Neimoidian 14 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 According to polish media Wojciech Kilar, composer of film, TV and serious concert music, died today. He was 81. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I will play Bram Stoker's Dracula today.RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted December 29, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2013 Oh no. Here's one of my favourite concert pieces by Kilar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDcxDNHFslw crocodile, publicist, KK and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Well it's not just polish media anymore:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25542530How sad. May he rest in peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,070 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Aw man. A wonderful composer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Thanks for being here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Have never listened to any of his work, but it's always sad to see a composer go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 RIP, Pan Kilar.Here's the superficial Williams-connection, Kilar's EXODUS, a concert piece that became the trailer music for SCHINDLER'S LIST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,041 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Karol - who had a chance to see Kilar live in concert last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,723 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Oh sad news! A wonderful composer! RIP Mr. Kilar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Here's the superficial Williams-connection, Kilar's EXODUS, a concert piece that became the trailer music for SCHINDLER'S LIST. ...and then became Williams' own Schindler's Workforce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,723 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Here's the superficial Williams-connection, Kilar's EXODUS, a concert piece that became the trailer music for SCHINDLER'S LIST....and then became Williams' own Schindler's Workforce.Hush Marian! We do not speak of such things here. Embarrassing. Better just sweep such things under the rug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,041 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 This piece is one of my favourite love themes ever. Those low register woodwinds are just magical. And yet so simple.Karol Joni Wiljami 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,070 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Here's the superficial Williams-connection, Kilar's EXODUS, a concert piece that became the trailer music for SCHINDLER'S LIST....and then became Williams' own Schindler's Workforce.You shut your dirty mouth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Here's the superficial Williams-connection, Kilar's EXODUS, a concert piece that became the trailer music for SCHINDLER'S LIST....and then became Williams' own Schindler's Workforce.You shut your dirty mouth!Technically he never opened his mouth. He typed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Have never listened to any of his work.Ahhh, this must be fixed soon! You'd probably really like Kilar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Did he just drop dead or he had a long illness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I believe he had some cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 ok, well it's reassuring in an indirect way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 One of the greatest, and one of the last. And a personal favorite, gone. Sad day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 ok, well it's reassuring in an indirect wayReassuring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 ok, well it's reassuring in an indirect way Reassuring? I guess his reasoning is: Williams won't die on us until he gets cancer and suffers for a year while still continuing to write music. Me, I'd rather just drop dead someday. Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 My preferred death.Booze-fueled sex heart attack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Death by snoo-snoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,070 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 My preferred death.Booze-fueled sex heart attack!Wouldn't you rather a fatal stroke? That can be instantaneous. A heart attack can take some time and considerable pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Cant think of a better way to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,749 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I've got a few tracks from some Dracula film he scored. Nice stuff.RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,662 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Great shame. He composed the best score for a Dracula film (along with James Bernard). I said "the best", but I didn't say "my favourite"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Kilar and Williams are my favs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Great shame. He composed the best score for a Dracula film (along with James Bernard). I said "the best", but I didn't say "my favourite"...The Bernard i find mediocre and Kilar too is no match for the Williams version, in this case. It was a "new" sound for Hollywood movies in 1992, that much i'll admit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I still find the album arrangement a mess, but still love the sound of Kilar's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,662 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Great shame. He composed the best score for a Dracula film (along with James Bernard). I said "the best", but I didn't say "my favourite"...The Bernard i find mediocre and Kilar too is no match for the Williams version, in this case. It was a "new" sound for Hollywood movies in 1992, that much i'll admit.I hear what you are saying, Pub. In context, I think it is the best score for a Dracula film. It has just the right mixture of the horrific, and the romantic. The '59 Bernard is very much a product of its times, remembering that the U.K. hadn't really done horror, up to that point.My fave is by somebody called...Williams...is that right? He's a comer. Any-one else heard of this guy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Very seldom I admit that someones version of the score is better the Williams' but this time it is the case. I never really liked Johnny's Dracula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,662 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 It's not a well-known score, even by jwfan standards. I know that it took me many years to appreciate it, coming, as it did, on the heels of the superlative "Superman". There's hope for you, yet, antero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Listen to JW's 'Night Journeys' from Dracula, it's one of the best tracks he has ever written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSM 126 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 From this album http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Angeles-Master-Chorale/dp/B004799X5S/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1388432738&sr=1-3&keywords=night+journeys+hollywoodDon't judge the piece by the sound quality of the OST, it is abominable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,276 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I still prefer Williams version, but there was something about those crashing low piano chords as the movie begins that left me quite an impression when I saw Copolla's Dracula for the first time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,041 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Great shame. He composed the best score for a Dracula film (along with James Bernard). I said "the best", but I didn't say "my favourite"...The Bernard i find mediocre and Kilar too is no match for the Williams version, in this case. It was a "new" sound for Hollywood movies in 1992, that much i'll admit.Williams' score is brilliant, but that's still Hollywood glamourous and ornamented style. And it doesn't capture the story's dark Slavic heart with the same unpretentious simplicity as Kilar's straightforward and direct take. I mean, in terms of public conciousness this is what Dracula sounds like.Karol Joni Wiljami 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Until Zimmer scores a remake, and crashing low brass chords and cello ostinato's becomes the signature of Dracula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,041 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I reckon you should have human hearbeat sound mixed in somewhere as well.There, we did all the work for you, Hans! Again.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,662 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Right on, bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 It's not a well-known score, even by jwfan standards. I know that it took me many years to appreciate it, coming, as it did, on the heels of the superlative "Superman". There's hope for you, yet, antero.You are probably right, I own only LP version of JW's Dracula. Never listened it trough and now I even can't...Same happened with the Sleepers, I mocked it here many years since I got the Blu-Ray and now I think it's brilliant. I gave it a chance. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,467 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Right on, bro! You know how to use emoticons but not add an avatar?????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Why did you mock it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Because I listened to it only once or twice when it first came out. Seeing the Blu-ray opened my eyes. And ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Williams' score is brilliant, but that's still Hollywood glamourous and ornamented style. And it doesn't capture the story's dark Slavic heart with the same unpretentious simplicity as Kilar's straightforward and direct take. I mean, in terms of public conciousness this is what Dracula sounds like.KarolIt's stylish, but the endless repetition makes it somewhat boring. Kilar has done enough imposing work on polish and european productions that sadly may remain undiscovered by most, but what is more baffling is that one of Williams' most full-blooded romantic works from his peak period seems regularly dismissed as forgettable on this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Possible because of the awful sound quality on the CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 If the tapes are gone it would be a sure-fire hit for Tadlow/Prometheus. I never heard the LP but it's supposed to sound better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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