Fabulin

would you prefer Erich Wolfgang Amadeus Giacchino?

John William

The last of the three brothers

I meant it in the sense that the original music didn't blend in with the imagery well enough to create an overwhelming emotional effect, and so instead it felt more like an attempt at an emotional scene, like a Steiner or Korngold score playing blatantly over a scene. Now that I think of it, the key reason why Williams succeeded in bringing back the Golden Age Hollywood sound into a modernized setting was that his music, no matter how orchestrally prominent, fit the film like a glove. More loose scoring and it would have stuck out like a sore thumb.

The scene as originally scored is incredibly corny. I feel that the Binary Sunset as used in the film more or less saved it.

prominent, timbrally isolated, highly active trombones in the bassline have that badass feel

"it was just a gig"

Nor can 90% of Morricone's music, or most of Goldsmith's, Herrmann's, North's, Barry's, Mancini's...

The community has gotten to know each other over the years, and like in every long-running show, there is just more connection between us all. I think I can speak for all the regulars that over time we have learned how to read the JWFan room a bit better and just know what to say to each other. Also, observing Williams aging and entering more and more mature phases in his career has made every return of his, no matter how small, feel like a little celebration of life... ...only for Williams to get so active as of late that we get to throw a reunion BBQ party every week now

I thought they hit it with the first one....

Incredible to read that TROS was 2 years ago. It feels like last December!

yes, in Japan

or just leisurely in form

Except, Williams is the history's greatest composer of 20-second fanfares

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Some great composers were also excellent conductors (Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Mahler, Korngold, L. Bernstein) Most others, including Williams, also got the job done, and sometimes very well, but rarely in music that wasn't their own. One thing I find curious is how, for a former Julliard pianist graduate capable of playing with his left hand over right, playing while talking, playing while not looking, etc., Williams has relatively little independence of hands while conducting. IIRC the sort of waving both hands in parallel is called 'kappellmeister' in the conducting jargon, an expression Lebrecht, for example, had used.

this got me thinking... could it be that the main title to the Kenobi series will be a standalone concert version of the Binary Sunset, the way The Adventures of Han can be performed in concert?

indeed it is!

Yeah, but... recent-ish, like Galaxy's Edge, or 20 years ago?

Which year did he write it? Is it something new? Anyway, it's a bit ironic that it sounds like some scores of his that did NOT win Oscars.

Am I missing something? Why would an 'overture to the Oscars' be called 'TV project'?

What do you mean 'an episode directred by Giacchino'?

maybe it's one of those... NSFW TV series, like the ones Morricone used to score...