[I'm incredibly sorry, I didn't write that!]

BELIEVE ME!!! It went this way!!! I would never do such a thing, I am a true JW fan!!! :cry:

[I'm incredibly sorry, I didn't write that!]

I just wanted to make apologize for that horrible "joke" about JW not scoring SW3 that went under my name. I assure you that I didn't write that, it was made by my brother, that recently discovered my password and, since IT is very stupid, IT thought that jokes of that kind would be fun. IT will be punished, but forgive him, he is not aware of the damage that he could have done to the heart of us JW fans. You can imagine how I felt embarassed when, only today, I read that topic under my nick name. I'm very very sorry, but I assure you it won't happen again. I will "persuade" him. And I will change my password.

I'm not one of "those" people, please forget that incident that, I repeat, was work of my brother and of which I'm not responsible.

With sorrow

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[JW WON'T SCORE SW3!!??!!]

I was obviously joking, just wanted to see how many people will read this message!! Sorry for that!

[The Top 10 Best Works Of John Williams - reply please!]

 

2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – the pinnacle of Williams’ revival of the leitmotif. Space opera sui generis. The best of the LSO performances of his scores. Favourite cue: "The Battle of Hoth"

It seems that fivetones expressed an idea that I was thinking about, too. Even if people usually remember a soundtrack for its main theme or for a particular "easy-listenable" theme which is included in it, we don't have to forget that John Williams always writes some incredible battle music (or action music in general), which shows a complexity and a wonderful beauty that could only come out from the mind of a great composer and a great musician! I think we could say that he almost created a musical genre, in this field. Long live to John Williams and his creations!

Score- whose favourite cue from ESB is "The Battle of Hoth", too (tied with the "Asteroid field")

[2 Signature edition questions]

OK, thank you very much! It was exactly the kind of information that I was looking for. As for Jar-Jar, I'm happy to know that it is a concert arrangement and, if it is made of other cues from the score, it is surely a great thing; I have always enjoyed very much the concert arrangements of the themes from the other films! I'm on my way to get it!

[2 Signature edition questions]

I'm thinking about buying the orchestral score of the suite from Phantom Menace and I have 2 questions: 1) is it "the real thing" or is it an arrangement without choir (I'm referring to Duel of the Fates)? Perhaps it's a silly question, it should be WITH the choir, but I noticed in the Hal Leonard website that in other scores for orchestra and choir it is clearly written that there is the choir, and in this is not so. Since I'll order it, I'd like to avoid bad surprises...

2) "Jar Jar's introduction" is presented as in the CD? The following cue in the same track (Swim to Otoh Gunga) is included? If not so, could you describe me, more or less, what kind of arrangement is it? I'm wondering because, if JJ's introduction is only as it is in the CD, it should be a very short piece, about 2 minutes long...

I'd be very grateful to anyone that will answer me! Thanks and long live to John Williams.

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[Inspiration or imitation]

I mean from track 5 "Kerim" from 0:40, more or less.

[Inspiration or imitation]

If you want to know how original Hans Zimmer really is, listen to The Battle and other pieces from Gladiator and compare it to the concert piece Mars from The Planets, written by Gustave Holst. It's COMPLETELY IDENTICAL. There are legio other examples too.

I've heard of this thing hundreds of times. I asked people which were saying this to be more precise, and they could never answer me. I'm a composer, I know very well the Planets by Holst and Gladiator by Zimmer, and I would be glad if you could say me which part of "The Battle" seems to be so IDENTICAL to the Planets. If you can, tell me also the bars on the full score of Mars. Thanks.

Instead of this, I think that the only awful thing is the fact that the ending of that cue (you know, the quiet section with strings and vocals at the end of the track) is IDENTICAL (this time it's evidently understandable) to track 5 of the soundtrack "The Secret of the Sahara" by Ennio Morricone (written in 1987 !!!). It is also in the same key and with a similar instrumentation (except for the voice). If anyone has got Gladiator and Secret of the Sahara, try to listen to that!

[Who is the greatest conductor in your opinion?]

In my opinion, Bernstein and Karajan have already gained their place in the history of music: they made a great revolution in the field of conducting and they represent a great point of referement. Among the living composers, I love Abbado (NOT Abaddo!!! Correct it, please!) and also Riccardo Muti. It seems strange to me that the name of this one hadn't yet come out! He is definitively a GREAT conductor, I can assure you!

[[u]For Ocelot (written orchestral scores!!!!!)[/u]]

... I'm probably getting the score of "Ben's death/Tie Fighter Attack" from SW: A new hope in a few days!

[[u]For Ocelot (written orchestral scores!!!!!)[/u]]

Hi, Ocelot! (I tried to get your attention in the Trading Board, but you didn't see it, so I try this way... )

I'm very interested in written full orchestral scores by John Williams. I'm slowly trying to make a sort of "library", me too, and I'd like to talk with you about that. You said that you are looking for scores not published by Hal Leonard, but I didn't know that someone else than HL was publishing orchestral scores by John Williams, so could you tell me which scores are available and from who? Thank you very much! I would like also to exchange with you something, if you agree. Answer me and then we could arrange how to do that. Thank you again!

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