MovieMusicMaestro

Yes. She was his high school crush.

Neither commissioned nor publicized in advance. Simply out of the blue. My definition of "surprise".

A piece that was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and that is publicized four weeks before the premiere performance is anything but a surprise. It would have been a surprise had John walked into the first rehearsal, put some sheets onto the music stands, and said: "Oh look, what I just found on my desk."

In which picture?

Hedwig's Theme has always been in a minor key.

I attended the Saturday evening concert, too.

https://www.wienersymphoniker.at/index.php/konzert/hommage-johann-strauss-25-10-2025

Yes.

No. Gene Shalit, now 99.

Please correct me if I am wrong. It is my understanding that Shopify is designed to *sell* things. How would they operate a music *hire* services? Who controls the incoming return shipments of printed music?

I assume that these works/materials were attributed to the wrong online shop. Why would they make some of the least known works available for sale? I think that these work will appear in the soon-to-be-opened John Williams Concert Library (run by Hal Leonard?).

Yes, we will hear the Scharoun Ensemble.

Yes, he did. Late-August 1998, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ravinia Music Festival. I was there.