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We just ordered our tickets to the July 31st concert, WOO HOOO. Can't wait to hear Bear's music live and to hear one of my favorite Thomas Newman scores, Angels in America LIVE. I sure did pick the right year to move out here! The Oscar link isn't working for some reason, Henry.
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Wow, Braveheart. It's funny to think about Williams being into that at all, for some reason. What clip did they show?
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Wow, Braveheart. It's funny to think about Williams being into that at all, for some reason. What clip did they show? The finale right up to THE END. That's great.
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The most interesting moment was near the very end, when Williams (I can only assume alluding to the sudden death of his first wife, actress Barbara Ruick) referred to a personal tragedy forty years ago that completely changed the way he approached his music. She passed on during the making of California Split in 1974, the year before he scored Jaws.
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I was really shocked that Williams selected Braveheart as one of his clips. It's cool that he chose a younger composer (along with elder statesman Herrmann and peer Goldsmith), but -- not to start a flame war here, Horner is a very talented musical dramatist and has written some scores I absolutely love -- it's ironic that he chose one who has himself never seemed to acknowledge how other film composers have informed his work.
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I was thinking more of the later films that he was at one point announced for or involved with but ultimately didn't score (The Sentinel, Heaven's Gate, Meteor, Inchon, Wolf, Bicentennial Man).
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