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JWFan is proud to exclusively present the tracklist to the War Horse OST (via http://www.jwfan.com/?p=1088 ) Track list: 1. Dartmoor, 1912 (3:35) 2. The Auction (3:43) 3. Bringing Joey Home, and Bonding (4:48) 4. Learning the Call (3:42) 5. Seeding, and Horse vs. Car (3:32) 6. Plowing (5:57) 7. Ruined Crop, and Going to War (3:33) 8. The Charge and Capture (3:21) 9. The Desertion (2:34) 10. Joey's New Friends (3:28) 11. Pulling the Cannon (4:58) 12. The Death of Topthorn (2:47) 13. No Man's Land (4:32) 14. The Reunion (3:52) 15. Remembering Emilie, and Finale (5:05) 16. The Homecoming (8:03) TOTAL TIME: 67:32 The expected US release date is November 22nd. Be sure to avoid reading the track list on retail sites or wherever else if you don't want to be spoiled! Also be careful if you quote this post to reply you will see the spoilers unblocked! UPDATE: The score will premiere Saturday (October 22nd) on WQXR: http://www.wqxr.org/#/programs/movies/2011/oct/22/ UPDATE: The US release date was confirmed to be Tuesday, November 22nd by Sony Classical.
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That would be a HUGE SPOILER that surely should not be posted in this thread. Surely you can use the internet to research the play and book the film is based on if you really want to know? Nobody has seen the film yet.
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The score will premiere Saturday on WQXR: http://www.wqxr.org/#/programs/movies/2011/oct/22/ Movies on the Radio presents the exclusive broadcast premiere of John Williams's score for the forthcoming Steven Spielberg film “War Horse." The film, which will open on Christmas Day, tells the inspiring story of a brave young man and his bond with an extraordinary horse, set during—and on the frontlines of—World War I. The film is based on the same book that inspired the current Broadway show "War Horse." The ongoing collaboration of Steven Spielberg and John Williams is one of the most prestigious and successful director-composer collaborations in cinema. Their movies include "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial," the "Indiana Jones" series, "Jurassic Park," "Schindler’s List" and many other classics. John Williams has won five Academy Awards, and has been nominated 41 times. His music has been wowing movie audiences since the 1960s. In addition to the premiere of “War Horse,” host David Garland presents highlights from the other new Spielberg/Williams film, “The Adventures of Tintin” (which opens in Europe on Oct. 22, and in the US on Dec. 21), plus familiar music from previous Spielberg/Williams collaborations.
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I'm curious as to whether Williams pursued some "British" style (Britten or Vaughan Williams eg.) in this score, as was suggested earlier - which would make War Horse something truly new. If not, we may at least look forward to Coplandia on a high level.
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By far John Williams' worse spoiler offense was Presumed Innocent, a movie where the entire plot revolves around the audience wondering who committed murder. Naturally, Willams revealed the answer in a track title. I thought he had learned his lesson from all the blowback with the Star Wars prequels. He mentioned getting flak about that in an interview but I guess old habits die hard. - Adam Well, to be fair to Williams, he still crafts his albums assuming that people who buy it have already seen the film and enjoyed his music in it. These albums are part of the longstanding legacy he leaves behind, in addition to the films themselves, and he's not going to provide a bunch of vague track titles just so no one is spoiled in the months preceding. After a few years why is it going to matter as much, since now we all know that Daryl is destroyed in "Eastwick" and Qui-Gon dies in "Phantom Menace"? I think you're right about his mindset and I don't really care what he calls his track titles. Anymore I tend to think of them as as "track 1, track 2, etc." because I don't even bother to read the track listing when I listen to the music. On the other hand, for people who do care it wouldn't be that hard to come up with a track title that fits the scene and doesn't reveal anything even if its a relatively small set of people who don't wait until after they see the movie. I'm not complaining though, just an observation. - Adam
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Hi, folks, David Garland, host/producer of Movies on the Radio on WQXR, posting here for the first time. I've received the packaging graphics for War Horse, and thought you'd be interested to read this statement from Spielberg, which is included in the booklet: "The dramatic countryside of Dartmoor has inspired John Williams to compose a score of such beauty and quiet majesty that one might think the earth was speaking through him, much as the heavens have done for nearly five decades. When I first heard John’s sketches of the four central themes for War Horse, I didn’t need my memories of the film to underscore the feelings I was having. The music was a stand-alone experience and it affected me deeply, as have so many of John’s scores during our nearly 40-year collaboration. I feel that John has made a special gift to me of this music, which was inspired not only by my film but also by many of the picturesque settings of the poet William Wordsworth, whose vivid descriptions of the British landscape inspired much of what you are going to hear. I’m not sure what I can give John in return, other than a promise of more films to come ... for as many more years as we both can imagine!" –Steven Spielberg Kind of makes me want to hear it, you know? I'll have the music in a couple days, in time for my on-air premier on Saturday. I'll play a couple tracks, not the whole score, but I'll do my best to represent the key themes and emotions.
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The music in the trailer already moved deeply. I´m hoping for this one to be my favorite score of the year.
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