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After the full performance (bearing in mind there was no intermission) he was visibly exhausted if you watch the behind the scenes featurette.

Click bait sentence a go go: “Williams takes over, leaving Andre struggling to control the conversation…” Nonsense, as Previn is the one that correctly reminds Williams that Jaws has symphonic merit ahead of Star Wars.

There’s also a short clip from the 1984 Jonathan King interview recorded in Boston for BBC which is from source elements by the looks of it.

Thanks for posting this, other than the dodgy inaccurate script (Williams decided to take a break from film music when KOTCS wasn’t Oscar nominated?!?! 😳🤦‍♂️😆) and the ridiculous jazz saxophonist confusion, there are some interesting photos and archival interviews from UK tv (1996 / 98). It’s also good to see some professionally filmed footage from the Barbican LSO concert rehearsals at long last. Happy memories!

Jason was mentioning this the other day, it’s possibly an AI written book which are among a few cropping up on Amazon at the moment. We all know the only published books of merit are the forthcoming TimG one and EmilioA’s previous 2.

Glad you enjoyed. It’s actually tricky doing group interviews as it’s easy to talk over each other too much and sometimes you end up wanting to ask the same questions. Thankfully Maurizio and I have known each other long enough to predict what the other is about to say. We have pre prepared notes but we’re careful not to sound like we are reading from a script as it can sound wooden. Mike asked about the physical media release and we were glad to hear that Laurent had been thinking about that the days before our session. We loved how Mike and Laurent were interviewing each other at times. Here’s our LSO members conversation from a few years ago. More are planned for the future so stay tuned as they say in TV land! :-)

It’s now back in stock at Intrada. Jaws

Agreed! JT was also superb on our The Fury tribute show soon after.

Oh dear! I have totally derailed the thread.

Subscribers of FSM Online will be interested to listen to an audio interview with producer Stephane Lerouge featuring some clips from this new collection. Watch out for an exclusive clip being posted on social networks today of John Williams speaking about 2 key colleagues and friends.

These were all audio, as I said above Maurizio did sterling work adding video in the form of stills, logos and appropriate graphics.

Mike M is happy with the clips being discussed, so be gone ambiguity! Here’s the array of audio / video treats which were played and Maurizio did sterling work editing the audio to video. All very elegant: - CLIP: 1st SW cue ever recorded, aka "The Swashbucklers" - 6 min - CLIP: JW on the scoring stage - Harry Potter Logo raw takes - 5 min - CLIP: The Lost World raw session inserts - 5 min - CLIP: Amazing Stories End Titles (components + full mix) - 4 min - CLIP: CE3K Wild Choir Sweeteners - 5 min - CLIP: E.T. Bike Chase Take 1 session - 4 min - CLIP: Harry Potter Fluffy’s Harp rehearsals - 10 min

Here’s the event running order which hopefully paints a picture. We aren’t going to mention the clips from Mike publicly, but I’m sure those who were there can private message each other. We never said to not talk about the event after the fact. “The first rule of TLOJW is to talk about TLOJW” 😁 - CLIP: Video Introduction - 6 min - Greetings and presentation of guests - JW in London: an historical overview - Remembering the Star Wars 1977 sessions with Eric and Hugh - CLIP: - Working with JW as orchestra musicians (Eric and Hugh) - CLIP: - Commentary - CLIP: The Fury "A-B Comparison" - JW on the scoring stage: how he works with the orchestra - CLIP: - Commentary / Audience Q&A INTERMISSION (10 min) - Dracula: an overview (Emilio) - CLIP: Dracula's Death film clip - 6 min - Commentary - Techniques of film score recording - CLIP: - Commentary - CLIP: - Commentary - CLIP: - Commentary / Audience Q&A - Final greetings and prize draw raffle sorting The prize draw contents (10 Universal Studios branded goody bags - thank you Dave Norris!) consisted of: JW scored 4K discs from UHE La La Land Records & Intrada JW albums Japanese imports of various JW albums DG Store exclusives of Blu-rays & Vinyls TLOJW T-shirts Elmer Bernstein Commemorative Programme with a personal note from JW The 2 star prize premium goody bags consisted of the above plus Taschen books, extra DG Store exclusives, the John T. Williams Jazz Beginnings album and a JW signed photo. IMG_5281.heic Seeing the new remaster of Jaws in Dolby Atmos with the proper 3D glasses was very memorable and a perfect end to the event. Both Eric & Hugh were particularly impressed! They hadn’t seen it since 1976! We had a diverse audience and some composers and conductors were in attendance. Plus our poster artist Paul Shipper (who kindly signed many of the deluxe prints everyone received), voice actor Marc Silk and producers from LA & London. Thank you once again for attending. It was so great to meet many new and old friends. The dinner afterwards was a cluster f@#k but it was a last minute change so couldn’t be helped. Food and service was good (Zizzi). It was a joy to host this with Maurizio and we hope to do more in the future. I love how people laughed at this, it actually was Jaws in 3D, not Jaws 3D!!!!! :-)

Subscribers of FSM Online will be able to experience some of the key moments from this concert as exclusive videos. The new issue will be out in a few days. Re choir, it’s a specific synth patch.

This is really appreciated, D - thank you for the kind words and feedback. A true Labour of love and having this brief classic Star Wars blast of perfection played for our audience was a thrill: IMG_5702.mov I wish! The mics help amplify the vast RAH and its acoustic uniqueness.