MrJosh

Nice! So 9M2 has 3 versions, and there's a cue with an 'alt end', so....room for expansion some day!

Just got my copy of John Nagle's Titanic, expanded edition produced by Matthew Mattichino. Fantastic use of the Ludlow danger motif. 

Just got my copy of John Nagle's Titanic, expanded edition produced by Matthew Mattichino. Fantastic use of the Ludlow danger motif. 

Fixed.

John Nagle is many things…
 
He's Williams, Johnny, Curly, Kevin, Towner… a man you don’t say ‘no’ to. 

I just came back from the multiverse posting in the John Nagle message board where he scored Lord of the Rings and Star Trek

JNFAN.com

I think this is a fascinating little piece of trivia.
 
If John Williams' dad hadn't taken the last name of his STEPdad Henry J. Williams, and instead kept the last name of his biological father Tom Nagle, the world's greatest film composer of all time would be named......John Nagle!
 
(that Tom/Thomas Nagle fellow -- sometimes spelled Neagle and Nagel -- is an interesting character, btw, but that's a story for another time).
 

There is something altogether comforting (and bittersweet) about his Instagram post.  

The Garfield Movie

Except there was nothing actually *wrong* with the 2020 set, any more than the 2013 or 2006 editions. Those all sounded way better than Intrada's original 1988 expansion! So by your logic, Intrada is obligated to send this new 2024 "fix" to all purchasers of those previous four editions of theirs, which all neglected to check/use the Len Engel "safeties" as a source? Yeah, sounds like that would be a great business decision for them.  At a certain point you've gotta let go of the entitlement and realize you aren't obligated to purchase this new version, but them offering an improvement when they become aware of an opportunity for improvement is better than NOT making that improvement available. If you remove the business incentive to put out a new release by kneecapping them with the expectation of them freely replacing all copies of 2020 purchasers, then golly they're just not going to bother offering this new and better sounding version. Surely you can realize that?
 
Hell, even if this new 2024 edition didn't cost them anything to produce and manufacture, the shipping costs alone of sending out your proposed free copies would be astronomical if concentrated on Intrada.
 
 
People who feel screwed are going to just have to get over it, but I suspect there are fewer people in that boat than you think and most previous purchasers are either happy enough with the version they have, or are mega Inchon fans like me and are just happy to have the score in better sound. New cover art to distinguish this version from the last version would have been nice, yes.
 
 
You may not know who's going to get this but I'm guessing Intrada has some idea, since their previous four expanded editions of this score sold really well for them. (Actually I think their 1988 edition sold the worst, but every edition since then has sold better than it did!) When it's Jerry Goldsmith, it seems that it hardly matters if the film is hardly known. I suspect besides "JG purists" there are also some people out there who simply missed out on the 2020 edition and will want to grab this one since the score is rather unexpectedly available on disc again. But even if you're right and interest is limited to "JG purists"... I think that's a lot of people.
 
Yavar
 

What you don't see out of frame is that they all have lines of coke on the table 

On this day, 92 years ago, the world was blessed with the birth of the gift that is Maestro John Williams. The man, the myth, the legend. What more can be said. A most happy and blessed birthday to Maestro John Williams.

This is going to be a day full of John Williams music. Wait, that's every day!
 
The newest episode of my podcast features the song "Somewhere In My Memory" from Home Alone, which was pitted against some banger tunes for the Original Song Oscar.

 
Happy birthday, Maestro!

[pen on paper]

Happy 92nd to my favourite person in all of culture history! Here are some random photos with personal JW connections:
 
Hollywood Bowl 2012:
 

 
Boston 2014:
 

 
Boston 2014:
 

 
Berlin 2021:
 

 
Collection spread from a few years ago:
 

Here's me playing my own arrangement of Helena's Theme for piano:
 
 
Note: if you have perfect pitch, or an excellent musical memory, then this arrangement may drive you crazy as I mix and match elements from the standard version and the violin version (including some key changes). Though hopefully the final result is coherent enough.

Finally got around to making a TFA spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MvXA-RzLbR3XjQlLgUHPhbNkF14tojHCJ1rrVZxEMNQ/edit

I forked this from @Jay's old one, deleted the simple breakdowns and redid the complete score breakdown from scratch. I also added @BrotherSound's FYC breakdown, as well as my own isolated score breakdown which is still a work in progress. 

We should also have a reverse thread about "composers I used to like but dislike now'. I have some candidates there.

Well, JW obviously writes the best music he can for the task that he's given, and I think that's all that matters. It can be dangerous to go into such metaphors of whether or not a composer was writing "from the heart" or not, because there are some perverse connotations there, for example that music "from the heart" has to be unpolished to some degree, because it must be unfiltered by the intellect (or something like that). I don't buy that sort of talk. People express themselves in different ways. Just because some music sounds unpolished and raw, doesn't mean it came directly from the heart. One can maybe say that his 1st Violin Concerto is a more personal work than Jaws, but they're both great pieces of music, so...
 
Nevertheless, there are obviously cases where a composer "phones in" and doesn't put all that they can give into a picture. And I think it's fair to say that out of all composers, JW has done this probably the least. Virtually every film he's done has something special about it, which is astounding given the number of films he's worked on.
 
So essentially what I'm saying is, I don't care anymore whether JW writes "from the heart" or not; his music is some of the best film music out there, and I love listening to it and will probably never get tired of it, so clearly he's doing it right.

55 signatures.
I am sure, Disney is impressed.

Folks will be pleased 

You should pick this up. His disaster scores are more dated. Jane Eyre in particular is timeless. It is very much related to later Williams scores you probably love. Do you like Prisoner of Azkaban and/or the "Across the Stars" love theme from Attack of the Clones? Then you will ADORE Jane Eyre. It is an utter masterpiece. A shame more of it couldn't be found but it is still a fantastic album and will 100% sound like the John Williams you already know and love, I promise.
 
Yavar