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Wallfisch would actually be perfect for a Jurassic score. He acquitted himself rather nicely on Twisters last year and Flash before that, but his theme for Shazam! is fantastically Williams-esque, as is his Peter Pan stage score. Sadly, the trailer for Rebirth, the recent history of the franchise, and the rumors of brutal violence in the film suggest there will be little room for Spielbergian wonder and adventure this time around. Wallfisch can do that when he's allowed to, though.

Wait, did I miss something, @Maestro? What was the long story directly involving his majesty?

I was at least expecting the link to lead to Rick Astley or something...

This looks incredible. Let the age of John Williams books begin!

Can someone post whatever Young music the Demonstration cues were imitating/copying? I've always been curious, but I don't know Young's work well enough to find it.

I guess this is the classical establishment's crowning insult to John Williams. The whole thing was a long con.

Finally going through this and loving just about every note. Honestly, I'm not sure this would have been better with Williams-penned themes. The family theme is perfect, and the novelty of a new composer getting to play in the Jurassic theme sandbox probably gave us more new and interesting variations on Williams' themes than the Maestro himself would have given us. I'm a part-time lover of Giacchino's flawed Jurassic scores (I own two and cherry-picked from the third), but hearing this makes me think Davis would have been the obvious choice for that series. Someone probably said that here ten years ago, but I'm saying it now!

Wouldn't it be incredible if Nolan threw everyone a curveball and hired John Williams for this? The most visionary, big-swinging popcorn director of his generation and our time, paired once for all time with the greatest film composer in history and the greatest melodist of our time, adapting the greatest epic of Western civilization. Just write theme suites now and sic William Ross on the sync points later, for all I care. Imagine: a Nolan movie where you could hum the theme! [Wakes up and resigns self to hoping the Mandalorian/Black Panther version of Ludwig Göransson shows up rather than any of the other versions.] P.S. If Göransson is scoring it, Nolan should probably cast Stallone in the lead. The theme will make it sound like he belongs there anyway...

This movie was HILARIOUS. I just about busted an actual gut.

Dear God, I think you just made me admit to myself that I like the action music in Solo better than most of the SW action music Williams has written this century. I feel...cold...

Heading back to catch up on the Neil Percy interview. @TownerFan, can you share which recording excerpt plays just after the 31:00 mark? I believe it's a recording of "The Battle" from the ANH concert suite, and I assume it's the LSO.

It's not a chest-thumping blockbuster film like the ones for which Williams is often stereotyped, though. It's not a "major-fifth" film, if you will. [Waits for someone to rise from the throng and timestamp all the places where the Schindler score does, in fact, feature a major fifth.]

Does anyone know what part of the score is the basis for the first two minutes of this arrangement?

Finally finished listening through and ripping this CD yesterday, and man, what a treat. The new musical context really allows the melodies and counterpoint to shine in a new way. And the fact that it's a double album going beyond the usual suspects is an incredible gift. It would have been easy to bang this out with twelve tracks of mega-hits plus Schindler, but they really went the extra mile. I'm ready for John Williams ReIImagined!