How do we get more activity here?

A GERMAN?!?!?
We don't want no bloody GERMANS here!

I like the way the Austrians say goodbye better.

Oh, Germans can be quite charming as well.

Well, stop manipulating people. ;-)

I point out one example and it is turned into a comedy routine! Perhaps you might ask the question of how different John Williams might have turned out if there was no Korngold. I think his sound would have turned out quite differently.
Tom

Tom, pardon my insolence! You know, I am one of the most vocal Korngold fans around here. The reason why there is little traffic in the Korngold thread - an I assume in many other composer dedicated threads - is, that most of that talk takes place in the "Now Playing" place.

Volker

I've given this a lot of thought, and my conclusion is: post more.

My favourite Golden Age film composers are Korngold and Rozsa. I am also fairly well acquainted with their "classical" concert works. (I am not familiar though with Krongold's opera "Die tote Stadt /The Dead City", which is a shame since it is such a famous piece.)

Other than that I deeply respect Hermann, Waxman and Alfred Newman. I especially like their scores for historical and fantasy films. Steiner is another composer I revere but honestly, with the exception of GwtW I could never connect with his music that much.

I also like a number of lesser known German and British composers of that period. (The latter thanks to Chandos.)

Other than that I know and like individual scores by other composers of that period. I shall listen more to them and post about it.

Volker

Well, we tried to get more activity on ScoreReviews and look what happend to that...


MMUK used to have a fairly regularly active board, but it's essentially dead now. It's kind of weird, 'cause it was never a bad place.

MovieMusic used to have a quite active board, too, but it killed itself with posters battling (kind of like what jwfan is doing right now, but Williams is too powerful to fully kill that board, I think) and the site owner overlording over it. He does well shipping and selling CD's, I'll give him that, but the board fell collapsed under him.


There's also a couple other active boards, but they're niche: the Zimmer forum (I can't recall the name) and another one from another country where of course most posts are in different languages (again, off hand I can't recall the name).

Noooooo! Come baaaack! I didn't mean it!



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Yes.
I have to kill you now.
Thomas, what's this bloke's address?

As long as you're riding a dinosaur, I for one welcome our Lunar overlords.

Well if we get bigger, we'll essentially be fsm LE in the best scenario, which is full of lunatics in basements Do we really want that? the laid-back mood here is what i always loved. And the more like a bar tone to it all. Other than that, let's face it, when Zimmer is the one who generates the longest and denser discussions during the last 5 years or more, then it actually means (which is evident through our ears too) that new film music isn't even nearly as interesting to talk about it anymore. Even the glorious and hopeful for the future-Spaniard composers, have gone all Zimmer from LIDL-versions to us With very few exceptions, It's more of a collection of fast-food wow's that are essentially forgettable, film music these days.

Jesus! things are getting positively HECTIC here!
Can't we all please SLOW DOWN!