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Finally got RotK CR on Saturday. Still waiting for 2 CDs from Varese's latest Club batch.

Got Memoirs of an Invisible Man yesterday. Really loved it in the cinema when I was a kid, so I couldn't resist it when I saw it being sold for few €. Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible to obtain the sountrack (by the late Shirley Walker) ...

Gotta order that too, probably some time in January - if I will be left with any money after returning from my London LSO concert and music store visits. Neil, thanks for the interview link.

GOT IT! GOT IT! GOT IT! And it's absolutely outstanding! No, it's not outstanding, it's DIVINE! The circle is finally complete! The Chalice Passed

Haha, same here What a hillarious thought

Conducting without a score is really nothing special and - at least in Europe, IMHO - at least as usual as conducting with it. The conductor of the wind and symphony orchestras I play in actually prefers conducting the concerts without a score, so he can focus on the performance and on his own vision of the music he is conducting. I guess it's also kind of a "liberating" feeling for him. He has enough time to study a score during performances and on his own, but on the concerts, he usually conducts without a score (and I've seen many other conductors do it). I guess there's no rule per se, a lot also depends on a personal preference, so I'm sure there are conductors, who'd never conduct withput a score, as well as those, who'd never conduct with it.

Looks like a great page, it's going straight to my Favorites section.

I've had very positive experience so far. I live in Slovenia, which is just about as far from California as it gets , but still of many times that I ordered CDs from VS (I've always ordered their CDs directly from them, never from e. g. Amazon, where I otherwise order lots of other stuff), not even one time was anything out of order. The CDs always arrived in no more than 10 days from the shipping date and were always in perfect condition. I sure hope this doesn't change ...

Sure thing, so I can come too next year. But indeed, quite a few empty seats ...

Yaaay, mine's already waiting for me at the post office, but I came home too late to pick it up ... So just another sleepless night ahead of me and firs thing in the morning, instead of the breakfast ... ;)

Caught Predator a couple of days ago on TV. Great action stuff, a legend of course. Thinking of watching Misery on DVD tonight, haven't seen it for some time.

Hell yeah!

1. Stargate 2. Tomorrow Never Dies 3. The World Is Not Enough 4. Independence Day 5. Casino Royale

Expecting my copy in the beginning of the next week.

I'd really like to go, the memories of LotR Symphony in Vienna this April are after all still fresh (and Wien itself is only about 4 hours from my place with car ), but I'm not so ill-tempered about not going, 'cause I'm visiting this on January 6th, 2008. Anyone else going? (I thought about opening a new thread sometime soon, but I'm already curious about the chances of meeting some fellow JWFan members there. ) They even expanded the program with some additional music and a pre-concert talk with David Arnold and Patrick Doyle!

I've had it for years now and it's definitely worth getting. I'm not really sure about the additional material, but the performances are really inspired and enthusiastic. Go buy it!

He sure does. Probably a typo.

Certainly a great pic! A hi-res scan would really be perfect, especially for a wallpaper.

Damn you, Josh500, for setting this poll - I just can't decide!

Sure is, right here.

Main Title March from Superman, Escape/Chase/Saying Goodbye from E.T., Somewhere In My Memory from Home Alone and many cues from 007 soundtracks (such as e. g. The Space March/Capsule In Space) come to mind instantly. While I could hardly say that these tracks "make me wanna cry", they do usually turn me very nostalgic and sappy.

You can say that again. Caught Matrix Reloaded yesterday evening on TV.

Another great petition, I'm keeping all my fingers & toes crossed for it to reach its goal.

Voted for Shore, though it was a tough one, almost all of them deserve a vote. My personal favourites (in no particular order) are (aside from JW, of course) Horner, Debney, Elfman, Morricone, Silvestri, Goldsmith, Conti, Zimmer, Gregson Williams, Newton Howard and Barry. Speaking of non-film composers, I really like modern concert band stuff, guys like Johan de Meij, Jan Van der Roost, Alfred Reed, Eric Whitacre, Jacob de Haan, Robert W. Smith, Pavel Staněk, Bert Appermont, Bart Picqueur etc.

Hm, gotta check out that A Charlie Brown Christmas thing. Personally, I'd add Diana Krall's Christmas Songs and Frank Sinatra's The Christmas Collection, to mention but two.