[QUARTET RECORDS ANNOUNCES: HOLST'S: THE PLANETS- Conducted by Bernard Herrmann]

[Will John Williams score Steven Spielberg's new UFO movie?]

Just now, Bellosh said:

POV giacchino is writing the score 

No, that would be Close Encounters of the Tired Kind

[Will John Williams score Steven Spielberg's new UFO movie?]

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind

['The Work of John Williams. The Conductor of Emotions' - New book in French]

The design is beautiful

[The 'Soundtrack of our lives' Topic]

Today I clicked on the video of Spacex's Starship making a re-entry into the atmosphere:

 

 

And just the title and thumbnail were enough for me to instinctively play a loop of:

 

 

to accompany it.

 

Does your brain also have an urge to hear fitting Williams pieces to scenes happening in your life (or in the news, or wherever)?

 

 

[John Williams receives 54th Oscar nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!]

Had Williams scored Oppenheimer, he would have won. 

[John Williams receives 54th Oscar nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!]

To be fair, even Raiders (film and score) would have lost again, were it the contender.

[John Williams could have been named John Nagle]

I recall an old video of a certain Mr. SpitzNagel playing Cantina Band with a colleague. 

 

https://youtu.be/gNi2oxH37vo?feature=shared

 

 

[Introducing FMDB - Mapping the world of soundtracks (a new soundtrack focused database)]

14 hours ago, Marcus Stöhr said:

 

After a very long time I am very proud to introduce the fully redesigned FMDB - you can find it under https://www.fmdb.net

 

The vision of this non-profit project is to provide a comprehensive and detailed database of soundtrack releases and recordings. Each release contains at least one production (e.g. a film) with its own credits. This makes it possible to accurately list the various credits. General credits for the entire release are listed separately. Individual tracks are assigned to productions, so you can see which film, TV series or video game they come from. Want to see which episode the tracks from the many STAR TREK releases are from? No problem at all.

 

But all this only works with people who are as obsessed with detail as I am. And I'm looking for you. To make sure the quality is right, there should be a group of people who take care of it, like curators in a library.

 

The next feature will be the ability to create your own user account. You will then be able to report errors in records.

 

I'm happy to receive any kind of feedback to help make FMDB a viable tool for the soundtrack community.

Thank you for your work!

[Happy 92nd Birthday Maestro John Williams!]

On 09/02/2024 at 9:15 AM, BB-8 said:

They could have done more.

At least they got Karina Canellakis to conduct. She is awesome!

[96th Academy Awards (2024 Oscars for 2023 films)]

At this point the best score Oscars should be reshaped in Williams's image and renamed "Johnnies".

 

Although I suppose captions under industry photos would then be quite unfortunate.

 

"Here is this year's winner holding his Johnny". 

[96th Academy Awards (2024 Oscars for 2023 films)]

On 24/01/2024 at 7:45 PM, Richard Penna said:

 It's just the contenders for best picture being given a music nod, plus Williams' yearly token.

Yearly token? That sounds medieval! 

[Fun thread: What JW piece would you choose to put on a new NASA golden record]

Across the Stars

[Feb 2, 2024 : JOHN WILLIAMS curates A Century of Film Music]

Next up is 'Elfman' by Danny Batman. Elfman is a superhero a bit like Superman, for whom I wrote music that you may remember... but he is a different character. His costume has ears like an elf, and he was memorably played by... Buster Keaton. Anyway, here is the march from 'Elfman'.

[2023 John Williams Official top 10 film scores. Your individual lists.]

On 26/12/2023 at 4:45 PM, Jay said:

 

Who said he meant the 2023 Christmas day? 

[1 in 26 Spotify users listened to a track by JW in Dec 2023]

Spotify total users: ca. 600 mln

Williams Dec 2023 listeners: 23,5 mln

This is boosted by his arrangements of preexisting Christmas carrols, but exposure is exposure 

[What's the Deal with Leslie Bricusse?]

32 minutes ago, midgemania said:

 I just don’t think his melodies lend themselves to vocalisation

his love themes certainly do

[New details on Williams / Ross Dial Of Destiny collaboration via new LA Times article by Tim Greiving]

Speaking of the tenth decade... Williams namedropping Lauren Bacall of the 1940s fame is as if someone of my gen were to mention Emma Watson in 2089. We will all be soylent green by that point 

[Unexpected random encounters with the music of John Williams]

Today I learned the music is by Dimitri Tiomkin, lyrics by Ned Washington, and the original ensemble was conducted by John Williams

 

At this point I would not be surprised if it turned out Williams had at least once jammed with the Beatles...

[John Williams is the guest on this week's "For Scores" podcast with Jon Burlingame]

Hearing the mysterious and unnerving underscore under the conversation was great. It makes Williams's storytelling that more epic when you realize he composed all that.

It can recontextualize words too... at 14:00 the underscore makes Burlingame's serene "of course" seem sinister haha

[John Williams/Stéphane Denève to conduct the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Tokyo, Japan (Sept. 5, 2023)]

17 hours ago, Pawel P. said:

John Williams waved hello to the crowd as he left the stage.

A worthy sequel to the sleeping gesture at 1 P.M. 

[My new Score Reduction & Analysis channel.]

Kudos for presenting the more recent, more nerdy tracks that have not yet been covered by other channels.

[Star Wars: The Story in Music (2023 concert debuts new live pieces)]

The gates that prevented random Star Wars tracks as heard in the films from being played in concert begin to crack.

[2023 John Williams Official top 10 film scores. Your individual lists.]

1. ESB

2. TLC

3. E.T.

4. SW

5. ROTLA

6. TPM

7. JP

8. HP 1

9. TLW

10. Jaws

[The Definitive John Williams Plagiarism/Homage Thread]

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