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It's quite a common progression, but it's a funny coincidence, hehe. This reminds me of the time when JW started scoring Peter Pan that was to be sung by Jackson.

Yeah, probably, they've released a whole LOT of D. Newman scores in the last few years.

How about a complete edition of...

I think there's a difference between respect (which Williams has for all his colleagues) and admiration (reserved only to the best).

Huh, so many Williams admires... Johann Sebastian Bach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Franz Joseph Haydn Ludwig van Beethoven Toru Takemitsu John Corigliano Tan Dun Christopher Rouse Alan Hovhaness Leonard Bernstein and so forth...

Williams suffered from a back injury at the time of the JP recording sessions, but he conducted Schindler's List only a few months later. He didn't take any break, as he wrote the Cello Concerto and other stuff before Sabrina.

Thank you, Nick! I like the picture very much too :-) Unfortunately not taken by me...

My latest recording and design.

I wonder if Jack Horner is relative of the composer.

Nobody, I guess. But as long as they record the viola concerto I'll be fine.

I think it's much more important to hear (and record) Stargazers. Not for Williams. And not for me. Too bad these concerts don't get broadcast

I loved the ending, much better than I expected.

1 Star Trek: IV The Voyage Home 2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 3. Star Trek: First Contact 4. Star Trek: Nemesis 5. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 7. Star Trek: Insurrection 8. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan 9. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock and whatever else as I don't like Giacchino's and Eidelman's works, and I'm not familiar with Generations.

From that list, by a long shot, Fielding's Beyond The Poseidon Adventure.

So much tolerance to others' opinions...

No. John Williams was a jazz pianist who at the same time undertook composition studies with, among others, Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, who, by the way, nurtured a whole generation of great composers like Goldsmith or Fielding, who, by the way, have many things in common, such as the layout of the violins. I wonder if it has to do with having the same teacher. Williams also spent many years arranging and orchestrating before becoming a film composer.

I've just heard the main theme of Cannon for Córdoba, and noticed it's a wonderful homage (or plagiarism for the standards of this board) to Ginastera's Malambó. I love it!

This CD set has the concert version of "Double Trouble".

That depends on your own cognition of an 'optimum listening experience'. It never ceases to amaze me the stereotypes attached to each idiom (tonal ---> listenable, atonal ---> unlistenable; whereas for me it can be easily the contrary, especially in nowaday's Hollywood), and for that matter the narrow view of music as a whole that so many people share.

John Ottman is not a composer.

Not vastly (they're great scores after all), but they all are certainly overrated. Everything mentioned so far (except Star Trek).

1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 3. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 5. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 7. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones 8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 9. Raiders of the Lost Ark 10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Exactly. It's a nonsense, like the whole season. Do you guys also have the feeling that Mohinder's voice-overs are always the same? "We're all connected, joined together by an invisible threat blah blah blah..." Who writes this stuff? Does it add anything meaningful to the show?

Where is Saving Private Ryan?

It sounds PERFECT to me. Great job, Chris, and thanks for sharing it!