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

[Dan Feeney]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> --- 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

I posted something along these lines in a.f.h.p. once. Of course, the 
composer was John Williams, but it was twee, you are right. Matched 
Columbus' direction in that sense. Maurice Jarre or Tangerine Dream 
would suit the later films better, I think. James Horner might also 
be an option, his soundtrack to "Glory" was really inventive.

OT - Shore's 5/4 stuff for the "unnatural" urak hai was just so apt, 
but there were also some really good guest appearances (Frazer, 
Torrini). But, in honesty, it was probably Shore's best music so far, 
all the stuff he's done for the trilogy... 

dan ~thinking of more favourite scenes for a later post~