Hector J. Guzman
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If I were to describe Williams' conducting in three words, they'd be:
Elegance, grace and humor.
Williams Hedwig's ThemeCincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel
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I've seen him five times in concert, one at CostCo
Does that count?
Williams Hedwig's ThemeCincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel
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Another article on Troy mentions Horner's score:}
As if the bad acting and inane dialogue weren’t enough, the soundtrack was cliché and disappointing. Composed by James Horner, the soundtrack includes a woman chanting throughout the entire movie. Chanting in historic epic films has become somewhat of a trend lately -- but in "Troy," it sounds like the whining of an 8-year-old not getting their way. Debney End Credits from Cutthroat IslandCincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel
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I'd have to see Shore conduct to say anything, but even if I wasn't a big fan of Lord of the Rings, I like the guy, and his Ed Wood music was right on for that movie.
About Shore conducting, to my knowledge he did not study conducting, maybe some clinics, I don't know, enough to get him by. From my knowledge, Williams also did not study conducting, but he learnt a lot conducting the Pops, and with plenty of friends like Seiji Ozawa, although by that time he only needed to perfect his tecniques.
Williams is a very charismatic conductor, and can communicate very well the "feeling" of the music, from what I've seen.
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Wrong side of the Pacific, huh?
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That's what it was supposed to be, humanly impossible, but they could have made something too make it sound realistic.
I haven't seen the movie Farinelli, but I read they also manipulated the voice with computer.
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I wanna hear that recording
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I was told that the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra was no more?Originally founded in 1945 as the Hollywood Bowl Symphony by the legendary Leopold Stokowski, it disbanded two years later and was replaced for Bowl concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After 43 years, the orchestra was re-established in 1991, as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, under the direction of John Mauceri, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performs in concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, on recordings for Philips Classics, and tours throughout the world.
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I was impressed, I mean, if it were real when she begins from very low register to going to soprano. The fast notes sounded really crappy.
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Or to the Hollywood Bowl, almost at the same time, but with Olympic music!
I want to go to Boston, but I want to see Williams conduct a "Light Classics" program.
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That's wonderful! Thank you.
I forgot other Home Alone CD I've seen. The Home Alone 2 CD with songs.
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LOL "Blue diva"
It sounds so fake when she's doing the short fast notes. You can hear the "keyboarding"(or whatever it's called) while she's singing, heh heh
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That is right! I had completely forgotten about it.
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I can't find it anywhere.
Only stuff I've seen: Home Alone soundtrack. Home Alone Christmas album. That's it.
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If you think about it, they only replaced one wailing singer for another.
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Yes, I know he's rude.
Going back to the less than a minute compositions, someone should make NBC release all those short variations of Williams' Olympic theme
Bernstein Theme from The Magnificent SevenLos Angeles Philharmonic
John Williams
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Maybe "Snakes" did.
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I'm sorry, what can I tell ya
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Did Williams compose the music from those "movies"?
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I wasn't even born then.
I want that ship, not excuses.
What ship? The Millennium Falcon? My version is the 1997 rerelease.
Raksin LauraBrian Stokes Mitchell, vocals
Los Angeles Philharmonic
John Williams
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I wasn't even born then.
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From "Gladiator" to "The Passion" to "Troy," nothing screams "epic" like an exotic-sounding, ululating female singer.
While sitting through "Troy" last week my attention wandered to the film's soundtrack, the last resort of the jaded and popcorn-less. Soon, from the score's generic, thundering drums and sawing strings arose a lone female voice chanting in a nameless tongue, pouring out her melodious lament like a widow over a fresh grave. If "Troy" were the only movie that I'd seen in the past five years, I would have been deeply moved by this exotic, angelic voice. But like any Blockbuster regular, I instantly recognized this woman's wrenching cry as one of the most recklessly repeated musical motifs in recent cinema history: the vaguely ethnic wail.
How many of us have met John Williams?
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He conducted me and others in singing to him "Happy Birthday"... twice. One at CostCo, with Yo-Yo Ma, the other in Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The one at CostCo felt more intimate
because there weren't as many people as in the concert.
Does that count for anything?