PoA music...not that we have a choice.

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "tubadave" <tubadave at n...> wrote:
>      
> > Am I the only one who simply can't hear a John Williams's score 
> > alongside the pictures of PoA that were all excitedly viewing.
> Don't 
> > get me wrong, I enjoy Williams's music-- I do, but to quote our 
> > beloved potions master (and to direct that quote toward John 
> > Williams) "you have no subtlety...." Argh!
> > 
> > I just don't hear his music when I think about the dark and 
> > foreboding sort of things that fill PoA.
> 
> 
> I can see where one might think this way, but in response I would 
say
> to you these two words: Schindler's List.
> 
> 
> tubadave

I agree about Schindler's list and all the other good examples of 
Williams work - unfortunately the HP music is just not up to his 
best - I think it's rather twee.  When I compare it to the other two 
epics that have been out at roughly the same time (LOTR of course) - 
Richard Williams' HP score cannot compare to Howard Shore's LOTR 
scores.  It's as if they have refused to take the HP stories 
seriously and have firmly fixed them as kids' stuff only.

June