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He really is a great guy. I wish you guys could have been a fly on the wall when we listened to, in its 26-minute entirety, his concert work inspired by George Melies' TRIP TO THE MOON. He was unaware the work had even been made commercially available (it's on iTunes and it's *amazing*) and it was so fun listening to his thoughts and "narration" as we listened - He'd only heard the piece once, as he conducted it live a few years back in France.
Likewise, listening to his mockup of his yet-to-be-performed "Pasadena Symphony" was quite a joy. It's fully written and mocked up in Logic (or maybe it was Sibelius, can't recall which program he used) and he knowing that I'm not a trained musician and couldn't readily pick out the lines and lines of activity being performed by the piano at one time, he'd narrate - "This is a slower sumptuous passage, think Antony and Cleopatra... Ah, and here, this is a big march, like some of the action music in King Kong Lives... but with a more valiant air." Stuff like that. It was such a fun window into this deeply creative man's mind and way of thinking.
I feel so lucky to call this gentle spirt and deeply humble man, whose music I've utterly revered since I stumbled upon it quite accidentally a number of years back, a friend now, too - And one who's a full 60 years my senior at that! I do wish I had been born just a decade earlier perhaps, so that our life times mgiht have had more overlap. Regardless, I'll cherish every moment to come.
The script I've mentioned earlier in this thread that John is attached to is making "the rounds" out here in LA. The feedback is generally extremely strong as both a story and for its originality, but it also seems to be the later that is cause for criticism, as the marketing of a project like this (essentially a hard sci-fi drama, but told and framed like a modern-day fairy tale) is tricky at best. There are some really exciting actors and companies reading it though through the holidays, and I look forward to updating you all, as I can, about the project's gradual motion forward.
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Jan 9, 2017 - 8:21 PM
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edwzoomom
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He really is a great guy. I wish you guys could have been a fly on the wall when we listened to, in its 26-minute entirety, his concert work inspired by George Melies' TRIP TO THE MOON. He was unaware the work had even been made commercially available (it's on iTunes and it's *amazing*) and it was so fun listening to his thoughts and "narration" as we listened - He'd only heard the piece once, as he conducted it live a few years back in France.
Likewise, listening to his mockup of his yet-to-be-performed "Pasadena Symphony" was quite a joy. It's fully written and mocked up in Logic (or maybe it was Sibelius, can't recall which program he used) and he knowing that I'm not a trained musician and couldn't readily pick out the lines and lines of activity being performed by the piano at one time, he'd narrate - "This is a slower sumptuous passage, think Antony and Cleopatra... Ah, and here, this is a big march, like some of the action music in King Kong Lives... but with a more valiant air." Stuff like that. It was such a fun window into this deeply creative man's mind and way of thinking.
I feel so lucky to call this gentle spirt and deeply humble man, whose music I've utterly revered since I stumbled upon it quite accidentally a number of years back, a friend now, too - And one who's a full 60 years my senior at that! I do wish I had been born just a decade earlier perhaps, so that our life times mgiht have had more overlap. Regardless, I'll cherish every moment to come.
The script I've mentioned earlier in this thread that John is attached to is making "the rounds" out here in LA. The feedback is generally extremely strong as both a story and for its originality, but it also seems to be the later that is cause for criticism, as the marketing of a project like this (essentially a hard sci-fi drama, but told and framed like a modern-day fairy tale) is tricky at best. There are some really exciting actors and companies reading it though through the holidays, and I look forward to updating you all, as I can, about the project's gradual motion forward.
This is fascinating bobb. I am looking forward to an update. Btw, is the Greystoke 2 cd info referring to an expanded release? We can only dream.
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Well, if it ever gets picked up and greenlite, let me know the title and I'll try to start an IMDb page for it.
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I recently listened to GREYSTOKE... among the hundreds of LPs I own one of the few I do not own yet on CD. Will there ever be an expanded remastered edition? Such a wonderful score.
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Mar 23, 2017 - 6:53 PM
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I recently listened to GREYSTOKE... among the hundreds of LPs I own one of the few I do not own yet on CD. Will there ever be an expanded remastered edition? Such a wonderful score.
He has almost two hours of complete music ready to go that he recorded for that film. There's not one but two completely different "alternate overtures" that are just beautiful!
He also has several other Cousteau scores (Clipperton: Island that time Forgot and Cuba: Waters of Freedom off the top of my head, as well as one other very beautiful impressionistic one I think was called "Madagascar"). He also has HENNESSY (gorgeous main and end title with tons of strange dissonance in between, wonderfully performed by the LSO), SYMPTOMS (awesome avant-garde chamber score from the early 70's), BLACK RAINBOW (perhaps his most atonal score overall), as well as the complete score for the Pierce Brosnan film DETONATOR 2: NIGHT WATCH, which is basically the Bond score John never wrote!
Plus his ROBIN HOOD live score with the RPO, just endless droves of concert music (orchestral and chamber) recorded mostly in Los Angeles, and much much more...
He was kind enough to give me the HAREM stereo WAV files, which sound absolutely great but are missing three vital cues (main title, end title and finale of part two - otherwise everything's there including alternates, notes from the booth and John speaking to the orchestra occasionally - Though it should be noted that the private collector mentioned in my other Harem thread does have those missing cues in stereo as well, so technically everything exists and is accountable for).
John's in fantastic health and spirits, perhaps even more so than when I saw him last year. I guess 86 is the new 56.
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Well damn. Let's get some of that great material out in official form! Roger? MV? Jose?
Yavar
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Well damn. Let's get some of that great material out in official form! Roger? MV? Jose?
Yavar
Unfortunately John doesn't seem that interested in having these scores released.
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