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why was there dancing during that? i thought it was ridiculous.

I wish the Academy would stop treating the In Memoriam section as primarily a performance piece with the actual deceased people seemingly a distant second thought. It is disrespectful.

Why was Nolan's walk off music He's A Pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean?

Yeah, not sure how I felt about that. Merging a song performance (complete with smiles and applause for the singers) with a memorial?
 
The staging and camerawork was super distracting with the constantly shifting stage, and splitting the focus between two singers, dancers and people who've died. The memorial was effectively relegated to wallpaper in the background.
 
Felt tasteless. Maybe one of those "good idea on paper but not execution" things.

Well. I've made it to another Friday without any big money expenditure on John Williams stuff. Thank goodness. Guess I'll just take a quick look at jwfa....... aww crap. 

Here's one that pays homage to the theatrical poster.
 

If this takes you hours for free for a score you don't even necessarily care about... then why can the paid professional only throw together something so bland and low effort? Though at least there are no mistakes in it except for the bad font choice, as far as we can tell for now.

Must have been a bridge too far matching the fonts on the top and bottom of the artwork.

The bagpipe theme is actually the same melody as the beginning of House Atreides and the love theme if you slow it down and change the tempo a bit.

I think a story - as told in a film or in a series of films - has to have a certain dramatic shape.
 
Gladiator's dramatic shape is complete. To make a sequel would mean to take the bow that had been wrapped over this most wonderful present, and unravel it anew.
 
I find those kinds of films - we're getting many of them nowadays - depressing.

It feels uninspired and unnecessary. Some films beg for a sequel, Gladiator is not one of them. Russel Crowe and Maximus is Gladiator. There's no Gladiator without Russel Crowe and Maximus.
 
 
 

Some films lend themselves to having sequels.
 
Gladiator is not one of those.

Top 5 worst ideas in the history of the world:
 
5. New Coke
4. Themed Restaurants
3. Hooked on Classics
2. Filling the Hindenburg With Hydrogen
 
 
1. A Gladiator sequel.
 
 
 
 
 

Yeah, I'm still really not sure why this film should exist.
Gladiator is a incredible film that is perfect the way it is and ends in a way that is good

thank god he is not returning! 
I think this will be a very bad movie…

What if John Williams is in fact behind Mattriss and has been using the Star Wars Disenchantment to torment his fans that for years have complained about unreleased cues and microedits?

This is crazy! I couldn’t even listen to more than 10 seconds of these horrible scam tracks without cringing in agony.

Thank you for bringing this up, it must surely be brought to the composers’ attention and addressed. The fact that these are streamable albums is so disappointing - Clearly, anyone can simply upload any old garbage under an artist’s name and it will appear in their discography.

So I was listening to my usual Tidal playlist of weekly new release recommendations and I came across some weird albums by known but not huge film composers (Broughton, Debney, McNeely, Badelt), all with nondescript titles, 3 tracks not recorded with a real orchestra, with obviously AI generated covers. I couldn't find anything about any of them except for the streaming/youtube uploads, nothing on the composers' sites, no news about them. The Youtube uploads are not on the composers' own Topic channels, but on "Release - Topic", and all attributed to the Vietnamese "OnlyStar Music" production company.
 
What can be done about this if it's some larger scale scam?
 
 

Nope
 
EDIT: I should have been more clear.
 
 
The two pieces recorded in London in March 1968 at the Mr. Chips sessions ["A Place Of My Own (Heidi’s Theme)" and "Love Theme From ‘Heidi’"] are only in the narration album portion of the disc and not in the new main program.

The rest of the music on the narration album is from the main score sessions recorded in January 1968 in Germany, and are sometimes chopped up or looped within the narration album.  Every single cue used in the narration album is present in the new main program - in complete, unedited, unlooped form there.

Fixed

That’s a shame, was looking forward to hear Gi revisit the themes he wrote for the first score

I think he is asked so much that large stretches without anything rarely come up.  He talks about the tuba and viola concerto being somewhat spontaneous.  Heartwood probably the same.  I wonder how much the piano concerto is him and how much Ax asking.  
 
I do think that he loves the popular vein of composing more than he realizes or at least sometimes lets on.  Jumping at the ESPN thing the way he did and the comments in this interview point to him wanting more than just concert-hall composing.  
 
50 years from now, musicologists are going to be dumbfounded that he pulled off a lifetime worth of work for the concert hall and a lifetime worth of work for movies (and a hell of a lot of occasion pieces to boot).   
 
He seems so balanced.  His comments on Goldsmith and others being unhappy due to their career frustrations is so perceptive.  He found the recipe for a lifetime of happiness as a composer--something that very, very few composers (from Mozart to Beethoven to Goldsmith) have pulled off.