Bayesian

Like you imply, I'm unsure how often Spielberg and Horner actively collaborated. I wouldn't be surprised if American Tail was the last time. Executive producer just means he signed his name on the check underwriting the production costs.

I'm not going to speak for Jay, but regarding my reply to you, that was purely in jest, meant only to resemble what a rabid, unrepentant JW true believer would write. (Which I'm sure, in this case, is likely pretty close to what a sober and perfectly objective commentator would write about JW's music.) You don't need to explain yourself to anyone and can feel whatever you like about DoD's music. : )

Hmm, see, it sounds like you ARE blaming JW. Moreover, you said JW's contribution to a movie lowered the quality of said movie. There... there just are no words for such words. Under the immutable and ineradicable laws of the universe, JW's music only INCREASES the quality of everything it graces, always and forever. That means, by definition, his reuse of material is a stroke of genius the rest of us might come around to recognizing as such years from now, if we're lucky. Ok, we're good. I'm glad I was able to sort that out for us.

Going by the number of likes, it seems a lot of folks are inclined to agree that this is a bad edit... but I don't really see (hear) that. The tonal shift is strong, but not worse to my ear than what we often hear in the prequels. And the edit at 1:48 - 1:49 is seamless to my ear, as if it was actually recorded that way. But that's just me. I've actually always wondered what makes a transition or edit like the one above a "microedit." What's micro about it??

I clicked "like" on your post. I guess that means I need to lay off Zimmer and Balfe, even though they stick in my craw like nothing else on earth. Sigh...

I'll agree this is all superfluous, but it sure does look nice (well, except the tote bag). What is that green thing that looks like 12 CDs? And where do you get that premium-looking booklet??

I have a question I figured could be posted here to avoid the need for a new thread: What all actually goes into arranging a film score for an LTP presentation? I expect there's a lot of work involved, but I'm curious about the details. Since film scores are of course never recorded in a straight 2-hr shot, one must presumably begin by getting all the cues in the right order (and maybe selecting which version of a cue is the best fit). Then someone has to bridge all the cues together into a single linear sequence -- which presumably means editing the closing bars of one cue and the opening bars of the next cue to flow seamlessly. (Who does that work? The original composer?). I also imagine that someone is also re-orchestrating every cue to accommodate the composition of a typical symphony orchestra -- if a score was originally written and recorded using unusual instruments, or several more units of a common instrument than found in a typical orchestra, are the parts rewritten accordingly? Am I right about these steps? Are there other things that happen to make a score LTP-ready?

What the hell!! I just bought a used copy of the '09 blu-ray last week from someone on eBay for $40, thinking we were never going to get a better version. I waited for years before pulling the trigger on owning a copy of this paranoid masterpiece in its best presentation and all I had to do was wait one more fucking week to learn that it was finally coming to 4K????

4K blu-ray. In special edition packaging. Fingers crossed!

Holy moly, I never knew Desplat had a cameo in that movie (or any movie)! I've never seen Monuments Men, but it's on my watchlist now.

I was going through old issues of FSM a while back and recall now that they were critical of the score. Something about the score being full of fake emotion or something. Harrumph! 😤

Andrew Kevin Walker? Wow, that name takes me back.

What I want know is, what was that about the San Francisco Symphony recording the score in that Wikipedia article?? That can’t be right, can it?

Isn’t Morricone sort of renowned for writing music that fits the mood or theme of a film more than the action or story beats of a film? If that is true, repurposing his music might be an easier task than with other composers. Not to diminish Tarantino’s well known (and deserved) recognition for placing music in film.

If it’s only been 24 hours, I’d give it another day. I’m my experience, it can take two full business days for holds to clear. But then, yes, definitely email them. Worst case scenario, you still get charged and your emails to Disney go unanswered. At that point, file a refund claim through your credit card issuer. Your emails to Disney will prove a good faith effort to get things resolved and the CC issuer will have your back on this.

You have done all of JW scholarship, and the wider world more broadly, an important service, @Thor.

That would be so great if mondo released another run. I wouldn’t have to resort to ham-fisted chicanery to get a copy!

So, @Justanothercrow421, I read not too long ago that they, um, discovered the Mondo JP vinyl gives off, like, a bunch of radon and it's really not safe to hang onto it. Luckily, I'm trained in the disposal of hazardous products like these and I'd be willing to take it off your hands. It'd be better if you let me take care of that LP. Let me do at least that much for you.

Yeah. I like the way you put that.

I thought I’d bump this thread to ask if any of the papers, keynotes, or sessions from this conference ever made it online. Anyone know?

I have a list of JW's OSTs that includes three TV movies not listed here: Nightmare in Chicago, Sergeant Ryker, and The Screaming Woman. I'm not sure how I learned about these, except that I learned about them on this forum. Can anyone remind me what the story is with these?

A bit of a tangent, but can someone tell me what wind instrument plays the main theme? Is it a bassoon in its high register? I don’t think I’ve ever heard a timbre quite like it before.

Yeah, Marian's showing us in this photo TWO things most of us will never have!

Ordered! #277391

Hoi polloi = the masses, the plebes. (Also sometimes means the elite, for some strange reason, but that’s certainly not the meaning I was going after.) Basically, any of us non-Zimmer-ites who don’t have homes in Malibu and aren’t the capos of our own film scoring mafias.