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Re: Best movie ever?
Posted By: Mel, on host 63.225.182.69
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 1999, at 22:37:00
In Reply To: Re: Best movie ever? posted by Chris on Wednesday, December 1, 1999, at 20:52:49:

> > John Williams is a movie soundtrack God. His soundtracks arn't just good in the movies, they have become icons in and of themselves.
> >
> > Spider-StarWars,InidanaJones,E.T.,JurassicPark,etc.-Boy
>
> Yes, but then evil school music "teachers" decide they should make/get arrangements of them for string camp/school orchestras. They never learn that we don't care how cool or weel-known the peice is, it isn't made for twenty violins, five cellos, two basses and a viola. I hate to admit it, but most of them need... brass. Not that I don't like brass-- I actually do-- but most things worth playing are made for strings. (-;
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> [bad memories from Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Jurassic Park arranged for orchestra]
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> Chr"I went to String Camp... I'm gonna be cool now for sure!"is

*Twenty* violins and *one* viola? Hey, your orchestra is even more lopsided than mine.
~*awe and mysticism*~

-Mel

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