SilverTrumpet

Pokemon is creatively (and technically) dead. I was surprised I saw so many people so gaga over this overview when people were so negative during the first reveal.

Whenever someone arranges something into a different key than the original it throws me off big time, but besides that I love it!

I think that's just a summary of what we were discussing here.

So why would they have done it this way?

Speeder Chase is too slow to be exciting. Its tone doesn't really fit the scene at all. I wonder if Falcon Flight has something funny up with it. Isn't that one of the tracks that too closely matches stuff from Gordy's Battlefront?

Yeah, the Join Me statement of the Psalm of the Sith (I'm calling it that forever, sorry) is really haunting stuff.

I totally missed this until now, somehow.

Well.....

I was doing a concert band arrangement of the sequel themes and stopped at the very very end of 2018 figuring if I just wait a little more than a year I'll have an Episode 9 Signature Edition of the film's themes for reference.

A couple notes on your great (as usual) summary. I love the theme from Sabrina soooo much as a piece. I thought Velinzon's violin playing BARELY kept up with the rest of the orchestra. He doesn't sound like he has the presence of a soloist at all. At least not outside of short passages in a regular, non-solo piece. It was still beautifully performed by the orchestra. The wind was SO nice, made for an absolutely perfect summer night. You mentioned about the heat so much, and my wife was talking about how freaking hot it was there, but I mostly remembered the amazing breeze. She was freezing by then, I was super comfortable. But heat wise? I think it was after the first or second piece that Lockhart had to wipe his face down with a towel. Regarding the undesired audience participation during Godfather, yep, that's a thing that happens these days from casual concert goers. It's really bad and I wish venues would discourage it, but they usually do the opposite. You can barely hear the music during a live to projection concert because people are screaming and hollering every time they recognize a scene or character. I think the last one we went to before lockdown was Return of the Jedi in New Jersey and I think that was the one that openly encouraged you to make noise when you liked something. I think we stopped going to live to projection concerts after that one. We both agreed we wish they would just perform the score without picture, or at least without dialogue and sound effects if they really felt it necessary to have the screen. We also recognized that the truth normal people who wouldn't go to a classical music concert wouldn't go if it wasn't a fancy version of going to the movies, and the venues and program runners know this for sure. It's also way too common during every game music concert I've been to. I think a big problem with it is the screen. You're in many ways forced to not focus on the screen but on the picture instead. Then people see a character they like and start screaming their heads off in the middle of a quiet part of the music. It really has a rock concert vibe to it. I can't remember if it was Godfather or Casablanca where after a soloist played (not the violin soloist, just a regular soloist in the piece), the audience cheered like a guitar solo just ended. Maybe I'm just a classical music snob but this sort of thing really bothers me during a concert and I wish they'd say something during something like film night where they know the crowd is much different than almost every other Tanglewood or classical concert crowd. Teach people a little concert etiquette. I'm surprised you don't like Casablanca at all, speaking of. I think it's such a lovely score.

Yeah, I just remembered that and was coming back to say that.

Only if you don't mind a brutally honest opinion.

Was it this part at the beginning? EDIT: Just got to hear someone's recording. It's definitely not. The mystery continues. What if it's his symphony?

I really should have snuck a recording of it. It really didn't feel like something from this decade of Williams, but it was SO him. A really easy listen. Even googled the title the night before the concert and nothing came up. Would he really forget to mention that it's a brand new piece?

Yeah. Overture to the Oscars sounded familiar? But I don’t know if it’s just because it sounded very Williams. It didn’t sound like he just wrote it this past year. I’m surprised nobody has recognized it yet. Then he just didn’t talk about it at all and went straight on to the olympics music. Not even a mention.

I saw someone say "Oh, if you can't wait, just play the iOS versions. They're great." People seem to be missing the point here. If they specify Unreal Engine, that means we're looking at full remakes from the ground up. It'll look different, feel different, likely sound different. It's more of a reimagining. It's fair, too. They ported the games all over the place but they'd be super hard for modern gamers to get into, so this investment is probably worth it. You don't have to make a game from the ground up, but the amount put into remaking will be a great investment after so many young people have heard about the trilogy and weren't born yet to play most of them.

No, I only got it after the concert two years ago and haven't had the chance to wear it until tomorrow.

Maybe we'll find each other and when you meet me in real life you won't think I'm as miserable as I am in the video game threads.

Maybe one day he'll play the first one at Tanglewood So is anyone going tomorrow? I'm wearing that Music by John Williams shirt my wife got me years ago that I believe someone here said they were selling online?

Yeah, nothing particularly new or mindblowing in the Williams section, but the first half is probably the most excited I've been for a first half since I started going.

Didn't they just publish a Hal Leonard of Tribute to the Film Composer under the old name?

Is it expected that's a Last of Us game?

The first multiplayer game that interrupts you every 3 seconds with long, Hollywood style cutscenes and on rails walking sections while the characters talk.

It seemed a lot more than a hint. Seemed like they didn't want anything negative about TFA getting out and that's why they canned the book so publicly.

McConnell's still got it, that's for sure.