Tom

Indiana Jones and If I Keep Lifting Weights and Make Myself Big Will People Finally Accept and Love Me.

In terms of the end credits suite, I hate the slow tempo of Finn's theme (or whatever it is called) versus as used in the actual film.

X-Wings is not part of the End Credit suite. Do you mean his concert performances of the piece?

If his concert programming is any indication, I would say this is his favorite scherzo (from his own work), and Out to Sea/Shark Cage his favorite fugue.

Here is a video version (FSO)as well. I am not sold on the revisions either. However, it think they are lateral; they make the piece neither worse nor better.

I think Larry David could pull off a Copland role.

Interestingly, I find some of his concert works darker than his film scores, though admittedly, I associated atonal with dark, even though that is not always the case. I think of Nixon, but that is more tragic than dark. WotW is close, but I would go with intense more than dark, Images has its own thing going on--deranged more than dark. Even RotS "Dark Deeds" is operatic and elements of a lament more than dark. He has not scored a movie that is consistently dark (not that this is a bad thing). The Carousel in the Fury for cue, though.

One assumes by implication that Williams will be there, but the write up seems to go out its way not to say it.

Regarding AOH: Perhaps this has been noted, and it always takes me forever to hear such things, but I just noticed a cool thing with the 6-7 note motif that plays between the hero and searching theme. Williams uses it in counterpoint beneath the hero theme in the latter's first statement. Good stuff. edit: continuing the dialogue with myself. I suppose the motif is the ostinato driving the piece, but Williams gives it a much more nuanced role versus, say, Superman or DotF.

He may very well have composed it just for the LTP. When he performed the opening sequence at Tanglewood 12 or so year ago, he added new music to parts that are unscored in the movie for a better listening experience, so he is not averse to that approach. Edit: I didn't know I was responding to the same cue with my reply.

Yeah, I wonder with the delay if Williams did not start Fablemans first and then will begin Indy in late Feb. Of course, the former is not even confirmed, so who knows.

Has principal photography wrapped on this?

Imagine being these kids' other grandpa.

I hear that the bad guy's tagline is "Call me, if you have the time."

This has been in my top three concert pieces by Williams since I first heard it. Accessible, yet fresh and true to Williams's concert voice. I do not understand Williams or the concert world. Why is there not a signature edition and why isn't it programmed with any regularity?

Not the greatest recording, but for those who never saw it (or were not even born), here it is. Also, Happy New Year.

I don't know the answer to your question, but, yes, it is underrated (and I am usually quite adverse to that term). I think the full-scale dark, tragic operatic sound represents a unique entry for Williams (though he would do the same for ROTS 9 years later). I love this score. While no one would see it, it would make for a power LTP experience.

For whatever reason, Journey to the Island sounded especially dynamic and brilliant in the clip. I like how the other instrumentalists were in awe of the performance. Excellent work to all involved.

Hallelujah chorus, but too lazy to listen to the whole Messiah. Seminally great piece of music and uplifting everytime.

I looked back on the first page of the thread and saw my angry comments from a year ago--that must have been around the time I gave up barbiturates. Also, The Hunt is very good, but it would not make my top 25 Williams cues. Neither over or under, I will call it "rated."

Maybe she died in 2006 while reading 1984. I am almost certain she was alive in the 2000s (some appearance at a JW concert or award ceremony or something).

Deconstructing my smart-mouth nonsense...I like it. I was going for the latter.

Is that why my DG Zimmer album is 60 minutes of silence?