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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in Carter Burwell   
    Yes.  And Fargo embodies both the irony and the tragedy of the story.  And Hudsucker is wonderful, the whole score not just the Khatchaturian adapted cues.  And True Grit!
     
    I just love the way Burwell reflects and comments upon the unique tones of the Coens films.  A great underrated director-composer collaboration!
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from badbu in SPOILER TALK: The Batman (2022)   
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Cindylover1969 in The Alan Silvestri Thread   
    I mean, can you imagine a shitty video game movie these days getting a cue like this????  Classic treacly Silvestri and it's fantastic.
     
     
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Suro-Zet in What is the last video game you played?   
    Very late to the game here but I started playing Jedi: Fallen Order over the weekend (on Series X) and am quite enjoying it.  No one told me it was a platformer!
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Tallguy in Metadata OCD   
    Oh man I have to put spaces around the forward slash or it drives me crazy.
     
    ”Main Titles/Arrival” has to be “Main Titles / Arrival” or I won’t be able to sleep.
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Jurassic Shark in The Classical Music Recommendation Thread   
    I like this arrangement of the Chopin "Winter Wind" etude for piano and orchestra.  It's a light touch, with the orchestra mostly there to add color and emphasis to the piano.  It works!
     
     
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Jurassic Shark in The Classical Music Recommendation Thread   
    Me listening to sonata form:
     
    Exposition

     
    Development

     
    Recapitulation

     
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Once in Harry Potter - The John Williams Soundtrack Collection 7CD boxset from La-La Land Records (2018)   
    I didn't know you were Danish.  Cool!  Everything I know about Denmark I learned from Sandi Toksvig.
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from bollemanneke in Harry Potter - The John Williams Soundtrack Collection 7CD boxset from La-La Land Records (2018)   
    If it was a joke, I like the specificity of picking February 3rd.  Does it have a significance to Chewy, like is it his birthday?  Or was it chosen at random to sell the joke?
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Gurkensalat in Theme from ”Schindler’s List” (1993), arranged for piano/cello/violin trio by John Williams   
    You guys should listen to more classical music
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Jurassic Shark in Theme from ”Schindler’s List” (1993), arranged for piano/cello/violin trio by John Williams   
    You guys should listen to more classical music
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Jilal in The Official Jazz Music thread   
    Andre Previn's debut album on Contemporary Records (a cornerstone label for the LA jazz scene of the 50s and 60s)
     
    Woof!
     

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    Disco Stu got a reaction from JTN in John Williams has been awarded an honorary knighthood   
    John Williams is joining such luminaries as Kevin Spacey and Rudy Giuliani in this honor
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_honorary_Knights_and_Dames_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from MaxMovieMan in Hans Zimmer's DUNE (2021)   
    Right?  He comes off bad there not because he's engaging with the trolls or whatever but because he reads like a complete moron.  Which... maybe he is a moron!  No requirement to be intelligent to be an artist.
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from crumbs in Jerry Goldsmith's LEGEND (1985) - 2021 2-CD Music Box Records   
    Scott clearly just had these images in his head that he had to get on camera, and the story was created just to give some excuse to do that.
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from MaxMovieMan in Michael Giacchino's JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION (2022)   
    The pebble that started the avalanche
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Oswin Pond in Will we ever get Hobbit Complete Recordings?   
    Yes, it is too much assumed around here that everyone values the composer's intentions above all else. I of course do value a composer's intentions, and I'm not saying that directors mangling a composer's work is always or ever a good thing.  But for a lot of people their love of a score comes from their love of a movie first, and it's the music from the movie they want to hear.
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Jim Ware in Trumpet Concerto   
    A couple of months ago I discovered this "Performer's Guide to Concertos for Trumpet and Orchestra by Lowell Liebermann and John Williams."  It's a dissertation by Brian Winegardener, who I believe is now a trumpet player with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee.
     
    I consider this essential reading for any one who loves or is interested in Williams' Trumpet Concerto.  It's my favorite of all of Williams' concerti so I devoured it!
     
    It's written as a performer's guide but it's a wonderful listening guide as well, really opening up the intricacies of this work.
     
    The Williams guide starts at page 101 in the document below
     
    A Performer's Guide to Concertos for Trumpet and Orchestra by Lowell Liebermann and John Williams
     
    Oh, and also as a neat bonus in the appendices (page 203) there is an interview with Michael Sachs, the Cleveland trumpet player who debuted the concerto!
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Damien F in Favorite short musical moments in Williams scores?   
    The part here in A.I. when David flips out and kills the other David:
     
    4:49 - 5:06
     
    It reminds me so much of some of his horror/action writing for Jurassic Park and Lost World, if it was a blind listening test I'd probably have identified it as being from one of those instead of AI.  It even has the spinny noise maker percussion thing.
     
     
    Similar vibe yeah.
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Suro-Zet in Simon Franglen's AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (2022)   
    Isn't making a playlist that undermines the composer's Intentions (or whatever) against Thor's religion?
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from JTN in Favorite short musical moments in Williams scores?   
    The first transport.... is away!  The first transport.... is away!
     
    3:32 - end
     
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Yavar Moradi in The Rings of Power show discussion - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes   
    I look forward to months (years?) of watching you whine about how no one else hates the music.
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Cerebral Cortex in John Williams reaction gifs   
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    Disco Stu got a reaction from Marc in Danny Elfman's "Batman" (1989) influenced by Gottfried Huppertz's "Die Nibelungen" (1924)?   
    Looked up this track out of curiosity (there are like 3 with the track title mentioned in the OP).  Definitely an Elfman Batman similarity in that opening.
     
     
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