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😅 ooops. I’m a wreck. understandably. It’s magnificent. his first two sentences: Guten Tag, meine Damen und Herren! Ich spreche kein Deutsch... 👍🏻 UPDATE: best line yet, while reminiscing about E.T.: When I wrote it, I was 12. 😅

Cameraman confirmed to me that the concert isn't only broadcasted later on some local channel, but there's also going to be Blu-ray release of it.

Hi Guys, it was incredible ! i was in row 3 so some good pictures !

Just wow!!!

Here’s a nice one!

Just came across Anne-Sophie Mutter walking her dachshund in front of the Musikverein. Really hyped now!

I'm ok with this view. Yeeeeeees!

This is from someone at my facebook:

Imperial March it is: I'm getting ready.

Before the concert I told ca. 10 people around me about the standing welcome, so when only Williams entered, there was a nice chunk of the front right floor up within 2 seconds. I was very happy that everyone around thought it was a great idea and we were quite synchronized. After Star Wars main title standing up and clapping was joined by some (positive) whistles. After first encores with Mutter, there were whistles and also some yelling. When Williams started the Raiders encore, Musikverein turned into Tanglewood, and people cheered and clapped for a good 3 measures. After Raiders, standing up and clapping and whistling and yelling were joined by mass thumping, and Williams seemed to have been really surprised. Part of it comes from the fact that over time the orchestra generally played better: Hook = good CE3K = magnificent Sabrina = ok Witches = very good Donnybrook = ok E.T = mixed / ok JP = mixed => the brass became ballsy and louder and louder and more precise, so later very good War Horse = magnificent Shark cage = very good Rebellion is Reborn = very good Luke and Leia = good SW main title = imho one of the best EVER Tintin = very good Remembrances = good Raiders = magnificent Imperial March = maybe the best ever "The brass awakens" motion was incredible. The trumpets and horns roared, and did so with precision. Some people, myself included were shocked how great and powerful some moments were Strings were very good to great, particularily impressive in CE3K, and later in the concert, during string tutttis I had a place right in the crossfire of the concertmaster and the first double bass. The first double bass was just madly good. Loud, broad, with tons of reverb, nearly dancing with his instrument, and with a deadly serious face. I made sure to make an eye contact with him during one of the ovations and send him my regards. There were some great woodwind solos as well. Some musicians were smiling broadly, one violist was supposedly crying from joy, and it seems that they really enjoyed this unique evening. It was a historical concert. After that a dozen of us met for some 3 hours of celebration in a restaurant, and it was very nice. Unforgettable P.S. I only feel a bit sorry for the concertmaster, who was totally stressed, stayed whole intermission to rehearse, curled up when Mutter wanted to "play" with him during the tintin duel, and had only a very brief/forced smile when Williams smiled at him. I think he did great!

Concert was incredible IMG_5801.MOV

'twas alright. As a replacement for Dirk Brosse, this William guy wasn't the worst. Karol

Surprise encore! Didn't expect the first one. My feet are killing me, but this was amazing. I look forward to sitting down at tomorrow's concert.

It's stunning! VID_20200118_161140.mp4

According to my colleagues and fellow musicians, the parking lot is all reserved for the film crew... so I would bet on it 😉😏

From the Vienna Philharmonic Facebook

Thanks for bringing my excitement up for this concert.

From someone’s Facebook.... I am going tomorrow and will be so overwhelmed I can tell already... oh my god FullSizeRender.mov

Yes, it was filmed. One manually operated camera and several remote controlled ones, as far as I could tell.

Imperial March is the last piece in the encore. See you there, everyone!

OTOH it's great ammunition Mike can use to convince him to assemble comprehensive, complete versions of all 3 scores, to present his musical vision as intended (rather than the hacked up mess in the films). Same with the prequels, though at least pretty much everything recorded got used. I doubt he's thrilled that so many hours of music went begging. A few cues here and there might not bother him but the hatchet job on the rest...?

I know you were asking Richard, but as someone who considers this track not just a Williams highlight, but one of his favorite tracks ever, I'll say why I love it. The track is like you're a tiny Innerspace version of yourself riding on a river. It starts with a steady, yet small stream, with this sense of chugging and churning anticipation. It's light for a little while, but Williams gradually introduces the deep, lower end, building that anticipation even further. The chords start getting more dissonant, and that almost neutral sense of anticipation from before gets colored, and ominous; like that little stream you've been riding on is expanding, and you feel yourself starting to go down a slope, unsure if you'll quite make the drop. You do, and the track keeps building, and building. Come on, Williams, can you push it any more than you have? The answer is yes. After a brief respite, the music suddenly inclines even more, sharply, getting intense, more intense, more intense, then! 3:08 hits, and you see the whole vista in front of you has expanded into this beautiful, wide view of paradise. Bliss. The water is white levels of intensity, before calming down to a tranquil trickle, and your ride stops there. AI is a very spiritual score for me, and The Mecha World is one of several tracks that hit really close to home.

Everyone's dying to get in there...

It's hard to picture Disney releasing every single bit of score for all three sequel films. Even if they get Mike, I still have to question if Disney will see value in releasing an expensive, lavish set when they could release, for example, two discs per film and probably sell more units. I mean, you really have to get in the weeds like we - the few, the proud - do here, to worry about all the different cuts of the movie, the multiple versions of cues for scenes that were never used or even released, etc. A complete set for TROS would be mightily confusing to normal people. In fact... how do you even define what the TROS score should be? Is it the first version of every cue that JW wrote? Is it the final version of every cue he wrote? What if the alternates are completely different in some cases, and are meant to flow together in different ways due to shifting cuts? There's no way to go for "what Williams intended" because he intended different things at different points in the process. That seems to be moreso the case here (and with TFA) than most of his other scores. If you had the sessions for TROS right now, and had to decide how to create your edit... what the hell would you do??? Would you order the cues based on slate number? A rough order of the final cut of the film? An earlier cut of the film, which then makes your edit useless as a "soundtrack" in the first place? It's enough to make you CRAZYYYY!!

No VHS then?

A great historical event. Glad it was captured. I'd definitely buy a release if one comes out.

With at least 3 Canon UHD camera's

I’m happy for all of you folks who could make the trip! This looked to be a fantastic concert. I hope he will come back to Europe soon. In the meantime, in order not to think too much bout this missed opportunity. I just bought last minute tickets for this: https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/concert/20399-wiener-symphoniker-philippe-jordan At least I’ll be hearing an orchestra tonight 😂

And it’s snowing, what a fairytale! An hour to go. Quite a few people outside the artist’s entrance, haha

Journey to Austria

I can assure you, the cue list is genuine. I would never make cue numbers up, I take this really seriously! Sure thing! Like I say in my catalogue, the score is quite a mess! End Credit Rose's Turn End Credit Part 3 Rev End Credit Part 4 Opening 0m1 Tossing the Sabre 0m1 Insert Rey Looks Back 0m1 Rev Tossing the Sabre 0m2 Thought Connection 0m2A The Cave Scene 0m2A Insert Place to Place 0m3 Learning the Force 0m3 Insert Learning the Force 0m4 Rey + Luke 0m5 Fathiers 0m5 Fathiers (with fixes) 0m6 Fathiers Charge! 0m7 Crashing the Party 0m8 Saying Goodbye to Fathier 1m2 Finn Wakes Up 1m2A [No Title] 1m2A fix Son of Starry Night 1m3 Welcome Poe and Hux 1m3 Insert David and Goliath 1m4 He's Insane 1m5 Resistance Force 1m6 We Can Do This 1m6 Insert Theme In 1m7 Fighter Down 1m8 We Lose Girl Ace 1m9 Revisiting Snoke 2m10 We Need Your Help 2m12 We Need A New Base 2m13 Prep for Battle 2m14 Leia Saved! 2m14 fix Leia Saved! 2m16 Luke's Breakfast 2m17 Old Books 2m18 Admiral Holdo 2m18A Holdo's Secret Plan 2m19 Rose Catches Finn 3m20 Luke in the Falcon 3m20 Insert Watch The Language 3m20 Insert 2 [No Title] 3m21 Rose Appears 3m22 Fun with Rose and Finn 3m22 Rev [No Title] 3m24 [No Title] 3m25 Sun Shot 3m28 Rey Awakens 3m29 Lady Officer and Poe Conspire 4m30 The Connection 4m31A Worst People in the Universe 4m31B Party Music 4m31B (add) More Party Music 4m31C R.T. Shore 4m32 Rose's Fathiers 4m32 Insert Finding the Code Breaker 4m32 Insert 2 [No Title] 4m33 Rey's Training 4m33 Rey's Practise 4m33 Rev Rey's Training 4m36 Luke and Rey 4m37 Place in the World 4m37 Insert Six Hours Left 4m38 Codebreaker…Thief 5m43 Saving Leia 5m44 Encounter Before the Dream 5m45 Mirror Scene 5m46 You're Not Alone 5m46 Insert You're Not Alone 5m46 Insert 2 Touch 5m47 Young Ren Is Awakened 5m48 Yoda Appears 5m48 Insert [No Title] 6m50 Not Enough 6m51 Traitor! 6m52 Eavesdropping 6m52A Mutiny 6m55 I'll Help You 6m56 Working Switches 6m56 Insert Dread 6m57 Ladies Parting 7m60 Come Closer, Child 7m61 Poe Wakes Up 7m63 Big Fights 7m63 Big Fights 7m64 Finn, Rose and Hux 7m65 Fighting Together 7m66 Join Me 7m67 Holdo's Resolve 7m67A Important Scene 7m67A Insert [No Title] 7m68 Rose and Finn Escape 7m68 After the Big Explosion 7m68A Finn Fights Phasma 7m69 Rose and Finn Escape 7m69 Insert Chrome Dome 8m70 Hux and Ren 8m71 What 'cha Got? 8m73 Troops and Plains 8m74 Mechanical Trouble 8m75 Here They Come, Again 8m76 To The Target 8m76 To The Target (w/ Insert) 8m77 Finn's Attempted Sacrifice 8m78 The Kiss 9m80 Luke & Leia Together 9m81 Rescuing Luke 9m82 Follow Him 9m85 Finale Part I 9m85 Alt Insert [No Title] 9m85 Insert [No Title] 9m85 Insert [No Title] 9m85 Insert 2 Finale Part I 9m85A Rey Looks 9m85A Luke Looks 9m85B Between Luke and the March 9m85C Island to March 9m86 Old Friends 9m87 Finale, Pt. III 9m90 End Credit Part 2

👏 YUB! 👏 NUB! 👏 YUB! 👏 NUB! 👏 YUB! 👏 NUB!

Basically how I felt for all the Mutter pieces! But it was great to have her for ‘Remembrances’.

The concert was absolutely amazing, but yes, aside from the ‘Remembrances’ encore, I felt there wasn’t really much to the Mutter arrangements, aside from providing her a chance to be a diva. Also, even though the VPO sounded great generally, you could tell it was all fresh music for them and there were some painful mistakes, some of which may have been JW’s fault. It made me feel a bit nervous honestly! I hope they’ll be more secure tomorrow since this is all recorded. But that aside, it was a legendary afternoon and something I will never forget!

I saw him do Prokofiev Classical Symphony & Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in New York a few months ago; I recall thinking he was a great conductor. Enjoy!

Blu-ray UHD I hope

He fixed the Tweet. 😄

Glad to see that everything went well apparently And 5 encores !! That's nearly a full third act of music !

Wow! Simply, wow! : ) : ) : )

Hell's Kitchen as an encore? Interesting!

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Wahoo!!

Both evoke John Adams, though JW's piece is much more modeled on Adams' famous music. Horner leans on several minimalist composers with his interlocking pianos (Adams' Halleluia Junction' may be a template). For me, Horner sounds more 'mathematic', which was obviously the gestating idea when it was applied to the two pictures linked below.

Whoa this is weird. So 20th Century Fox was formed by a merger of Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935. The very last film released under the Twentieth Century Pictures banner before the merger completed was an adaptation of The Call of the Wild. Now, 85 years later the first film released under the Disney revived 20th Century Studios label is... an adaptation of The Call of the Wild.

Some men will never get respect because of their parts.

Yeah, I believe the cues were leaked from someone working on the LTP program. It's been floating around for a while now. Since it was for the LTP, it's basically just an isolated score of the film, no alternates or anything like that. Just the music heard exactly as it is in the film. Although if that one in particular is Trent's edit, I'm sure he added the music from the album and FYC. The version I have is just the raw isolated score cues. Now we just need a TROS isolated score and we'll have isolated scores for all three of the sequels!

...which will trigger the final encore, "Ewok Celebration."

no, sadly and they have very strict security policies this time.. The general rehearsal is normally open to the public but they changed their minds.. these are from yesterday some more pics from after the rehearsals, a private autograph session for the musicians.. the one while signing the tuba is priceless.. 😆 I still have one pic left with the entire program with the first two encores, if someone wants a spoiler.. 😆