Miguel Andrade

Williams had no direct involvement on the Steve Houghton album. They just recorded his arrangements. Williams only provided a few words on the new performance.

I surely can relate to the lack of time. The last four years have been a constant run, with too much of everything but time for myself. Fortunately my wife put some sense into my head and I know make sure I do some reading and music listening every day. I do love her.

You only read one book a year? That's my rate for a month (sometimes two, if they are shorter). But then again I don't play video games and hardly watch any movies these days.

The whole concert where the piece was premiered was released digitally in China.

Prelude and Scherzo has been recorded by Cheng with the Albany Symphony for a future release.

That is my kind of dream concert... Also of interest, Williams' Escapades are part of the program for the season's Opening Night.

If memory serves, Images wasn't the case. From what I've seen, the score has everything notated. Even the improvised stuff has some indication on how to and what to improvise.

I don't think so. Remember that some of the pieces have the full scores available for purchase and/or renting. Can't remember right now which were those first arrangements that were previewed for Williams. That transcript by ear might have been a situation for which the sketches or finished scores weren't easily available.

While transcribing, Simone did have access to some of Williams' scores. I know there was a few exceptions were he had to go by his ear, I think one was The Tennis Game from Witches of Eastwick. But for the most part he had access to some material. Williams did gave his blessing to the project. They did a promo for Williams, recording just some two or three pieces. After Williams approval, they went ahead with the remaining arrangements. During the week they were recording, the trio was invited to Williams office and played for him several of the pieces. That's from where the wonderful pictures come from ( taken by Simone's wife). This is a gem of an album and should be in every serious Williams fan collection.

He will be the next music director for the New York Philharmonic. As Marian already pointed out, no. But during the performance he had to stop a number of times as he kept loosing his breath, and the BSO would just keep on going sans conductor until he was able to resume

I really don't read it that way.

I think it used a new transfer.

That's it. I have all of those interviews and articles by Dyer but was feeling too lazy to check my archives.

If memory serves, there was an interview were Williams mentioned he played a bit of the piano on the main title.

The thread from 23 years ago pretty much says it all. Nevertheless, for clarity sake, here's a rundown of the sources for that CD: Tracks 1-9: Cinderella Liberty original album (orchestral/instrumental selections only) Track 10: Nice To Be Around, arranged and performed by Fred Karlin (and his band) Track 11: The Reivers, Charles Gerhardt conducting the National Philharmonic, taken from the Varese Sarabande compilation Tracks 12-23: The Reivers CBS/Legacy release Track 24: Edit from the Suite for Narrator and Orchestra, John Williams conducting the Boston Pops. All the narration was cut out of this edit, making it less than half the entire duration of the piece. Note that this guys would usually add stuff from other totally unrelated recordings and label them as alternates or overture or reprise. Same thing happened with their bootleg releases of Jane Eyre, Born on the Fourth of July, Towering Inferno...