Star Wars Episode 7: The Music Awakens!
A new Star Wars score by the one and only John Williams is a big deal. For fans of John Williams, there is no bigger deal as for many fans …
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John Williams & The Philosopher’s Prisoner of Secrets
John Williams beginning work on Steven Spielberg’s adaption of Roald Dahl’s The BFG at the end of 2015 provided incentive to revisit his previous scores for films also based on popular and …
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The recent release of John Williams seventh Star Wars score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) coincided with me having some extra free time and the desire to write …
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Top 10 Favourite Scores for War Films
I put together this list last year for one of my classes in which students created their own Word Press blog and wrote about two of their passions. The idea …
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2015 Reading Diary Part 1!
January to July January through July of 2015 was quite a hectic period for me – the story of my life. I was extra busy with work – both during …
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The Book Thief by John Williams
Here I am playing a theme from John Williams‘ latest score for The Book Thief (2013) when, and you’re not going to believe this, a real book thief breaks into my apartment …
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The Blue & The Grey (A Duet for Two Peters)
This mournful piece from John Williams’ score for Lincoln (2012) sounds better sans guitar. Unfortunately, something went wrong with the recording as the guitar should sound much, much, much, and …
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Darth Vader Theme (A Terrible Trio for Three Sith Lords)
John Williams’ fantastic militaristic march for Darth Vader from The Empire Strikes Back (1980) sounds really nice slowed down a bit and performed on my keyboard, slightly out of tune …
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