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Does this topic need its own thread?  Our Johnny has added another accolade to the list - he's the top performed living classical composer of 2023 beating out Arvo Part!
Movie maestro John Williams named 2023’s most-performed living composer - Classic FM
 
The report is based on the performances listed on its website last year, which numbered over 30,000.  
Annual classical music statistics 2023 vx (bachtrack.com)

Does this topic need its own thread?  Our Johnny has added another accolade to the list - he's the top performed living classical composer of 2023 beating out Arvo Part!
Movie maestro John Williams named 2023’s most-performed living composer - Classic FM
 
The report is based on the performances listed on its website last year, which numbered over 30,000.  
Annual classical music statistics 2023 vx (bachtrack.com)

Does this topic need its own thread?  Our Johnny has added another accolade to the list - he's the top performed living classical composer of 2023 beating out Arvo Part!
Movie maestro John Williams named 2023’s most-performed living composer - Classic FM
 
The report is based on the performances listed on its website last year, which numbered over 30,000.  
Annual classical music statistics 2023 vx (bachtrack.com)

Does this topic need its own thread?  Our Johnny has added another accolade to the list - he's the top performed living classical composer of 2023 beating out Arvo Part!
Movie maestro John Williams named 2023’s most-performed living composer - Classic FM
 
The report is based on the performances listed on its website last year, which numbered over 30,000.  
Annual classical music statistics 2023 vx (bachtrack.com)

Does this topic need its own thread?  Our Johnny has added another accolade to the list - he's the top performed living classical composer of 2023 beating out Arvo Part!
Movie maestro John Williams named 2023’s most-performed living composer - Classic FM
 
The report is based on the performances listed on its website last year, which numbered over 30,000.  
Annual classical music statistics 2023 vx (bachtrack.com)

OK, added!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid it is currently not possible to sell her arrangement.
I used to have all of mine available on Musicnotes, and one day I was notified that they would all be taken down due to the fact that Williams had decided that he only wanted “official” products available on the internet !
This happened in late 2022, the pages for my arrangements are still there but with this mention :
Due to the copyright holders’ request this product is currently unavailable.
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/display_error.asp?ppn=MN0201542

Love me some Walton... on a similar tack, I was listening to some brass concertos by Danish composer Vagn Holmboe (one of my favourite classical composers, the heir to Carl Nielsen) and it occurred to me that if you like JW's works for those instruments, you'd probably like the Holmboe. Tuneful, lively, really terrific stuff, with great performances on this BIS album.
 

6M1 from The Rocketeer 📯🎺
 
 

Then read this one.  Also good and newer.  Burlingame's is more about history which is actually very interesting and Scoring the Screen is more about how various impactful composers approach the craft. 
Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music (Music Pro Guides): Hill, Andy: 9781495073731: Amazon.com: Books
 
The Score.  What I don't like about it is hearing what composers do is very uninteresting for lots of reasons.  Some of them won the lottery to do what they do an that's very much not transferrable to anyone else.  For example, Danny Elfman never sought to be a film composer.  It was Tim Burton who was a fan of Oingo Boingo who pushed Elfman to score his Pee Wee film.  How many people are in a very unique collage band that combines elements of art, punk, rock, pop, jazz, and world, amongst other genres in their sound and gets someone who will become a very significant director pushing you to score their films?  So hearing personal testimonies is far less valuable to working professionals but might be more interesting to fans.  
 
The Score: SCORE: A Film Music Documentary — The Interviews: Schrader, Matt, Thompson, Trevor: 9780692827079: Books - Amazon.ca
 
 

Mais... I would like to point out that no current version of the Star Wars soundtracks is PERFECT... The 1993 Anthology box set is essential, but it has its small peculiarities... some alternate takes selected by error (nothing serious), the omission of the cue 'Mynock's cave' in The Empire Strikes Back and a stereo issue in one of the thematic tracks with Yoda (I always forget which one).

It's an underrated film and score.  The anguish of the mom is heartfelt because of her loss.  I think this film is a nice bookend to CEOTTK with its Pinocchio overtones.  In that film, Roy wished to be an eternal child despite his adult responsibilities.  Here, David is literally an eternal child because he was built that way though wished to be real and grow.  I thought the score was a real departure and full of unrequited longing.  

It's an underrated film and score.  The anguish of the mom is heartfelt because of her loss.  I think this film is a nice bookend to CEOTTK with its Pinocchio overtones.  In that film, Roy wished to be an eternal child despite his adult responsibilities.  Here, David is literally an eternal child because he was built that way though wished to be real and grow.  I thought the score was a real departure and full of unrequited longing.  

It's an underrated film and score.  The anguish of the mom is heartfelt because of her loss.  I think this film is a nice bookend to CEOTTK with its Pinocchio overtones.  In that film, Roy wished to be an eternal child despite his adult responsibilities.  Here, David is literally an eternal child because he was built that way though wished to be real and grow.  I thought the score was a real departure and full of unrequited longing.  

Has this breathtakingly impactful moment been discussed yet? I'm talking about the devastating piano at 4:20, but you really need to watch the whole buildup to that moment to get the proper impact. I was watching A.I. on Paramount+ and that moment hits like a gut punch.
 
 
 

That whole long violin line ending in the suspension. An amazing moment.
 
 

It's very direct.
Holst, Walton, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Sullivan, Butterworth, Bliss, Delius, Bax; JW loves them, all.

I especially like the 2nd movement. Like floating through space...

It’s highly chromatic, and reminds me very much of Williams’ space travel music like The Trip to Earth.
 
I don’t know if it’s direct or indirect, but I hear an undercurrent of Vaughan-Willams in a lot of John Williams’ music.

Wowzers!  This new Prince of Persia game was not on my radar in the slightest, and though I vaguely remember seeing it in a Nintendo Direct, I definitely didn't come away with the impression that it's a Metroidvania.  But after hearing about it on a podcast today I am ABSOLUTELY going to check out the demo and then might be buying it - looks like its a metroidvania in my sweetspot of exploration, platforming, and combat
 
 
 

Gordy's back with the LSO, as expected!
 

 
 

Thank you for your messages. I love talking about this project.
 
Yes, I have all the dates of the recording sessions. But why do you want them?

Well, I'll give you the month: June 2005.
 
 
I understand your comment about Patton.
Earlier in the book, in a section devoted to Jerry Goldsmith and his influence, there's a quote from James Horner who says he thinks Patton is great.
 
The index at the end of the book will make it easy to find all the occurrences.
 

Yes, I'm in contact with him. Thank you.

I really love the personal recollections and thorough footnotes.  Interesting that James loved “imitating English accents”.  Clearly what I gleamed from the few pages released was of a more rounded, human person than I had previously known.  Like the humor as kids of imitating scenes from films with his friend.  Something I did as a kid with my friends and on similar films.  I didn’t realize he almost scored 1983’s Wargames.  That film I think is perfect and has a fantastic score so interesting to imagine it could have had a different great score.  Personal computers were brand new at that time and I recall as a grade school kid dreaming of being able to log in to my school and change my grades. 
 
Overall, I enjoyed the excerpt and am looking forward to owning all four volumes. I got the impression this project was a true labor of love from all who contributed.  From the excerpts I would definitely wish for more details.  For example, Goldsmith’s score to Patton was one of Horner’s favorites, would love to understand why – what he thought of that score and Jerry’s other scores especially on franchises he would inherit from him like Star Trek and Alien.
 
Did you happen to get in touch with Armin Ksajikian?  He has lots of stories as a session musician who played on almost every Horner score in LA. 

But he did get to score Sneakers from the same screenwriters. (I never realized that there is also a Wargames joke about changing grades on the computer in Sneakers as well, presumably referencing Wargames.)

The human pitch approximator? Nah