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Just emailed sheetmusic to see when they were expecting to have it in stock.

Looks like you guys had an amazing evening. Those of you who went.
I’m already starting to plan our trip to next year’s Film night. I’m positive the maestro will be in great shape!

Looks like you guys had an amazing evening. Those of you who went.
I’m already starting to plan our trip to next year’s Film night. I’m positive the maestro will be in great shape!

Looks like you guys had an amazing evening. Those of you who went.
I’m already starting to plan our trip to next year’s Film night. I’m positive the maestro will be in great shape!

Wow, it's been almost four years, but the Hal Leonard Signature Edition is finally out
 
https://www.jwpepper.com/11523047.item
 
1. The Rise of Skywalker
2. Psalm of the Sith
3. Rey and Ben
4. Speeder Chase

Here's me playing my own arrangement of Helena's Theme for piano:
 
 
Note: if you have perfect pitch, or an excellent musical memory, then this arrangement may drive you crazy as I mix and match elements from the standard version and the violin version (including some key changes). Though hopefully the final result is coherent enough.

My little rendition of With Malice Toward None. Recorded back in 2020.
 
https://youtu.be/1Oo6FaGbJQI
 
oh yes, my orchestra has asked me to perform the piece with the orchestra next April as part of a movie music concert. Should be fun.

I'm relieved the cat is finally out of the bag!
 
I've been e-mail-communicating with Tim for at least a year (maybe two?) regarding this project, and I've given some assistance and some discussions for other issues where I've been unable to assist. But I've been sworn to secrecy all along!
 
I'm (obviously) very much looking forward to this project. As some of you know, I was working on a similar book project myself, but for various reasons that will take too much self-absorbed time to go into here, it fell through. So when Tim contacted me, I was only glad to pass on the baton. My own John Williams book project is not dead, but it will take on a different -- more personal -- form now if it ever comes into fruition. It will NOT be the be-all, end-all biography book that I had originally planned, but that THIS will hopefully be.
 
Looking forward to the release date in a couple of years!

I'm not going to lie—I was excitedly curious how quickly this news would hit JWFan!
 
For those who don't know me, I've been writing about film music and interviewing composers (and directors and actors) professionally for the past decade. Besides the many liner notes, I also write articles and create radio stories for mainstream news outlets like the L.A. Times and NPR. I teach a film music history course at USC. And I've been a card-carrying member of this site since 2003.
 
I won't divulge too much just yet, because it's still a little early, but I was excited to finally make it public that this book is happening. I've been working on it for three years now, and I've interviewed approximately 150 people. The big kahuna, of course, is John Williams. I plan to share the story of how that happened one day, but not yet.

Thanks for your excitement! I can promise you that there are many things (stories, facts, quotes) in this book you have never heard...
 
Tim

Theme from Jurassic Park
 
Theme from Schindler's List
 
Throne Room and Finale
 
Flying Theme from E.T. (excerpt)
 
The Imperial March
 
Williams vs Dudamel lightsaber duel
https://twitter.com/eddiepence/status/1677599171958968320

To celebrate the release of the last(maybe) Indy movie, I made a short arrangement of the Raiders march for my brass quintet. I figured it would be a relevant short piece to play for our school concerts or as an encore at a recital. I was inspired by the shortened version Williams played a few days ago.
Don’t pay too much attention to my virtual brass quintet, although the NotePerformer software is really nice for the price.
 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kgiqb5e90py1vvvt0nezx/Raiders-March.wmv?dl=0&rlkey=ba9w6pz56vyrsgwe05vl1wcbt
 
 
 
 

Cool! It's great to get these things down on paper.
 
I'm currently figuring out the harmonies in preparation for a piano arrangement of Helena's theme. Most of your labellings look correct to me, though I hear some things differently. For line 2, I hear something like:
 

 
So bar 2 I would say is Ab9 -> Em/G
And bar 4 I think is just Ab diminished -> D.
 
As for line 3 bar 4, is the 2nd beat F(b6)? (b6 as in Db?) I just hear F (or FMaj7 at most).
 
I also agree with @filmmusic that A is leading up to the main "first subject" which is A'.
 
(P.S. I just love the elusive, luscious harmonies in this theme...JW knocked it out of the park as far as I'm concerned)
 

Not sure if this warrants its own thread or not, but I've done a first pass at transcriptions of the new themes from DoD. I don't know if we've come up with consensus labels for all of these, besides the obvious for Helena and Voller. Also have little confidence that the Archimedes theme is transcribed rhythmically 100% accurately, or the tertiary Nazi theme harmonically.
 
 
Helena (transcribed from arrangement that premiered last year):

 
 
 
 
Antiquity/Antithykera Mechanism (transcribed from "Prologue")

 
 
 
Antithykera Mechanism (transcribed from "Archimedes Tomb")

 
 
Antikythera Piano Figure (transcribed from "Battle of Syracuse")
 

 
 
 
 
 
Archimedes (Transcribed from "Prologue")

 
 
 
Nazis 0 "Voller" (transcribed from "Airport")

 
 
 
 Nazis 1 "Spirit" (transcribed from "Prologue")

 
 
 
Nazis 2 "Supremacy" - exotic and furtive (transcribed from "Prologue")

 
 
 
Nazis 3 "Might" -- chorale(transcribed from "Prologue")

 
 
 
Nazis 4 "Determination" -- Transcribed from "The Airport"

 
 
 
 
Syracuse -- Transcribed from "The Battle of Syracuse"
 

 

Brett Mitchell has a piano cover up:
 
Reminds me of the Rise of Skywalker concert arrangement when it's played on piano for some reason.
 
Hollywood (as an industry) and Los Angeles (as a county) were among the most cautious in the world in easing restrictions. The 'Return to Work' agreement only expired in May, and this recording was done in February.

It is, I believe Donner mentions it in the Making Of documentary, and I remember asking if there was any truth about it being Williams idea in a pm thread here, and no one knew if it was or not, but I see this as a confirmation.

If I recall correctly this anecdote is actually very old. But still good. Donner was really enthusiastic about the score for sure.

Listen to the chord progressions. 

Well, so far I was only able to hear a few seconds of it 🤣🤣
But honestly Barber’s adagio is really not that complicated a piece…pretty much just based on a scale…so yeah, anything that has 2 or more notes that are part of a scale might sound similar to it. Especially if played on strings. 

I like your sense of humor

John Williams fans: "JW is getting so lazy and unoriginal! How dare he re-use parts of his other scores?"
 
James Horner fans:

Don't know if this New York Times article has been shared here, but here it is (my gift):
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/movies/john-williams-indiana-jones-dial-of-destiny.html?unlocked_article_code=80wcQSOOVSi4HIv5N7l4DFf7HscNSwr06N8eLKYHOOc4LJyo9p_irWXkgHY_gB7nbA81oAIKXpvnBFWFERngH4F28u8HA_58evP9cSDc-QhENy1QNdg_6-O5fJeMSgAfVhxFyELwFyuR-mw-8aJrQhns8BMRIGrslj9tfAHMA5b_G2LMRtsbxWW4xMc8qAfZRrDQ3JMm2WGW2hZ-X4XMvC_vMPkP33RylOj5Sl09_-DPNDoig44AU_T0DHVDfVR2ZnkyBPrP04zUojbg72eOU5fy7HAU-dA26LjuFvzQvvnc8zo4_Axi-G0H_oc1m8pxAeemKVTMUZaIaTIa9bG1HohIDAa-2fBG-i52H7Rlw1m_0wag&smid=url-share

Whether or not I like a film has nothing to do with whether or not I like a score

This cue  
 
 

I like the extra embellishments around the 50 seconds mark.

To celebrate the release of the last(maybe) Indy movie, I made a short arrangement of the Raiders march for my brass quintet. I figured it would be a relevant short piece to play for our school concerts or as an encore at a recital. I was inspired by the shortened version Williams played a few days ago.
Don’t pay too much attention to my virtual brass quintet, although the NotePerformer software is really nice for the price.
 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kgiqb5e90py1vvvt0nezx/Raiders-March.wmv?dl=0&rlkey=ba9w6pz56vyrsgwe05vl1wcbt