Doug Adams

Musician; Occasional Talking Head; Twitterer; Author of The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films, Impossible Silence, & The Music of the Hobbit Films

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The Music of The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit with Doug Adams https://t.co/rjhvqmWfGX via @YouTube

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I was there, Gandalf ....

[Abbey Road @AbbeyRoad]

The Lord Of The Rings 25 with the original engineering team.

What would you ask them about working on The Lord of the Rings 25 years ago?

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This warms the heart. What palpable love for music.

https://t.co/mD6pzv8ESN

[Film Music Reporter @filmmusicrep]

'Disclosure Day' Soundtrack Album Announcement Coming Next Week.

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Marcia Lucas Finally Speaks Out | Icons Unearthed: Unplugged (FULL INTER... https://t.co/UUCWaaVGKr

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@DerlisAGonzalez Didn't a number of the early reviews mention the score positively? Even glowingly? I don't expect much detail ... or even accuracy when it comes to film reviewers digging in to musical content. But they can, in best circumstances anyway, assess its effectiveness.

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Well then ....

[Bill Bria @billbria]

#DisclosureDay is the weirdest movie Spielberg’s ever made (complimentary). Breathtaking compositions, David Koepp’s X-FILES-meets-The Bible script is one big high-wire act, Emily Blunt’s most accomplished performance, John Williams’ best score in years. Riveting, moving stuff.

[Variety @Variety]

Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95 https://t.co/psp24pBzTc

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Loving the Goldsmith adaptation!

[CommodoreBlog @CommodoreBlog]

Alien Kong.👾

[RedDragoon2691 ❤️Spider-Girls Era💙 @dragoon2691]

Obscure piece of Star Wars history I've just learned, there was a Jazz Album in 1980 that changed several movie tracks into jazz songs

Also this Album cover with Vader in the audience is awesome

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What’s most impressive is that they managed to get literally everything wrong.

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I watched the new Lorne Michaels documentary. Wonderful to see Howard Shore, even if only for a minute or two.

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Uninformed prediction: Göransson’s Star Wars score will please film fans, but won’t much land with the music crowd. HIs Odyssey score will be the other way around.

I reserve the right to claim I never said this if I’m proven wrong.

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This film wasn’t on my radar at all, but this is exciting!

[Film Music Reporter @filmmusicrep]

James Newton Howard reteams with M. Night Shyamalan on romantic thriller 'Remain' starring Jake Gyllenhaal & Phoebe Dynevor. https://t.co/yjPlr24jfG

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Wait until they reveal none of the dialogue was recorded with microphones.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Christopher Nolan instructed Ludwig Göransson not to use an orchestra for ‘THE ODYSSEY’ score.

“It’s not like the orchestra existed back then. It was a challenge and also an opening to try to make something unique,” says Göransson.

(Source: https://t.co/k6cv4jM68W)

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I'm not going to link to SlippedDisc, but sound the New John Williams Fanfare alert:

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@TLwr24601 @DaveBuzan Thank you very much!

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@DaveBuzan @TLwr24601 I’m not sure anyone could ever provide a comprehensive list of must-hear Goldsmith scores, but Alien, Star Trek TMP, Papillon, Secret of NIMH, Planet of the Apes, Gremlins, Islands in the Stream, and Poltergeist certainly constitute a good start!

[Dave Buzan @DaveBuzan]

While "Alien Day" (chosen to be annually recognized on 4/26 in reference to the LV-426 planet from "Aliens") focuses on the cinematic series as a whole, for me it's a celebration of the magnificent scores that Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, and Elliott Goldenthal contributed for the first three films.

In particular, what Jerry Goldsmith created for the 1979 original remains a groundbreaking and stunningly innovative work of art. It's one of the greatest scores ever written.

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@tgreiving My favorite part of this was that he needed you to know that S. would suffice. Like there was a specific level of pedantry that would clarify which Rachmaninoff you meant, but without belaboring the point.

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Hanging in the dressing rooms of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra …
#music #johnwilliams #misattribution