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Next Sunday morning, September 22, CBS Sunday Morning news has a news segment about John Williams. Not sure if it will include new interview, they just had a preview saying “next week...To the stars…with composer John Williams” as he conducted Star Wars.

Even better, The Lost World:

Anne-Sophie Mutter - Sayuri’s Theme from Memoirs of a Geisha - Live Munich Open-Air

According to the booklet of the HP collection released last year, the orchestra was on Abbey Road on 9/11 apparently recording the Children's Suite and the movie's suites (Hedwig's Theme and Harry Woundrous World), when, during the afternoon break they watched on TV what was happening on NY. Then, Williams gave the people the choice of calling it a day or continue to work - and they chose the second option. So, during that afternoon, while there was world-chaning events happening across the ocean, the Abbey Road was crowded with americans recording Philosopher's Stone, Harry Gregson-Williams' Spy Game and upstairs people were mixing Lord of the Rings. However, I am curious to know how Williams felt at that moment, considering that he was born on the state of New York. Was he shaken, angry, preocupied? If so, he was very professional and continue to do his job wonderfully. Maybe his way of dealing with a tragedy like that is working?

It will reveal all kinds of new information and stories we didn't already know, like "we need a better composer -- I know, but they're all dead" and that nobody expected the first STAR WARS film to be a success. So better brace yourselves!

A memento from the concert.

How old are you? Are you from America? All due respect but perhaps if you're a younger person who was geographically removed from it it's hard to understand. I'm pretty far from a flag waving God bless the USA type who will get indignant at the suggestion that it's not a "big deal" but I was blocks away from what was happening in Manhattan, I knew people who died, and you'll have to forgive me if it continues to loom in my life as a "big deal." Fuck's sake.

I have never been worried about JW, he is now better than ever. Said this many times and cant wait for the last SW. Wonderful concert btw

I have to say, I really love The Patriot. It's such a wonderful score, and also: it's very diverse. It has a beautiful love theme for the Heath Ledger character (Ann and Gabriel), some very warm and emotional Americana (Susan Speaks, The Family Farm), tragedy (The Burning of the Plantation, The Parish Church Aflame), but also some spectacular action music (Tavington's Trap), some heroic tunes (I love the trumpets on Facing the British Lines) and a haunting motif on trumpet for Mel Gibson's character's dark past (Remembering the Wilderness). The main theme is also very exciting, and I'm not even american! In many ways, The Patriot is some sort of culmination of Williams' 1990s. It's like the more emotional tunes of Amistad and Far and Away were combined with the action music of The Lost World and The Phantom Menace. It has even some Home Alone-ish music on To Charleston! Also, the music works really well within the movie, which is pretty terrible, but Williams' music helps elevate the horrible material. It's a hugely underrated score. The OST is pretty decent, but it left out a lot of great music - like at the beginning of the movie, when Gabriel goes to war and writes a letter to his family detailing the suffering he has endured. I would love a Matessino treatment for this one, with the complete and chronological score.

I liked the humor in TLJ.

Full concert is available (only connections from Germany allowed or with VPN) at https://www.3sat.de/kultur/festspielsommer/anne-sophie-mutter-spielt-filmmusik-100.html

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I had accidentally stumbled into a Star Trek thread. I'll be on my way then...

Enjoy!

The Music of the Hobbit Films was finished over four years ago. I have publisher's block.

Again a tremendous concert ! The simpsons as encore was also funny hahaha

It definitely feels like a sister piece to his new HS&TP arrangement. It's a gorgeous two-movement mini-suite just for Carrie. And if this is Williams' writing form in 2019, I don't think we have anything to worry about for TROS. He's still at the top of his game drawing inspiration from this series, even after four decades writing for it.

Whoaaaaa. This is Williams' apology for copying the original concert suite in The Last Jedi!

We will wipe your filth from the galaxy!... hello?

How can anyone hate the guy who directed Ozymandias?

Ah, German translations are always funny when sneaking up unexpected. "Die, Geisha!"

He looks like a dark wizard casting curses into the orchestra

North by Northwest

I attended both concert (A and B) from the tour. Very nice! Many other Williams music videos from the tour here: https://www.youtube.com/user/filmsymphony/videos

Apart from the couple that were just far enough along that they are slipping through still.

Why not interview him for Celluloidtunes! You could discuss complete scores...

Michael Giacchino will also be conducting a Christmas variety show at the Royal Albert Hall on 20th December 2019. Colour me intrigued! https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2019/royal-albert-hall-christmas-variety-show/

Thank you mate! Glad my VPN has German servers I've downloaded in case it's only up temporarily, would recommend others do the same if they wish to keep this performance. Gotta say, there's some excellent camerawork throughout the concert, great production values.

it is seriously impressive how effortlessly they seem to capture the spirit and energy of the original recording

Yeah, it’s hard to fathom where that comment comes from. First, it’s not like the federal government forces us all take a three minute silence on 9/11 or anything. After 18 years, people mark the tragedy in their own ways, if they mark it at all. In my neck of the California woods, this past 9/11 passed with no visible evidence of people making any kind of “big deal” out of it. Second, if the “big deal” comment instead means why do people still think it was such a significant event, well, consider that this terrorist act was completely unprecedented. Four planes and almost 3,000 innocent deaths across multiple places in less than 2 hours and no one knew at the time whether it could have been forty planes and God knows how many deaths by the end of it all. It was terrifying. It also happened to fundamentally change our approach to transportation security, national security and foreign policy. Not to mention that it ramped up a spate of terroristic activity around the world that continues to this day and shaped an American military response that’s cost us a trillion dollars so far and the loss of many thousands of service members’ lives. We will continue to live in the shadow of that unspeakable event for a long time to come. So, yeah, it’s a big fucking deal.

Surely this will be uploaded officially on-demand? And it was broadcast on live television? Hmm, hopefully... I missed the whole thing.

I was hoping this concert version would be something Williams would've recorded for the Williams/Spielberg set.

I think I have, at the very least, the audio from the concert. I had to set it up before running out of the house and have only spot checked the audio file. Last minute, I turned on QuickTime screen recording too. Will know more in a few hours. (I saw a bit of the stream live through, and it was incredible.) Devil’s Dance was one of the reasons I wanted to capture this. It was amazing at Tanglewood, and I too was bummed Ms. Mutter did not get a chance to learn it in time for the April recording sessions in LA. JW had apparently just finished writing it, and there was just too much other stuff to do. They spoke about this on the NPR interview recently. Fingers crossed!

Really great performance! The movie itself don’t do much for me but the music and the orchestra were top notch. This time I chose seats close to the orchestra

Wow, really? Because he corrected you from the humourous "Mess" to "Mass"?

And what is more, apparently the manuscript of the second symphony, which, among other qualities, has a very memorable theme worth of Bizet or Tchaikovsky, has only been found in June this year. I just read a post of the discoverer on another forum. Isn't it great to be able to witness such re-discoveries being made as we speak?

Cool. Summon the Heroes came up next, which was a very good performance--not too sure about the comatose audience members, particularly in the last two minutes.

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Thanks for the heads-up! I decided to go for it this time around. I never should have compared the samples to the Blue Box...the sound quality...it's so much better...curse Mike Matessino for doing such a great job!

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To me, everything that doesn’t follow the original “Adventures of Luke Skywalker” paradigm is a spinoff.

I didn't find Curry overly scary (given his reputation on the effectivo-meter) which, i think, had to do with the less-than-classy staging (it all looks kind of drab). The new version has more gorgeous photography and some very frightening scenes, but you have to turn down the volume to experience them. I swear overloud and too-elaborate sfx ruin horror movies nowadays because every scare sounds like Disney's Haunted Mansion. A modicum of quiet goes a long way and IT never shut up (i had to turn the volume down several times when i saw it on Netflix).

I'll give JJ Abrams the benefit of the doubt, but - as it is - I still can't see why the sequel trilogy should have ever been made.

Isla Luka

Lando is wearing the same shit he wore almost forty years ago, like they were afraid the audience wouldn't recognize it was him.