Omen II

How about Dialling Tones?
 
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All I can come up with is a Giacchino pun.
 
 E.T. Phone Tone. 
 
or maybe
 
Wild Busy Signal?
 
 

This shocking news was literally the first thing I heard when I woke this morning, as my radio alarm clock wakes up for the 6.30 news programme. At first I thought I was still half asleep and that it was some weird nightmare I was having, until it was repeated in the next news bulletin and I realised that I must have been awake.
James Horner is one of the few film composers that I have had the pleasure of meeting, only a few short weeks ago in London. I spoke to him for no more than a couple of minutes but I will always look back fondly on that brief meeting. I got the chance to tell him how I had liked his music since hearing the likes of Cocoon and Star Trek II on the Erich Kunzel tape Star Tracks II, as well as asking him if he had ever considered doing a concert of his greatest scores with the LSO, for example. He replied that he had never felt the need to do that, almost as if he could not understand how a concert devoted to his music would be of interest to people!
After he had signed a couple of my CD covers, I asked if he would mind a quick photo with me. Not only was he happy to do so but he put his arm round me as if I was his best buddy rather than some random fanboy he had just met. It was a real boost to me in what has been a pretty dreadful few months and to hear that he too has been taken before his time is quite a kick in the guts.

The Jurassic Park theme played in Peterborough Cathedral, the resting place of Katherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's first wife) and Mary, Queen of Scots.
 
 

Here’s a clip of that moment:
 
https://imgur.com/t/johnwilliams/2uxTZ30
 

You’d be surprised. No doubt, the man is a genius, but these scores are just jobs. He isn’t a trivia detailed nerd about things like that. He’s certainly mixed up bits of trivia during concert speeches before, frequently about what happens in which Star Wars film. Plus, I don’t think he would fake a moment like that.

I was pleased to see that someone has uploaded to YouTube the full BBC Proms concert of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town recently.  Some Other Time is at about 1:52 and is a lovely rendition.
 
 
 

I was pleased to see that someone has uploaded to YouTube the full BBC Proms concert of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town recently.  Some Other Time is at about 1:52 and is a lovely rendition.
 
 
 

I went to a great BBC Proms concert yesterday in which every piece pertained to the sea.  The undoubted highlight was Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony in the second half, but the first half also featured two works by British female composers which deserve to be heard more often.  Before Grace Williams's Sea Sketches, the concert opened with Doreen Carwithen's Bishop Rock.  Carwithen would later marry film composer William Alwyn following a lengthy clandestine affair.
 
The concert will be broadcast on BBC TV tomorrow evening (Friday) for anyone interested.
 
 

I went to a great BBC Proms concert yesterday in which every piece pertained to the sea.  The undoubted highlight was Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony in the second half, but the first half also featured two works by British female composers which deserve to be heard more often.  Before Grace Williams's Sea Sketches, the concert opened with Doreen Carwithen's Bishop Rock.  Carwithen would later marry film composer William Alwyn following a lengthy clandestine affair.
 
The concert will be broadcast on BBC TV tomorrow evening (Friday) for anyone interested.
 
 

It's here!! Loving that new Titus art
 

 

 

 

Another legendary studio musician left us. The great Vince De Rosa died yesterday at the venerable age of 101. He has been Hollywood's premier French Horn player for over forty years, playing on countless film scores, including many by John Williams. He was Principal Horn on such scores as The Cowboys, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T., just to name a few ("I can honestly say that what I know about writing for the French horn, I learned from Vince De Rosa," said John Williams). He's considered to be the most heard French Horn player of all time as he also played on zillions of television gigs and record dates.
 
He wasn't just a musician, but a true legend, and a great human being as told by anyone who knew him.
 
https://www.hornsociety.org/ihs-people/honoraries/26-people/honorary/78-vincent-derosa

If you are able to watch BBC TV or have access to the BBC iPlayer, I thoroughly recommend the broadcast of Prom 2 from this season's BBC Proms at 20:00 this evening on BBC Four.
 
I went to the concert last night and it was fantastic - a programme of music from the Sinfonia of London under John Wilson, including Arnold Bax's Tintagel and William Walton's Partita for Orchestra.  The concert was bookended by Ralph Vaughan-Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations and I will be very lucky if I ever hear either piece played better.  Huw Watkins, whose entertaining flute concerto we heard performed by Adam Walker, was in the audience.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019dsf

I was at the concerts in 1996 and 1998 but unfortunately I do not have any photos, much as I wish I did.  The 1985 concert was a little before my time, but I have seen some photos of the concert on a thread on Film Score Monthly a couple of years back.
 
Filmharmonic 85 - photos not mine
 
 
16th November 1985.
 

 
 
There were two LSO concerts conducted by John Williams in the open air sculpture court at the Barbican on 8th and 9th August 1982.  You could try emailing the archivist at the LSO (Libby Rice) who might be willing to email you a scan of the programme(s) if you ask nicely!

For Williams, Sheridon played 1st flute from the early 1970s until the late 1980s (Louise Di Tullio became principal in 1989 on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), so he was there for most the big ones recorded in LA during that era
 
Sheridon was highlighted by JW on The Towering Inferno:
 
 
On Jaws (this is probably my favourite moment):
 
 
 
Some of his most stirring solos for JW are for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial OST album arrangements:
 
 
 
But the biggest one he got was the unaccompained cadenza on "The Seduction of Sukie" in The Witches of Eastwick:
 
 
Sheridon played for virtually all the greats, including Max Steiner and Alfred Newman. He got many solos when working for Lalo Schifrin, including the world-famous solo for the Mission: Impossible TV show:
 
 
He was also prominently featured on Schifrin's score for The Fox:
 
 
He was truly a formidable musician, revered and beloved by the whole community. He was notoriously famous for his unassuming attitude even when playing the most challenging part. Some musicians said that he rarely uncrossed his legs while playing . In 2019, he was celebrated by his peers for a special event at Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, where he also performed several pieces. Robert Townson did a lovely pre-concert talk featuring all the greatest Hollywood flute players (Louise Di Tullio, Jim Walker, Geri Rotella, Paul Fried, David Shostac) celebrating Sheridon and his musicianship:
 
 

Looks cool!

Thank you for the reminder, @Yavar Moradi  Although money is tight at the moment, I owe it to Benny on his 111th birthday to help bankroll a recording of the score to the film in which he appears.  It's what the old curmudgeon wouldn't have wanted.  To Lenny!  To Benny!
 
I attended a BBC Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago in which the overture from The Man Who Knew Too Much was played.  Keith Lockhart played Herrmann that day but they missed a trick by not having a shooter in one of the grand tier boxes.
 
 

Thank you for the reminder, @Yavar Moradi  Although money is tight at the moment, I owe it to Benny on his 111th birthday to help bankroll a recording of the score to the film in which he appears.  It's what the old curmudgeon wouldn't have wanted.  To Lenny!  To Benny!
 
I attended a BBC Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago in which the overture from The Man Who Knew Too Much was played.  Keith Lockhart played Herrmann that day but they missed a trick by not having a shooter in one of the grand tier boxes.
 
 

We should have been posting these in the John Williams A.I. thread as a joke.

Thank you very much for the advice! Much appreciated. 

There are quite a few tickets in the circle in the range of £50 to £60 for most of the performances.  The Royal Albert Hall does not permit tickets through resale sites (it is in their terms and conditions) so you are taking a risk if you opt for a resale website.
 
"Tickets sold via third parties and other unauthorised outlets, including online auction sites, are not valid for admission. Reselling a ticket makes it void and the ticketholder may be refused entry."
 
However, what I would do (and you might consider) is to buy a gallery standing ticket for £25.  That gives you the guarantee of knowing that you are 'in' and will have a perfectly decent view - albeit up in the gods - at worst.  I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from the gallery and have watched Proms concerts from there too and it is absolutely fine.
 
You will almost always find that other tickets in the stalls, boxes and arena become available at 'normal prices' within a couple of weeks leading up to the concert, so assuming that happens you just need to hold your nerve, keep checking the website nearer the time and buy a better seated ticket.  That way you have only lost £25 at worst.

Coming June 30 at The Legacy of John Williams, an exclusive video event.
 
BOSTON CALLING — Legendary Musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Reunite to Celebrate John Williams
 
With Special Guests Ann Hobson Pilot, Tim Morrison, Gus Sebring and Keisuke Wakao
 
Featuring Author and Writer Emilio Audissino
 
Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto and Tim Burden
 
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I completely understand the reasons behind the need to curtail the end titles (it was quite late when the film finished) but it would have been really nice to hear the concert version of the Love Theme as an encore.  It would have rounded things off nicely.

I completely understand the reasons behind the need to curtail the end titles (it was quite late when the film finished) but it would have been really nice to hear the concert version of the Love Theme as an encore.  It would have rounded things off nicely.

Ha!  You’ve made my day - those were the very cards!  I don’t know what happened to them but I wish I’d kept them.

I have not seen a LTP yet.  If Superman comes near me, I will see it for sure.   That sounds amazing. 
@Omen II I love your trading card story.   I hope you’ll get a kick out of these pics.