MikeH

“Adventures on Moon!”

The big payoff sequence in the film that’s underscored with the first minute of Na’vi Attack is absolutely thrilling. It’s pure Horner through and through and I loved every second of it. Can’t imagine any other composer coming close to that.

Absolutely loved it. The new family theme by Franglen is superb, and hearing those familiar Horner trademarks once again in a huge Dolby Cinema was incredibly emotional. I miss him.

There was a thread on this video earlier in the summer but incase anyone missed it:

Definitely. E.T. has to be the greatest film score ever written, no question. It’s absolutely lightning in a bottle. Anytime I watch and listen I just throw my hands up and say, “nope, can’t get any better than this.”

I like The Last Jedi recording that went unused.

Pretty sure copying refers to the copyists/music prep (preparing the sheet music for the sessions). MIDI files transfer would be getting JNH’s demo midi files cleaned up and ready for Jeff Atmajian to do his orchestrations. Orchestrating from MIDI files is a headache. It’s an incredible amount of work to go from a computer demo to sheet music that is actually playable by musicians. Orchestrators sometimes deal with hundreds of tracks in these midi files, often sloppily thrown together, and they basically have to sort out what is needed and what is not. Composers who want to impress the studio heads will just add more and more tracks to make a great demo, but when it comes to translating that to an orchestra it’s a lot of work. JW has his short sketch score which, in comparison, is relatively simple to orchestrate out to full score for the copyists.

Here’s some of the discussion from a few years back.

It’s nice to see the Rogue One situation finally come to light. We had intel from some members a few years back but most of it was met with pearl-clutching saying Williams would never do such a thing as to get involved with Gia’s score. Doug also said he was offered Solo because of how unhappy he was that he wasn’t offered Rogue One. Never knew that one.

This is not a 90 year old man. This is an ageless and timeless wizard!

The first half of this is an arrangement and second half is his theme. I always liked his arrangement of “Teach Me Tonight” from Jaws 2, sadly not on the expansion.

All of these score releases are something I never thought I’d see due to all the red-tape and prep involved. Kudos to Omni and the others who keep making it happen!

okay fine I changed it! 😂

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