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by An Anonymous Musician
Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:48 pm
Forum: Recordings (CD's, DVD's)
Topic: Naxos-Release "The Sea Hawk"
Replies: 44
Views: 120109

Re: John Williams

Mr Williams is highly skilled but is a shameless plagiarist. Some examples... Superman - (main title) is actually the most obvious steal of KINGS ROW - its arching 7ths and the fifths of its fanfare motif. The Love Theme from that film is almost note - for - note lifted from the tone poem DEATH AND...
by An Anonymous Musician
Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:54 pm
Forum: Recordings (CD's, DVD's)
Topic: Naxos-Release "The Sea Hawk"
Replies: 44
Views: 120109

The Conspicuous Absence of the Album’s Release in March

I’m just as befuddled about the circumstances surrounding the release of the CD as you, Rathbone. Whatever may be happening, there is obviously some difficulty regarding the release of the CD which all those involved in the album’s production are having a difficult time surmounting: The CD was o...
by An Anonymous Musician
Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:29 am
Forum: Questions regarding E.W.Korngold
Topic: Kings Row & Star Wars
Replies: 11
Views: 55679

Hoorah for Kings Row and Star Wars and their like, and down with the composers estates and their grubby lawyers. Hi Peter I completely agree with you that entirely doing away with the practice of borrowing will be more detrimental to the state of music than it will be helpful in maintaining the int...
by An Anonymous Musician
Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:19 pm
Forum: Recordings (CD's, DVD's)
Topic: 50th Death Anniversary of Korngold
Replies: 4
Views: 23427

We should try to get AMPAS to do a tribute at the Oscars. He got a little nod at the ceremony a few years back when John Williams did a brief film-score medley that included a snippet from Sea Hawk (you can watch it on YouTube). I don't know how receptive they would be to the idea though; they might...
by An Anonymous Musician
Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:03 am
Forum: Questions regarding E.W.Korngold
Topic: Korngold's "decision" to focus on film music durin
Replies: 3
Views: 25366

It certainly seemed like Korngold had some sort of depression, and oftentimes, depression makes it enough of a struggle to just get through the day, let alone to sit down and to have the energy to write out so meticulously all of those little black dots. Also, remember that when you write a film sco...
by An Anonymous Musician
Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:34 pm
Forum: Questions regarding E.W.Korngold
Topic: Kings Row & Star Wars
Replies: 11
Views: 55679

Oh, and did everybody hear that Hans Zimmer is getting sued by the Holst estate?
by An Anonymous Musician
Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:30 pm
Forum: Questions regarding E.W.Korngold
Topic: Kings Row & Star Wars
Replies: 11
Views: 55679

Re: Plagiarism

No charges were ever made because Mr Williams has freely admitted his debt to Korngold on many occasions & conducted his music in concert, and he was a good friend of George Korngold, who even produced albums with Charles Gerhardt of the film music (e.g. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK etc). ...
by An Anonymous Musician
Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:15 am
Forum: Questions regarding E.W.Korngold
Topic: Ambidexterity
Replies: 0
Views: 20184

Ambidexterity

I noticed after having seen some photographs of Korngold composing that, in some pictures, it appears he is playing the piano with his left hand and writing with his right and, in others, seems to be playing with his right and writing with his left. Were some of the photographs I viewed reversed, or...
by An Anonymous Musician
Sun May 21, 2006 11:17 pm
Forum: Questions regarding E.W.Korngold
Topic: Korngold's Music in a Commercial
Replies: 0
Views: 20370

Korngold's Music in a Commercial

I seem to remember that, a few years ago, I had heard the concluding waltz of the String Quartet no. 2 in an American Express commercial which was a part of the same ad campaign that also aired commercials that used the scherzo movement from Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and Chocolate from Tchaiko...