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How about 90 year olds?

SeVIIen

How about 90 year olds?

"... but they're all dead!"

Oh man, that one always cracks me up. And it just gets better every time he tells it.

He obviously means works such as Seven for Luck, For Always, Can You Read My Mind, If We Were in Love, A Big Beautiful Ball etc.

West Side Story - loved it for the music and dancing. Bernstein's/Sondheim's score is still one of my all time favorite works of art.

Somebody on FSM just posted this very interesting account of Zimmer from one of his former collaborators.
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=97421&forumID=1&archive=0

Wow, there are some really great recordings on the site. I've been looking for a good recording of Michael Gandolfi's "Flourishes and Mediations on a Renaissance Theme"--so glad to have found one! And old recordings from the 1800s of Sousa's marches, Copland suites...what a treasure trove!

This is a really neat interview. JW gets some new questions for once:

Interesting that Williams mentions he "initially" thought of the piece as a fanfare. Maybe this would be better classified as a miscellanious concert work than a fanfare.

Here it is!!

Sounds like we have a complete version of the work starting at ~3:22!

Hmm, I'm not sure if they always offer a digital download - my guess is this one would likely be offered as a download on their site though, if (or when) they produce a CD which features it. They still press CDs the old school way, with liner notes and junk. (lol) Digital Downloads involve a whole different set of copyright permissions. This specific work would have a different set of parameters for that than most.
Something to consider (not to get too deep and boring about it) is that the Marine Band does a great job of promoting the Marine Corps, providing morale, and all that, but they are all musicians with incredible backgrounds. They offer MANY wonderful recordings of wind band music and are considered one of the top bands in the world. They are aware that bands around the world - from high school groups to university bands and even other military bands - look up to them as one of the "top dogs." They love their status, and they respect it.
As such, they love playing to their audience, so to speak. They have a huge following, and they know it. The US military is the reason bands became popular in the US, and as such we all share the obligation to be as good as we can be at it. And keep this in mind: we (including the Marine Band) do everything we do completely free of charge. You'll never pay an admission fee to a military band concert, or to pay money buy a CD (it's illegal for us to sell recordings).
This status removes ALL sense of "hoarding" that you may get from someone like a professional orchestra. When we get to do something extra fun, we are THRILLED to put it out there for everyone in the entire world to see and/or hear. Because it's illegal for us to sell any of our products (CDs, tickets, etc) we are MORE than happy to let the world know everything we're doing, which would include hearing a recording. A pro orchestra might hang onto something like this so they can sell it, but military bands are happy to put it out there for free.
OK...boring info over...

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Thanks for the reminder ST-321!

Now there are two of them?!!!!

I think this one is my favorite. I love how they adopt Elfman's style...it's such an obscure reference, almost like a secret code. Also at the time this came out, my friend and I were having a continual debate over who was better, JW or Elfman, so needless to say I very much appreciated this.

Yeah I see what you mean. It seems like JW was attempting to enter the musical business much the same way he entered film--started by performing on some (film versions of) musicals, then orchestrated a few (Fiddler, Tom Sawyer and Mr. Chips) and then finally compose. And in the same way his earlier scores are largely pastiches of other styles, so is his first musical. Still, I think there are some really interesting bits of the score, and even a few glimpses of JW's style, and I would have loved to see him continue on the musical track (concurrent to his film and concert work, of course).

I love Thomas and the king. Some of the lyrics are a little spotty, and the music isn't te greatest thing in the works but I quite enjoy it. And historically it's cool to hear the maestros only musical

I would assume that Williams himself wrote the lyrics as there is no one else credited for them on either the original release or the LLL one. I was actually intrigued by the very same thing after reading the liner notes.
Any thoughts Miguel?

1) Williams work almost 20 years. The book 3 years.
2) Ronald Feldman, Boston Public Library, Boston Symphony Tanglewood volunteers, Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, Jennifer Visconti (King's Chappel Boston), Ruth Nemzoff (Brandeis University)...
3) Many. Also I used the Boston Public Library Archive.
4) Analyzing interviews. Archives...and other secrets
5) I must correct you. Is published with publishing house http://www.padillalibros.com/itm/
Greetings

If there has ever been a thread for this before, forgive me. I wasn't able to find one myself. But I thought it would be fun to have a thread that points out any film, TV show, or advertisement/trailer that was clearly made to mimic John Williams music from perhaps a "temp track" to the point of extreme familiarity for fans like us.

Let me start with one.

For anyone who ever watched the BBC TV show "Merlin", there was a track of music that first appeared in Season 3 that sounded VERY familiar after hearing it, to the point where after a few moments I knew right away exactly what it sounded like. Can you guess?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SocpHvw278c
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BrachioIngen also showed me one worth mentioning as well. This one is trailer music for the film "Castle In The Sky". Can you guess this one? The "inspiration" is mostly just in the first part of it.

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I'm sure there are MANY more cases like these out there. Post them!

Say more! Say more!
Karol

Yes. A triad is any chord composed of any three notes regardless of interval. F-A-C is a root position F major triad. C-F-A is an F major triad in second inversion. A-F-C is an F major triad in first inversion.

It's like Luke vs. Han Solo. One's appealing, charming, nice enough to look at, certainly not ugly by reasonable standards...
...but the other's Harrison Ford.

We need a redistribution of wealth!