Tom

Hi everybody,
a while ago I wrote and recorded the score for Treasure Trackers - a family friendly Halloween feature film with the 90 piece Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. We wanted to go the opposite way of current trends and create a classic adventure score for the movie. 
 
The score and movie release today.
Here you can listen to the music:
 
 
If you prefer better audio quality than Soundcloud, you can stream it wherever you stream music: https://album.link/treasuretrackers
 
I had a lot of fun writing and recording that music and I hope that also transports to the listener.
 

 

 

 

 
I also made the entire score sheet available for download. You can get it here: https://www.robin-hoffmann.com/score-sheets/treasure-trackers-complete-score-sheet/
 
All the best, Robin

Dad, do a Captain Kirk.  
 

 

 
Oh, my back...I will never write a single note for this franchise.  
 

Regular enough that Williams needed to cancel his summer concerts.  

That is knot funny.  

That is knot funny.  

That is knot funny.  

That is knot funny.  

Thank you for the notice and personal obituary of sorts.  Yes, his name and articles was a big part of my early days of self-conscious JW fandom.   Very cool that he was so engaged with your project.  
 
He was always such a breath of fresh air relative to the "snobbish" critics.  Like an accomplished relative during your formative years going against everyone else by telling you that you are not crazy for thinking such and such.  

Williams realizing that he is being told that he is not the best ever:
 
 
 

Thank you for the notice and personal obituary of sorts.  Yes, his name and articles was a big part of my early days of self-conscious JW fandom.   Very cool that he was so engaged with your project.  
 
He was always such a breath of fresh air relative to the "snobbish" critics.  Like an accomplished relative during your formative years going against everyone else by telling you that you are not crazy for thinking such and such.  

Thank you for the notice and personal obituary of sorts.  Yes, his name and articles was a big part of my early days of self-conscious JW fandom.   Very cool that he was so engaged with your project.  
 
He was always such a breath of fresh air relative to the "snobbish" critics.  Like an accomplished relative during your formative years going against everyone else by telling you that you are not crazy for thinking such and such.  

There is an elegant solution to all of this: simply don't have any friends, and then you are liberated and free to be who you are. As a bonus, it frees up time to listen to JW.  
 
 

I think this is connected to reel 6 of AotC, where minutes are filled with tracking from TPM.  It is as if Williams said, you are going to butcher it anyway, just use the temp track.  

Regular enough that Williams needed to cancel his summer concerts.  

If indeed the big angle is about Williams's contribution to helping to preserve orchestral music, then expect even less about his early scoring life and more on the mid-70s forward.   

Thank you for the notice and personal obituary of sorts.  Yes, his name and articles was a big part of my early days of self-conscious JW fandom.   Very cool that he was so engaged with your project.  
 
He was always such a breath of fresh air relative to the "snobbish" critics.  Like an accomplished relative during your formative years going against everyone else by telling you that you are not crazy for thinking such and such.  

Are you sure that we did not misread the title?
 

Thank you for the notice and personal obituary of sorts.  Yes, his name and articles was a big part of my early days of self-conscious JW fandom.   Very cool that he was so engaged with your project.  
 
He was always such a breath of fresh air relative to the "snobbish" critics.  Like an accomplished relative during your formative years going against everyone else by telling you that you are not crazy for thinking such and such.  

On a sad note, the great Boston Globe critic and reporter Richard Dyer died on Friday at age 82.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/22/richard-dyer-music-critic-boston-globe-died/
 
Many of you will recognize his name; he was the key reporter on all things John Williams in the 1980s and ’90s. Since he was the critic for the Globe, he covered JW's new role in Boston from the very beginning—he even went to London and gave an incredible fly-on-the-wall report of the Empire Strikes Back sessions. He was one of the very first (vocal) champions of JW from the classical critic world, not just as a music director of the Pops but as a fantastic composer and musician. Dyer gave many glowing reviews of JW's film music and concert music, and he interviewed him consistently throughout those years. Dyer did one of the first truly comprehensive interviews / profiles with JW, and he had the best—and often only—interviews about so many specific scores from those important decades. He gave richly detailed reports on Pops concerts and rehearsals, as well as the scoring sessions for Saving Private Ryan, The Phantom Menace, and Sorcerer's Stone.
 
In other words, I couldn't have written my book without him and his priceless volume of work. And because of that, he was one of the first people I reached out to when I started my project, and he was so kind and supportive and helpful. He had become very friendly with JW, and would track down old recordings by Barbara Ruick (and other treasures) and gift them to JW. He had a lot of insight, which he freely shared over the phone during the pandemic and also one afternoon on his front porch when I went to Boston for research.
 
"For some reason John Williams liked me and I worked very hard to keep up with him," Dyer wrote in his first email to me, "collecting lots of LPs of his film scores before the first big interview in the GLOBE magazine - I was able to ask him about just about every film he worked on. He hosted me once in Los Angeles and I got to see his office/studio as well as his house; he came to my 50th and 60th birthday parties; we had lunch once during the first Harry Potter recording session, also one of the later Star Wars films. He is at once extremely modest about his work, although never dismissive of it ... I am honored that he was invariably very friendly and gives me a big hug every time I see him, although I would never claim that we were friends."   When I brought Dyer up to JW, he said: "I love him. I have the most wonderful films of Richard Dyer, because every once in a while, somebody would have a birthday—Governor Dukakis or something like that, so we’d wheel out a birthday cake. And Dyer loves to dress up as a chef, and I think he's coming out of the cake at one point. He was such a hoot. Quite a good critic, actually."   Anyway, I just wanted to pay my respects to a great critic and writer who promoted John Williams from the very start, and who JW fans owe an enormous debt. I certainly do.   Here's a fabulous quote from an appreciation article Dyer wrote when JW was leaving his post at the Pops in 1993: “Williams certainly knows every trick of orchestration in the book, and he invented a few himself, but the most important observation to make about his music is that he believes in it and it is honest. You can't write heroic music if you don't believe in heroism; it would ring hollow. You can't write patriotic music if you don't have patriotic feelings. In a way, a mass-media composer like Williams is a truer successor to populist composers like Verdi than most operatic composers today.”    

Not the exact thread, but I am always happy to see Dracula performed in any way.  Violin, but not the Mutter version.
 
 

I know that it is a bit sentimental, but if you talk to him again, please tell him a simple "thanks" for the untold joy that his music has given to me and countless others.  

Thanks to @thx99 for the head's up.  The documentary will be 1 hour, 45 minutes long:
 
https://debut.disney.com/fyc/twds/movie/music-by-john-williams-1726612788788?tab=synopsis

They've all been read?