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Just finished my first listen! I’m admittedly not intimately familiar with several of the selections, so some things blended together a bit, but it was all beautifully performed. So cool that the new “Han Solo and the Princess” arrangement we were all freaking out about just a few years ago is already cemented as the theme’s go-to and can have cool interpretations like the one on this album. Also, the flute about a minute/minute and a half into “Dartmoor 1912” sounded right out of some of Anakin and Padme’s Naboo music from Attack of the Clones. Surely that’s been noted before? It’s also worth noting that the album is available in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music, and even has some cute animated cover art!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-dlJRqPt-K/?igsh=MWNzeXBlanQ4NWh3dQ== It’s not YouTube, but this cute creation someone made is a hit on Instagram!

I mean, I think a lot of major concert halls have permanently installed robo-cams, so there’s no doubt that many major concerts that Williams does these days are professionally recorded for the orchestra’s archives at the very least. It’s just a question of anything from those recordings ever being released.

I wasn’t there, but makes sense - Williams has done the oddly shortened version for a while now.

Nice to see Luke and Leia come back after a few years.

They’re currently airing the concert on PBS here in the US, and even giving the CD/DVD to donors along with a DVD of ET. They’re asking $96 for the concert DVD or $120 for the CD. Or $180 for both plus ET. 😅 The host also said it’s wonderful to see Williams in any setting, but it’s not practical for “most of us” to fly to Berlin to see him. She’s clearly never been on this forum. lol

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/leslye-headland-acolyte-episode-5-interview-star-wars-qimir-cortosis Showrunner confirms the Kylo Ren theme is intentional.

Someone noticed another possible Williams inclusion:

Kylo’s theme is definitely clearly quoted at the end of episode five, and I’m quite excited about what that could mean.

It very well could just be a pacemaker update/replacement. It’s already been the better part of a decade since he first got his. Fingers crossed that’s all it is, and that he will indeed make a full recovery and be back on the podium healthy and sound later this year. Best wishes to the Maestro, as always!

It’s a really minor nitpick, it’s literally two seconds out of the whole two episodes. I really, really enjoyed them.

Oh no!! I hope everything is okay, considering these concerts are still a couple months out. Interesting that the email doesn’t mention Tanglewood on Parade… surely he wouldn’t be doing that if he’s not doing Film Night?

Went to a screening of the first two episodes last night. It’s REALLY good. Very Star Wars in feel, atmosphere, and even music (though I heard no Williams themes, he definitely felt emulated). Already memorable characters I felt connected to. Only nitpick so far is that the show has a few too many of the classic Star Wars “Power Point” transitions between scenes. One happens literally in the middle of a big fight scene to cut to what a nearby character is doing, which killed any urgency in the editing for a sec. We also have our titular Acolyte mind probed for a moment, which you’d think they would’ve done to our main character who’s accused of a big crime, but maybe that’s too invasive? Anyway, really, really good Star Wars. Very excited to see where it goes, especially if it does start leading into the bigger picture of the Sith’s return that gets us to where we are at the start of TPM with Sidious really starting to pave the way to the fall of the Jedi (whose arrogance already has great touches in these two Acolyte episodes). P.S. They made the Neimoidian’s voices a bit less racist. 😅

Howard Shore gave a talk at a small community center just north of NYC, and I had the pleasure of meeting the man himself after, who was willing to sign all three of my “Lord of the Rings: The Complete Recordings” vinyl boxes! I still can’t believe it - absolute dream come true!!! This also means I have the vinyl soundtracks of two of the greatest trilogies of all time signed by their legendary composers (see last picture), which is just completely bonkers. Pinching myself!

I would 100% keep it sealed. I can’t imagine there are many, if any, still totally sealed copies in existence. And the contents can be easily found online these days, so it’s not like anything unique is inside.