Madmartigan JC

Nice find! Just found the full speech in better quality HERE. He looks great. I too was worried when he didn't appear in tonight's broadcast.

Shit! I've been trying every day over a month to buy this in tandem with the recently-back-in-stock A.I., plus some other CDs with no luck.

Thanks! I'm in Argentina, actually.

Can you recommend an alternative site I can order Lalaland CDs from? I've been trying to place an order for over a month without success. Since Paypal is blocked in my country, ordering through ther site's Paypal checkout is impossible. I mailed twice without answer and called them several times but only get a fax signal. MV has personally taken my orders by phone in the past, but I've had a very hard time getting in contact with them. Any help would be appreciated.

Yeah, I'll keep trying. Thanks!

Refloating this thread to ask if anyone knows wether they're back from the holidays at Lalaland. Last time I followed @Amer's advice and MV was so kind to take my order personally by phone. I've mailed them to try to order some more CDs but got no answer this time. Also, the answering machine used to have a message. But I called today and only got a what I believe is a Fax signal (?). Thanks!

"Yuppie Sounds" They should've kept that title!

Love all these choices! I believe he does draw from well-established harmonies, often from within the American tradition. Sometimes he goes a completely diffrent way, as in this piece full of dissonance, which I adore.

Oh, that's a good alternative way, though I wouldn't want to inconvenience MVG personally. Do you call the number on their website?

First of all I'm sorry if this isn't the correct forum to ask this. I'm having trouble finishing a purchase through the lalaland website. I wanted to benefit from the ongoing 25% discount across the site. I've been trying to checkout unssuccesfully for a purchase upwards of $100USD. I've called the credit card and the bank, and they assured me it's neither of them stopping the purchase. The problem appears to lie with Paypal, the payment service in the site, beign blocked in my country (Argentina) by the government. Is there any way of buying their CDs while benefitting from the promotion? I've written before to their email adress about this same issue, but received no response.

I think it was a pretty sure thing he'd get at least the nomination, but calling it last gave it such mistery! Glad to see Williams get another deserved recognition. And such a significative one, too!

Leaving this here, in case there are any members of the The American Cinematheque around. THU JAN 12, 2023 6:00 PM SPIELBERG/WILLIAMS — 50 YEARS OF MUSIC AND MOVIES $25.00 (members-only) Writers Guild Theater | A Conversation with Steven Spielberg and John Williams. Moderated by Jon Burlingame. Priority ticketing access currently available only for Patron, Silver Screen, Marquee, and Movie Palace-Level Members before they go on sale to all American Cinematheque Members in early 2023. https://www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/spielberg-williams-50-years-of-music-and-movies-1-12-23/

According to Mangold, the film was finished almost a year in advance of the release date, and the delay has to do with conflicting releases rather than having to rework parts of the movie. So any changes remainig are probably not too meaningful. Or, we could be getting a Jurassic Park new ending situation...

Beautiful work! I found your edit very moving. Thank you for sharing it.

The Fabelmans will premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival in just two days. Between Helena's theme and this, some lucky attendees will get to listen to music from a second new Williams score in just a week. How incredible is that?

Harry Potter may not have "ridden" Fawkes, but the bird certainly DID take him for a fly (and Ron and Ginny and Lockhart). "Fawkes leads the way to the Chamber tunnel; he carries Harry, Ron, Ginny and Lockhart back up the pipe." (From Potter Wiki) So, I guess the old man IS right in a way, and it's some of you younger nitpickers who are getting more forgetful.

I love the work you've done, ragoz350! Painstaiking fan work like yours never ceases to amaze me. It gives us such insight into the evolution of these works as we will never be able to grasp from any official source. One more fact that I'm often surprised by is the existance of these leaked JW manuscripts. I have looked for those online without any luck. I am aware that it's copyrighted material, and therefore its improper to ask for them in these forums... However, any clue as to how one may make oneself acquainted with such treasures will be greatly appreciated.

Loved every second of this. Can't get enough of Williams talking, I wish it was much much longer. Also, beautiful performances, brilliantly filmed and recorded (How come I'd never realised before that there was a piano in Princess Leia's Theme?) Simply wonderful.

Here's a new interview with Natalie Holt on Obi Wan: Source: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2022/07/natalie-holt-interview-trb-transcript.html You can also check out the link for some transcribed highlights.

You are right in that it's not as terrible as in Gathering of Friends, but still I find it inexcusable how they could screw up like this. I find the compression creates such an 'unnatural' sound all throughout the album. But let's agree that can be a subjective appreciation. But to me those louder clippings are unbelievable. Like designing a beautiful state-of-the-art car and screwing the paint job. Who QCs these albums? Listen to Rounds from 8:05 on. Is it absolutely terrible? Maybe not. But if I did as bad a job at my work (not sound related BTW) I wouldn't last long. I'm sorry If I tire you all with my ongoing rants on this subject, but the quality of the sound is integral to the quality of an album, and its houldn't be something to worry about for new, high-profile recordings in 2022. I just find it ironic how the labels (Sony Classical, DG) are pushing Super Ultra High Resolution, vinyls and whatnot, yet it all sounds like s**t to me. This is not something I have experienced so markedly in other releases of the same labels. I have been thinking wether they migh asume the average consumer for these albums is not the traditional classical music consumer, and therefore the mastering should be made to sound more aking to pop, or something. But well, the work itself is glorious, I adore the new arrangements and love the performance. It's just sad I'm already dreaming of the remastered edition for the 20th anniversary.

Regarding MQA, little does it matter in this case. Sadly, the mastering will still sound as awfully compressed as the regular CD and UHD versions.

You're absolutely right. I didn't remember the cue quoting it so overtly, yet there it is, at 0:59. Thank you!

Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier is quoted in AI. Please explain...

Could these recordings have something to do with avoiding certain reproduction rights for the originals? Seems weird, but I can't quite understand the need to rerecord them. Not that I'm complaining, (the more recorded versions out there, the more to choose from). BTW, is that an edit at 3:23 of Harry's Wondrous World? PS: Happy to hear a different approach, but count me Team Ritardando.

I'm sorry if it's been discussed previously in this thread, but I found the compression of the regular CD so excessive it is incomprehensible to me that DG could issue the album as it is. Just 27 seconds into the first track (Olympic fanfare...) were enough to notice something was off. I felt so confused by the muddy loud parts that I had to rip it to look at the sound wave. As you can see, it shows abundant compression, while maintaining a wide dynamic range (this is the Imperial March). But doesn't seem too bad from afar. However, on closer inspection, the flat summits and valleys are all around in the louder moments. That extreme compression can be found in every track. It's such a shame, because it's an extraordinary album, I love the performance, and of course such a meaningful historic event. I have experienced compression with DG releases before, but never at this level. I am very dissapointed. Those of you who have listened to the other versions (DVD, vinyl) have experienced this too?