[New JW fan born on Friday!!!]

Congratulations from me too!!!

[Morgan Freeman's voice on WOTW soundtrack???]

This is the crux of the matter:

No matter how great the narration is, it's nice to actually be able to listen to all the music on the CD without someone talking over it.  I guess I don't see the point of having it; we buy the soundtrack for the music.

We can wait for the DVD if we want to listen to it with the narration included.

[Morgan Freeman's voice on WOTW soundtrack???]

THE AMERICAN JOURNEY was composed with narration intended wasn't it?  We are so fortunate that the recording released by Sony was narration free!!! 8O  At least Sony got something right .

No that was probably another Sony screw up.They probably planned to put narration.We just got lucky.

K.M.

LOL

[Morgan Freeman's voice on WOTW soundtrack???]

THE AMERICAN JOURNEY was composed with narration intended wasn't it? We are so fortunate that the recording released by Sony was narration free!!! 8O At least Sony got something right .

[Holy Grail of Soundtracks]

HOOK (complete)

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (complete)

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (complete)

THE PHANTOM MENACE (complete recorded cues unlike the "Ultimate Edition")

ATTACK OF THE CLONES (complete recorded cues)

REVENGE OF THE SITH (complete recorded cues)

Harry Potter movies (complete)

MONSIGNOR

THE LORD OF THE RINGS [shore] (complete) {looks like this is really in the works }

THE BLACK HOLE

THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER

THE SCALPHUNTERS

[Which piece of Star Wars Prequel music is best?]

Duel of the Fates

[American Television News Themes]

I just found this site where you can listen to music from the major American news networks. It includes a lot of the music John Williams wrote for NBC like "Fugue For Changing Times", "Scherzo For Today", and "Pulse of Events". Also, there is a techno version of JWs "Mission" theme used for Australian TV:

http://www.geocities.com/netnewsmusic/nbc.html

Make sure you check out the music for CBS too:

http://www.geocities.com/netnewsmusic/cbs.html

"CBS EVENING NEWS" 1987-1991 Close and "CBS EVENING NEWS" CURRENT Close sound very Williamsesque. Good stuff!!!

[Jerry Goldsmith DVD now available]

You can get it here:

http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/article.asp?ID=510

It ain't cheap though .

[Some Overlooked Williams Gems]

I think The Mission from AMAZING STORIES is an overlooked gem of a score and written in a most heroic vein.

[Compendium of RotS Unreleased Music Worth Mentionning]

Isn't the music that accompanies the duel between Dooku and Anakin unreleased?

[What would your Harry Potter Suite be?]

For me it would be:

1. Buckbeak's Flight

2. A Window to the Past

3. The Whomping Willow and the Snowball Fight

4. Secrets of the Castle

5. Hagrid the Professor

6. Finale

7. Mischief Managed!

[Music from the Movies releases Jerry Goldsmith DVD]

....do any other composer documentaries like this exist?

FSM has available a documentary of Basil Poledouris: http://www.screenarchives.com/fsm/videos.cfm

[Meat Bilbo!]

Bravo!!! ...Looking forward to Episode II - Revenge of the Hairball .

[Teary Eyed]

Have you ever been so moved by a piece of music that it actually brought tears to your eyes? John Williams music frequently has had this affect on me.

One piece that stands out in my memory is "E.T. and Me" from the original 1982 album. I remember welling up with that one on a few occations. Yes, I'm a sentimental fool.

[Proof that JW is da man]

The first minute of "Fawkes the Phoenix" is absolute perfection. John Williams is the GREATEST writer of memorable themes in the history of film music and has definitely not lost his touch. IMHO

[Chronicles of Narnia trailer up]

I wonder if there will be sequels, with the other Chronicles.

The way they've set it up, it sounds like there will definitely be sequels. There are 7 books in the series I believe.

The trailer does looks very promising. I'm glad to hear that the guys who did the special effects for The Lord of the Rings films, WETA Digital, will be doing the special effects for this film.

[Score of GoF --> anything?]

If anyone else has to score a Harry Potter film besides Williams, Doyle is a good choice especially with the history he has with the director. I only hope they don't ignore the musical themes from the first three films. A Harry Potter film just wouldn't be the same without "Hedwig's Theme".

[A Re-Make of The Birds? Noooooooooo!!!!]

It can't be.

[Towering Inferno CDs]

Lukas Kendall at Film Score Monthly has just announced that a box of Towering Inferno CDs were found and is thinking of ways to get them to "loving homes". He wants some feedback:

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/post...26671&forumID=1

[Score Rating: The Cowboys]

I would give the score overall an 8 but I would give the overture (especially the expanded concert version) a 10.

[Drew Struzan ROTS Poster]

But the DVmask asymmetrical on the poster is very ugly I think.

Yeah, it should be in the centre, like it is in the ESB poster.

Looking at the three Prequel posters together, the off-center mask works well as a "bookend" and in that sense gives balance when placed side-by-side.

[Greatest director/composer relationship]

Anyone knows more?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned:

Oliver Stone / John Williams

Chris Columbus / John Williams

George Lucas / John Williams

[Revenge of the Sith new Trailer]

Here is another link to where you can view the trailer and also some behind the scenes documentaries:

http://movies.channel.aol.com/feature/star...arwars/main.adp

[HPCOS - which is Williams' and William's?]

Read the cue by cue rundown on film score rundowns by bill wrobel for the full analysis on what cues williams ended up writing or putting together. He studied the scores and the short score himiself and it says who did each cue.

This is what Bill Wrobel says: "When I looked at the sketches, I discovered that Williams did indeed write all of the music. So what Ross did besides some conducting work, I am not sure. It is possible he adapted some of the cues to the final edit of the film (??) but I do not know."

Here is the link:

http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/williams/...harrypotter.pdf

[Does anyone has this album?]

But there is no specific credit to who played what...

But that Hip-O Records link says that "John Williams conducts four tracks including a pair from his famed themes for the film ?Star Wars.? The remaining tracks are lead by Arthur Fiedler."