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This is an awesome project. The ET track sounds nice. I love interesting new arrangements of JW music.
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I think your best chance at seeing John Williams live in concert was to fly to Japan for his last concert there. If he was going to perform in China he would have done so on the same trip that took him to Japan.
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4 hours ago, crocodile said:
Which version are you listening two. The original brass, wind and percussion? Or the adaptation for the full symphony orchestra?
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I was listening to the album by the Amsterdam Wind Orchestra.
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I would definitely add some pieces by Shiro Sagisu, perhaps most well known for composing all the Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes and movies. He also did a great job with Shin Godzilla.
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I never knew this existed! Listening now. Very interesting to hear different musical interpretations of Gandalf and Gollum.
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17 hours ago, GerateWohl said:
I like Irina's Theme a lot. By modern Hollywood standards the melody linie is probably three times as log as the average modern love theme. And it perectly fits the musical Indiana Jones family. Helena's Theme is the foundation of the whole DoD score. Irina's Theme just appears in a few scene's where Irina appears. Therefore, of course Helena's Theme is far superior. But Irina's Theme does the job perfectly as a theme for a 50s Russian female secret agent. I don't like the term femme fatal in context of Irina, as a femme fatal is supposed to be secutvive and bringing men to ruin by making them fall in love with her. But that's not the case at all with Irina.
I'm pretty sure JW himself thought of Irina's theme as a noir, femme fatale theme, something sexy, dark, and sensual (his own words) even if it doesn't fully fit her role in the film. I think her theme reflects those qualities.
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I like the orchestrations and the mood/atmosphere of the piece. I think it makes use of a sax for a good bit. But the melody itself is a little too repetitive and kind of goes nowhere, not a lot of melodic development. In terms of a femme fatale golden age theme, I think Helena's theme is far better.
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I wonder if those concert arrangements are basically what we hear in most of the prologue track.
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I would have given it to Joe Hisaishi for The Boy and the Heron which did win for animated film score, but I think also deserves overall score of the year.
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I'm interested in hearing the performance of The Rebellion is Reborn. I wish something from TROS would be played in concert conducted by JW.
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Rey's theme played on piano by JW himself no less!
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Gordy is the go-to video game composer for a JW soundalike. If the music played under the featurette is his music, then he's done a very good job.
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11 hours ago, Bayesian said:
Has this breathtakingly impactful moment been discussed yet? I'm talking about the devastating piano at 4:20, but you really need to watch the whole buildup to that moment to get the proper impact. I was watching A.I. on Paramount+ and that moment hits like a gut punch.
One of my favorite musical moments from the score. So dark and powerful.
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The SE release sounds good awful and others have already explained why. That said, the orchestrations for ROTJ are really cool, especially the use of choir and synth towards the end.
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I'm surprised this isn't on the JWFan front page.
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Tonight partner and I saw Joe Hisaishi live in concert with the Seattle Symphony! It was incredible! The first half was programmed with his minimalist contemporary concert music including music written during the pandemic, reflecting on the pandemic. Very cool stuff, very dramatic, lots of layered repeating figures, and some really fun, bouncy stuff. The second half was the revised Princess Mononoke suite which featured soprano voice in two pieces and had no breaks between movements. It was like a fast forward playthrough of the score. Lastly, there were 2 encores: Spirited Away theme on solo piano performed by Joe Hisaishi himself and Howl's Moving Castle theme with him on piano again! Seeing Joe Hisaishi play solo piano live rivals seeing JW conduct the Imperial March live. A great concert!
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If not March of the Resistance, then Quidditch Year Three.
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14 hours ago, BB-8 said:
During my first uninformed screening of Girl With A Pearl Earring, I found the opening theme very Williamsesque, almost like a plag.
The latter half around the 2 minute mark sounds a lot like Book Thief. In general this track is reminiscent of JW's drama film scoring style, stuff like Seven Years in Tibet, Book Thief, Angela's Ashes, etc. The main melody is knocking at the door of the Seven Years in Tibet theme.
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8 hours ago, Chewy said:Great discovery of the weekend!
While remembering the Blu-Ray menu gave us the clean version of the "Rey Training" cue which is unreleased, I wanted to see what the DVD menus had since those usually contain additional screens for the "Scene Selection" and "Language/Subtitles".
The amazing @crumbs found a complete DVD rip and we were able to find another previously unreleased cue, not featured on the Blu-Ray!!
It is the "Meditation" cue, featured in the "Scene Selection" menu:
Another DVD exclusive menu for the language setup comes with the section of "Reunion" that contains Rey & Yoda's Theme, which is on the OST, so no other unreleased music there.
This is all new information, right?
TROS soundtrack album is missing music like this that flows and tells a story. I think including more of these musical moments and stuff like all the redeemed Ben renditions would dramatically improve the album.
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So many of the instances I can think of and the examples in this thread occur when JW is closely following a temp track.
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The mix is all over the place in the new "Remasters". Some of the tracks are hard to listen to. Thank god I have rips of all my old CDs still.