Bayesian

Just saw the headline on the JWFan front page—congrats on your hard work officially becoming part of the premier destination on the web for all
things JW!

Just saw the headline on the JWFan front page—congrats on your hard work officially becoming part of the premier destination on the web for all
things JW!

91 and going as strong as ever. We are so lucky to be on the receiving end of such munificence.
 
The best part is that JW isn’t toiling away in obscurity or rushing to get down on paper as much as possible before he dies. He’s already given the world the fruits of the labor of two or three men and has nothing left to prove. Everything he’s done from Vienna and Berlin onward has seemed like a victory lap. It’s absolutely rarefied territory he operates in now and no one else in his field is ever going to reach it.

@Junion and me finally sold the Discography to JWFAN, so now we are rich and we can retire!

91 and going as strong as ever. We are so lucky to be on the receiving end of such munificence.
 
The best part is that JW isn’t toiling away in obscurity or rushing to get down on paper as much as possible before he dies. He’s already given the world the fruits of the labor of two or three men and has nothing left to prove. Everything he’s done from Vienna and Berlin onward has seemed like a victory lap. It’s absolutely rarefied territory he operates in now and no one else in his field is ever going to reach it.

Rambling Records is finally releasing soon the score album for Eiffel, french movie that came out in 2021.
 
https://www.facebook.com/RamblingRECORDS/posts/720412043131746
 

 
I was so disappointed to see there was no way to listen to the music when I watched the movie last year... but fortunately a japanese label is handling the release (they did the same for Coupez! last summer, another french movie).
 
Snippet from the Eiffel score I extracted from the film audio:
 
 

Thanks, Jay.

Vicktor's Tale it is.  

Happy Birthday Maestro, I wish you a lot of cookies!

Happy birthday to the greatest composer of all time, wishing you all the best!
 
Here's my pick to celebrate this birthday in music
Remembering Childhood
 

Amazing to think that he has a whole slew of concerts lined up in 2023 (including one in Japan!), a tentpole movie score (INDY 5) and other bits and bobs for the concert scene. When my grandfather was 91, he had been dead for 6 years! So incredible stamina. Happy birthday to my alltime favourite composer!
 
A few months more, and he's surpassed Morricone in terms of sheer activity at 91.

https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/sc.13/category.60330/.f

Oh September 2 is a Saturday, and I'm not too far away in Seoul. No idea how hard tickets will be to get, but I'll try! and I'm not working the week before. 

https://www.ozawa-festival.com/en/news/2023/02/07/140000.html


 
 

I couldn't find a previous, separate thread on this, and I feel like it deserves its own. It's one of the tentpole pictures of 2023 that I look forward to the most.
 
I was thrilled when Martin Phipps was recently announced as composer, as posted by Jay on FSM via a tweet on Moviescore Wire:
 
I first discovered Phipps through his excellent BRIGHTON ROCK in 2010. Since then -- or even prior to that -- he's specialized in stories about history or royal families. All good stuff, whether it's THE CROWN, VICTORIA, THE VIRGIN QUEEN or the Princess Diana HBO documentary THE PRINCESS, which was on my top 10 list of 2022.

So in theory an excellent fit for this project.

Here's a collection of spreadsheets I've been working on over the last few months. Not all of these are complete yet, and I plan on making more but I figured I might as well share them.
 
I was really disappointed that there seemed to be no proper breakdown of all the prequel cues across the various videogames on the internet, only snippets of information in the two Prequel Music Resource threads on here (which are also insane long to dig through), plus some excellent-for-the-time but now outdated editing guides by @deleted account and @Trent B. There's also of course the fantastic sheet accurate score edits by @Manakin Skywalkerbut from everything I've read I don't believe there are accompanying spreadsheets for them. As a result of not finding what I was looking for I decided to make them myself:
 
These first four are breakdowns of the complete scores similar to @Jay's spreadsheets (sidenote: I borrowed your formatting from your ROTJ spreadsheet, hopefully you don't mind I did credit you) but with columns for all of the videogame files (at least the ones I've analyzed so far):
 
The Empire Strikes Back (link)
 
The Phantom Menace (link)
Attack of the Clones: (link)
Revenge of the Sith: (link)

The Force Awakens (link)
 
The rest of these are breakdowns of every file for each of the videogames that I've gotten to:
 
 
TPM Game (link)
Ep I Racer: (link)
Ep I Insider's Guide: (link)
Ep I Jedi Power Battles: (link)
Star Wars Galaxies: (link)
Star Wars Battlefront II: (link)
 
I also made a fork of cheetordude's SWTOR Music Index (from this reddit post) where I've made some of the information more accurate (filled in cues that weren't identified, corrected inexact titles, corrected entries that listed one cue that were actually an edit of multiple, things like that). This is still very much a work in progress (link)
 
One last thing I made a complete breakdown of the TPM Ultimate Edition. I decided I wasn't going to deal with the tracks bleeding into each other bullshit so I based all of my timestamps off of the combined tracks instead of the individual ones like they're presented on the disc. As a result my spreadsheet accounts for 24 combined tracks as opposed to 68 separate ones (link)
 
I'm going to try to keep this thread updated as I make new spreadsheets/major updates

Another performance of Eleven Eleven is being released by Naxos
 
https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.559925

Here's the info so people don't have to click open 5 links
 
Saturday August 5, 2023, 8:00pm EDT - John Williams’ Film Night
John Williams and David Newman, conductors
BU Tanglewood Institute Chorus
A cherished Tanglewood tradition, John Williams’ Film Night returns with the Boston Pops, along with Maestros Williams and Newman sharing the podium for a memorable program of film clips and music from the silver screen. It’s a special evening of movie magic that you won’t want to miss.
 
Tuesday August 8, 2023, 2:00pm EDT - Tanglewood On Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, and John Williams, conductors
RAVEL Boléro
Arturs MASKATS Tango
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnole
John WILLIAMS Selections from Far and Away, Born on the Fourth of July, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Fireworks to follow the concert
 
Friday August 11, 2023, 8:00pm EDT - Andris Nelsons conducts Williams, Strauss, and Ravel featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
John WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
RAVEL La Valse
 
Saturday August 26, 2023, 8:00pm EDT - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™ in Concert
Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Relive the film that started it all. Watch the wand choose the wizard, a troll run amok and magic mirrors in high-definition while the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra performs John Williams’ iconic score. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime event as Harry, Ron, Hermione and all your favorite characters return to the screen and enchant the world all over again.
 
Sunday August 27, 2023, 2:30pm EDT - Star Wars: The Story in Music
Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
John WILLIAMS Star Wars: The Story in Music
Join Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops as they perform the most extraordinary music from all nine Star Wars movies - tracing the sprawling saga, gripping adventure, and unforgettable characters. This is a must for all Star Wars fans and film music aficionados.

Tanglewood season is out! Here are the Williams-involving concerts.
 
Film Night (Aug 5, Newman & Williams cond): https://www.bso.org/events/john-williams-film-night Tanglewood on Parade (Aug 8, Lockhart, Williams, Nelsons cond): https://www.bso.org/events/tanglewood-on-parade-2023 ASM/JW VC #2 (Aug 11, Nelsons cond): https://www.bso.org/events/bso-anne-sophie-mutter Harry Potter & the Sorceror's Stone LTP (Aug 26, Lockhart cond): https://www.bso.org/events/boston-pops-sorcerers-stone Star Wars: The Story in Music (Aug 27, Lockhart cond): https://www.bso.org/events/boston-pops-star-wars-music

It feels nice to be feeling cautiously optimistic about a Superman movie, even if the only reason as of now is that Snyder is no where near it.
 
 
 
artisanal bespoke farm-to-table tentpole film

☑️ People flying
☑️ People falling
☑️ People flying catching people falling
☑️ People smashing people into walls
☑️ People getting smashed into walls
☑️ Electric bolts of electric magic being shot at people
☑️ Said bolts being deflected
☑️ Shots of people landing in "hero" stance
☑️ Heroes "assembling" shot
☑️ Villains emerging from rifts in the sky/ground
☑️ Villain in voice-over saying ominous/threatening things
☑️ Cars being thrown & overturned (cars MUST be thrown)
 ☑️ Scary looking CGI creatures doing CGI things
☑️ Third act massive destruction in major metropolitan city by scary looking CGI creatures doing CGI things and people flying around, falling, smashing into walls, throwing cars and sending magic electric bolts. Extras fleeing.
☑️ Sly pop-culture reference. Occasional quip/snarky humour to let us know we just don't take any of this as seriously as you do. Now, seriously give us your Dollars, Pounds, Euro, Yen & Yuan!
 
Rinse & repeat. And don't forget to put your phone on silent.
 
Never change Hollywood, never change.
 
 
 

Give us us sequel!
It may be sassy, and it might even be better than the original (I don't know; I haven't watched it), but it doesn't appear to offer anything you haven't seen or heard, many, too many, times before. Apart from making a shit load of moolah, I honestly question why these kind of films are continuing to be made. Redundant and desensitizing, it, and the other films DCEU/MCU films before it, are cinematic dross.

My copy arrived, finally! I took pics of the relevant pages and resized them to keep the text legible while also shrinking their file size. The entire issue looks like a great read -- the folks at Gramophone did a fantastic job, as usual.
 
There are several articles that feature or discuss JW, which means a lot of pics to upload. I'll break it up over two or three posts.
 





Next batch of pics...
 





And final batch. Enjoy!
 

My copy arrived, finally! I took pics of the relevant pages and resized them to keep the text legible while also shrinking their file size. The entire issue looks like a great read -- the folks at Gramophone did a fantastic job, as usual.
 
There are several articles that feature or discuss JW, which means a lot of pics to upload. I'll break it up over two or three posts.
 





Next batch of pics...
 





And final batch. Enjoy!