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Concert tonight at the Royal Albert Hall. Anyone going?

A trailer was released today for a sequel to the fantastic 2006 documentary Planet Earth (released as simply Earth in some areas). Within the description of the trailer, it notes that the film... No release date has been announced at this time, but it appears it will be out in a matter of months. Could prove to be a very worthy outing for Zimmer.

Closing Night Gala BATMAN 75th ANNIVERSARY "THE DARK KNIGHT: A GOTHAM SYMPHONY " 20:00 | Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín Saturday July 12th 2014 First Half Origins "TV Series Theme" - Neil Hefti A Descent Into Mystery "Batman" Suite - Danny Elfman - The Batman Theme / Flowers / Love Theme / The Joker´s Poem / Clown Attack - Up the Cathedral / Waltz to the Death / Final Confrontation / Finale "Batman Returns" Suite - Danny Elfman - Birth of the Penguin / Main Title / The Cementery / A shadow of doubt / End Credits Gotham Art Deco "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" Suite - Shirley Walker Second Half Gotham Avant-garde "Grand Gothic" Suite "Batman Forever" / "Batman and Robin" - Elliot Goldenthal - Main Titles / Fledermausmarschmusik / Chase Blanc - Chase Noir / Mr. E's Dance Card / Two-Face Three Step / Birth of Bane / Gotham City Boogie - Mouth to Mouth Nocturne / Victory / Batterdammerung A Dark Knight "The Dark Knight" Suite - Hans Zimmer / J. Newton Howard - Why So Serious? / I'm Not a Hero / The Joker / Batman's Training - Childhood Memories / Why Do We Fall? / Imagine the Fire / Bane - Molossus / Batman's Theme / A Dark Knight (Suite Finale) For more information, please visit the website: http://www.fimucite.com/f8/en/

Hey, so I'm not sure if this has been up on the site before, but I wanted to start something about comparing Williams' composing style (both concert and film) to other modern composers (Shore, Zimmer and his clones, Elfman, Silvestri, Howard, etc). I want to start this because I started a Film Club at my school, and I have some friends I'm introducing to the glory of film score (and Williams for that matter), and I wanted a good way (both layman and theory oriented) to explain them certain aspects. I am not trained in theory at all, and I'm just a young, teenage enthusiast of film scores, so I can't really explain the musical complexity (or lack there of) of film composers now a days. In fact, this whole discussion about what is better for film, what is better composing (for that matter) and who is better/has a better style and sound is a big debate amongst me and my musical/film friends. I just want some discussion and input from film score fans! The only thing I could come up with by comparing Williams to Zimmer clones is that Zimmer doesn't really develop this themes in his score (appearing in the same form in his soundtrack so that it seems very "tracked") and Zimmer is very liberal with his themes (Like why does The Black Pearl theme play when Will gets whipped? Is there symbolism? Or is it there to just sound cool?) So discuss and comment away! Anything is very appreciated! Also, just want to add, at one point I even said "Zimmer just uses repeating strings and low ostinatos behind a theme and repeats it over and over." I now know, that many composers do this, so I'm looking for a better way to word comparisons between Williams and other composers?