Bland John WIlliams

[Sea Change]

Sandy wrote:

[snip]. His compositions for HP are everything you 
> said, and I think they are beautiful. I did not buy the other two soundtracks 
> because they were repetitive of the first with only a couple of new scores for 
> the other two. [snip] 

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Sea Change responds:

Yes, John Williams writes very tonally, and in much consonance with a passe style of 
orchestrated music for Western Civilization that held sway for about 150 years.  His music 
*is* beautiful.  There's nothing intrinsically 'wrong' with it.  I don't think his particular 
signature style was suitable for the 2nd and 3rd movies, and found it boring and bland.

I know you like his music.  Owning beautiful music is a really awesome thing, and this is 
very subjective and there's nothing wrong withh that....and I don't want you to think I am 
cherry-picking just because I don't think his music is suitable for Harry Potter, but I just 
can't help myself that right after you say it is beautiful we find out that:  

     It isn't interesting enough, and he didn't vary it enough, to make someone who likes his     
music buy another CD.


Sea Change, who thinks that the producers allowed him to 'phone it in', because he has a 
reputation