ciarlese 248 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 4 hours ago, aj_vader said: I agree, it's far too loud (dialogue, sound effects). The best mix was when I saw A New Hope by the LSO in 2018 (Royal Albert Hall) [Saturday Evening showing], however it was still too loud for my liking. The worst one was Empire Strikes Back in the Albert Hall (Dirk Brossè and London Philharmonia). I was sat in the stalls right behind the engineers/producers and someone went down and collared one of them, essentially asking them to turn the sound and dialogue down as the music in places was barely audible. I couldn't hear everything said as it was the interval, but it seemed to be a little heated. The engineer ultimately said something along the lines of, "it's standardised and we can't change it". The London Philharmonia are obviously a great orchestra, but they don't have the same 'clout' as the London Symphony Orchestra, so the Empire concert was easily the weakest of the original trilogy presentations there at The Royal Albert Hall. I saw E.T. at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and thats a much better venue for this (I think), the balance was excellent throughout. I watched ROTJ at the Bridgewater Hall and the music was covered by voice and sound effects for pretty much the whole concert. I send then an email to complain about it (after all I had paid nearly £100 for a "live music concert"...) and they replied they are not responsible for the mixing as it's something set in advance and they have no control on. Went to watch it at the RAH later on and it was much better, similar to all the previous live movie concerts I had attended there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_vader 533 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 1 hour ago, ciarlese said: I watched ROTJ at the Bridgewater Hall and the music was covered by voice and sound effects for pretty much the whole concert. I send then an email to complain about it (after all I had paid nearly £100 for a "live music concert"...) and they replied they are not responsible for the mixing as it's something set in advance and they have no control on. Went to watch it at the RAH later on and it was much better, similar to all the previous live movie concerts I had attended there. I know why the E.T. one was so much better, because the Halle Orchestra put the event on and Disney Concerts weren't producing it. Disney Concerts are the producers of every Star Wars Live To Picture unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,640 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 8 hours ago, aj_vader said: I know why the E.T. one was so much better, because the Halle Orchestra put the event on and Disney Concerts weren't producing it. Disney Concerts are the producers of every Star Wars Live To Picture unfortunately. One would think that they could not be this clueless about why a person would go to one of these. aj_vader 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 384 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 18 hours ago, aj_vader said: Yes, they all include subtitles. E.T did as well. I would assume they all do. Interesting. When I saw the Close Encounters concert in Lincoln Center, it didn't have subtitles. I guess it's an outlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_vader 533 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 7 hours ago, Tom said: One would think that they could not be this clueless about why a person would go to one of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tom Guernsey 2,280 Posted June 6, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2023 6 hours ago, aj_vader said: "Anakin always pulled that face when hitting the lowest notes when portraying Siegfried in Götterdämmerung". karelm, Chen G. and aj_vader 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,379 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 15 hours ago, Corellian2019 said: Interesting. When I saw the Close Encounters concert in Lincoln Center, it didn't have subtitles. I guess it's an outlier I don't recall subtitles when I saw Empire. That was, what, 2019 I think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 I heard all the music when I saw the trilogy live.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyncMan 313 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 New USA booking for TLJ: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Norman Huynh, conductor Saturday, April 13, 2024; and Sunday, April 14, 2024 Stifel Theatre. St. Louis, MO https://shop.slso.org/7916 I'm glad that some USA orchestras are taking a chance at doing a Star Wars LTP concert from unpopular trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quppa 117 Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Keitaro Harada is conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra performing A New Hope in September: https://www.promax.co.jp/archives/event/202311272 The Osaka performance is on 2023-09-24 at 16:00. There will be 2 performances in Tokyo on 2023-09-30 at 14:00 and 18:30. In fact, there are quite a lot of Star Wars LTP concerts scheduled for the next year: https://www.moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=concertlist Currently: A New Hope: 31 The Empire Strikes Back: 15 Return of the Jedi: 36 The Force Awakens: 25 The Last Jedi: 7 Brando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyncMan 313 Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Quppa said: Keitaro Harada is conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra performing A New Hope in September: https://www.promax.co.jp/archives/event/202311272 The Osaka performance is on 2023-09-24 at 16:00. There will be 2 performances in Tokyo on 2023-09-30 at 14:00 and 18:30. Unfortunately, this news suggests that the LTP concert of SW:TROS doesn't exist. You'll remember that this said orchestra was the one that did the world premiere of the SW:TLJ LTP-concert in October 2019. https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1175955877150568449/pu/vid/608x1080/a-sP4V7BAGVbPVfd.mp4?tag=10 If the LTP concert of TROS was created, then that orchestra would have booked it for this September instead of ANH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quppa 117 Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 On 31/01/2023 at 11:31 PM, Quppa said: The MSO is following this up with 4 performances of the Empire Strikes Back in October this year. These 4 performances sold out, so they've added 3 more for 7 in total - crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,308 Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post igger6 894 Posted July 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2023 Couldn't find a thread for this specific topic, so here goes: Just got back from seeing TFA LTP at the Chicago Symphony last night. Man, what a score to hear live! My brother and I assumed our usual CSO practice of loitering on the main floor, enjoying the atmosphere and legroom, until the real buyers of our seats arrived—but this time, they never came! So we enjoyed the whole movie from the fourth row! This was one of my last live Holy Grails among the available scores (Superman is still out there), and it was a delight. The opening chord blew the socks off the version on the sequel trilogy OSTs, Rey's Theme finally managed to overpower the sound of her speeder, and I was actually able to perceive Scherzo for X-Wings during the bombing run. The brass was fantastic as always, but Williams' action music for strings shone particularly brightly live (maybe because violins and cellos are about all you see from the main floor—but boy, do you see them! We managed to recognize and compliment a cellist on his way out of an alley after the show.) "Follow Me" and "The Falcon" were electric, and the live performance had a way of dragging this orchestrational novice into appreciating the athletic string figures that underpin the melody. Best of all, the unbelievable "Jedi Steps and Finale" (which nearly the entire house stayed to enjoy) ended with the revised—and apparently now, definitive—ending that's on John Morris Russell's "Voyage" recording, that bombastic and celebratory interpolation of Luke's theme into the usual fanfare that ends the finale in "A New Hope." It's my favorite Williams revision of all time! If you ever have the opportunity to see TFA live, don't miss it. This cemented that score as my favorite Williams work of the past 20 years. Now do Phantom Menace with live choir, cowards! mrbellamy, Brando, MikeH and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,272 Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Going tonight! This is John Williams week, baby. igger6 and MikeH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igger6 894 Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Also geriatric Harrison Ford week! mrbellamy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Quote On September 1 and 2, the LA Phil presents the climactic sixth episode of the Star Wars saga, Return of the Jedi, with David Newman and the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing John Williams’ legendary score live to picture. Use code UNDERTHESTARS for 20% off on Friday, September 1 https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/events/performances/2348/2023-09-01/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-in-concert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Pineapple Prod. 183 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Color me excited for next saturday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Toillion 213 Posted October 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2023 My son has shown a lot of interest in music and when I ask him what he wants to listen to he often picks Star Wars. For his 4th birthday I was able to take him to see the film in concert. Jay, greenturnedblue, Manakin Skywalker and 8 others 4 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,480 Posted October 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2023 Great impersonation of Han in carbonite! Toillion, Brando and Manakin Skywalker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,379 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 That's so awesome. I had front row seats to see Johnny Cash when I turned 4. I'm pretty sure he'll remember this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyncMan 313 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 This may seem like nothing special but the New York Philharmonic has just announced their 2024/25 Season schedule and one of the LTP concerts they booked is ESB for June 2025--they have done all the SW films during the months of September and October of 2017, except for TLJ. Members of this forum will recall that it was the New York Philharmonic that handled the world premiere of the franchaise's LTP concerts. Last month the Toronto Symphony Orchestra announced their 2024/25 Season schedule and they have booked ESB for May 2025 after doing all of the SW films,--especially the TLJ, which they did last May. Why are both orchestras choosing, out of all the SW films, ESB in their new season and not ANH? Does this concert contain a new cut of the film? Will there be any new musical arrangements for this concert that are different from the ones that were used over the years? Perhaps, @BSOinsider look into this for us and see if, at the least, these booking are just a coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,640 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 ESB is widely regarded as the best SW (if not best as such) soundtrack of all time. I would assume that is the reason (or just a coincidence). Either that or they have changed Vader's dialogue to "I am not your father, but I am the father of a new character to be introduced in Episode X." Brando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSOinsider 42 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 4 hours ago, SyncMan said: Perhaps, @BSOinsider look into this for us and see if, at the least, these booking are just a coincidence. I have zero involvement with that kind of artistic planning unfortunately, so I can't give any special insights. Personally I agree with what Tom said: 3 hours ago, Tom said: ESB is widely regarded as the best SW (if not best as such) soundtrack of all time. I would assume that is the reason (or just a coincidence). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,379 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 It's being performed to the original 1980 cut of ESB! It won't even have the insert of the medical frigate at the end!!! Brando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smeltington 1,436 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Two performances of The Force Awakens this September at Symphony Hall in Boston! https://www.bso.org/events/star-wars-the-force-awakens?performance=2024-09-05-19:30 Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,308 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Holy crap!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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