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It's really great, isn't it? I know enough about Williams's style of interviewing that a) his responses are often a little rehearsed and massaged and b) this one really does capture his incredible autobiographical memory and poetic sensibility towards his life and art. 
 
Also, I didn't know he remembered that the SW opening title initially began with that tiny run up! Who else remembers first listening to the "secret" track on the ANH Special Edition in 97 and just being blown away?!

I believe Pemberton deserves it, I really like how he tells a story through the music in the Spiderverse movies, using mainly orchestration, but also his themes, as distinct as they are, always coming from the same idea that connects them all, it's great and worthy.
 
But so is Williams for Dial. The only thing I don't get is this urge to diminish someone else's work to up the other... there's only 5 spots, someone will be left out. 
 

Finally saw the film. My contribution to the Helena's theme discourse is that Williams does seem intentional these days about his themes for female characters and making them less male gaze-y, which undoubtedly many of the older themes are. Maybe that's partly a response to characters these days being written less so, but maybe it's also his own "reconstruction in the gender age," as he put it. I mean, he's talked about how he wrote Leia's concert arrangement as mickey-mousing Luke and Leia boning. And how he wrote Rey's theme as a theme not for a love interest but a "female adventuress."
 
Like @GerateWohl I also got comedy vibes from Helena's theme in the film, but kinda like something you'd find in a 1930s screwball comedy. In its bouncy, upbeat statements like in To Athens, it reminded me of the arrangement of I Can't Give You Anything But Love at the end of Bringing Up Baby. And there is something of the screwball-era banter and gender-role subversion to Helena's character. To me, the theme fits like a glove.
 
I think the ASM arrangement of Helena's theme is just that, an arrangement for her that gives it a more romantic treatment for solo violin.

Finally saw the film. My contribution to the Helena's theme discourse is that Williams does seem intentional these days about his themes for female characters and making them less male gaze-y, which undoubtedly many of the older themes are. Maybe that's partly a response to characters these days being written less so, but maybe it's also his own "reconstruction in the gender age," as he put it. I mean, he's talked about how he wrote Leia's concert arrangement as mickey-mousing Luke and Leia boning. And how he wrote Rey's theme as a theme not for a love interest but a "female adventuress."
 
Like @GerateWohl I also got comedy vibes from Helena's theme in the film, but kinda like something you'd find in a 1930s screwball comedy. In its bouncy, upbeat statements like in To Athens, it reminded me of the arrangement of I Can't Give You Anything But Love at the end of Bringing Up Baby. And there is something of the screwball-era banter and gender-role subversion to Helena's character. To me, the theme fits like a glove.
 
I think the ASM arrangement of Helena's theme is just that, an arrangement for her that gives it a more romantic treatment for solo violin.

Trailer music is ok, but the best Indy theme reference in the trailer comes from the falling shelves at 0:34. G-F#-E-D
 

Trailer music is ok, but the best Indy theme reference in the trailer comes from the falling shelves at 0:34. G-F#-E-D
 

Trailer music is ok, but the best Indy theme reference in the trailer comes from the falling shelves at 0:34. G-F#-E-D
 

Trailer music is ok, but the best Indy theme reference in the trailer comes from the falling shelves at 0:34. G-F#-E-D
 

I just stumbled across this interesting exploration of some of Williams sketches for The Empire Strikes Back - Yoda's Theme, The Imperial March, and The Snow Battle
 
 

Fun interview. Is this the first time in history that an interviewer tells the "they're all dead" story to Williams? 😅
 
Prompting him with the film clips was a nice interview technique. I don't know that I've ever heard him say he wrote Luke's Theme from Star Wars "out of desperation". I dream about someone one day doing an interview with him where they give him a piano and just ask him all sorts of technical questions.
 
Also was he about to drop an f-bomb? I heard: "Music just means so much more to me every passing day. You just wish you could share that with people — how fffuu…cky we are to be working in something that you truly love."
 
EDIT: OK, listening again, I think he started to say “fortunate” and then shifted mid-word to “lucky”. With headphones, I hear “ffflucky” But the way it comes out, I totally thought he was going to say “how fucking lucky we are,” and in my mind, I think I will remember it that way. 🥹

Wow, another appearance, a full episode on Chris Wallace’s show. Streaming now on HBO Max! Airing on CNN Sunday night. This is really a full-court press.
 
Online story here:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainment/john-williams-indiana-jones/index.html
 
 

Fun interview. Is this the first time in history that an interviewer tells the "they're all dead" story to Williams? 😅
 
Prompting him with the film clips was a nice interview technique. I don't know that I've ever heard him say he wrote Luke's Theme from Star Wars "out of desperation". I dream about someone one day doing an interview with him where they give him a piano and just ask him all sorts of technical questions.
 
Also was he about to drop an f-bomb? I heard: "Music just means so much more to me every passing day. You just wish you could share that with people — how fffuu…cky we are to be working in something that you truly love."
 
EDIT: OK, listening again, I think he started to say “fortunate” and then shifted mid-word to “lucky”. With headphones, I hear “ffflucky” But the way it comes out, I totally thought he was going to say “how fucking lucky we are,” and in my mind, I think I will remember it that way. 🥹

Wow, another appearance, a full episode on Chris Wallace’s show. Streaming now on HBO Max! Airing on CNN Sunday night. This is really a full-court press.
 
Online story here:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainment/john-williams-indiana-jones/index.html
 
 

Wow, another appearance, a full episode on Chris Wallace’s show. Streaming now on HBO Max! Airing on CNN Sunday night. This is really a full-court press.
 
Online story here:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainment/john-williams-indiana-jones/index.html
 
 

Little snippet here... Spielberg is many things, but ....
 
 

Very few artists have been in a position to say something like this:

Fun interview. Is this the first time in history that an interviewer tells the "they're all dead" story to Williams? 😅
 
Prompting him with the film clips was a nice interview technique. I don't know that I've ever heard him say he wrote Luke's Theme from Star Wars "out of desperation". I dream about someone one day doing an interview with him where they give him a piano and just ask him all sorts of technical questions.
 
Also was he about to drop an f-bomb? I heard: "Music just means so much more to me every passing day. You just wish you could share that with people — how fffuu…cky we are to be working in something that you truly love."
 
EDIT: OK, listening again, I think he started to say “fortunate” and then shifted mid-word to “lucky”. With headphones, I hear “ffflucky” But the way it comes out, I totally thought he was going to say “how fucking lucky we are,” and in my mind, I think I will remember it that way. 🥹

Wow, another appearance, a full episode on Chris Wallace’s show. Streaming now on HBO Max! Airing on CNN Sunday night. This is really a full-court press.
 
Online story here:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainment/john-williams-indiana-jones/index.html
 
 

Wow, another appearance, a full episode on Chris Wallace’s show. Streaming now on HBO Max! Airing on CNN Sunday night. This is really a full-court press.
 
Online story here:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainment/john-williams-indiana-jones/index.html
 
 

Nice to see an official confirmation of Out to Sea for the end of Fabelmans.  

Seems like that'd be a last-ditch thing that he'd only do if there wasn't enough room for the full OST and they didn't want to add another disc.
 
 
Boy, you weren't kidding!
 
 
 
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Agreed on all points. I would love if he also incorporated jazz elements into this concerto (jazz rhythms, progressions, colors…). Several of us here have hoped for awhile he would reach back into his jazz roots more often.

The Flag Parade —> Cantina Band #2.
 
Try it.

The Flag Parade —> Cantina Band #2.
 
Try it.

The Flag Parade —> Cantina Band #2.
 
Try it.