Popular Post thx99 1,866 Posted June 1, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 1, 2015 https://www.facebook.com/scoringsessions/posts/1137108402981716 Incanus, Muad'Dib, Not Mr. Big and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,816 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,585 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 And some time this week, they'll hopefully post pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,585 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Screw pictures, I want video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,093 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Screw pictures and video. I want audio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,769 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Can't they just stream the complete sessions? bespinGPT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,739 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 New Star Wars music now officially exists!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,585 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,420 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 New Star Wars music now officially exists!!!! It already existed, from the moment John Williams wrote it down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 So you consider revisions/erasures to be morally reprehensible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,420 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Me? No. Why would you think that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Bad attempt at humor. The language used was similar to how people talk about abortion/moment of conception stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 I like Erasure. bespinGPT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,867 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Conrad, we're home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,760 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I thought they already started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,093 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Article in the latest Music Union magazine:http://im.afm.org/doc/AFM_IM/june-2015/2015060101/#18 Jay and Cerebral Cortex 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,585 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 He says he began composing early this year and "been through most of the reels"so I guess most of the music is on paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,093 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I liked this!"Williams says he plans to continue the use of leitmotifs in the new film. 'While the majority of the music is also new, there are necessary references to early story lines, which helps create association with the previous films so the music will look back in spots to the earlier films, but there are also new themes that will be applied in a similar way." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,270 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Here's the text version http://www.afm.org/im/john-williams Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,739 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I liked this!"Williams says he plans to continue the use of leitmotifs in the new film. 'While the majority of the music is also new, there are necessary references to early story lines, which helps create association with the previous films so the music will look back in spots to the earlier films, but there are also new themes that will be applied in a similar way."Any veterans here know if he said anything similar about Indiana Jones 4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Now we have the names of some players:Jon Lewis trumpet, Andrew Bain horn player, Heather Clark, a flutist, Louise Di'Tullio another flutist. Stephen Erdody cellist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,093 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Nice, Andrew Bain is a great, great player and super nice guy! He's principal with LA Phil. This is the A list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,739 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Nice, Andrew Bain is a great, great player and super nice guy! He's principal with LA Phil. This is the A list.But is he as versatile as his LSO counterpart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 5,141 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Is the picture of Williams composing new? What a perfect image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Cool, I didn't know that he writes 10 line sketches that are basically complete when they go to the orchestrator. I thought Pope embellished quite a bit; isn't that what orchestrators do? Anyway, great factoid. Definitely so much different from what most composers do now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,585 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Him and Howard Shore are probably the only guys still doing that! Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 How do you think he felt about being approached to do Schindler's List? I bet the cocky son of a bitch was like, "I'm not surprised you called me Steveo! A story of this magnitude needs my greatness!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 3,093 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Nice, Andrew Bain is a great, great player and super nice guy! He's principal with LA Phil. This is the A list.But is he as versatile as his LSO counterpart?Which LSO counterpart? The one from Ep 1-3 or 4-6? I am partial to 4-6 and Bain being just phenomenal. I've seen him do gymnastics on the horn and never fail. He just doesn't sweet it out under pressure and delivers beauty, tone, power, majesty, heart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Cool, I didn't know that he writes 10 line sketches that are basically complete when they go to the orchestrator. I thought Pope embellished quite a bit; isn't that what orchestrators do? Hasn't that topic been discussed 100 times here already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hmm, I can't say that I've ever noticed that or heard it elsewhere before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,816 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hmm, I can't say that I've ever noticed that or heard it elsewhere before.It's like the Schindler's List anecdote and the fact Williams never reads scripts before he starts scoring a film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Someone clue me in on those as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Score 772 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Note that he says that the sketch goes to the music library (I guess Joann Kane) as it is and then is basically put in digital full score format directly. So, I guess there will be no orchestrators at all, except the copyists! He might have done the same with "The Book Thief": there are no credited orchestrators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,420 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Article in the latest Music Union magazine:http://im.afm.org/doc/AFM_IM/june-2015/2015060101/#18The scene opens on a black screen. From the depths of inaudibility, a single eerie string chord rises to underpin the image of a windswept desert landscape.Instantly, we know where we are: Tatooine, homeworld of Luke Skywalker.What nonsense! It has not been confirmed at all that the desert is Tatooine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Someone clue me in on those as well?I think there was an interview where Williams humblebrags that he told Spielberg he needed a better composer than he to score Schindler's List (this was a 1993 Spielberg film about the Holocaust), with Spielberg agreeing but saying that any such composers were all dead. There's probably a link available somewhere on the site. As for the thing about Williams not reading scripts before scoring, that's news to me.Cool, I didn't know that he writes 10 line sketches that are basically complete when they go to the orchestrator. I thought Pope embellished quite a bit; isn't that what orchestrators do? Anyway, great factoid. Definitely so much different from what most composers do now!I also think it's cool to read he's old school and writes at the piano with pen and paper. But I agree with the author of the article: it's striking that a composer so readily amenable to movies with futuristic content would be so resistant to using technology in the compositional process. It's almost as though those two aspects are unrelated. Code 000. Destruct. 0. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,420 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I guess John Williams has always been something of a Luddite when it comes to how he writes music. It's how he learned to do it decades ago and it's how he's still doing it. I really don't think it should be seen as suspect that he hasn't updated to the latest compositional tools that are now commonplace in film music.He just never struck me as a very tech minded individual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Article in the latest Music Union magazine:http://im.afm.org/doc/AFM_IM/june-2015/2015060101/#18The scene opens on a black screen. From the depths of inaudibility, a single eerie string chord rises to underpin the image of a windswept desert landscape.Instantly, we know where we are: Tatooine, homeworld of Luke Skywalker.What nonsense! It has not been confirmed at all that the desert is Tatooine!It has been confirmed that the planet is Jakku I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BloodBoal 7,541 Posted June 2, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2015 Is the picture of Williams composing new? What a perfect image.It's a picture of him working on Bridge Of Spies, before he was fired. Sharkissimo, Ricard and crumbs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,739 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I wonder if we'll get any descriptions of the music from any insiders like we did for Tintin and War Horse...http://www.jwfan.com/?p=627On an unrelated note, it looks like the time is coming soon to open up the Star Wars subforum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx99 1,866 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Is the picture of Williams composing new? What a perfect image.It's from the recording sessions for Gloria Cheng's Montage CD... Someone clue me in on those as well?I think there was an interview where Williams humblebrags that he told Spielberg he needed a better composer than he to score Schindler's List (this was a 1993 Spielberg film about the Holocaust), with Spielberg agreeing but saying that any such composers were all dead. There's probably a link available somewhere on the site. As for the thing about Williams not reading scripts before scoring, that's news to me.Both of these anecdotes have been featured in many interviews!!Here's one example of the Schindler's List story (jump to 1:27): http://www.thv11.com/story/local/2013/02/22/1742718/And re: "not reading scripts" (jump to 3:35): http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=164615420&m=164848555. Transcript of the story: http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2012/11/10/164615420/john-williams-inevitable-themes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,541 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,867 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Is the picture of Williams composing new? What a perfect image.It's from the recording sessions for Gloria Cheng's Montage CD...Capture.PNG Someone clue me in on those as well?I think there was an interview where Williams humblebrags that he told Spielberg he needed a better composer than he to score Schindler's List (this was a 1993 Spielberg film about the Holocaust), with Spielberg agreeing but saying that any such composers were all dead. There's probably a link available somewhere on the site. As for the thing about Williams not reading scripts before scoring, that's news to me.Both of these anecdotes have been featured in many interviews!!Here's one example of the Schindler's List story (jump to 1:27): http://www.thv11.com/story/local/2013/02/22/1742718/And re: "not reading scripts" (jump to 3:35): http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=164615420&m=164848555. Transcript of the story: http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2012/11/10/164615420/john-williams-inevitable-themes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,454 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 So, Abrams' solid but distinctly undistinguished Star Wars movie just got better by default. He'd better be grateful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 5,141 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Compared to the previous three SW movies and, perhaps, any of Williams-scored movies, the composing schedule has been/will be insanely long. He says he began working on it at the beginning of the year and will finish recording in August or even September. It will be interesting to hear the themes and their orchestration and compare them to previous efforts. I wonder if we will find more complex orchestrations and whatnot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 yes, if it's mediocre we can't blame rushing because of another movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 966 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 But, have you seen BB8. He's so cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Not Mr. Big 4,739 Posted June 4, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2015 First pictures!http://makingstarwars.net/2015/06/behind-the-scenes-pictures-from-john-williams-recent-scoring-session-for-star-wars-the-force-awakens/ Lewya, Muad'Dib and Cerebral Cortex 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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