Tallguy

Heh. The Phoenix Symphony just sent a flier that they will be performing "The original 1977 Star Wars: A New Hope" That's quite the contradictory sentence.

Those are terrific. Thank you!

I think the first time I realized that the edits were edits was when I was at a theme park and they played the original album Main Titles. Over a theme park PA in a crowded park I could hear the edit from the main titles / blockade runner to the end title. And that was after 25 years.

I KNOW! Oh, wait. Was that sarcasm?

I suppose I should actually put the disc in the player... (Digital copies are pretty terrific.)

He may have been asked this more than once, but I have a feeling that was at the 10th anniversary convention. (I was there!) Ahhh, the first time I remember thinking Lucas was full of it.

The concert is a year from now. Maybe we'll have the Original Editions back by then and they'll do that one. I can dream, yeah?

Now I have to go rename all of my Star Wars tracks.

Thanks for the information. I might have to go...

Apologies if this has been answered: Do these concerts have dialog and sound effects? (I'm really hoping the answer is no.) EDIT: I ask because I just found out that the Phoenix Symphony is doing Star Wars. (They call it A New Hope. What're ya gonna do?)

Heh. Of course this means that the original Album of Empire will technically STILL be unavailable on CD.

If I hear any good feedback at all (i.e. these aren't just repressings of something already available) I will buy Star Wars - Return of the Jedi. I haven't bought any version of these scores in 21 years, so it won't hurt too much. I'm fascinated to think what the Main Title in Star Wars will sound like. Film takes with the concert edit? Hmmm...

Is that what it is?

The 70's are an unfathomable time.

I can't think of any other score where I can listen to three different albums / sets and get something different from all of them. The OST's of Star Wars and Empire are nigh perfect. The Arista has huge emotional cache for me and it's such a tight arrangement of the expanded scores. And the '97 CDs are almost everything. (Then there's things like ABC's "audiophile edition".) The only thing that keeps me from sticking to the Aristas on a CD by CD basis is Drawing the Battle Lines and Losing a Hand. I think these are the only truly indispensable cues. Standing By comes close. (There's some small cues from Star Wars that aren't on the set like "Quite Beyond My Capacity" or "How Did My Father Die?" - my titles of course.) OTOH, maybe I should just enjoy CD 4 on its own more.

Good heavens, THANK YOU! I think I've found my only criticism of this glorious set: This list should have been in the liner notes. Disc 1, OTOH, is the most listenable presentation of this score. It's sublime.

Sure. Can I complain that the end titles aren't on the CD? 'Cause I will!

You're a cruel person.

Finn, yes. Poe, not yet.

I started to wonder if any these are Williams' Piano Man. Billy Joel doesn't like performing it, so he's put it at the end of his concerts and has the audience sing the chorus.

Harmy is hiding in the deserts of Tunisia where he watches the original editions of Star Wars grow up on its uncle's render farm.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Nothing to see here. Move along.

I realize there are some terrible movies with terrific scores that I love and accordingly I know the score better than the film. And I know that TFA has an arguably better score than RO. (I watched it a few weeks ago after binging on RO. Hearing the score I said "Ahhhh. That IS the real stuff, isn't it?") But I'm much more compelled to get into the nooks and crannies of RO than I am TFA just because I'm far more engaged by the film. (And I LIKE TFA. And it is NOT a retread of Star Wars.)

Awwww... The fact that I'm even interested in an expansion is kind of surprising these days.

I wonder if there will be an expanded RO score this Christmas. I know, I know, I'm thinking Star Trek. Same composer different label. Who knows.