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#NowPlaying the #OriginalScore to the #Movie "Minions & Monsters" composed by #JohnPowell from #USA
#FilmMusic #Animation #Adventure #AlbumsOf2026 #ScoresOf2026
Personal Rating: 6 / 10
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡⚪⚪⚪⚪Recommended Tracks: "We have Minions", "Limos, Soundstages and Vikings", "The Beginnings of the Mooovies", "Undos and Premières", "The Island of Howard & Philips", "A Wizard and the Bunny", "Keep an Eye Out for the Counterattack", "Cowboys, Cops and Cahuenga", "A Train Through Hollywood", "James in Action", "Shooting with Sound", "Everyone goes on a Date", "Sneaking onto the Lot", "This probably won't make much Sense without the picture", "Bananaria: What to eat"
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ICYMI: Shrek 5 Soundtrack to Feature a John Powell Score https://popgeeks.com/john-powell-dreamworks-shrek-5-soundtrack-score/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Shrek5 #JohnPowell #DreamWorks #Soundtrack #MovieScore
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 in Concert
Firstly, a heads up: There are no trains in this movie. None. But there are dragons.
A couple of years ago the entire family declared that How to Train Your Dragon in Concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was one of the best, if not the best, live orchestra performances they had ever attended. So its sequel had a lot to live up to.
Sydney is hosting the premiere performance of this concert. The hall is packed for the Saturday matinee performance, hardly surprising considering how beloved this story of a boy and his dragon is amongst kids. But it isn’t just a children’s animation. There’s plenty of action, drama and humour to appeal to all ages.
Conductor Nicholas Buc strides to the stage and introduces the concert, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and a fabulous new addition, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs up in the side stands. The first score featured (synthesised) bagpipes, some fantastic percussion and celtic strings. Now composer John Powell has joined them with a new vocal dimension.
Behind the orchestra is a big screen on which the movie is projected.
The Universal fanfare plays, then we are back into the Viking island of Berk where people now ride, and race, dragons.
Powell’s score is mostly loud and energetic, as is the action on the screen, but it also has its tender moments. At one point the orchestra is playing live to Jonsi’s pre-recorded song, but it works really well and is actually one of the best moments in the movie.
Most of the musical themes are carried across from the first score, but Powell has also composed fresh elements for new characters that form an important part of this story.
It is an amazing performance by the orchestra and choir. This is an energetic and complex score, demanding a huge amount from across the orchestra. The composer apologises to the orchestra in the concert notes!
The sequel, and I feel the score as well, doesn’t have quite the same emotional impact as the first How to Train Your Dragon, but it’s still a huge amount of fun.
If you ever get the chance to attend a How to Train Your Dragon concert then grasp the opportunity with both hands and you too will be riding dragons.
You never cease to amaze me! #Concert #film #FilmMusic #HowToTrainYourDragon #JohnPowell #Movies #music #NicholasBuc #reviews #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneyPhilharmoniaChoirs #SydneySymphonyOrchestra -
How to Train Your Dragon 2 in Concert
Firstly, a heads up: There are no trains in this movie. None. But there are dragons.
A couple of years ago the entire family declared that How to Train Your Dragon in Concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was one of the best, if not the best, live orchestra performances they had ever attended. So its sequel had a lot to live up to.
Sydney is hosting the premiere performance of this concert. The hall is packed for the Saturday matinee performance, hardly surprising considering how beloved this story of a boy and his dragon is amongst kids. But it isn’t just a children’s animation. There’s plenty of action, drama and humour to appeal to all ages.
Conductor Nicholas Buc strides to the stage and introduces the concert, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and a fabulous new addition, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs up in the side stands. The first score featured (synthesised) bagpipes, some fantastic percussion and celtic strings. Now composer John Powell has joined them with a new vocal dimension.
Behind the orchestra is a big screen on which the movie is projected.
The Universal fanfare plays, then we are back into the Viking island of Berk where people now ride, and race, dragons.
Powell’s score is mostly loud and energetic, as is the action on the screen, but it also has its tender moments. At one point the orchestra is playing live to Jonsi’s pre-recorded song, but it works really well and is actually one of the best moments in the movie.
Most of the musical themes are carried across from the first score, but Powell has also composed fresh elements for new characters that form an important part of this story.
It is an amazing performance by the orchestra and choir. This is an energetic and complex score, demanding a huge amount from across the orchestra. The composer apologises to the orchestra in the concert notes!
The sequel, and I feel the score as well, doesn’t have quite the same emotional impact as the first How to Train Your Dragon, but it’s still a huge amount of fun.
If you ever get the chance to attend a How to Train Your Dragon concert then grasp the opportunity with both hands and you too will be riding dragons.
You never cease to amaze me! #Concert #film #FilmMusic #HowToTrainYourDragon #JohnPowell #Movies #music #NicholasBuc #reviews #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneyPhilharmoniaChoirs #SydneySymphonyOrchestra -
Shrek 5 Soundtrack to Feature a John Powell Score https://popgeeks.com/john-powell-dreamworks-shrek-5-soundtrack-score/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Shrek5 #JohnPowell #DreamWorks #Soundtrack #MovieScore
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ICYMI: Minions and Monsters Soundtrack Has John Powell Score https://popgeeks.com/minions-and-monsters-soundtrack-has-john-powell-score/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Minions #Monsters #JohnPowell #Soundtrack #Illumination
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Minions and Monsters Soundtrack Has John Powell Score https://popgeeks.com/minions-and-monsters-soundtrack-has-john-powell-score/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MinionsAndMonsters #JohnPowell #MovieSoundtrack #Illumination #AnimationMusic
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Composer John Powell on Fleeing the LA Fires with Only His Hard Drive— and Being John Williams’ Padawan
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Composer John Powell on Fleeing the LA Fires with Only His Hard Drive— and Being John Williams’ Padawan
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Used Bagpipes, Sheep Fur and the Faroe Islands to Bring the Remake to Life
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Used Bagpipes, Sheep Fur and the Faroe Islands to Bring the Remake to Life
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Filmy i seriale:
»Jak wytresować smoka«Na wyspie Berk, gdzie Wikingowie i smoki od pokoleń są zaciekłymi wrogami, wyróżnia się Czkawka. Pomysłowy, lecz niedoceniany syn wodza Stoicka Ważkiego łamie wielowiekową tradycję, zaprzyjaźniając się ze Szczerbatkiem – budzącym postrach smokiem z gatunku Nocna Furia. Ich niezwykła więź ujawnia prawdziwą naturę smoków, kwestionując podstawy społeczności Wikingów.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/film/jak-wytresowac-smoka/
#Fahrenheit_zin #BronwynJames #fantasy #HarryTrevaldwyn #film #RuthCodd #GerardButler #DeanDeBlois #HowtoTrainYourDragon #Jakwytresowaćsmoka #BillPope #JohnPowell #MarcPlatt #AdamSiegel #MasonThames #NicoParker #NickFrost #JulianDennison #GabrielHowel
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Film Review: Jumper
Link: https://film-book.com/review-jumper/?fsp_sid=33520
#20thCenturyFox #BarryPeterson #DavidS.Goyer #filmreview #FilmReviewJumper #HaydenChristensen #JamieBell #JimUhls #JohnPowell #jumper #jumperfilmreview #jumpermoviereview #jumperreview #MaxThieriot #MovieReview #NewRegencyProductions #RachelBilson #reviewjumper #SaarKlein #SamuelL.Jackson #StevenGould
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Welcome to Berk.
No, not the small town in western New South Wales where the summer temperature always seems to be above 40.
That’s Bourke.
Berk is “12 days north of Hopeless and a few degrees short of freezing to death. Most places only have mice or mosquitoes. We have… Dragons!”
We certainly do! We also have the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor, you guessed it, Maestro Nicholas Buc.
It’s How to Train Your Dragon and it’s in concert at the Sydney Opera House.
I have to admit that I’d never seen the movie before, despite it being in our movie library. But teenage Alex has. What’s more, he has songs from John Powell’s score in his mostly non-orchestral playlist, so How to Train Your Dragon in Concert is a great opportunity to bring the whole family along again.
English composer John Powell has written music for a number of other animated features, including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and the Australian made Happy Feet series, along with the live action Jason Bourne movies and my favourite, Solo: A Star Wars Story.
The Opera House’s concert hall is absolutely packed for the sold out Saturday matinee performance. How to Train Your Dragon is a huge family favourite and there are many parents and children in the audience. We sit six rows back from the stage, dead centre, with excellent views of the conductor and strings (Hey Nick, look down, you might see a familiar face!). Behind the orchestra, larger than usual with a much expanded percussion section, is the big screen which will show the movie as the orchestra plays.
A roar goes up as the Universal logo and fanfare is played and we enter the animated world of vikings and dragons and an action packed overture introduces the leitmotifs for the main characters, including a love theme for Astrid, protagonist Hiccup’s love interest, and the dragons themselves.
The music is loud, it’s brash, full of string ostinatos, wood winds, synthesised choir and bagpipes played at a furious pace as the action unfolds on the screen. But there are tender moments too. Forbidden Friendship, where Hiccup befriends Toothless, the fearsome Night Fury dragon, is a gorgeous, playful piece with marimba, harp and percussion that brought a tear to my eye with its beauty.
Then we have the soaring Test Drive, the signature music for the movie, as Hiccup and Toothless take to the skies together.
The score also invokes some Celtic fiddle with the associate concertmaster, Harry Bennetts, providing the spirited solos, his delight obvious in the performance.
After a tough past few weeks at work and school, this is the perfect movie and the perfect score for weekend enjoyment. Easy to watch and listen to, but with enough depth to keep you interested and emotionally involved.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra does stunning job of performing the score, the sound is rich and full, and Maestro Buc his usual sterling work keeping them to time and sharing the music with the audience. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the Sydney audience applaud as loudly as they did today, but it was richly deserved.
The people of Berk may be tasteless, but the people of Sydney weren’t and today they too had dragons.
https://allrite.blog/2024/08/24/how-to-train-your-dragon-in-concert/
#FilmMusic #JohnPowell #Movies #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneySymphonyOrchestra
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‘Migration’ Director, Composer On Facing Animation & Musical Challenges For Avian Pic – Contenders Film L.A.
#News #Animation #Awards #BenjaminRenner #ContendersLosAngeles #Illumination #JohnPowell #Migrationhttps://deadline.com/2023/11/migration-director-composer-interview-1235623578/
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‘Migration’ Composer John Powell On Creating An Evolving Theme For A Hero’s Journey
#Awards #BelowTheLine #Animation #Composer #Illumination #JohnPowell #Migrationhttps://deadline.com/2023/11/migration-composer-john-powell-animation-1235601223/
