Falstaft

It's an amazing stew of influences, for sure, yet 100% vintage Williams throughout. I get hints of Holst's "Venus, Bringer of Peace" from those slow pandiatonic wedges towards the end of the piece. 
 

It's an amazing stew of influences, for sure, yet 100% vintage Williams throughout. I get hints of Holst's "Venus, Bringer of Peace" from those slow pandiatonic wedges towards the end of the piece. 
 

It's an amazing stew of influences, for sure, yet 100% vintage Williams throughout. I get hints of Holst's "Venus, Bringer of Peace" from those slow pandiatonic wedges towards the end of the piece. 
 

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

@Falstaft, was it on purpose that you made the YouTube video category "Pets and Animals"? 
 
Mistake, or trying to avoid the copyright police? 

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

For those of you who missed it, here it is: https://youtu.be/S2E-PHhxtYg 
 
Listen quick, I'll be taking this down in a day or so, unless YouTube beats me to it, as they've done quite quickly in the past for radio broadcasts...

New little JW video
 
 

It would be nice to discuss about what one likes or dislikes about any piece of creative work, but adamant one-liners are all easier.
 
SPR is a great film, but it surely has some serious issues in writing in the last act that prevent it to be a full-on masterpiece. For example, the decision of Private Ryan to stay with the brigade and fight the last battle is pretty much non-sense from many points of view, as it is the choice of the reappearance of the German private that was previously let go by Upham only to be killed by him nonetheless. These are choices that border on manipulation. Also, the epilogue with old man Ryan at the military cemetary saying to his wife "Tell me that I've been a good man" borders on real unnecessary schmaltz (especially considering what we saw before).
 
However, I completely understand why Spielberg went that way. He said several times that the film was a tribute to his father and that generation of men who fought during WW2. The film isn't jingoistic or propaganda-like work for American military service, not at all. Even the US flag bookending the film is strangely faded and muted in colours (accompanied by JW not with patriotic fanfares, but with mournful brass writing) as to reflect the bitterness and uncertainty of all this. Despite the horrors and violence depicted, Spielberg wanted to tribute a generation of people who fought what (especially for a Jewish person) was seen as a duty. As Schindler's List isn't a film about the Holocaust, but a story of how some people survived to that nonsense to become witness of history for posterity, Saving Private Ryan isn't a film about the horrors of war, but a story about a group of people who tried to find a moral compass among themselves within such a chaotic and violent context.
 
It's also a tribute to the generation of filmmakers who went on the front to film and document the war, like John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler and Frank Capra. SPR is indeed hugely influenced by the filming style and tone of those documentaries. It's also particularly Ford-esque in its depiction of characters. The scene when Capt. Miller tells about the recollection of his wife working in the rose garden always struck me as very John Ford-like (perhaps it's more about the feeling of the scene).

Any one who thinks Saving Private Ryan is pro-war didn't really watch the movie.

That was in stock until two to three weeks ago. I know, 'cause I ordered it and it was shipped right away.
 
 
"Wade Lives"?
 

Hoping for improved sound quality on this.  The original release kills my ears

@TownerFan My argument of not always take the "Premiere Date" as the "Composition Date" is also valid. 
 
It depends. A work can be published meanwhile and it's also valid, or it could stay unpublished and unplayed few years (like the Concerto for Flute). It doesn't prevent the work from being revised later (I usually put the revision dates on my website when I know them).
 
Jason is so arrogant, that no, I don't take his arguments as 100 % valid just because he say something.
 
When someone is arrogant with me, I can be much more arrogant than him. That's it.
 
Now bring me facts, show me there is a consensus and we'll speak.

That quote astonished me as well! And how casual Williams is about the whole thing, as if he just threw together such an incredible cue overnight. The writing is only for strings though, so it wouldn't surprise me (especially if he'd already written this musical idea for death in other cues).
 
Also makes me wonder if there was an alternate Starkiller cue which was more militaristic/action oriented, but JJ asked for something more subdued (possibly after deciding to drop the immediately preceding cue, Hux's Speech?). Without knowing the cue number for Sunbeam Strings (if it says REV) it's hard to say.
 
As you also point out, the same motif was used in the revised Torn Apart, but I think we're missing the fragment of the original version that pertains to the shot of Han falling (which is where the reprise of the death motif in Starkiller comes in most prominently), so it's hard to know where Williams first used the idea.

(from 6:52 onwards)
 
 

John Williams is going all Elliot Goldenthal on us with such titles. Love it!

How about Dash Across No Man's Land concert version?
 
The Pursuit of the Falcon concert version?
 
Escape concert version!

I've added this "Adagio from The Force Awakens" to the composition page of my website. Even if it's from a movie, when a work receive a new title like this, especially for the concert hall, I consider it a new Concert Work (think of Stargazers, Escapades, etc.).
 
http://www.goplanete.com/johnwilliams/composer/index.htm

That's cool.  So there is now an Adagio and the pre-existing fugato from The Force Awakens (March of the Resistance).  If this trend continues, Ep. IX soundtrack will be:
 
1. Overture
2. Passacaglia and fugue
3. Theme and Variations
4. Rondo
5. Scherzo Trio
6. Sonata Allegro
...