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Some stuff from last week...

Here's a link:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C55-MG-OREE/?img_index=5

From BMI's Instagram account:

OMG! A video of Seth directly confirming that more Orville is coming!
 
(start at 17:26, the play button should bring you right there)
 
Hopefully it's a season 4, and not a followup movie, but I'll take either!

From the print edition of the 2024/2025 Berlin Philharmoniker season book
 

 
Found on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/904229429654872/posts/7527258017351947/
 
I'll add links to the official website here when it gets added there.

Purchased direct from Intrada:
 
 
 
Couldn't order MacArthur because it's already Out Of Stock.  That happened to me last year with Hollow Man which is why I didn't have that yet.

Here's a nice batch. I've took advantage of Varèse International sale to get my hand on some old ones and finally succeed to get an Innerspace copy at a decent price (get ready for a new remaster next month)

Arrived today!

Well, sure. But so is everything that goes on here, from conspiracies on the spelling of Palpatine’s name to arguing the whether Superman wears underwear. And how many people outside the first world count their biggest problem to be missing cues from Mr. Mom?
 
They're all first world problems. I mean, everything else has been banned!
 
 

The happy news I cryptically alluded to last week is now something I can make official: I just signed a book contract with OUP for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴!   It's a book it feels like I've been writing in my head for a long, long time -- since middle school, kinda? And unless Williams somehow returns to write another entry in the series, I'm treating it a chance to provide a properly 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 investigation into these scores, all nine of them.   Even Rise of Skywalker?? 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 Rise of Skywalker!   My hope is this book does some justice to the complexity, challenge, and sheer magic of this music.   Now, back to the grindstone!   https://www.facebook.com/Falstaft/posts/pfbid0L6wUjeDDxj6AmhwHh1f9obrVMJfYbPx4GJM8YaEWiZtqxwp37A88monPFVDxBQ26l  
Congratulations, @Falstaft!

Glad to report that Heidi and Jane made it home safe. Although they did pick up some sketchy company along the way.
 

Hi, 
im new to the Forum. Been a Big Williams Fan for several years now.(I am only 21) I have been reading the Forum for a while now every once in a while. And sometimes i get the urge to chime in, so i created an account.
 
Here is a Handwritten Letter/Theme i stumbled upon by Williams and i was Wondering wether anyone new anything about this. I couldnt find
anything on this Forum about it.
 

 

Williams_Fan_Theme.mp3
Someone made this mock up years ago. I apologise if I wasn't allowed to post it or something. It's actually a pretty cool theme.
That's great! You might live long enough to hear the Expanded Star Wars Prequel scores.

Can't recall from where that midi file comes from, but a composer member of the Japanese fan club did expand on this little theme, orchestrating it and making into a full fledged piece. It was performed at a concert the club arranged (can't recall any further details) and it was compared to Summon the Heroes, regarding its final structure and use if instrumentation.
 
As pointed out above, the club seems to have ceased activities. They had a print news bulletin (released on a regular basis) and organised visits to Boston and LA for Williams' anual visits there in the late 90's and early 00's. They had also plans to release albums of his music, much in the same fashion Lukas Kendall did with his FSM label.

Ordered from Mondo:
 

 
Karol

All big long busy scores... this'll be a tiring week!

@ciarlese In EAC, you can rip a track in 'burst mode', without error correction for these case. Often the encoded track is perfectly fine.
 
Do I have to say that the CD technology is perfectly... imperfect?

While I prefer Casino Royale as a complete work, there is no question that this should be considered his best 007 score - simply for the reason that he proved himself so utterly for the job, and the legacy proves that.
 
All of his Bond scores have several singular superb moments in them and I place this score as a very close second. 
 
'White Knight' is not only my favourite Arnold Bond cue... it's also not only my favourite Arnold cue entire... it's one of my favourite cues of all time! (Hearing it played live at Birmingham Symphony Hall back in 2016 was one of my absolute captivating live music experiences to date). The tension build in the first third of this cue is fucking sublime. Those bass marimbas!
 
The expansion is fantastic by the way!

I started the TV series yesterday. I just realized that the series is set thousands of years before the events of LOTR, as Sauron hadn't forged the rings yet. From now on, Mr. Bear's music seems very appropriate, and its praise seems well deserved.

If I find a price unreasonable, I don’t purchase 

I don't think I've ever regretted buying a soundtrack album, even for silly money... 
 
Music is one of life's greatest riches. Can't take $$$ with you when you go, so spend it now. 

None. My wallet has never been able to make those kinds of purchases anyway. I suppose DIAL OF DESTINY was an exception - when I paid $35 for that, including shipping, I think it's the most I've ever paid for a single CD. But of course now it goes for hundreds of dollars on the secondary market, so it was actually a deal.
 
I think the most expensive soundtrack "item" I ever bought was the Irwin Allen box back in the late 90s. I think it was like $70 or something. Probably not expensive in today's money, but it certainly was for a guy in his early 20s back then. And no, I don't regret it.

Got to splurge a little and fill some gaps in the collection.