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If Joker can win an Oscar for what essentially amounts to sound design, this score surely takes the cake. Zimmer fell asleep at his computer and when his head hit the keyboard, the autofill created Dune The Score.

1:51 - 2:10 is a wonderful Williamsism. The score for this episode was probably my favourite of the bunch in the way it emulates some of JW's style.

Hi! Some of you may know that Eddie Karam was Williams's trusty orchestrator for a long time. Karam gave a talk in 2013 for The Academy of Scoring Arts where he discussed his life in music, his work with various composers (Williams, Mandel, Horner, etc.), and gave some very funny anecdotes. I don't think a thread about this video has been made before, so here are the comments he made regarding Williams.
 
Meeting John Williams:
 
 
Orchestrating Williams's music:
 
 
Dividing work between himself and Conrad Pope:
 
 
"Crystal Skull" story
 
 

Here we go again, judging an entire score by just a few seconds of the end of a cue...

I personnaly find this pretty ok

1:51 - 2:10 is a wonderful Williamsism. The score for this episode was probably my favourite of the bunch in the way it emulates some of JW's style.

To be fair - it's a teaser trailer of sorts, not a lot to gather of what the tone of each episode will be like.

Moffat started off so strong with Series 5, but lost steam by Series 7. Capaldi's era was (even by Moffat's own account) a kind of soft reboot and I think Capaldi's age, as much as it was a detractor to some audience demographics, really meshed well with the writing for his three seasons. 
 
 

Well, it's not necessarily the creature itself that is at the core of those films problems and audience reception. Alien (1979) was more than just the creature, it was the atmosphere, the sci-fi get-up and the survival horror aspect too.
 
Prometheus and Covenant took the creatures and demystified their origins, taking elements that are better left to our imaginations. The question of where the space jockey and the ship originated, or where the alien eggs came from don't need answers, they were merely elements used as a backdrop for the story.

The obvious rejoinder is that he himself couldn't make one as good as the original either.

Yea I was thinking of posting a pic of all the obi strip releases I have

@Jay Thanks for the update. I've bought quite a few Japanese score albums - largely from anime series and one thing I love about them is that there's a lot more attention paid to packaging than our western counterparts, which makes sense that these are physical items. I love the addition of obi strips and other packaging ephemera.

Hopefully the score works better in the film which I'm very much looking forward to. This is pretty shite music and I say that as someone who has loved Zimmer's other works. Quite disappointed with this effort and his for Dune. Over-produced, soulless, just evokes no feeling whatsoever. Zimmer had Mazzaro work on this too. Yikes.

I wanted to start a dedicated thread for this album because I realized we didn't have one!
 
When John Williams premiered the Violin Concerto #2 at Tanglewood on Saturday, July 24th, performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter, as an encore a new updated arrangement was performed
Across The Stars (similar to the 2019 arrangement, but tweaked)  
The Concerto was then performed in Dallas on September 25, conducted by Fabio Luisi.  As an encore, Williams conducted Mutter for an arrangement from the existing Across The Stars album ("Nice To Be Around")
 
We then learned that the Concerto would be recorded on September 28th, when Doug Adams tweeted this:
 
"This is being recorded later this week. Best wishes (and good luck) to the timpanist!"
https://twitter.com/DougAdamsMusic/status/1442619707035734016
 
Then on September 30th, Anne-Sophie Mutter dropped the news that in addition to the concerto, some new arrangements would be recorded as well:
 
"We are here to prepare for the live recording of John Williams‘ Violin Concerto No. 2 and a few super secret new film themes – loooooove them. So will you; trust me!"
https://www.facebook.com/annesophiemutter/posts/415251816632147
 
Violin Concerto #2 was then performed at Symphony Hall on Thursday September 30th and Saturday October 2nd; As an encore, each night brought a different brand new Williams/Mutter arrangement premiered!
Love Theme From The Long Goodbye (brand new arrangement) on Thursday Marion's Theme (a brand new update to the 2008 arrangement) on Saturday  
On Sunday October 3rd, there was a free concert in Boston with various conductors, of which it was announced Williams and Mutter would take part:
"John WILLIAMS: Three arrangements from film scores, for violin and orchestra"
https://www.bso.org/brands/bso/education-community/community/concert-for-our-city-reunited-at-symphony-hall.aspx
 
These three pieces ended up being:
Marion's Theme (same as what had been played the night before) Love Theme from The Long Goodbye (same as what had been played on Thursday) Han Solo and the Princess (brand new update to the 2018 arrangement)  
So that's the 5 pieces that are likely to be on the new album.  It's worth noting that additionally, "Devil's Dance" was in the works for the first album but didn't make the final cut.  It premiered in Tanglewood in the summer of 2019, then was performed again in Vienna in 2020 and was released on that concert's album.

So that is at least 6 potential tracks for this upcoming album:
Violin Concerto #2 (2021) Devil's Dance (2020) Across The Stars (2021 update of 2019 arrangement) Marion's theme (2021 update of 2008 arrangement) Love Theme from The Long Goodbye (2021) Han Solo and the Princess (2021 update of 2018 arrangement)  
Did I miss anything?

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You care about characters in Game of Thrones?

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'Um well technically there is no love in that film since the main chara..'
NO!!
Jaysus christ.
 
If Williams called it a Love Theme, it's a fucking Love Theme, okay?

'Um well technically there is no love in that film since the main chara..'
NO!!
Jaysus christ.
 
If Williams called it a Love Theme, it's a fucking Love Theme, okay?

'Um well technically there is no love in that film since the main chara..'
NO!!
Jaysus christ.
 
If Williams called it a Love Theme, it's a fucking Love Theme, okay?