Marian Schedenig

"Your order is confirmed" "Official Release Date: April 26, 2024." "Expected to ship in May 2024."

Pirates is a must!

Interesting. It would of course be nice to get the full original concerto plus the actual film tracks as well.

Ah, another one of those concert work style structured Young albums? He did it for Bless the Child (using the Requiem mass structure), so I imagine he'd like this album to stick to his format, too. It worked well for Bless the Child in any case.

Not films, but… "I've got the key to the gates of paradise... but I've got too many legs!" "Oy with the poodles already!"

Happy double centenary, Anton Bruckner!

One relevant difference is that Uhura being black and Uhura being female were groundbreaking at the time (and still entirely common nowadays). Making her black and female was a deliberate choice and statement. Bond being a white male was ever just… normal.

"Janning, to be sure, is a tragic figure. We believe he *loathed* the evil he did. But compassion for the present torture of his soul must not beget forgetfulness of the torture and death of millions by the government of which he was a part. Janning's record and his fate illuminate the most shattering truth that has emerged from this trial. If he and the other defendants were all depraved perverts - if the leaders of the Third Reich were sadistic monsters and maniacs - these events would have no more moral significance than an earthquake or other natural catastrophes. But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men - even able and extraordinary men - can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination. No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget. The sterilization of men because of their political beliefs... The murder of children... How *easily* that can happen! There are those in our country today, too, who speak of the "protection" of the country. Of "survival". The answer to that is: *survival as what*? A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. *It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!* Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what *we* stand for: *justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!*"

"New shit has come to light, man."

Are you sure you're on the right website?

Fixed.

The Target Practice - A Tall Ship - Plot Course triplet is one of my favourite chunks out of all Goldsmith scores. And among the best sounding ones, too.

"Ja, warum richten Sie Ihre Walther auf mein Hoden?"

If you're talking about The Cloud, V'Ger Flyover, and The Forcefield, that's my favourite part of the score, along with Spock Walk - maybe even before The Enterprise.

Fingers crossed.

As I remember, Brossé was supposed to conduct it at the Barbican in 2004, but it was replaced by Bronco Bustin'. Not much action mode. Mostly wilderness and bear terror.

Too late for that, I suppose. I don't think you can lower your goal once the Kickstarter campaign has started, and if they don't reach their goal, they get nothing. Best they could do is probably run follow-up campaign with a lower goal; question is how many of those who backed this one would bother to try again (I would).

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet:

When they came out back to back in 1999, 13th Warrior was hailed as the latest Goldsmith masterpiece and The Mummy was considered a secondary knockoff score. I never understood why, because I loved the whole of Mummy from the get go and initially only really cared about a few individual tracks from Warrior. Over the years, my appreciation of that score has grown considerably, while at the same time Mummy has clearly taken over as Goldsmith's most lauded from that era, with Warrior seeming almost half forgotten these days.

Collector's boxes are nice. It's not my favourite point & click series (I like it, but not as much as the Lucas/Doublefine games), but I couldn't skip this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revolution-software/broken-sword-reforged-collectors-edition?ref=section-homepage-featured-project#

Curlyland!

Not looking good - as I feared considering the asking sum. At the moment the campaign stands at $27,120 pledged of the $50k goal, with only 12 days to go.

"Keep your lovin' brother happy." (In the German "translation", this was changed to "Spiel mir das Lied from Tod", i.e. "Play me the song of death" - which is even the German title of the entire film)

Williams recorded the STTMP main title (and the Alien closing title) with the Pops in 1983. So Goldsmith might well have heard at least that version. I imagine he's probably also conducted it at Tanglewood at some point between that time and Goldsmith's death.