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Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 12:46 AM
By: mxmx (Member)
And just to keep things interesting I'll clarify further... there are actually TWO Williams releases I worked on that are coming out soon.
Mike
Okay, so "Midway" was ONE of them . . .
(Insert sound of crickets here.)
I guess three Williams releases (including Tintin in Europe) within a month IS rather sparse. Don't worry; it's on the way... and from as far out of left field as they come. Patience.
Mike
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Listening to this now. The track order is obviously different here than on the previous re-recording. I am I correct in assuming that the new album reflects the correct film order?
Not quite. The liner notes explain it. Tracks 1-16 are the same and in the same order as the re-recording.
However four tracks are missing. They were only able to be found on the mono source used for the film, and are presented together in film order as track 17.
The End Credits also couldn't be found in stereo, so they're presented as track 18 in mono.
Then we get the two marches, recorded by Williams, that were released as the A and B sides of a 45 to promote the film.
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Has anybody received their copy from Varese? I ordered this on the day it came out and have yet to receive a shipping confirmation. I emailed Varese twice with no response. May just cancel this and order it from SAE.
I ordered only this CD and got it on Thursday. Perhaps there's another album that is causing the delay if you bought multiple albums together...
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Obviously the movie, because of how it was assembled, didn't lend itself to the kind of through-composed showpieces Williams was and is best-known for, but the skill on display and the wealth of melody is highly enjoyable.
Listening to MIDWAY is like looking through an old photo album - each cue sparks memories. The strident opening titles evoke THE TOWERING INFERNO. The dramatic, elegiac cues evoke of JAWS, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. The militaristic cues evoke 1941. Bits and pieces evoke STAR WARS. It's a transitional score - both his past and future can be heard in it.
It's amazing to think that when Williams recorded MIDWAY he was teetering on the brink of an unparalleled career. In rapid succession came STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, SUPERMAN, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, E.T. ... all bonafide classic film scores. And 35 years later we're receiving two new scores from him as he approaches eighty years of age.
There really is no one else like him - and I don't think there ever will be again.
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Has anybody received their copy from Varese? I ordered this on the day it came out and have yet to receive a shipping confirmation. I emailed Varese twice with no response. May just cancel this and order it from SAE.
I'm in the same boat. When I checked the status of my order today, I learned that it still hasn't shipped, and I'm not sure why...
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