karelm

Johnny should do one of those three plus hour Joe Rogan podcasts too.

Johnny should do one of those three plus hour Joe Rogan podcasts too.

Johnny should do one of those three plus hour Joe Rogan podcasts too.

Johnny should do one of those three plus hour Joe Rogan podcasts too.

Johnny should do one of those three plus hour Joe Rogan podcasts too.

Johnny should do one of those three plus hour Joe Rogan podcasts too.

Try this:
 
 

We haven't had anything posted here in some time.  For anyone interested, this is the presto movement from my in progress eighth symphony (confusingly numbered 7 because one was unnumbered).  The full work is nearly an hour long in four movements.  
 
 
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Yikes, I provided no details at all.  It is from poetry by Walt Whitman and John Gillespie Magee.   About reaching towards the untrespassed regions of space and time and being in awe of the drama and spectacle surrounding us...perhaps even to reach the face of god.  

I composed a cantata for soloists, choir, and orchestra.  
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"Then he started to run away from me, in typical old man style"...sorry, what is the typical old man style of running away??????  
 
I met him backstage and it was just as traumatizing as never meeting him.  I was going to tell him that I'm a composer and he was my inspiration but said something more like "you good" as he walked right past me saying he has to go on stage.  

A few nights ago, I had a dream JW and I were going to see one of the Star Wars movies live to picture.  We had dinner and he charmed us all with stories.  We got up to leave to the concert hall but the path was very rough and hazardous.  I was told that JW said he'll have a driver take him directly, so we went the hazardous route.  I made it to the theater and couldn't find my tickets.  They wouldn't let me in and I told them I was going to sit next to JW, but had no proof.  I was kicked out having no way to gain entrance.  

Probably true. But 1) There is 20 years between RotS and Star Wars and 2) It still smarts that there is nothing between Star Wars and Empire.
 
As I have complained before: We have HOW many episodes featuring all of the characters from the much less well regarded Prequels? I can watch all the Anakin Skywalker I can possibly stomach. But Leia, Luke, and Han are precious gems rarely to be trifled with, and only with special effects wizardry so as to never sully their memory with the possibility of another actor in the role. (Although now poor Annie has joined the ranks of the digital undead. I can't complain about that too much because I've enjoyed his performance in Ahsoka more than anything in AotC or RotS.)
 
Long digression. Anyway: The solution for this is simple: Just remember that it BEGINS with Star Wars.
 
I realized this morning while listening to The Princess Appears (because I still enjoy Star Wars) how much DISCOVERY is in Star Wars. I always maintain that you can't watch The Phantom Menace first because they don't tell you about the Force until Star Wars. But even something as simple a Leia's hologram.
 
(I have a similar argument against reading the Narnia books in chronological order. You can't because the exposition is in the first book that was written.)
 
There's two ways to look at it: How is something perceived in Star Wars and how is something perceived in Real Life. The article that started this thread is more concerned with Real Life. When Leia's hologram appears in Real Life in 1977 it was mind blowing. (Of course the word "hologram" is never mentioned in Star Wars.) Holograms were kind of a cool new idea in the mid 1970's and this was a really wild visualization and application of it. And it's the only one in Star Wars. In the other films it becomes part of the visual glue of the universe. But not only that, it's become a science fiction staple. They're in everything. And rather a lot of them sign post that they are holograms by giving them the same inexplicable scan-line effect from Star Wars! (Unless it's a holodeck.)
 
There is so much that was absolutely unique to Star Wars in 1977 that has just become part of the air we breathe in our cinematic language. And that's hard to recapture even for the very young.
 
In universe Star Wars is an introduction to (for example): Sand People, Imperial Cruisers, the Millennium Falcon, the Force, the Jedi, the Death Star. None of the other films put the same kind of wonder of discovery (including the musical weight that Williams provided) on any of these ideas. Even though Solo certainly introduces the Falcon it's intended as an emotion of recognition rather than one of something new.
 
So of course Star Wars is succeeded by everything else. It's the origin point. It's the base that everything else grows out of.

Definitely check outs Liszt Dante Symphony. It starts in hell but ends in paradise with soft angelic chorus singing your otherworldly major chords. 

Definitely check outs Liszt Dante Symphony. It starts in hell but ends in paradise with soft angelic chorus singing your otherworldly major chords. 

"Then he started to run away from me, in typical old man style"...sorry, what is the typical old man style of running away??????  
 
I met him backstage and it was just as traumatizing as never meeting him.  I was going to tell him that I'm a composer and he was my inspiration but said something more like "you good" as he walked right past me saying he has to go on stage.  

A few nights ago, I had a dream JW and I were going to see one of the Star Wars movies live to picture.  We had dinner and he charmed us all with stories.  We got up to leave to the concert hall but the path was very rough and hazardous.  I was told that JW said he'll have a driver take him directly, so we went the hazardous route.  I made it to the theater and couldn't find my tickets.  They wouldn't let me in and I told them I was going to sit next to JW, but had no proof.  I was kicked out having no way to gain entrance.  

Cool, karelm. Clearly, a lot of these dreams are about some of the same things.
 
I also had another, somewhat similar Williams dream last week, to accompany all my other crazy ones posted on the first page of this thread (I just reread them, btw, they're such a HOOT!). Sadly, I've forgotten most of it now, but I did memorize some glimpses after waking up. It was evening, I was in some sort of foyer, perhaps after a concert, but there weren't many people around. Mostly people involved with the concert or whatever had happened. Don't know why I was there. But Williams was standing at a table, with an outdoorsy jacket, looking at some papers/note sheets and talking to some of the organizers.
 
As he was leaving, I decided to say -- in as calm, and unfanboyish way as possible -- that I've studied his early days and would like to talk to him about it some day. He was EXTREMELY stand-offish, and just grunted in response. Then he started to run away from me, in typical old man style, and I just watched him disappear in the distance. Very uncharacteristically for Williams, of course.
 
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Geez. I thought I had lost the "trauma" of never meeting him in person years ago, which this dream clearly was about. I'm much more relaxed about it these days. But obviously, my subconscious hasn't quite gotten over it yet.

A few nights ago, I had a dream JW and I were going to see one of the Star Wars movies live to picture.  We had dinner and he charmed us all with stories.  We got up to leave to the concert hall but the path was very rough and hazardous.  I was told that JW said he'll have a driver take him directly, so we went the hazardous route.  I made it to the theater and couldn't find my tickets.  They wouldn't let me in and I told them I was going to sit next to JW, but had no proof.  I was kicked out having no way to gain entrance.  

Basically this.  
 

First of all, don't call me Shirley.  This looks awesome!

This is a fantastic film and great soundtrack!  I once bumped in to Dame Julie Andrews coming out of the bathroom of all places (after an LA Phil concert).  She was stunning and probably around 75 years old and looked pristine as always.  Aside from the songs, the underscore is really terrific conducted by Irwin Kostal who also did the rerecording of Fantasia.  I think I might have to get this.

I mean, just the idea of someone as talented as Young being in any way insecure about his work is so fundamentally wrong. The Nosferatu score would be amazing and not dissimilar to this ignored masterpiece (I was very glad I was able to tell him about this being my 2nd LP ever and the impacts it had on my life - he was much more than gracious): 
 

I quite like Something Wicked This Way Comes.  Some very interesting music from Horner's early period but quite different from the other scores of this period like Star Trek, Krull, the Roger Corman films.