Mark Graham just picked up a John Williams sketch and is "in a rush"! Any ideas?

[Tom 6,440]

2 hours ago, JTN said:

Also I managed to identify one of the books on JW’s shelf.

 

I was going to read that, but I decided to just watch the movie instead.  

[Davis 3,957]

2 hours ago, Tom said:

I was going to read that, but I decided to just watch the movie instead.  

There is a movie?

[Tom 6,440]

42 minutes ago, JTN said:

There is a movie?

The Fabelmans.  

[Davis 3,957]

1 hour ago, Tom said:

The Fabelmans.  

Oh yeah, completely forgot about it. 

[Mr. Hooper 8,110]

Why is he dressed like George Lucas?

 

[Davis 3,957]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Why is he dressed like George Lucas?

Envy.

[Tom 6,440]

5 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Why is he dressed like George Lucas?

An homage to the end of The Empire Strikes Back. 

[karelm 3,261]

13 hours ago, JTN said:

Also I managed to identify one of the books on JW’s shelf.

 

I think it's very interesting that he has books on Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Brahms (multiple books), two copies of Britten's War Requiem, multiple books about Cole Porter, even Stockhausen, a looming head of Copland, etc.  This really does reflect on his sound world, but I don't see Vaughan Williams.

[Davis 3,957]

7 hours ago, karelm said:

but I don't see Vaughan Williams.

He doesn’t buy books by anyone with his own last name.

[BB-8 5,955]

21 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Why is he dressed like George Lucas?

 

Why has he got blue eyes?

 

 

[Tom 6,440]

59 minutes ago, BB-8 said:

Why has he got blue eyes?

 

 

Because Luke likes blue.  

[Jurassic Shark 16,122]

Why not?

[mrbellamy 7,912]

I wonder which of those books has been there the longest that he still hasn't read

[BB-8 5,955]

Mark Graham had to resupply John Williams sketch paper, four days ago...

Mark Graham (@markgrahamcreative) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos

[Tom 6,440]

A person looking through my work on such sketch papers:

 

 

[BB-8 5,955]

 

"Too few notes..."

 

Spielberg                                          Williams

                     "The Fabelmans"

[igger6 1,031]

Imagine being such a master of your written craft that people thousands of miles away get excited when your notepad runs out...

[Not Mr. Big 4,938]

Rushing to write music for Ready Player Two

[BB-8 5,955]

"I can't do this."

 

[raw sketch for Schindler's List]

 

[Miguel Andrade 1,701]

On 22/03/2024 at 4:35 AM, KingPin said:

 
I would venture to guess it is Williams’ arrangement of By the Beautiful Sea listed in this program I pulled from the BSO Archives, the lyrics of which go “By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea…” This piece was played at multiple performances that week, one of which I had actually attended back when I was in high school. I don’t remember much about the arrangement other than that it was in a similar vein as his Hooray for Hollywood arrangement and that (you guessed correctly!) it featured a brief quote of the Jaws bass line at the very end of the piece. Anyone curious about how the tune sounds (though not the same arrangement) can listen to The Ferris Wheel Sequence from Williams’ score to 1941.

 

 

I finally got around to find the time to check my Evening at Pops video archive, and this arrangement opens the show, even though the first half of it is buried under Sleepers' director Barry Levinson introduction that is followed by a short dialogue between him and Williams right at the Sony Scoring Stage talking about his experience with Adolph Deutsch and spoting Billy Wilder at the scoring sessions. Williams does refer to the tune as "By the sea". Then video cuts to the actual performance and the music takes central stage. 

The title that shows up reads: By the Beautiful Sea: A Tribute to Billy Wilder, arr. John Williams.

The arrangement is mostly in the same vein as Hooray for Hollywood, as pointed before, and another tunes to seem to try to creep in (again in Hooray's fashion) including Jaws on the low woodwinds (again as mentioned earlier).

 

It would be wonderful that in a future survey of Williams work with the Pops, they would record the numerous arrangements he wrote during his tenure. A few of them were recorded for the televised Evening at Pops concerts, but not readily available to everyone to enjoy.

 

[Nathan95 76]

Well now we know he wrote a new solo violin arrangement for Star Wars 

https://youtu.be/c3hCVk5Z9po?si=PTdMu5fqCBR6SgJK

[Tom 6,440]

Thank you for posting this.  A bit weird, random, and anti-climatic, but here we are.  

[BB-8 5,955]

There are far better (amateur) versions out there already so no more faith in Disney whatsoever.

 

 

[The Score Cleaner 9,607]

 

[Loert 3,089]

If JW had written an arrangement like that for me I would probably feel a bit offended, lol

[Mr. Hooper 8,110]

10 minutes ago, Loert said:

If JW had written an arrangement like that for me I would probably feel a bit offended, lol

He was apparently made aware that the actress wasn't a virtuoso player.

[BB-8 5,955]

2 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

He was apparently made aware that the actress wasn't a virtuoso player...

...and that she had failed to provide German Christmas cookies.

[pete 1,302]

Maybe, they're pieces intended for a violin instructional book? "Learn Violin with the Music of John Williams". I'd buy that, and I'd buy a violin, and my neighbors would kill me.

[Muad'Dib 2,018]

3 hours ago, pete said:

 I'd buy that

 

For a dollar!

[Jilal 663]

On 23/03/2024 at 1:33 AM, karelm said:

The originals are at JAKMS but the resulting full scores are what's in the leather-bound copies.  The hand sketches are like first draft, not the cleaned up, revised full scores though with JW, there might not be much difference except one is cleaned up, legible, and the other might have lots of short hand making it hard to follow.

 

 

This photograph shows JW looking at a leather-bound sketch score:

 

[DangerMotif 1,303]

31 minutes ago, Darth Crossfader said:

 

This photograph shows JW looking at a leather-bound sketch score:

 

?

[Jilal 663]

38 minutes ago, DangerMotif said:

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So @karelm claimed JW's leather-bound scores are full scores (which are the product of JW's orchestrators) instead of his own manuscripts or "sketch scores", but I just came across the above photograph which clearly shows JW looking at a big (leather-?)bound copy of a sketch score (you can tell by the number of bars and staves per page) as opposed to a full score.

[Thor 9,336]

I'm impressed you can make out anything from that angle.

 

Williams has most of his scores leather-bound and on the shelf.

[BB-8 5,955]

He is looking into the camera.

[Arpy 4,249]

Is it possible Williams' bound copies also have dedicated sections that include his early sketches? Which would be neat to have all in one book?

[Mr. Hooper 8,110]

6 hours ago, BB-8 said:

He is looking into the camera.

He's looking into your soul.

 

[BB-8 5,955]

[Jilal 663]

7 hours ago, Thor said:

I'm impressed you can make out anything from that angle.

 

That's what hours of peering over his sketches does to you 😛

[BB-8 5,955]

47 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

He's looking into your soul.

 

[Tom 6,440]

2 hours ago, BB-8 said:

Given Williams' new non-glasses look, this might be true.