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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:24 pm 
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11/23/11

Timeless. It's what comes to mind when I play WAR HORSE. Here's my rationale.

Just about every composer today, be he great or not so great, writes as if he needs to say something fresh and communicative to today's listeners. Maybe there's a fear the score will sound "old fashioned" otherwise. The constant desire to plug in yet another device and see what new sounds can be tapped into... I don't know.

But I know when I hear a Mozart piece, a symphony by Brahms, a ballet by Copland, whatever, the last thing that comes to mind is "old fashioned". There's nothing dated about it. It's just beautiful music... timeless. Ditto this latest from John Williams. It's just beautiful music, with shape and structure... and an ending that is quite simply sublime. There's something about a musical journey that drains the emotions and uses all of the orchestra's resources... and then comes to a close on a solitary flute over a gentle string chord.

What adds weight to all this babble is that Williams was writing his early work when composers like Steiner and Newman and Tiomkin and Rozsa and Kaper and Waxman and so forth still had stuff to say. What a blessing it is to have Williams still delivering to us truly timeless music!

I honestly feel the music of Tchaikovsky and Vaughn Williams and all those others will last for decades. For centuries. Indeed it has! And in the world of cinema, that's company John Williams alone now belongs with.


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