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How do you show your appreciation for John Williams?


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Sounds like the beginning of a prophecy of doom:

 

When the sky doth chime with MEMES and the death star of JOHN WILLIAMS hangs above thee, verily then thou shalt know that the end is nigh!

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With this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_discography

 

And this: http://www.goplanete.com/johnwilliams/music/disco/albums.htm

 

Honestly, I didn't know it would be so hard work and I didn't saw "the return of LPs" when I started 3 years ago, in 2015.

 

But, now I'm pretty satisfied with the result.

 

I wanted the discography on my website to be as comprehensive as possible, and I really think it's a usefull tool for anyone who wants to dig deeper in JW's huge discography.

 

I also have a bilingual FB page of the same name than my website.

 

Promote the music and the discography of John Williams. I do (and on many forums, not just here).

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35 minutes ago, Bespin said:

Promote the music and the discography of John Williams. I do (and on many forums, not just here).

 

Ah c'est toi aussi sur underscore !

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1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

Man, I think this is just what happens to JWFan as we get close to a new Star Wars score.  They come out of the woodwork!

 

You said it. Bizarro-people arise!

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I play his music, I try to spread it at work. His music that is. Seem to recall when I was trying to shift a spare copy of Force Awakens, that my Star Wars nut friend at work wasn't keen. I said, but it's the music that makes it what it is. No dice. I remember trying to get my Dad to listen to Williams, he's a big John Barry fan and wasn't keen on trying something non-JB. Then the other month told that he listened to Saving Private Ryan and was surprised it didn't 'sound the same as most of JW's work'. So...well, yeah. 

 

 

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While I'm drawing and listening, during the epic or quiet but powerful segments, rising my hands and conducting. Orr clanking teeth with the tone of the music.

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I've played some of his music as encore after a piano recital. People usually don't know what to say when it turns out it was Harry Potter or Star Wars and not, let's say, Rachmaninov :)

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2 hours ago, Remco said:

I've played some of his music as encore after a piano recital. People usually don't know what to say when it turns out it was Harry Potter or Star Wars and not, let's say, Rachmaninov :)

 

He's kind of boring sometimes anyway.

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My Korean freshmen students recently had to deliver a short 5-minute informative presentation on either a person, place, product, thing, or event. A week before their presentations, I gave a little model demonstration and choose John Williams as my topic. Wasn't trying to win him any new fans or anything. I just asked myself, "If I was a student and asked to do such a presentation, what would my topic be?". I enjoyed putting it together. Pretty short and sweet, and not all that in depth. Just wanted to include assessment items to help guide the students as they began preparing theirs. 

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4 hours ago, Bryant Burnette said:

I buy his albums and then listen to them.  And I fight through the incessant bullshit that is jwfan.com, panning for occasional nuggets of gold.

John Williams' darkness - awesome thread!

3 hours ago, Arpy said:

I'm on a forum devoted to him and his music and Tolkien. Sometimes Star Trek.

I think, we should have a Jerry Goldsmith subforum - so the forum at jerrygoldsmithonline.com could be dumped.

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32 minutes ago, Ludwig said:

How do I show my appreciation? Make a melody out of his name using a musical "alphabet" and make it into a theme that has CE3K vibes (in honor of today's release!):

 

John_Williams_-_Musical_Spelling_04_with

 

Audio here:

http://picosong.com/wFCHw

This sounds truly great! Develop it to a 5 minute piece, please!

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