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Still trying to make this thread a thing! This just out Friday... And another one! Someone finally has the decency to reinterpret "Jazz Autographs"! Your move, Johnny...

Give them to me. Problem solved!

27 tracks would be amazing, but here's my sub-list of themes I think actually stand a chance (or ones I want so badly I'm keeping them on the list against hope).

I am so deeply distrustful of my layman’s ears that, though I want to believe this, I can’t. Change my mind. (Please!) That being said, I adore the Blue Box and its booklet so much that I wouldn’t get rid of it anyway…

Check out that V-neck on the studio lot! Williams has belatedly entered his Blue Period.

This just in: ASM has replaced PWB as Helena in the final cut. Revised Super Bowl spot dropping ASAP.

Last Friday, I was flipping through SiriusXM and pausing on the Symphony Hall channel when I heard the closing strains of "Amazing Stories" segueing into something else familiar. Turns out the Classics on Film show was doing a Williams special! When I checked the app to see if I could listen to the whole episode, they only listed the previous two (Jan. 27 and Feb. 3), so I figured I'd check again after the weekend to see if they updated the list. Today, the Jan. 27 show is gone, the Feb. 3 is still there, but no Feb. 10 show. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya! Maybe this means the show closed with clean recordings of the Vienna Fanfare and "Of Grit and Glory."

Jedi has an advantage because of the sheer number of themes Williams had banked by that point. Nearly every shot lends itself to referencing some incredible earworm he'd composed in the previous six years, and even accounting for motifs he callously abandoned to uncertain fates (Eternal rest grant unto Lando's Palace and the Droid Motif, O Lord). Then there are solid new themes for Luke and Leia and the Emperor and Jabba. But given that quality floor, what's disappointing to me about Jedi is the reuse of "Here They Come!" at some key moments when we could have used something really culminating and unique, as well as the neglect of at least two of the three new themes. It also might have been nice to see Vader's theme develop more gradually into a new phase. It's basically ESB-o'clock for the whole movie until Thomas Newman comes in at the end to re-orchestrate it for Vader's death.

This kind of stuff fascinates me. It happened more than once and wasn't tracked in, so there was clearly a deliberate effort at...something by Williams. But you'd think a character as prominent as Obi-Wan, if he were going to get something, would get more than this. We need score commentaries, Maestro!

Ha. I'm also constantly deleting things by accident in the process of tinkering. Today, let's add "Anakin is Free"! Shoot! And let's add "Car Drives Off/It's a Basilisk" from HPCOS!

I have a playlist like that, too! I'm constantly tinkering with it to keep it fresh. It was a pleasure to lengthen it by one when The Fabelmans came out. Here's the current iteration, with albums as listed in iTunes. Lost In Space (1967-Season 3) Voyage The Rare Breed - The Cross-Breed/End Credits The Wild West The Reivers - Main Title Greatest Hits 1969-1999 Main Title And Overture Heidi (Expanded Score 2013) Sugarland Express - Theme Greatest Hits 1969-1999 [Disc 1] Williams: 2. To Thornfield [Jane Eyre] Pops Britannia Love Theme from "Story Of A Woman" Across The Stars: The Film Music Of John Williams For Solo Piano Nice To Be Around (From "Cinderella Liberty") The Music of John Williams: The Definitive Collection (Amazon Exclusive) The Cowboys Great Composers - John Williams Earthquake Great Composers - John Williams Conrack (1974) - Main Title 20th Century Fox: 75 Years Of Great Film Music Williams: Theme (From "The Long Goodbye") Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes The Towering Inferno Great Composers - John Williams The Top Of The World The Eiger Sanction The Great Shark Chase [Jaws] Jaws End Cast Family Plot The Missouri Breaks (Crossing the Missouri) Scored! Classic Film Music - Western Men of the Yorktown Ben Kenobi's Death/Tie Fighter Attack Star Wars: A New Hope Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Main Theme The Fury (1978) - For Gillian / End Title 20th Century Fox: 75 Years Of Great Film Music The Open Sea Jaws 2 The Kryptonquake Superman End Titles Dracula The Asteroid Field Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back The Basket Chase From "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" Williams On Williams (Music From The Films Of Steven Spielberg) End Credits Heartbeeps (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) At The Forum (album) Monsignor Over the Moon E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Original Soundtrack The Forest Battle (Concert Suite) Star Wars: Return of the Jedi The Ancestral Home The River Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom - Parade Of The Slave Children Greatest Hits 1969-1999 In Orbit SpaceCamp Someone Like You (Lacy's Theme) (Slow Version) Superman IV: The Quest for Peace [Disc 2] The Landing (From "Amazing Stories: The Mission") Varèse Sarabande: A 25th Anniversary Celebration, Vol. 2 Balloon Sequence Salute To Hollywood Empire Of The Sun - Cadillac Of The Skies Greatest Hits 1969-1999 End Credits (alternate) Always Reading Lessons Stanley & Iris/Pete 'N' Tillie Family Life Presumed Innocent (The Deluxe Edition) End Credits Hook (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) The Land Race Far and Away Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto - Winter '41) Schindler's List Sabrina Great Composers - John Williams The 1960s: The Turbulent Years Nixon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Reunion And Finale From Sleepers Lights, Camera...Music! Six Decades Of John Williams Mann at Rosewood (Instrumental) Rosewood Original Motion Picture Soundtrack The Hunt The Lost World: Jurassic Park Dry Your Tears, Afrika (Reprise) Amistad Isabel's Horse and Buggy Stepmom - Music from the Motion Picture Where Dreams Are Born A.I. Artificial Intelligence Harry Gets His Wand Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Expanded Archival Collection) Across The Stars (Love Theme from Star Wars: Episode II) Star Wars: Attack of the Clones A New Beginning Minority Report The "Float" Catch Me If You Can The Tale Of Viktor Navorski The Terminal A Window to the Past (From "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban") The Music of John Williams: The Definitive Collection Battle Of The Heroes Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith The Garden Meeting Memoirs Of A Geisha Prayer for Peace from "Munich" The Spielberg / Williams Collaboration Part III The Jungle Chase Begins Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull The Adventure Continues The Adventures Of Tintin Dartmoor, 1912 War Horse The People's House Lincoln One Small Fact The Book Thief The Jedi Steps And Finale Star Wars: The Force Awakens To Giant Country The BFG The Fathiers Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Presses Roll The Post The Adventures of Han Solo Falcon Flight Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (FYC) The Fabelmans The Fabelmans

Wait, what? Did we know about this? Are these the same performances as his unavailable PBS specials? https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/bso-plan-to-digitize-john-williams-concerts-almost-complete/

No love for "Look Down, Lord"? But seriously, this is awesome. I've been dreaming about a choral Williams concert for years. Heck, even Jurassic Park with chorus would be a rare treat.

"The Arrival of Tink/Flight to Neverland" and/or "Remembering Childhood" and/or "The Ultimate War" ("To War" if you have the LLL release) from Hook The concert suite from SpaceCamp Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra from Last Crusade

Seven Years in Tibet LTP in China!

Yeah, I've put things there, too, but I thought the word "YouTube" was too limiting. Now we can have multiple threads for the same topic like the FSM board!

I really just created this thread so someone can reply with a link to whatever preexisting thread makes it unnecessary, but who knows? Maybe we really don't have a dedicated thread for covers and reinventions of John Williams pieces. Anyway, enjoy Pablo J. Garmon's newly released jazz arrangement of Princess Leia's Theme! Then enjoy these other covers I may or may not have previously posted in their own unjustly unloved topics:

That's it! Williams is replacing Beck on ANT-MAN 3!!! The Twitter comment inspired Mangold to take over reshoots for it, and he hired Williams to write a new score in three days!

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It's funny: I'm so used to the wood-colored stage at Symphony Center in Chicago that the black stage really hides the musicians in this view. It looks like they're performing in a black-box theater!

100 percent confirmed. Yoda is a Sith!

For those who enjoyed the Helbock album, or parts of it, chew on this version of the Superman March from Randy Waldman's hit-or-miss Superheroes album. Much of the jazz here is too outre for my pre-bebop tastes, but I like the attention to detail in Superman. Some interesting stuff happens to both Batman themes and, believe it or not, the X-Men TV theme here as well.

Hearing about the new trio arrangement of Schindler's List reminded me that I've been meaning to ask this question for a couple of weeks. I came across this video not long ago and was astounded how well it worked in this form: Does anybody know of any other Williams reductions/arrangements for string quartet? I'm pretty sure he never did any himself, but what else is out there?

Great. Now do The Terminal! [The next day...] No, dammit, the love theme! Throw that away and come back tomorrow!

Soooo…a Jay-I? Also, just to poke the collective bear here, I wish to observe that this melody plays in response to the touch of Han’s hand on Kylo’s face, the quasi-sacramental gesture that arguably triggers his transformation back into Ben. If nothing else, it’s a neat example of the work transcending its author’s intentions and one heck of a good argument for using Williams (or any original composer who’s still available for follow-ups) as often as, and for whatever jobs, he’s willing to come back.