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When you got it, please tell me how you like it!

Something in the air. I’ve been taking a Sarde journey too. The box set is in my cart. 

The Boy Who Swallowed A Star is the absolute highlight from this album. But even though I adore many tracks on the album I never found this a good album listening experience. Still, together with Mononoke and Hana-Bi my favourite Hisaishi score.
 
Still absolutely in music heaven with this boxset. 

 
6 disks, a hundred tracks and each one at least an 8 out of 10. As mentioned before, just one track per score.
During the week I dipped into some of the OSTs and it seems like they really managed to select my favourite track of each album for this.
And even though the order of the scores is chronological the albums flow surprisingly well.

Unfortunately I did. I would like to have it, so if they reissue it again I would order it Immediately

Williams and Spielberg, the best due there is! 

Interesting that this kind of film music hasn't evolved that much since Goldsmith's The Omen.
Still Orff seems to be the template. 
But it sounds really good.

I know this is an old post but I think it needs to be brought up how composing works.

Most composers make a mockup which is essentially the full music created in the computer using a DAW and various plugins to recreate whatever sounds are necessary. These mockups will vary in quality as these sample libraries often have "full strings" patches which represent the full string section, or they also have patches for the individual string sections and you can program first violins, 2nd violins, etc. to get a more realistic sound. If you use full strings, as you play chords the number of string players tends to vary which is why to our brains it does not sound realistic. If you keep the same voicing then sometimes it sounds alright at best.

Technically in that sense, if a composer makes a realistic mockup with a patch for every string instrument, woodwind, brass, etc. they are doing more orchestration and writing a more complete score than john williams is, even if they are not notating anything. 

This is also likely why woodwinds are not prominent in modern film music. It's just easier to do strings and brass. Because we have "full strings" and "full brass" patches, but often not "full woodwinds." And modern composers don't know how to orchestrate woodwinds, so what they do if they use woodwindws at all is mostly for solo lines, rather than any ensemble uses.
 
Composers are effectively music producers and are varying levels of tech savvy. Big composers have assistants which help with tasks too. They also have an orchestrator which translates it to be recorded.

TV and video game composers who never record live music effectively never use sheet music at all.

This has been done since the 90s and john williams is one of the few composers doing it the "wrong" way as no one can hear his music until it is recorded.

Because of this I would not be surprised if plenty of famous composers are quite bad at reading music because they haven't done it for 30 years. Elton John, for example is a classically trained pianist but he said he is bad at reading music because it's been too long since he's done it.

In the same vain, danny elfman likely cannot read or write music more than simply having an understanding of how to read music, but no technical practice to do it at a decent speed to be useful. In the same way my dad is a non-musician but knows how to read music only because he learned what the notes on the page are, what the rhythms represent, etc.

Back in the old days, you would use multiple computers with each computer running one instrument since PC hardware was much slower. You can do multi-computer setups in a lot of Audio software, but these days computers are so fast that you can now load projects with all the instruments on one computer.

As far as modern composers, I would not be surprised if many of them are not particularly good musicians and therefore do not read or write music very well, even if they have the knowledge. Hans zimmer as a pianist would not even be able to play that "Thinking out Loud" ed sheeran piece as it is beyond his playing abilities. If you look at some videos of Ramin Djawadi playing the westworld theme, he honestly wasn't very good.

I would not be surprised if the multi-oscar winning Ludwig Goransson does not really read or write music at a high level despite having studied music and majoring in composing.

just look at how many modern composers no longer conduct their music. 
 

But at the end of the day, none of this has any bearing on whether someone can write good film music or not. Danny elfman is gifted in his own way and writes music in his own style.

Where's the relieved smiley?

God forbid!

Today 50 years ago ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo. And, believe it or not, Belgium gave exactly zero points, even though the song is about a Belgian town .
 
 

Funny, I always called him Curt and he never complained.

Wow sounds like it’ll be a cracking album. Can’t wait to hear it and to experience the percussion concerto again. The live performance in London was terrific and it was a brilliant work. 

So no release of the film stuff from the Vienna concert then? Would be nice to have that as well, but the main important thing is that we're getting the symphony.
 
Official page:
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/joe-hisaishi-in-vienna-13386
 
PS: Philip Glass and Dennis Russel Davies recently visited him:
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5TQyBbARgF
 
With video:
 
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5GGP-iyai_/

In my opinion this is Hisaishi's very best. It really feels like a symphony. I love the themes he created and the Merry-Go-Round Of Life is his best theme I think.
 
But what I find so great about this score is the orchestration. He does so many incredible interestimg thimgs with the orchestra. One moment the woodwinds get a chance to shine, the next the brass is dominant while the piano slowly sneaks in to grab a hold of you for the strings then to break your heart in the best possible way.
 
Love it so much!!
 
 

I don't see this in DG's "news" tab for Joe, but it does appear on the artist main page.

There are only two cuts of ALIEN which are available commercially. I saw the "Director's Cut" of ALIEN, at my local cinema, in the fall of 2003, a few weeks before it was included in the Quadrilogy.
 
 
 
 
No. You'll see what I mean:
ALIEN
BLOOD SIMPLE.
You see? It's longer.

@Holko Maybe you try "Casper". That's in my top 5 Horner scores.

I have that box set now and I really love it. It provides a cronological walk through Sarde's career from 1969 until 2021 on six CDs with exactly one track per film. For me it's like a miniature of these Ecoutez le Cinemà boxsets. Wish that would exist for Sarde, too.
That's me!

This is the Zorro theme.
 
 

The Alien extended cut was in theaters in 2003. I dragged my fiance to it.
 
ANYWAY, I wish they were showing Aliens (theatrical cut, please) in cinemas just because my kids have now seen Alien but not Aliens yet.

I remember the directors cut of Alien (the same cut as in the Quadrilogy DVD box set) being in theaters.  I'm pretty sure I went out and saw it at the cinema.  And I'm pretty sure it was not too long before the Quadrilogy box set came out.
 
For Aliens, I saw that extended cut via a friend who had a laserdisc player, years before the Quadrilogy set.

What a film is “trying to say” isn’t as important as what a person hears. Once art is released into the world, all that matters is how people interpret it.
 
I’m not sure about declaring what’s the right or wrong message from Barbie. It’s a Rorschach test. The director’s intentions are largely irrelevant.  If Barbie’s not open to interpretation, then it’s just sermonising, and if it is, then people are free to interpret it as they wish.

‘ALIEN’ will re-release in theaters on April 26
 

👀
 
 
 

For waltz buffs! (seriously, a great and lush score that perhaps just needs a little whittling here and there).