hall) is essentially the same, but has a different resolution. Paul

Ok, Williams Harry Potter CD contains 70-some minues of a roughly 140 minute score. Anyone heard any plans to do a VOLUME II CD? There's still the film version of "Diagon Alley" (which is more exciting than the recorder cue on disc) and if Williams recorded the entire nine-movement concert suite at the time of the session, yet placed only a fraction of it on the CD, when will the rest of it be released? Braveheart and Gladiator saw volume II releases. Surely Harry Potter was a big enough seller to warrant a second volume too! Paul