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What do you think is Williams composing now?

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What do you think is Williams composing now?  

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  1. 1. What do you think is Williams composing now?

    • Another concerto
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    • Arrangements of his existing music
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    • New commissioned concert works
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    • New commissioned "commercial" works
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    • A new film score
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    • Something big (a symphony, an opera)
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    • Something else
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    • Nothing. Retirement is too much damn fun
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Marian Schedenig
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Unlikely, I think. After the "traditional", theme based suite of film music adaptations for ASM, I expect his next work the for the instrument to be something more "serious" (in the worst meaning of t

Falstaft
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I have it on good authority (the Star Wars Disenchantment Thread) that he's busy at work finishing up the score to Star Wars Episode X.

Datameister
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Select cues from Williams' 2020 magnum opus:   Australia Burns The Quarantine Scene COVID-19 Flight of the Murder Hornet More COVID Johnny Finds the Mask Rememb

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37 minutes ago, Not Mr. Big said:

Home Alone 6

 

It'll be great if they ask him to score the Home Alone reboot for Disney +. 

 

It's unfortunate, however, that the chance of that happen are tiny.

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Thor

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Who knows?

 

He's repeatedly said in interviews that he's composing something every day, even if it isn't a commissioned work. So we'll know in due time.

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57 minutes ago, SilverTrumpet said:

Don't we know for sure he's doing a violin concerto?

 

Beyond that, who knows.

That's ready! Can't wait to hear it. Wonder if there was any news about the work commissioned by the Vienna Phil.

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1 hour ago, Edmilson said:

 

It'll be great if they ask him to score the Home Alone reboot for Disney +. 

 

It's unfortunate, however, that the chance of that happen are tiny.

I would not find this great.  Any reboot is going to fail to capture the charm of the first one and just be grating and annoying.  

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2 hours ago, Steve said:

A concerto for percussion, for Martin Grubinger.

 

I hope there turns out to be something to that rumor!

 

He's so close to having a concerto for every major orchestral instrument, I can't help wanting JW concertos for trombone, double bass, and percussion to close the gap, and certainly few living composers know how to write as idiomatically for percussion as Williams. I personally really enjoy the Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra, so a full piano concerto would be very welcome, too.

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1 hour ago, King Mark said:

 

I 'd like him  to do some kind of Star Wars Symphony Suite totally reimagining the themes

That would be awesome. He could easily put a two hour symphony together with the music. Maybe something like the so called "Lord of the ring symphony" (which of course isn't really symphony).

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48 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Geez, man! That sounded like a cat walking up and down the piano keys!

Couldn't get into that, at all.

Give me a Strauss waltz, any day :lol:

 

He, he....I know what you mean. I remember when I first heard this and before that, "Conversations", I was so excited. FINALLY, Williams would do a concert piece for his main instrument, the first time ever, really (if you disregard the piano sonata that he did as a student and that none of us have heard). Imagine my surprise when it was so wildly dissonant at times. Few traces of the lyricism I had hoped for. To be fair, both of these pieces have grown on me over the last few years, but I'm still waiting for a lyrical JW piano piece -- let's say the piano version of "Elegy for Cello and Orchestra".

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16 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

He's working on the upcoming Oliver Stone biopic on the 45th president.

 

A Trump biopic is exactly what Oliver Stone needs to come out of retirement! 

 

I just wonder what a JW theme for him would sound like. Maybe something like the Jabba music from ROTJ?

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10 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Geez, man! That sounded like a cat walking up and down the piano keys!

Couldn't get into that, at all.

Give me a Strauss waltz, any day :lol:

 

9 hours ago, Thor said:

 

He, he....I know what you mean. I remember when I first heard this and before that, "Conversations", I was so excited. FINALLY, Williams would do a concert piece for his main instrument, the first time ever, really (if you disregard the piano sonata that he did as a student and that none of us have heard). Imagine my surprise when it was so wildly dissonant at times. Few traces of the lyricism I had hoped for. To be fair, both of these pieces have grown on me over the last few years, but I'm still waiting for a lyrical JW piano piece -- let's say the piano version of "Elegy for Cello and Orchestra".

 

You guys are insane! The Scherzo is kick-ass!

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On 11/6/2020 at 4:17 PM, Jay said:

 

You mean besides this?

 

 

 

First time hearing this. Love it!

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Select cues from Williams' 2020 magnum opus:

 

Australia Burns

The Quarantine Scene

COVID-19

Flight of the Murder Hornet

More COVID

Johnny Finds the Mask

Remembering Orchestras

The Protesters March

Six Months In

Immolation

What Next?

Scherzo for Asteroids

The Election and Finale

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On 11/6/2020 at 10:17 PM, Jay said:

 

You mean besides this?

 

 

Uh. My reply got lost or I just did not press the submit button.

Thanks a lot for the link. I did not know that this piece exists at all.

Something like that I was thinking about.

On 11/7/2020 at 3:29 PM, Thor said:

 

..., but I'm still waiting for a lyrical JW piano piece -- let's say the piano version of "Elegy for Cello and Orchestra".

To me that used to be the theme from Sabrina, to data my favourite piano and orchestra piece of John Williams, closely followed by the Theme from Jane Eyre.

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1 hour ago, GerateWohl said:

To me that used to be the theme from Sabrina, to data my favourite piano and orchestra piece of John Williams, closely followed by the Theme from Jane Eyre.

 

Sure, easy to find in film music. But I would love to hear a concert piece.

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Yeah, it's as if he thinks "OK, piano is my main instrument. Gotta make it as complex as possible!". Whereas he seems more free with other instruments.

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