Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Lands Exclusive Three Year Steven Spielberg/John Williams Movie Deal

[Jay 37,363]

http://www.satprnews.com/2017/02/01/kalamazoo-symphony-orchestra-lands-exclusive-three-year-steven-spielbergjohn-williams-movie-deal/

 

Strange headline I know, its basically just an announcement that Live to Projection Concerts for:

 

Jaws in 2018/2019 season

ET in 2019/2020 season

and Jurassic Park in 2020/2021 season

 

Are coming to Kalamazoo, MI, performed by the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.

 

Congrats, Michigan JWFanners!

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Haha!  It's not even an exclusive deal for the whole state, just "southwest Michigan." 

 

Such a shame for the hundreds of other orchestras in southwest Michigan that could put on concerts of this scope....

 

I like to think this is part of an ongoing feud with the Grand Rapids Symphony.  The subtext of the article is, "Up yours Grand Rapids!"

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Possibly one of the best town names I have ever heard.

[Thor 7,504]

28 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

Possibly one of the best town names I have ever heard.

 

I was just about to say the same thing. I could hardly believe it's a real place.

[Jay 37,363]

Kalamazoo has been named checked in lots of popular songs; I think singers like saying it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mstrox 6,651]

Congratulations, Kazoo Symphony Orchestra.  I can't wait to hear how John Williams' classic scores sound with your unconventional instrumentation.

[Thor 7,504]

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

 

I was just about to say the same thing. I could hardly believe it's a real place.

 

Kalamazoo! 'Tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face
Kalamazoo! Where the virgins lie
And the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Banjo-Kalamazooie was one of the best games on the N64.

[Jay 37,363]

Never played that one,  I must check it out

[Will 2,215]

When I saw this thread title, I thought, "What the hell?" 

 

6 hours ago, BloodBoal said:

Possibly one of the best town names I have ever heard.

 

Not news to us Americans, of course (or at least not to me), but it is indeed pretty great. 

 

5 hours ago, Thor said:

 

 

That's pretty great!

[John Takis 206]

Not too far a drive from Lansing -- and I'll take any excuse to go to Bilbo's Pizza!

[Gnome in Plaid 219]

11 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

Haha!  It's not even an exclusive deal for the whole state, just "southwest Michigan." 

 

Such a shame for the hundreds of other orchestras in southwest Michigan that could put on concerts of this scope....

 

I like to think this is part of an ongoing feud with the Grand Rapids Symphony.  The subtext of the article is, "Up yours Grand Rapids!"

As someone with family in Grand Rapids, I'll just say "fine... but you don't get any beer."

[MikeH 768]

Oh good lord I read the headline too fast and thought it meant that the next three JW/SS scores would be recorded by them!

 

They are very versatile! - John Williams

[Incanus 5,714]

Well that was an eyebrow raising click-bait that got me. Well done Kalamazoo. Well done.

 

[FC4L 87]

20 hours ago, BloodBoal said:

Possibly one of the best town names I have ever heard.

 

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Balzac,+AB/@51.2122817,-114.0094622,476m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x5371608d69ad47c3:0x8ad200384b8bdab9!8m2!3d51.212985!4d-114.007862

 

 

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Dildo,+NL/@47.5703121,-53.5576886,1536m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4b73373f77e942bd:0x435c8ad09adc12c!8m2!3d47.5706202!4d-53.5555661

 

Kalamazoo's got nothing on Balzac and Dildo

[Faleel 5,348]

Wh y do  the links have slate numbers?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

5 hours ago, FC4L said:

 

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Balzac,+AB/@51.2122817,-114.0094622,476m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x5371608d69ad47c3:0x8ad200384b8bdab9!8m2!3d51.212985!4d-114.007862

 

 

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Dildo,+NL/@47.5703121,-53.5576886,1536m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4b73373f77e942bd:0x435c8ad09adc12c!8m2!3d47.5706202!4d-53.5555661

 

Kalamazoo's got nothing on Balzac and Dildo

 

Don't forget Intercourse, Pennsylvania! 

[mstrox 6,651]

I stop in Intercourse every year after my charity bike ride in Delaware.  Pick up some dang good Shoo-fly pie and some whoopee pies.

 

In the same area:  Blue Ball, PA and Bird-in-Hand, PA.

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

4 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

 

Don't forget Intercourse, Pennsylvania! 

 

Amateurs.

 

[Incanus 5,714]

6 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Amateurs.

 

And apparently there were two villages with that name in Austria until one of them changed it to Fugging.

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

7 hours ago, Incanus said:

And apparently there were two villages with that name in Austria until one of them changed it to Fugging.

 

Even I didn't know that.

 

Wikipedia has this to say about Fugging though:

 

Its name was later changed from Fucking to Fugging for an unknown reason by 1836.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

For an unknown reason?

 

The town was called fucking!!!

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Incanus 5,714]

Fuckingians? Fuckingers?