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Mar 19, 2009 - 6:21 AM
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Jim Phelps
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When I played Minority Report a while ago, a score my son likes (my daughter complains that the bass through the sub-woofer shakes the house!) he suddenly said: "Didn't it ever occur to him that this sounds just like Star Wars?"
Man, I wish my family would've had conversations like that! Ours went like this (true story!):
The Time: Summer, 1980: 9-year-old me playing the 2-LP TESB, the "Asteroid Field."
Grandmother: "What's that?"
Grandfather: "It's theme music."
Me: [excitedly] "It's from The Emprire Strikes Back, the seq--"
Grandmother: "I don't like it."
Me: *Continues to live in own mind and begins to realize what "Black Sheep of the Family" means.*
BTW, I'm not the biggest Williams fan myself, but I'd be hard pressed to find a composer who had such a spectacular run as he did from 1975-1983. Those scores are "overexposed", but it's the music that got two generations into film music, and for that I'll always be grateful---if not a completist!
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Man, I wish my family would've had conversations like that! ... *Continues to live in own mind and begins to realize what "Black Sheep of the Family" means.*
That's what we're here for, buddy. There might have been only one kid in any given town who went through it, and he might have had to wait years for the Internet to be invented, but now we have a community.
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My dad used to call film music "funeral music" but I knew he has half kidding. I just shrugged him away. Hey, if Mom hadn't intervened to let me wear stylishly long hair in the early 70's, I would have been wearing a crew cut- Dad was just jealous I had more hair. And better taste in a lot of things. 
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I am a Williams completist, both Williams the composer and Williams the performer.
I've just finally got his 1958 recording of South Pacific tunes, playing as part of a piano duo. Great stuff.
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I've never tried to get a composer's whole career on disc. I can more readily imagine myself becoming a franchise completist.
Yeah, bingo. What he said.
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Admittedly, some works are better than others (the concert works tend to be a little too abstract for my tastes) but even his mediocre output is better than other composers' good stuff.
I'd allow that his mediocre works are better than what is done by mediocre composers. But film music has had many great masters, and Williams' middling output can't stand against another master's best.
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Who do you think would win in a concert brawl?
Herrmann or Williams?
Hmmm?
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