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I listen to at least some JW music every week. When there's new JW music to listen to, I will listen to it many times over in a matter of days or weeks. There are gaps, times when I listen to less JW music, but it's probably been a very, very long time since I've gone an entire week without listening to some JW music.

What's wrong with the recordings for Lincoln and War Horse, for example? Those sound fantastic to my ears.

Wow, really beautiful performance and nice summary of the score. Book Thief is a nice, if somewhat forgettable JW score. There's something tonally that never quite clicked for me with the score.

Love having more new JW music to look forward to. I just listened to When The World Was Waltzing yesterday and I hope we get official recordings of all these late era JW pieces.

The Hook score is kind of frenetic while the HP1 score is more focused. That said, I don't know if there is anything in HP1 that tops the pure epicness of You Are The Pan, while HP1 has better themes overall. I also prefer the action music in HP1 over Hook's. Hook has a lot of fun, whimsical action music, whereas I think each of HP1's major action cues has a clearer identity.

We've known since (I think) TFA that other people have often conducted the faster, more demanding cues during JW's recording sessions.

Some JW conducted versions of this theme have a weird hitch towards the end. I think that's what you're talking about. It's weird because it's not in other versions and I don't like it at all.

Let's talk about the incredible, fluctuating tempo of The Rebellion is Reborn For whatever reason The Rebellion is Reborn has been performed and recorded with varying tempi over the years with each performance being different in character as a result. To start, we have the OST recording which proceeds at a nice, stately pace and clocks in at 4:03. Both Rose's theme and the Luke in Exile theme are performed well, contrast nicely against each other, and the whole thing crescendos in a satisfying way. https://youtube/vP0nEO6q8iI?si=VIC85SBtpSUGJwuz Then we have various, official JW conducted live performances, each slower and longer than the OST recording, I assume due to JW's advanced age. Slowest amongst them all, the Vienna Philharmonic performance clocks in at a Whopper sized 4:53 seconds. This is my least favorite official recording of TRIR. The Luke in Exile theme in particular loses all sense of cacophonic propulsion and instead unfurls like a cat stretching after a nap. The whole piece loses energy and almost puts me to sleep. Other various live recordings clock in around the 4:30 mark or shorter like the Film Symphony Orchestra performance which proceeds with a brisk pace and resolves in 4:11. Lastly, we have my favorite performance of The Rebellion is Reborn, performed at a faster tempo than the OST version, giving the whole piece a much needed sense of energy and blasting thru any potential lulls. The Danish National Symphony version is The Rebellion is Reborn as it should have been. It is immaculate in its pace, clarity, and coherence. Somehow, the two themes congeal instead of clash. It helps that the sound recording/mixing is excellent. The whole piece comes to a crashing close in 3:51 but I wonder if some folks think it is performed too quickly? Do you have a favorite version of this piece? A preferred tempo? Opinions on the various performances?

My own wedding featured a ton of JW music. For background music prior to the start of the ceremony, I chose this hour long playlist of JW piano covers: For the entrance of the bride's maids, I chose The Fabelmans. For my own entrance, I chose a cover of the Love Theme from Superman played by a string quartet. All the music worked really well and people wouldn't even necessarily know it was JW music unless they were fans. I didn't want big orchestral music because we had a relatively small ceremony and wanted music that sounded more intimate.

Thank you so much! JW's little dance at the end is too funny 🤣

I think many JW fans know the video I'm talking about. It's the source of a hilarious JW conducting gif. I think it's part of some Boston Pops documentary or JW documentary. It's an outdoor concert and I think he is conducting the theme to Dirty Dancing or something. Please help me find it!

These short quotes make me think the score is more than the moody, action focused stuff we got for War of the Worlds and Minority Report.

War Horse has one of my all time favorite final 20 minutes or so of JW music including the end titles. It's a real masterclass of film scoring.

I was replying to a comment about a weird post by saying the lack of any real JW news is leading to a lot of weird posts lately. It's taking place in multiple threads including this one. I don't have an issue with you or anyone else, I was making an observation related to the previous post about something that seems obvious to me. JWFan has often veered into weird and silly territory due to long stretches of lack of real JW news.

This whole forum is full of weird comments lately. The lack of JW news is bringing out the weird and creepy in posters. I don't know how many more speculative comments about JW's wife or imagined opinions of different collaborators I can read.