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It might just be people from JWFan. But we have so much knowledge, and it's spread out all across this forum... a wiki would be such a good home for it!

OK that is wild to see my name in the nominees list.  Wow!

WOW! Time really has flown.
 
I remember finding the Episode 1 The music when I was in High school in 1999 on my Pentium 133 with a 56k modem and having to set the machine up overnight to download the mp3 pieces that the site was offering as we slowly pieced together the score! It was magic as the site got its own forums and I remember always being a little bummed as I couldn't go to the live chats due to the time difference. 
Fast forward and now my daughter is only 2 years younger then I was back then and I'm still visiting the site just about everyday! 
 
Thanks to @Ricard @Jay @Andreas and everyone else who have made this site what it is over the years!
Honestly If it takes 30-60 days builds to build a habit then visiting this site is engrained in my being at this point. 
 
On a side note I wondering how many of us with the old "may 2002" accounts are still around these days?

WOW! Time really has flown.
 
I remember finding the Episode 1 The music when I was in High school in 1999 on my Pentium 133 with a 56k modem and having to set the machine up overnight to download the mp3 pieces that the site was offering as we slowly pieced together the score! It was magic as the site got its own forums and I remember always being a little bummed as I couldn't go to the live chats due to the time difference. 
Fast forward and now my daughter is only 2 years younger then I was back then and I'm still visiting the site just about everyday! 
 
Thanks to @Ricard @Jay @Andreas and everyone else who have made this site what it is over the years!
Honestly If it takes 30-60 days builds to build a habit then visiting this site is engrained in my being at this point. 
 
On a side note I wondering how many of us with the old "may 2002" accounts are still around these days?

I just looked up my first posts. Apparently I came here to talk about the Superman Blue Box. Why here, I wonder? Good choice, Me in My Thirties!
 
I also was in a thread where people were talking about how Paramount would never expand the Star Trek scores. One year later... KABAM!
 
And my opinions on Star Wars vs. The Empire Strikes Back seem very consistent. Calcified, almost.

I just realized JWFAN is the same age as my own site Celluloid Tunes (mine went online January 1st, 2000). And that was after both Ricard and I tumbled around in the same Yahoo Clubs in the late 90s. Of course, JWFAN went on to much greater fame and glory than my little dog-and-pony show, but a nice little parallell I hadn't really thought about until now.

WOW! Time really has flown.
 
I remember finding the Episode 1 The music when I was in High school in 1999 on my Pentium 133 with a 56k modem and having to set the machine up overnight to download the mp3 pieces that the site was offering as we slowly pieced together the score! It was magic as the site got its own forums and I remember always being a little bummed as I couldn't go to the live chats due to the time difference. 
Fast forward and now my daughter is only 2 years younger then I was back then and I'm still visiting the site just about everyday! 
 
Thanks to @Ricard @Jay @Andreas and everyone else who have made this site what it is over the years!
Honestly If it takes 30-60 days builds to build a habit then visiting this site is engrained in my being at this point. 
 
On a side note I wondering how many of us with the old "may 2002" accounts are still around these days?

I did NOT have "Jaws Restock" on my Feb 2024 Bingo Card! 

From the program notes by John Yeh:
When John Williams wrote his only Clarinet Concerto, it was as a gift to
my former teacher Michele Zukovsky, long-time Principal Clarinet of
the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She premiered it to great acclaim and
performed it several times in the 1990s. After Michele retired from the
LA Phil in 2015, she presented me with the score and all the
performance materials for John's Concerto, which is unpublished, in the
hope that one day I would record the work and perform it widely.
During the 2020-2021 Covid Pandemic, I had time to deeply study the
Concerto and to correspond with John Williams about it. He has given
me his blessing to program it.

This new revised version makes the concert slightly longer than the previous known recording.
Now, looking forward to have it performed by Yeh and a pro orchestra.
By the way, the soloist was one of the members of the quartet that premiered the La Jolla Quartet.

To get us started, here's a framework to help keep track of all the Williams/Mutter material, including recording and release dates for comparison to live performances. I included all the officially released tracks that I'm aware of. I'm not very familiar with the unreleased early/revised alternate arrangements, so I'll fill in any info that others are able to share. Please let me know if you have anything else to add, and I'll update this!
 
Questions:
- Am I missing anything that was officially released? For example, any alternate arrangements that came out on the Vienna or Berlin releases?
- What unreleased alternate versions (e.g. from live performances) do we know about?
 
The Williams/Mutter Collaboration
 
Film theme arrangements
 
Across the Stars album
Recorded Apr 2019  -  Released Aug 30, 2019
Rey's Theme Yoda's Theme Hedwig's Theme Across the Stars Donnybrook Fair Sayuri's Theme Night Journeys Theme from Sabrina The Duel Princess Leia's Theme The Chairman's Waltz Luke and Leia Nice to Be Around Theme from Schindler's List A Prayer for Peace  
John Williams in Vienna
Recorded Jan 2020  -  Released Aug 14, 2020
Devil's Dance  
Violin Concerto No. 2 album
Recorded Sept and Oct 2021  -  Released Jun 3, 2022
Theme from The Long Goodbye Han Solo and the Princess Marion's Theme  
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny OST
Recorded Feb 10, 2023  -  Released Jul 21, 2023
Helena's Theme  
Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams
Recorded Jun 2023  -  Released Nov 10, 2023  - album by Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter’s Virtuosi
Nice to Be Around (Version for Solo Violin and String Ensemble) Theme from Schindler’s List (Version for Solo Violin and String Orchestra)  
Officially unreleased
Across the Stars (new updates to arrangement from "Across the Stars" album) (debuted Jul 24, 2021 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra) The Duel (for violin and cello) (debuted Jun 23, 2022 with Yo-Yo Ma and the National Symphony Orchestra) Scherzo for Motorcycle and Violin (debuted Dec 12, 2023 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Anakin's Theme (debuted Dec 12, 2023 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)  
Concert works
 
Markings (Across the Stars album)
Violin Concerto No. 2 (Violin Concerto No. 2 album - 4 tracks)
 

Best Film Music (Composer)
Avatar: The Way of Water, Simon Franglen (Walt Disney/Lightstorm)
Barbie, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, John Williams (Lucasfilm/Paramount/Disney)
The Little Mermaid, Alan Menken (Walt Disney Pictures)
Renfield, Marco Beltrami (Universal Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Daniel Pemberton (Sony Pictures/Marvel)
 
https://www.joblo.com/saturn-award-winners-avatar-and-picard-lead-with-4-apiece/

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
John Williams, conductor
David Newman, conductor
 
https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/events/performances/2929/2024-07-12/maestro-of-the-movies-john-williams-with-the-la-phil
 
No program list, right now.

It’s now back in stock at Intrada.
Jaws

Added Clarinet Concerto (Revision) & 2024 Hollywood Bowl concerts

Here's to you, @Ricard! The importance of this site and this forum, to me and so many others, is hard to overstate. 

WOW! Time really has flown.
 
I remember finding the Episode 1 The music when I was in High school in 1999 on my Pentium 133 with a 56k modem and having to set the machine up overnight to download the mp3 pieces that the site was offering as we slowly pieced together the score! It was magic as the site got its own forums and I remember always being a little bummed as I couldn't go to the live chats due to the time difference. 
Fast forward and now my daughter is only 2 years younger then I was back then and I'm still visiting the site just about everyday! 
 
Thanks to @Ricard @Jay @Andreas and everyone else who have made this site what it is over the years!
Honestly If it takes 30-60 days builds to build a habit then visiting this site is engrained in my being at this point. 
 
On a side note I wondering how many of us with the old "may 2002" accounts are still around these days?

LLL and Intrada should create exclusive discounts for JWFan users 

JWFan was born 25 years ago today! 
 
Hard to imagine back then that the site would still be up and running two and a half decades later, let alone that the Maestro would still be active after having composed nearly thirty more film scores and a similar number of concert works, as well as conducting over 200 concerts including Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Japan!
 
Dozens of his film scores have received perfect releases during all this time, providing fans with the confidence that many more will come in the future, while maintaining and further enhancing the collective appreciation and admiration for the music we all love and which will remain with us for the rest of our lives.
 
The analysis and discussion of his work has reached such level of comprehensiveness and detail, that our forums have become an essential reference for fans and scholars, while fomenting the creation of fascinating projects that expand and deepen the study of the Maestro’s oeuvre and contribute to increasing its appreciation by future generations who, without doubt, will continue to ensure that his name is in the place it deserves in the history of music and cinema.
 
Thank you, Mr. Williams, and thanks to all those who have contributed during this time to make the site such a wonderful place. Here’s to 25 more!
 
PS. The following quoted post, written for this thread 10 years ago, provides a short summary of the origins of the site:
 
 
 

4m3/5m1 a.k.a. "The Hunt" !!
 
 

For Helena’s Theme

McCreary getting flooded with assignment shows that there is a great demand rising for that kind of more classical recognizable scores. And that is a good development for the art of film music in Holywood. Maybe the era of generic melodyless techno driven chord carpets à la Zimmer is coming to a pause.

Feature Story | February 2, 2024
An Interview with John Williams
By Simon Woods
 
https://symphony.org/features/an-interview-with-john-williams/

Show a little love, because for those who may not know, I've been contributing to Charles Aznavour's discography projects with Universal France for 10 years now. My friends Ayk, Ben, and I have been working on this historic 100-CD box set as consultants since last year. It's our greatest work, and I'm really proud of it!

Yeah, I love McCreary and his work but he needs to slow down a bit, because he's gonna get oversaturated.
 
And this announcememt does kinda scream a "Music By Sparks & Shadows" credit. So I'd actually rather have that the composers themselves get credited instead of the company