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I really like the horn part (french horn), it sounds like it would be fun to play. I also like how the horn changes down that half-step at the very end. Made me smile

Thank you for the huge amount of work that went into the book @chrissiddall! This must have taken a long, long time. Just putting this out there...even if they're only curiosities, I'd totally shell out some cash for a Vol 2 of the non-revised cues! Seeing how early versions become revised is always interesting to me, and gives me some more insight into the composition process. But I can understand it not being appealing to some.

I got mine yesterday and am really excited to read through along with the score, @chrissiddall Just out of curiosity, are any of the original versions of cues present in the original manuscript? 1M2, 1M4, 2M4, 2M5, etc, etc..?

Listening to this now and really enjoying it. Sometimes it sounds like Lennertz has a David Arnold-ish forceful drive to his action writing that I really like. Trying to catch each cameo of JW theme so I can add those tracks to my "other composers using a JW theme" playlist.

@chrissiddallJust ordered earlier today. I've been excitedly waiting for this one and then I guess I got busy last month and totally missed this thread getting posted. Can't wait to go through this!

I almost did! Or JWFan FanfareFan Fanfare.

I have finished my fanfare, posted below. It is scored for brass and percussion sections, and with bassoons & contrabassoon as well, though when all is said and done, they are very much just covered up by the brass and only their essence can be detected. It's a short fanfare, followed by 3 statements of a theme/melody, ending with fanfare. Funny story...only when I was just about done putting it together did it occur to me that the 1st four notes of the melody (1st appearance is at 0:22), shares the same 1st four notes of the Jurassic Park theme...so...whoopsie.

I remember waiting over an hour to download the teaser from Quicktime movie trailers site and instantly liking Hedwig's theme. I remember buying the soundtrack before seeing the movie. I walked a few blocks with my sister to a books/movie/music store (Hastings) and bought the CD on the day it came out. I was in my young teen years and it was just about the time I had just started getting more serious about exploring John Williams' music and other movie scores. I had the 2CD Greatest Hits release that had just come out recently, and the only thing I asked for for Christmas the year prior was JW CDs! I think I got Seven Years in Tibet, Jurassic Park, Stepmom, Close Encounters and the Rhino Superman release. Back to HP, I loved the OST and it got many plays before I actually got to go see the movie in theaters. Then, once I saw the movie (which I really enjoyed), I was distraught that the 'going into the great hall' music wasn't on the OST and complained to my family about it, who were all confused and didn't know what I was talking about. Good times!

Listening to this release today. Man what an amazing body of action writing the Ultimate War cues are. Such a blast to listen to.

I think I'm in the smaller group of folks who enjoyed this score. I didn't mind any of the Williams quotes moments, though I guess if I had a least-favorite, it's the one @Disco Stu pointed out in It's a Christmas Miracle. While it didn't move me in a huge way, I overall really enjoyed it and found it to be a joyful, Christmas-flavored score that contains one of my most favorite Williams melodies and it made me smile a number of times.

I love that game! Good times.

Pitch meetings are tight!

I hope Bond scores start up again next year since NTTD has passed. I want them. I want them all. And not just the Arnold's...but the Barry's...and one-offs too!

I will submit something if I can finish it in the next couple weeks here.

Yeah, I enjoyed the movie but I agree about Finney. I didn't know there was a re-recording, I will seek that out, thanks!

I've always loved the score to Willy Wonka and the song Pure Imagination. I think Leslie had a gift for melody, I really enjoy many of the songs in Goodbye, Mr. Chips with my favorite being the "Walk through the World" song which appears a few times in the movie: There's something simple and beautiful about the melody. On another note, just last Christmas I found the 1970 version of Scrooge and we watched it. Part way through, I realized similarities in the melodies I was hearing (it's a musical), and guessed correctly that it was Leslie Bricusse. You can hear his melodic style in this, and some similarities to Mr. Chips since they were composed one after the other.

He is the founder of Orchestral Tools sample company as well. Really fun music here!

I do too, Ripley's theme has such a cold, dark beauty to it. It's a score I remember being quite haunting. Some of the electronic elements layered in with the orchestra are very unnerving. I've been meaning to check out more of his music.

If it's Dante's Peak, that is a special one for me. Just so happened that I saw that movie around the time when I really started noticing film music and wanting to hear more of it. There's something about the main theme that stuck with me, and the OST was one of the first film score CDs I bought.

I listened to this last night/ this morning. Sounds great! My buddy who's a big Trek fan came over last night with his FSM CD so we could compare. On this new release, there is more separation of the instrument details, the sound has a more crisp edge to it, and more warmth. The soundstage feels wider and I feel like I can hear the room the musicians are sitting in better. As it was described earlier, sounds more like it was recorded in recent times, and the difference is comparable to the LLL Superman vs the Blue Box for sound quality.

Thanks so much for the info. I can't believe I didn't notice the choir gone from a lot of The Darkest Day! I'll pay attention to the rest of that as I go through it.

Definitely near the top of my most loved scores!

Anyone heard any news on this one?

Sorry if these couple things have been discussed already, I couldn't find it if it has been.... I've been slowly watching the film and listening to the LLL release, and looking along at @Jay's fun spreadsheet. A Couple details I have noticed: There are 3 endings to 7M2 Base Attack / Dogfight; The assumed Original version, with one long sustained major chord. LLL Disc 1, Track 12b (as well as the OST, and the World Records Bootleg) An alternate version, which has the dun-dundundun-duunnnnn (quarter note, quarter note triplet, whole note) rhythm, but the instruments playing the rhythm are split into a major chord. Only available on the "Other Boot", track 15 Base Attack - Dogfight. The 3rd version, the film version, which has the rhythm mentioned above, but the instruments playing the rhythm are playing the tonic of the chord, in octaves, rather than forming a chord. Only on LLL Disc 2, Track 12, and heard in the film. This is also the ending on the Live-to-Picture performances (as it should be, since it's the film version). In the film, 8M3 The Big Tamale first plays almost entirely without choir, then segues into somewhere around 0:11 of the same cue but with choir this time and plays to the end. Film edit: 8M3 The Big Tamale (no choir) 0:00-0:18 / 8M3 The Big Tamale 0:11-END This means there's a 'no choir' version of 8M3 which remains unreleased, but which can mostly be heard in the film.

Thank you for the education. I am now remembering some old band music as I looked through scores in school band class, and seeing cornet and tenor horn parts. Cool that this group is carrying on this brass band tradition.