Bayesian

Yea the whole album's tracklist is up on iTunes.  Drops May 17th
 

 
1 Wunderkammer: I
2 Wunderkammer: II
3 Wunderkammer: III
4 Percussion Concerto: I. Triangle
5 Percussion Concerto: II: D.S.C.H.
6 Percussion Concerto: III. Down
7 Percussion Concerto: IV. Syncopate
8 Are You Lost?
 
https://music.apple.com/nz/album/percussion-concerto-wunderkammer/1737254712

Wow, thanks everyone!  Obviously, the most important question to address is how I got those italics. Simple! https://lingojam.com/FacebookFonts 

As for the timeframe: I have over a year to hand in the finished manuscript, but my goal is to have it completed well before that. It's a big book, and publishing is a very slow process. But everything so far is proceeding as I have forseen...
 
It's not a guide to the scores really, but something more holistic, with each chapter looking at cues from all three trilogies from some angle: musical referentiality, thematic transformation, concert arrangements, and so on. There will be a ton of music examples (all my own annotated transcriptions as usu.), hopefully presented in an accessible way that draws in people who can't read sheet music. I know notation and music-theory jargon can be intimidating, and I'm hyper-aware of the potential gatekeeping effect it could on an already niche readership. But at the same time, I think we can all agree this music warrants deep and serious analysis! It's a balancing act for sure... 
 
Alas, I don't have special access to recordings, and can't speak to official expanded album releases, as amazing as they would be! 
 
Incidentally: I don't see it trumpeted nearly enough on these boards but Chloé Huvet came out with a book on SW music (mainly the OT and PT) a couple years ago that is absolutely brilliant and similarly synthetic in approach. The book is in French, which limits the audience, but it's worth getting your hands on if only for the fantastic music examples and charts.  The amount of insight in her prose is incredible too, and it's been a major source of inspriation to me. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh

Roger says
 
Intrada announces an expanded edition of Danny Elfman's 1990 score to Clive Barker's Nightbreed, which provided Elfman with the perfect opportunity to indulge in his first outright, gore-filled horror feature. As Elfman himself described his experience, "Nightbreed was great fun, and I loved working with Clive Barker. But it was a real  difficult score, 75 minutes with a lot of different styles, very dense,  difficult music that was very challenging. But as always, the harder it  is the more I love it.” Not only did Nightbreed mark Elfman’s dive into a nightmarish fever dream, but it also marked his first significant use of world music in a film score. A South American pan flute, the shimmering beat of a Balinese gamelan  and heated drumming all feature in this large orchestral work that is  unique, but also clearly classic Danny Elfman.
 
At the time of the  film's release, a generous album was released on MCA Records. With the  generous cooperation of Universal Music Group, Morgan Creek and Danny Elfman's team, Intrada was able to greatly expand the album into a  2-CD set. The first disc features the complete 75-minute score. The  second features the original and carefully curated 46-minute album Elfman assembled back in 1990, as well as a suite of alternates.
 
The film is based on Clive Barker's novella Cabal, in which a graveyard necropolis named Midian provides sanctuary for creatures that have fled to hide from horrific persecution. Their shattered god, Baphomet  the Baptizer, calls out to an unlikely savior named Boone (Craig  Sheffer), a young man who thinks his visions of beckoning nightbreed are  proof of his insanity. Further convinced that he’s a murderer by his  psychiatrist, Decker (David Cronenberg), Boone is betrayed and shot down  by the police. But death is only the beginning of Boone’s journey as  he’s resurrected as the ravenous “Cabal.” Now he must accept his  Moses-like destiny to protect his newfound people and lead them from the  destruction of Midian at the hands of a bloodthirsty human militia.
 
INTRADA ISC 489
Retail Price: $31.99
Bar Code: 720258549900
Starts shipping 4/2/2024
For track listing, please visit the Nightbreed  page at https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12792/.f
 
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/vVwQA5vmA2MEUYWu/?mibextid=oFDknk
 
 
NIGHTBREED (2CD - EXPANDED)
Danny Elfman
Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 489
Film Date: 1990
Album Date: 2024
Time: 143:27
Tracks: 72
Price: $31.99
 
CD 1 Original Film Score
01. Titles (2:37)
02. Dream (1:04)
03. Love (0:57)
04. Slaughter Time (0:54)
05. Photos (2:36)
06. Scalping (1:59)
07. Travel – Necropolis (2:36)
08. First Encounter (1:22)
09. Meat (2:15)
10. Boone Dead (1:11)
11. Boone’s Back (1:54)
12. Down, Down, Down (0:44)
13. Initiation (2:53)
14. Lori Enters Midian (1:16)
15. Babette (1:46)
16. Lori Goes Down (1:03)
17. Stinger – Uh-Oh…Decker (1:48)
18. Boone Transforms (0:57)
19. Grinnell (1:52)
20. Rachel’s Oratory (1:01)
21. Party (0:55)
22. Decker Has Fun (1:29)
23. Carnival (4:16)
24. Dance Of The Berserkers (1:47)
25. Crème Puff Murders (1:23)
26. Boone Gets A Taste (2:46)
27. Ohnaka Go Boom! (1:19)
28. Militia Montage (0:46)
29. Smokey (0:44)
30. Love Reprise (1:04)
31. Rescue (1:40)
32. Trouble In Midian (1:44)
33. Mayhem (1:53)
34. Eigerman’s Moment (0:47)
35. More Mayhem (2:00)
36. Two Reasons (1:22)
37. Berserker’s Party (2:32)
38. Mural Chamber (0:36)
39. Boone And Decker Duke It Out (2:32)
40. Baphomet Calls (2:02)
41. Finale (2:31)
42. End Credits (4:36)
CD 1 Total Time: 75:19
    
CD 2 1990 MCA Soundtrack Album
01. Main Titles (2:40)
02. Dream (1:03)
03. Carnival Underground (3:23)
04. Into Midian (2:31)
05. Meat For The Beast (2:10)
06. Resurrection Suite (3:37)
07. Boone Transforms (0:56)
08. The Initiation (2:50)
09. Scalping Time (1:54)
10. Rachel’s Oratory (1:04)
11. Party In The Past (0:51)
12. Poor Babette (1:41)
13. Uh-Oh…Decker! (1:39)
14. “Then Don’t Say It” (1:28)
15. Boone Gets A Taste (2:44)
16. Breed Love (1:02)
17. Mayhem In Midian (1:43)
18. Baphomet’s Chamber (2:01)
19. Farewell (0:59)
20. 2nd Chance (1:34)
21. End Credits (4:33)
22. Country Skin (4:15)
1990 Soundtrack Album
Total Time: 46:42
 
THE EXTRAS
23. Waltz (3:26)
24. Party (Without Choir) (0:56)
25. Berserker’s Party (Alternate) (2:33)
26. Country Skin (Medium Version) (2:54)
27. Home On The Range (1:48)
28. Country Skin (Fast Version) (1:58)
29. The Valley (2:52)
30. Country Skin (Slow Version) (4:29)
The Extras Total Time: 21:16
CD 2 Total Time: 68:08
 
https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12792/.f
 



 

No jokes today, just an unfortunate apparent reality.

I assume you mean first studio movie 

Nolan's first movie was Following.  His second movie was Memento.  His third movie was Insomnia.
 
He actually shot a film in between Following and Memento too, but never finished it and it remains unreleased.

Some folks here have mentioned not having seen Insomnia. If you’re one of them, make point of watching it. It’s Nolan’s first movie and it’s really good. Robin Williams was masterful in it. Watching his performance will remind you that we lost him far too soon. 

The happy news I cryptically alluded to last week is now something I can make official: I just signed a book contract with OUP for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴!   It's a book it feels like I've been writing in my head for a long, long time -- since middle school, kinda? And unless Williams somehow returns to write another entry in the series, I'm treating it a chance to provide a properly 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 investigation into these scores, all nine of them.   Even Rise of Skywalker?? 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 Rise of Skywalker!   My hope is this book does some justice to the complexity, challenge, and sheer magic of this music.   Now, back to the grindstone!   https://www.facebook.com/Falstaft/posts/pfbid0L6wUjeDDxj6AmhwHh1f9obrVMJfYbPx4GJM8YaEWiZtqxwp37A88monPFVDxBQ26l  
Congratulations, @Falstaft!

MI8 filmed in the UK from March 2022 to December 2022.  Starting in July 2023 they were filming in Italy, until everything shut down from the back to back strikes.  They didn't resume filming again until this month, which is why the film was delayed from 2024 to 2025.  So now we're getting news of cast members who presumably weren't part of the 2022 UK or 2023 Italy filming.

New Bad Boys.
Let's see what the box office is like after the slap.
 
 

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After a long wait, the expanded edition arrives next Tuesday. In the meantime, there's this: 
 

HERCULES had its world premiere last weekend in Hamburg.
 
 
 
 

It had some problems, for sure, but it also had some spectacular elements that saved it for me -- the production design, the make-up, the performances of Tim Roth and Helena Bonham-Carter (in particular) and an amazing Elfman score. That's enough for me to give it a thumbs up.

And the Filmmusicreporter post omits the release date, which is August 23

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/03/22/john-williams-reimagined-album-to-be-released/
 

 
 
Warner Classics will release John Williams Reimagined, a new album featuring music by the Academy Award-winning composer arranged for chamber trio of flute, cello, and piano. The 2-CD set is produced by Robert Townson and the music is performed by flutist Sara Andon, cellist Cécilia Tsan, and pianist Simone Pedroni. The album covers Williams’ career from his early Emmy Award-winning score for the 1970 television film Jane Eyre to the main theme of 2022’s The Fabelmans, and includes such titles as Star Wars, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Jurassic Park, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Hook, The Accidental Tourist, The Witches of Eastwick, Dracula, The Sugarland Express, The Patriot and War Horse. A first track (Over the Moon from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) has just been released today and is now available to stream/download now on all major digital music services and can also be checked out after the jump.
 
Here’s the album track list (per Slovenia’s NIKA):
 
Disc 1:
1. Star Wars: Princess Leia’s Theme
2. Jane Eyre: To Thornfield
3. Jane Eyre: Reunion
4. Memoirs of a Geisha: Sayuri’s Theme
5. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Dream Discarded
6. Memoirs of a Geisha: Going to School
7. Images: In Search of Unicorns
8. The River: Growing Up
9. The River: The Pony Ride
10. The River: Love Theme
11. The River: Young Friend’s Farewell
12. The Sugarland Express: Theme
13. The Sugarland Express: Elegy
14. A.I.: The Reunion
15. The Empire Strikes Back: Han Solo and the Princess
16. Far and Away: County Galway, Joseph and Shannon, Blowing Off Steam, Finale
 
Disc 2:
1. The Fabelmans
2. Seven Years in Tibet
3. Jurassic Park: A Tree for My Bed
4. Hook: The Face of Pan
5. The Accidental Tourist
6. Schindler’s List: Theme
7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Double Trouble
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: A Window to the Past
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Hagrid the Professor
10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Chasing Scabbers/Hagrid’s Friendly Bird and The Snowball Fight
11. Dracula: End Credits
12. War Horse: Dartmoor 1912, Bringing Joey Home and Bonding, The Death of Topthorn, Finale and The Homecoming
13. The Patriot
14. Sabrina: How Can I Remember?
15. The Witches of Eastwick: The Tennis Game
16. The Witches of Eastwick: The Seduction of Suki and The Ballroom Sequence
17. The Witches of Eastwick: Devil’s Dance
18. E.T.: Over the Moon
 
 

The Elfman theme has been used in so many trailers over the last 35 years that it’s too cliche for this movie.
 
It looks like what I expected.  Hopefully it’s just some weird supernatural comedy and not nostalgia diarrhea like the Ghostbusters revival.

That's a really thoughtful way of describing how Goldsmith finally clicked with you. I appreciated reading it. Maybe I can find my own way in based on this.. 

That's a really thoughtful way of describing how Goldsmith finally clicked with you. I appreciated reading it. Maybe I can find my own way in based on this.. 

I have a certain sympathy with this... where they definitely don't antagonise me, Goldsmith's scores rarely move me in quite the same deeply emotional way as, say, a John Williams, a John Barry, a Joe Hisaishi or an Ennio Morricone might. There are exceptions (Star Trek V, The Mountain being one, the Voyager theme another), but I think he's fantastic at action scores or terrifying you (The Omen and ALIEN being good examples). Which is when I figured it out - fear is not simply an emotion, it's a fight-or-flight response and this is what I think Goldsmith is extremely good at - subtextual scoring. 
 
I'm not a musician myself (although most of my family are) but I love music and work to it most of the time. And what I've found is, a lot of Goldsmith stuff is often about the mental state of the characters onscreen, whereas all the others mentioned have a slightly different approach - less focused, more "widescreen," if you like. Williams is the uber-storyteller, matchless in deciding what approach to employ, whether thematic, emotional, action-led, whatever, to any given scene; he can use music to "zoom" you in or out of an emotional state.
 
Barry was often romantic. Arguably, he invented modern action music with his Bond scores, but he could never quite resist the emotional undertow of a scene, especially if there was a romantic, yearning quality to it. Both Hisaishi and Morricone are epic, vast, absolutely unrepentant in using orchestral colour to illustrate even small human emotions. (And I love that about them.)
 
Goldsmith, when he went epic, he'd do The Omen or his various Star Trek themes. They're huge, brilliant, but even when he's doing an action or military theme, there's always something incredibly centred and intense about the notes and instruments he chooses. He's more of an interpreter than the others (as opposed to an emotional accompanist). When he does scary or paranoid, he does it better than almost anyone - like in Seconds or Total Recall. 
 
I dunno, I'm not using music terminology, just attempting to describe my impressions so I might not be making a lot of sense. But I too find him stylistically very different to all his contemporaries and peers... but maybe understanding the interpretive intensity that drives his scores is a way in. It certainly worked for me. 

But unbox it first.

It’ll look great on your bookshelf. Sure does on mine!

Just in from Amazon.fr .
Currently priced €98, cheap shipping cost to UK, delivered in 3 working days. Much cheaper than Amazon.co.uk itself or anywhere else.

Got my print copy off eBay.  I got tired of calling Barnes and Noble and asking if they carry Variety and getting different answers.