Muad'Dib

It's a great score! 
 
Wish that Davis would have gotten more opportunities to shine in Hollywood movies, he would have kicked ass.

It's a great score! 
 
Wish that Davis would have gotten more opportunities to shine in Hollywood movies, he would have kicked ass.

Here's a story Conrad Pope told several years ago:
 
 

Personally, I like JURASSIC PARK III's score.
What we got, at the very least, was not a JW clone.

Davis said the following in an inteview for Soundtrack.net regarding scoring the film: 
 
 
So it may just be as simple and mundane as Williams and Davis having the same agent who brought Davis up to Williams in conversation and Williams just went "okay" and that got pinned down as a personal recommendation from Williams. 

Take out all of Williams' contributions and Solo is still easily the best Star Wars score outside of the main line series. There is nothing in Rogue One that is as good as "Into the Maw." I would argue Powell did such a good job with the score, Williams' contributions were insignificant.

Sounds like it could be Desplat in the trailer to me?

Thing is, you're comparing a concert arrangement, with no limitations in instrumentation, conforming to scenes, or anything like that (essentially Wiliams writing literally whatever he wanted for 4 minutes), to Powell scoring a scene with specific requirements and instructions from the director.

Just to let anyone thinking of getting the new Morricone: Cinema Suites for Violin and Orchestra album and buying it from 7Digital (https://uk.7digital.com/artist/marco-serino-orchestra-haydn-di-bolzano-e-trento-and-andrea-morricone/release/morricone-cinema-suites-for-violin-and-orchestra-18738180), they have somehow screwed up the file upload. On the website, the first six tracks are all marked track 1, same for the next half dozen marked as 2 etc. but in reality, all of the tracks marked 1 are the same track repeated, so basically you only get the first few tracks (see screen shot from my iTunes library... the track names are right, but you'll notice the first six tracks are all the same length). I've emailed customer support to ask them to fix it but just wanted to let people know and will update on the outcome. It's also at Presto Classical but was actually more expensive (which is unusual) and there were a couple of other things I wanted from 7Digital so I got it from there instead.
 
From what I've heard so far, it's a great album so I can't wait to hear the rest! Definitely a fine companion to the Yo-Yo Ma cello album.

Update: 7Digital will request a "redelivery from the record label"... given that could take a random amount of time, I went for a refund and have bought it from Presto Classical (https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9264214--morricone-cinema-suites-for-violin-and-orchestra) as it's only £1 more in CD quality FLAC, plus you get a digital booklet from Presto that 7Digital don't do. All tracks appear to be present and correct!

i miss him....

Found these interview on vimeo. Not sure if these have been posted elsewhere or featured in any other release, but thought I would share, maybe there's something new...
 
https://vimeo.com/188293660
https://vimeo.com/188289969
https://vimeo.com/188282869
https://vimeo.com/188280588
 

Digging the sample a lot! Was expecting something more in line with his Greengrass collaborations so this is a nice surprise.

I respectfully disagree with this view entirely. I think cinema has the capability of creating art. It is an artistic medium - just as sculpture is, just as literature is, just as painting is, just as theater is.
 
To the extent that a medium has the capacity to create art, to represent the truth of humanity, to explore the mysteries of our minds and how we think, it is immensely valuable.
 
I do not subscribe to the view cinema is just entertainment. That might be the case with Hollywood blockbusters but there is a lot of worthwhile art that is created in this medium also. Might not meet the criteria of entertainment for 99.9999% of people but to the extent art is a noble pursuit, then no cinema is not useless. 
 
Just my humble opinion. 

Speaking of Powell, recently I've been enjoying his score for Pan so much! I think it's slowly becoming one of my favourite scores of his. 

La La Land was made for relatively little money, Blade Runner 2049 cost a fortune that was never to brake even. The fanbase isn't that strong and the word of mouth didn't help it.
 

I thought that I would post this here. John Williams appears in this new trailer for the upcoming Ennio Morricone documentary:
 
 

literally anything was a better use of his time. Honestly, this picture sounds like he owed someone a favour. 

I LOVE Spielberg but there is an unmistakable whiff of an ego project about WSS for him. He has been shouting from the rooftops since decades he wants to do a musical.
 
He did not want to do the hard work of creating a musical from the ground up. Say what you will about La La Land but they did that. No Spielberg wanted that HIS musical would be nothing less than the best American musical of all time - when it has a perfectly good classic adaptation.
 
Honest to god but for Spielberg, this probably wouldn't get made and now he has gone and set fire to 100 mil dollars just to scratch an itch. 
 
As a fan of Spielberg, I am not sure this was a good use of either his time or his clout. I would much rather he gotten some other of his dream projects funded and made like The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara etc.

La La Land had a lot of star power helping it. Two of the hottest stars of the moment vs.... a remake of a musical nobody was craving for.

La La Land had a lot of star power helping it. Two of the hottest stars of the moment vs.... a remake of a musical nobody was craving for.

It would have been a gigantic failure regardless. The problem for this movie is not timing - but its existence. Who was this made for? No one. Nobody asked for it. You can't make a product with zero demand and then wonder why it did not sell. 
 
 

Done, thank you!
 
Great job everyone! Lovely pieces all around.

Not sure they really count as 'liner notes', even in a generous sense, but I've spotted the following interesting performance notes in Music from the Star Wars Saga (HL04491067):
In The Forest Battle, theme entry at bar 63 (1m 33s on the OST recording) has the remark "Can-Canish" In Cantina Band, the solo section starting at bar 49 (1m 27s on OST) has the remarks 'ad lib. (Gene Krupa style)' in the drum part and, in the vibes part 'Solo ala Lionel Hampton'. On the OST, steel pans play the vibes part. I'd never thought of the Forest Battle theme as being in the style of a Can Can, but now I've seen it in the score, I can't unhear it, so to speak. In Cantina Band, it's interesting to see which (excellent) performers he seems to have had in mind.
 
Mark

Oh good! Well, here's the rest of what I have.
 
I did exclude a few like Olympic Fanfare or Lincoln which didn't have any personal thoughts or reflections about the music, they were just kinda bland summaries ("this is when I wrote it, what it was for, who performed it"). Some others were borderline uninteresting but I still threw them in here. Most of these have something to say, or just good writing. A few of them are extra beautiful, my favorites being Superman, Trumpet Concerto, and Across the Stars (the last line of that one, damn, John!). And in my previous post his Fanfare For Fenway note <3
 
Missing some Signature Editions altogether which maybe others can add, but this seems plenty. 
 
1970 - Jane Eyre
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Suite
 
 
 
1975 - Jaws
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Suite
 
 
1976 - Midway
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Midway March"
 
 
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind 
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
 
 
1977; 1980 - Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Suite
 
 
1978 - Superman: The Movie
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Superman March"
 
 
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark 
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Raiders March"
 
 
 
 
1984 - NBC News - "The Mission Theme"
Hal Leonard Signature Edition
 
 
1988 - "The Olympic Spirit"
Hal Leonard Signature Edition
 
 
1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra"
 
 
1991 - JFK
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Suite
 
 
1993 - Jurassic Park
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Theme from Jurassic Park"
 
 
1993 - Schindler's List
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Three Pieces from Schindler's List"
 
 
1993 - Sound the Bells!
Hal Leonard Signature Edition
 
 
1996 - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Solo Trumpet with Piano Reduction
 
 
1997 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Theme from The Lost World"
 
 
1998 - Saving Private Ryan 
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Hymn to the Fallen"
 
 
1999 - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Suite
 
 
2000 - The Patriot
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Theme"
 
 
2002 - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Across the Stars"
 
 
2004 - The Terminal
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Viktor's Tale"
 
 
2005 - Memoirs of a Geisha
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "The Chairman's Waltz"
 
 
2008 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "The Adventures of Indiana Jones"
 
 
2011 - War Horse
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "Dartmoor, 1912"
 
 
2015 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - Suite
 
 
2017 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "The Rebellion is Reborn"
 
 
2018 - Solo: A Star Wars Story
Hal Leonard Signature Edition - "The Adventures of Han"