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I'm sure some of y'all have seen this before, but here's John being interviewed by the late Andre Previn in 1988. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj4sRhY-feY

That was no accident. The person in charge of the Vienna Phil social media is very aware that we're not an official account. However, due to its popularity, number of followers and account name, JWFan's has quickly become the "de facto" John Williams account for most Instagram users (something to be proud of!).

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Important reference materials like that should not be hoarded and traded for favors anyway, but shared with the world as far and wide as possible. To delight in hoarding knowledge as "exclusive" and "fun" is contemptible.

For your interest, here’s the English version of my review of John Williams conducting Wiener Philharmoniker at Musikverein on Saturday 18 January. A once-in-a-lifetime experience – John Williams and the Wiener Philharmoniker at Musikverein

Excellent! Thank you! It’s wonderful the way he pushes him into some really insightful answers. Oh, and 6:45’s gonna make a great gif.

Remembrances, full performance.

Under Williams we can even have the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire back, thank you very much.

I wish John Williams was at the Philarmonie De Paris on that day 😂

Some breaking news about the recording from Anne-Sophie Mutters website: https://www.anne-sophie-mutter.de/en/news/john-williams-und-anne-sophie-mutter-in-wien/ The essentials: It‘s going to be on ServusTV (Austrian TV) in the spring, DG is going to release a CD later in 2020. A film recording will also be distributed by DG. A conversation between ASM and JW will also be shown in the TV broadcast.

Trevorrow's story does look better than what we got. I honestly wish Rian Johnson made Episode 9. I would have loved to see what he'd have done with it.

It looks like instructions for the camera operators about what they should film during each piece. The camera in the video is No. 5, so he has highlighted the stuff he should be capturing.

Mike says "Lucasfilm Licensing wanted as much Star Wars terminology and story references as possible in the titles. Nick Redman was told that and left it to me to come up with things, which Lucasfilm then tweaked." Nick Redman was the producer of the sets.

Ludwig told me last week about this topic which I missed, and at the time my reaction was to call it the "fate" tag. Tragic works too, less overtly Wagnerian. Perhaps "destiny," and here's another instance of it in the Destiny track... exposed on solo clarinet with an extra neighbour note - 5-(4)-6-2 - right after (yet another) gentle Sith/Neapolitan variation of the Force. I also suggested to Ludwig that the major mediant incarnation of this with Ben Solo's death matches earlier instances in Galaxy's Edge... ... and TPM (same key as GE), where I first became aware of it as an entity, and where it enters as if out of nowhere, as we prepare to meet Anakin for the first time. In yet another variation in the same cue the tag is transposed up: 1-b2-5

Great, @SteveMc! Now get us the one with Previn, Williams, and Rózsa Btw. what Williams says about the structure of a Boston Pops concert: That it's divided into: Overture Suite Concerto Intermission Overture further pieces ("business") second intermission further pieces Sounds like the structure of the Vienna concert!

They are fun together, Previn clearly loves John in his gruff way and it's amusing to see him frustrated by Williams' extreme humility about his gifts.

because they are the old Sony tracks and it's a rights thing Every day another example shows up not to trust streaming services .It's amazing people give up ownership of their music for convenience

OK so here's the same clip slightly extended with the next bit. I should probably explain this is Prince Igor having got to Baba Yaga's "lair" or "forest" starts thinking about his Warrior bride that has been kidnapped by Koschei. That's the big theme, then the next bit is him plucking up his resolve to face Baba Yaga in order to pass her tests for her to then agree to help him defeat Koschei. The section right after this is us hearing her call pulling him closer and closer to her and making him face her. Baba_Yaga_Love_theme_and_Resolve_clip.mp4

Gosh, this Anne-Sophie is such a fangirl. And just because she's a world class violonist, she gets to hang with John Williams, while the rest of us admire him from the shadows. That's so unfair!

Tracks on JW OST albums that are 100% recorded just for the album: Checkmate The entire album Diamond Head The entire album How To Steal A Million The entire album Not With My Wife, You Don't! The entire album Penelope The entire album other than the title song Fitzwilly The entire album Earthquake The entire album Jaws The entire album The Missouri Breaks The entire album Star Wars Princess Leia's Theme The Fury The entire album Superman - The Movie March of the Villains Love Theme from Superman, though this also plays in its entirety in the end credits of the film after the End Credits cue The Empire Strikes Back The Imperial March Yoda's Theme E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Abandoned And Pursued E.T. And Me E.T.'s Halloween Flying Over The Moon Monsignor The Meeting In Sicily At The Forum Return of the Jedi Luke And Leia Parade Of The Ewoks Lapti Nek (Jabba's Palace Band) The Forest Battle The River Growing Up The Pony Ride Love Theme from The River The Ancestral Home, though this ended up getting used in the final film From Farm to Factory Young Friends Farewell Home Alone Star Of Bethlehem (Orchestral Version) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - this special version of the song specifically recorded for the album (the 2015 La-La Land edition premiered the actual film cue version) Home Alone 2 Somewhere in My Memory Star of Bethlehem Christmas Star Schindler's List Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto - Winter ’41) Amistad Cinque’s Theme The Phantom Menace Anakin's Theme, though this also plays in the end credits of the film after the End Credits cue Angela's Ashes Angela’s Prayer Plenty Of Fish And Chips In Heaven The Lanes Of Limerick Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Prologue (see more information about the Children's Suite below) Fluffy's Harp (see more information about the Children's Suite below) Attack of the Clones Across The Stars Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Fawkes The Phoenix The Chamber of Secrets Dobby The House Elf Revenge of the Sith Battle of the Heroes Memoirs of a Geisha The Chairman's Waltz Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull The Raiders March (new recording of 1980 arrangement) Call Of The Crystal The Adventures of Mutt Lincoln The People's House With Malice Toward None Elegy With Malice Toward None (Piano Solo) The Book Thief Max and Liesel The Force Awakens Rey's Theme The March of the Resistance Scherzo For X-Wings The BFG Overture The Last Jedi The Rebellion is Reborn The Rise of Skywalker The Rise of Skywalker Anthem of Evil (possibly - no confirmation yet) Tracks on JW OST albums that combine film cues with album-only recordings : The Return of the Jedi Han Solo Returns (At The Court Of Jabba The Hutt) is in actuality a portion of the film cue 3M2 The Big Thaw [0:00-2:47] combined with a portion of the album-only concert arrangement Jabba The Hutt [2:47-end]. The actual full recording of Jabba The Hutt remains unreleased to this day Ewok Celebration and Finale is in actuality the album-only recording Ewok Celebration [0:00-1:56] & the film cue End Credits [1:56-end] Home Alone Home Alone Main Title ("Somewhere In My Memory") is in actuality the film cues 1M2 Home Alone (Main Theme) [0:00-1:04] & 2M2 Banished to the Attic [1:04-1:32] & the album-only recording Somewhere in My Memory (Album Intro) [1:32-2:31] & the film cue 11M4B End Title Part II [2:31-end]. The 2015 La-La Land expansion finally presented just Somewhere in My Memory (Album Intro) & 11M4B End Title Part II together without the 1M2 & 2M2 bits as Somewhere In My Memory, disc 1 track 1. Jurassic Park Theme From Jurassic Park is in actuality the album-only 3M2 Record Intro & the film cue 3M2 The Dinosaurs & the album-only 3M2 Wompi Ending Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Diagon Alley and The Gringotts Vault is really a portion of Children's Suite track Diagon Alley & the film cue 2M4 Diagon Alley Hogwarts Forever! and The Moving Stairs is really the film cue 4M5 The Moving Stairs & Children's Suite track Hogwarts Forever Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban A Window To The Past is in actuality a unique recorder solo & portions of the film cues 7M12 End Credits & 4M3+4 New Woods Walk and Birds Flight & 7M2 Insert A.I. Artificial Intelligence The Search For The Blue Fairy is in actuality a portion of 7M1+2 (Vocal Version) Finding The Blue Fairy [0:00-2:28] & a portion of Theme #2 CD version [2:28-end] Catch Me If You Can The Float is as combination of the album-only 7M4 Front Extension with the film cue 7M4 Frank and Carl with the album-only 7M4 End Extension Recollections (The Father's Theme) is possibly also a film cue with album extensions? Memoirs of a Geisha The Journey to the Hanamachi is in actuality a portion of 1M1 Alt The Opening [0:00-1:58] & an album-only recording called Theme [1:58-end] War Horse Learning The Call seems to combine a portion of 1M7 Learning the Call [0:00-0:43] with album-only material [0:43-1:56] with a portion of 1M8 Whistling Montage [1:56-2:28] with more album-only material [2:28-end] Lincoln The Southern Delegation and the Dream combines the film cues 3M18 The Southern Delegation Arrives [0:00-2:06] and 7M51 Lincoln Responds To Southern V.P. [2:06-3:05] with the album-only cue Prayer (Strings) [3:05-end] The BFG Dream Jars is in actuality a series of album-only flute pieces and some of 4M37 Flute Sweeteners [0:00-2:18] followed by a most of the film cue 2M18 Dream Jars [2:18-end] The Post Mother and Daughter seems to combine the film cue (as heard on the FYC album) with unique album-only material afterward The Presses Roll seems to combine the film cue (as heard on the FYC album, though the ending of Setting The Type is tracked over the end there) with unique album-only material afterward Notes on other OST tracks that look like concert arrangements, or got published for concert performance, etc... but are actually 100% film cues: Star Wars Main Title is in actuality 1M2 Main Title & 12M2 End Titles Superman - The Movie Theme From Superman (Main Title) is in actuality 1M1 Main Title & End Title 1941 The March From 1941 is an edit of 14M2 End Credits Swing, Swing, Swing is a film cue, 7M4 Swing, Swing, Swing Finale is 14M2 End Credits without edits The Empire Strikes Back Han Solo and the Princess is a film cue, 5M4/6M1 Solo And The Princess Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark is 12M2 End Credits Part 2 Marion's Theme is in actuality two film cues, 10M4 En Bateau & 4M2 To Cairo The Raiders March is an edit of 12M2 End Credits Part 2 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Short Round's Theme is a film cue, 3M3/4M1 The Elephant Ride SpaceCamp SpaceCamp is the end credits The Witches of Eastwick The Dance of the Witches & End Credits (The Dance of the Witches Reprise) are both identical presentations of End Credits Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Scherzo For Motorcycle And Orchestra is the film cue 7M2 Keeping Up With The Joneses is the film cue 9M2 Schindler's List Theme From Schindler's List is in actuality 20M3 Placing The Stones Remembrances is in actuality 20M4 Alt End Credits Remembrances (With Itzhak Perlman) is in actuality 20M4 End Credits Theme From Schindler's List (Reprise) is in actuality 20M4 Piano & 20M4 Extension Sleepers Hell's Kitchen is actually the end credits (8M5 New Hell's Kitchen) Rosewood Rosewood is in actuality 1M1 Rosewood & End Credit The Lost World The Lost World is The Lost World (End Credits) Finale & Jurassic Park Theme is a portion of 14m2 The Saving Dart & a new recording of a concert arrangement from the first movie (not recorded during that film's sessions) Saving Private Ryan Hymm To The Fallen & Hymm To The Fallen (Reprise) are identical presentations of 17M2 Hymm To The Fallen The Phantom Menace Duel of the Fates is actually 7M3 End Credits Angela's Ashes Theme From Angela's Ashes and track Angela's Ashes Reprise are identical presentation of the end credits The Patriot The Patriot is End Credits with the ending missing The Patriot Reprise is End Credits with the ending intact A.I. Artificial Intelligence Abandoned in the Woods is in actuality Opening End Credits Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Harry's Wondrous World is 9M3 End Credits Part 1 Hedwig's Theme is 9M3 End Credits Part 2 Minority Report Minority Report is in actuality 8M2 End Credits Sean's Theme is in actuality 8M1 Alt Piano Version A New Beginning is a repeat of the second half of 8M2 End Credits, with a loop inserted. The Terminal The Tale Of Viktor Navorski is in actuality End Credits Jazz Autographs is in actuality End Credits Part II "Destiny"... "Canneloni"... and the Tale of Viktor Navorski (Reprise) is in actuality 7M4 Destiny... Cannaloni & a repeat of End Credits (edited) A Happy Navorski Ending! is a portion of 5M4 Amelia (already heard in OST track 2) & End Credits Tango Ending (unique to this track) Indiana Jones and the Kindgom of the Crystal Skull Irina's Theme is really just portions of 1M4NR Irina Spalko & 3M28 Russians Reappear & 7M56 End Credit The Adventures of Tintin The Adventures of Tintin is in actuality Tinker-Tin Rev (the third Main Title cue attempted) Snowy's Theme is in actuality Snowy's End Title The Secret of the Scrolls is in actuality a bunch of film cues edited together The Adventure Continues is in actuality Dueling End Title Lincoln Freedom's Call is actually 7M60 Hymm Version [0:00-4:46] followed by 7M52v3 Lincoln's Battlefield Visit [4:46-5:55] and the final chord of 4M30v2 The Telegraph Office [5:55-end], which incidentally is also heard at the end of OST track 2. These scores are confirmed to have nothing recorded specifically for album use Close Encounters of the Third Kind Jaws 2 Dracula Empire of the Sun Always Stanley & Iris Hook Far and Away War of the Worlds Not yet factored into this list / I've never analyzed these albums at all: Cinderella Liberty The Eiger Sanction Images The Towering Inferno The Accidental Tourist Born on the Fourth of July Presumed Innocent JFK Sabrina Nixon Seven Years in Tibet Stepmom Munich The rest of the film scores JW composed had no OST album, so everything released when the specialty labels got to them was recorded for film use (as far as we know).

At what point does that "normal feeling" just cross a line into selfish, dickish gloating, though? That's where people take issue with it. Like is that feeling just so satisfactory that you just _can't_ let something as precious as a videotaped interview from the 80's between two musicians possibly trickle into the unworthy masses of fellow fans? Is that feeling the justification for hoarding that? I'm using that example to make a general point.

I'd say 35:21 – 35:23

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I noticed a few times during Sunday's performance that the red light on the camera at the side of the venue only came on from time to time. I'm guessing only specific shots of his were being recorded, and he was being cued in via his headphones. I suppose it means less to edit. I hadn't thought it would be done this way, but it makes sense. (If I'm right.) I'm still utterly on cloud 9 from the weekend. My girlfriend and I were right on the back row at the top for Saturday, and I was fortunate enough to get a seat on the ground floor for Sunday via the waiting list. It was everything I ever dreamed it could be. I'm not sure I'll ever experience a feeling like it again.

Damn some of those images are pretty incredible. As cheesy as it is there’s something moving about Leia sending one last hologram to the galaxy to ask for their aid. It certainly packs more or a punch than Lando showing up out of nowhere with an entire fleet for some reason

Facebook offers bigger versions of the pics than insta https://www.facebook.com/johnpowellmusic/photos/a.1918323288390964/2433658176857470/ https://www.facebook.com/johnpowellmusic/photos/a.1690234244533204/2486597871563500/

Good episode; seems like it's going to be a good series. Too bad they couldn't be bothered to get some good theme music for it. Whose ass did Jeff Russo eat to continue to get these jobs, as mediocre as his work is?

Yeah, he could just walk with his hands.

Another great article: https://soundtrackfest.com/en/articles/john-williams-vienna-2020-concert-summary/

I'm always on Jerry's side, because John doesn't like The Dark Knight.

https://twitter.com/ThirdManMuseum/status/1219379377256980484 EDIT: Idk why it's not embedding. Here's the pic: "The goddess and the god of (film) music", lol.

These are the kind of intelligent, and insightful interviews that I like, and not the fawning, ignorant "morning TV" gobshite, that tries to pass for journalism. It's always great to see Andrew Preview.

Parasite It's actually worth the hype and Oscar nominations. Boon Joon-ho keeps the movie on an even keel, keeping the plot unpredictable (but tangible) while expertly handling black comedy and suspense. The acting is excellent, especially Song Kang-ho, and the production specs are top-notch. I'm surprised Hong Kyung-pyo didn't get an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography, because the camerawork is sublime. It's definitely worth checking out in theaters. An original film that can't really be pegged into one genre.

That would be ServusTV, by the way.

It aged perfectly well. If anything, people agree more emphatically with Mr. Breathmask now that the mouse is in charge.

Well hello Rose Tico’s Theme!

Two things occurred to me: 1) I've now seen John Williams live as many times (3) as I've seen Jerry Goldsmith 2) I've now performed on a stage that Williams has also performed on

Say what you want about the actress now, the character is timeless and needs to be part of the journey.

In the case of INNER CITY, that was based on an original cue title (as were some of the other titles on the original LP). Of course, as we saw with the recent TROS cues, maintaining the original title is a somewhat rare case. I do love some of these spruce-up changes between cue name and soundtrack though. One from TFA comes to mind - 'That Lady With the Stick' became 'That Girl With the Staff'

Ah, I see the Austrian Empire is back! Hope he reforms the HRE, too! Long live John Charlemagne Williams!

The hospitality towards Williams has been truly kingly during this visit. I haven't expected that.

My review I wrote for Onet, one of the two largest Polish web portals. It's in Polish, but you can read it if you like, translated better or worse, using translate.google. Of course, no review will reflect what I really felt at these concerts. I went to Vienna not as a journalist, but as a Williams fan, passionate about his music for about thirty years. I'm glad that I could be at both concerts and I'm sure that nothing will ever beat it. Thank you Maestro! https://kultura.onet.pl/muzyka/wywiady-i-artykuly/koncert-johna-williamsa-relacja/0zp8rm6

Looks like they are back in New York. Anne Sophie posted a selfie with Spielberg and Williams.

Actually, the world ended in December 2012 just like the Mayans had predicted, but since we lived shitty lives before, we're actually in hell now. The people who had good lifes by this time are in heaven, enjoying the Matessino produced boxes for Star Wars (all three trilogies), Hook (complete, restored and without a single note missing) and Indy (all 4 movies), along with a very detailed cue by cue analysis. Oh, and on heaven there is no "post-2005 scores are too prohibitively expensive for expansions", so they have War of the Worlds, Memories of a Geisha, Tintin, War Horse expanded too. I wished I had confessed more often and did more voluntary work before Dec 2012, instead of eagerly anticipating An Unexpected Journey .

Here's some of the score for another short film from last summer. Channelling some more old-school romance with piano and string quartet. The recording isn't great, and there are a few flubs (we were pressed for time) but I'm pretty happy with this one. Curious to hear your thoughts: @Dixon Hill @karelm @Loert @SteveMc @Nick Parker

He's got his headphones on the wrong way.

Well deserved.