Thor 7,385 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 For the last few months, I've been writing (mostly about film music) for the Norwegian film magazine http://www.montages.noThe last two articles have been on John Williams' unknown sides - at least unknown to more "regular folks" who only think he wrote marches and fanfares. The first is about his jazz work and scores, the second is about the modernist/experimentalist/avantgarde Williams. I thought this might be of interest to some here, although it is in Norwegian, so it's relevant mostly for Scandinavians. The rest of you can play the videos and music clips and look at the pretty pictures! :cool:Part 1: The Jazz Man: http://montages.no/2009/12/john-williams-ukjente-sider/Part 2: The Modernist: http://montages.no/2009/12/john-williams-ukjente-sider-del-2/Thank you for your attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Nice articles and links Thor. That Guide for the Married Man clip is hysterical! No worries with the language, if anyone has Google Toolbar there's an instant translation button which worked well enough for me.Thanks for posting these. (Although I'm not sure I'd call The Fortress of Solitude a "modernist" piece...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Those appear to be interesting articles. Is someone going to translate them?This pic rocks! :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,019 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Wow...that flute concerto is weird stuff! I kinda like it! Thanks for posting these links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Wow...that flute concerto is weird stuff! I kinda like it! Thanks for posting these links.I must give it another shot. While I like Williams' concert works, this one has never captured my attention as much as the others. Since my appreciation for contemporary music has grown recently, my reception of JW's flute concerto may be different now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I cannot read Norwegian, but I really like the audio samples on the second page. Is the first one from his Flute Concerto? And where is the second one from, it sounds kind of like "Prelude and Fugue".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,385 Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 I cannot read Norwegian, but I really like the audio samples on the second page. Is the first one from his Flute Concerto? And where is the second one from, it sounds kind of like "Prelude and Fugue"....You mean the second page of Part 1 (jazz) or second page of Part 2 (modernist)? The music clips on the second page of the modernist part are IMAGES ("In Search of Unicorns" and "The Killing of Marcel") and "Barry's Abduction" from CE3K.I hope to have these translated to English eventually.Thanks for the comments! :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Oh, there are two pages!? Wow, am I an idiot...I revise my statement to say the first page in the modernist section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,385 Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Oh, there are two pages!? Wow, am I an idiot...I revise my statement to say the first page in the modernist section.Ah, gotcha! Yeah, the last two clips on Page 1 are from LOST IN SPACE, the first is the "Meteor Storm", the second from "A Walk in Space" - both cues from the first episode "The Reluctant Stowaway"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought maybe it was about his guitar work, or his success as a serial killer, or maybe his great character acting roles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AI 0 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Yeah, I thought it was gonna be about his dark side... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought it was going to be about his complete & chronological soundtracks.ZING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,306 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Wow...that flute concerto is weird stuff! I kinda like it! Thanks for posting these links.I must give it another shot. While I like Williams' concert works, this one has never captured my attention as much as the others. Since my appreciation for contemporary music has grown recently, my reception of JW's flute concerto may be different now.When listening to music like this, don't try to search for melodies or other neatly ordered elements. It's not ABBA. Just let the abstract mood and the emotion of the work flow over you like poetry. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 You're so deep, Alex. I imagine your eyes to be like deep pools into the human soul, as if there is an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface sparkles with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Wow...that flute concerto is weird stuff! I kinda like it! Thanks for posting these links.I must give it another shot. While I like Williams' concert works, this one has never captured my attention as much as the others. Since my appreciation for contemporary music has grown recently, my reception of JW's flute concerto may be different now.When listening to music like this, don't try to search for melodies or other neatly ordered elements. It's not ABBA. Just let the abstract mood and the emotion of the work flow over you like poetry. AlexI don't like poetry. I quite like abstract music, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,385 Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 By the way, I just tried the Google translator myself, and was very surprised that it actually became INTELLIGIBLE! Of course, there are some weird sentences, grammar and even faulty translations (and even some words that aren't translated at all), but it came out much better than what I had thought. You definitely get the "gist" of it.So you can just copy-paste the text and get it translated to English here: http://translate.google.com/# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,306 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 You're so deep, Alex. I imagine your eyes to be like deep pools into the human soul, as if there is an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface sparkles with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake.I meant abstract poetry.I don't like poetry. I quite like abstract music, though.Music is always abstract. Anyway, you don't have to like abstract poetry to appreciate Williams' Flute Concerto. I merely wanted to give an example of how to interpret music that isn't about melody (which in a way is comparable to 'story' in literature). Is that deep of me? I don't know, perhaps to some it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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