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2 hours ago, Remco said:
So Williams will be nominated for an Oscar in 2024, thinking about it.
For a score he’s about to start writing!
And he will be hoping to be back in Vienna and Berlin since these were only his debuts.
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9 hours ago, igger6 said:
It can't be the same suite, because that recording features Perlman on solo violin. (Speaking of which, I wonder if that's the only Williams piece to have been rearranged by the Maestro two separate times for the same solo instrument? Maybe Geisha would be the other.)
Unrelated: if this does get released, will it be the fastest Jurassic Park Williams has ever recorded?
JP was rather fast in general but it seemed slower on Saturday than on Thursday and Friday.
39 minutes ago, Biodome said:At this rate, after La Scala, John Williams will surely do a concert with the Oslo Philharmonic
Or preferably Bergen Philharmonic with Chandos' sound engineers?
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Time for Fabelman...
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Didn't JW say in Berlin (Thursday?) that Harrison Ford was in London but had broken a shoulder?
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Just now, thx99 said:
Yes, I chuckled at "bad guys" and thought, how diplomatic of Williams.
Aren't Sean and Harrison even on their way to Berlin?
Quite frankly, I prefer a good Nazi-Donnybrook over Schindler's List which would have been quite depressive.
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4 hours ago, Thor said:
True, but I do worry about THE FABELMANS in all of this busy schedule, even though there should be room for it, technically.
John will be like: "You need a better composer than me for your autobiography."
And Steven will answer: "Yes, I know, but they are all dead...".
9 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said:One weird thing I noticed...is that with the performance of "Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra", Williams unknowningly may have been the 1st composer to perform Nazi music in the open in germany since the end of WWII... (Nazi motif from Last Crusade)
That' why he said "bad guys".
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14 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:
To be fair, they have no/very few flubs to edit out this time. My biggest concern is, was Thursday and Friday recorded?
Yes, looked very much as if these concerts were also recorded - the automated cameras were moving and special mikes were placed in front of the cello for the elegy...
1 minute ago, heritage said:i think recored are all three concerts. But on Saturday the team (JW and BP) was at its peak.
Except for the timpani flub in JP...
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2 minutes ago, Biodome said:
I've also had that post-concert depression after Vienna, and I do have it now after Berlin. Luckily, La Scala next year gives me another John Williams experience to look forward to, so it's not that bad.
Yes, La Scala is a real perspective, and also imagining John Williams returning home with a suitcase full of German cookies, fond memories of Berlin and an appetite to pick-up pencil and paper for Indy 5 helps against this post-concert depression.
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1 hour ago, Sibelius6 said:I was hanging with the horn section after the Saturday concert. First horn Chris said that Johnny came to him and said that nothing wrong with his playing but John was too tired to conduct Leia's theme as an encore!!
And luckily the performance on Thursday was perfect, wasn't it? So that will hopefully make a nice bonus track on the upcoming release!
1 hour ago, GlastoEls said:And now back to work in the home office here in overcast London. How many unread emails, how many tasks to do — take me back to Grimm’s, Phiharmonie and Lindenbräu…
Although the sun has come out here in Germany, I am also finding it hard to get back into everyday life.
It seems I haven't quite grasped what has actually happened. I am very grateful but, at the same time, I feel a little melancholic that this life-time dream is over.
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52 minutes ago, crumbs said:
Nope.Phew.
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JW did that cute "Wow!" again (like after the Imperial March in Vienna) in response to the ovations upon entering the Berlin Phil on Saturday.
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1 hour ago, Sibelius6 said:
Did they do that? Bells up!!
Yes, bells up like in Mahler. Hope the director of the Digital Concert Hall captures this!
20 minutes ago, Steve said:Did you notice the principal trumpet player often switching to piccolo trumpet on the higher parts?
Also it was said in a radio report that some of the principal brass players were not there for the concerts.
Yes, also observed that. Not sure whether that was a piccolo trumpet though...
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Have we already discussed the "Schalltrichter auf" by the horn section in Olympic Fanfare and E.T.?
And, why no flowers on Thursday?
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1 hour ago, Remco said:
This was absolutely phenomenal.
@Jurassic Shark I know we were the ones to have some problems with the VPO but you don’t need to worry this was absolutely and totally on another level. I’ve never seen an orchestra play so engaged and so in control of everything that they do.
The inevitable recording of this will be legendary.
Despite some horn flubs in Jurassic Park "Finale'...
But there are still two takes to make up for this.
I otherwhise agree, top notch level! Perhaps almost like Chicago...
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Just read something on Sarah Willis MBE's facebook about "Schalltrichter auf" for E.T. finale which is being supported by Caleb Young, Conductor (calebwyoung.com)
Would be nice to see this happen. The horns may also wish to stand up like in Mahler 1...
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50 minutes ago, oxo1977 said:
Des Français à Berlin ce week-end?
(English is not my strength, und ich spreche kein Deutsch 
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De nombreux huguenots s'installent à Berlin.
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11 minutes ago, Steve said:
Leipzig is the Bach city. He went there because of Bach.
And the cookies?
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12 minutes ago, Biodome said:
I thought JW said he wasn't a big fan of Wagner
Well, at least he accepted the idea of using leitmotifs.
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8 minutes ago, Steve said:
Williams visited the Thomaskirche in Leipzig with ASM on this past sunday before Berlin! He visited Bach's grave. Here is a photo
Leipzig is where Richard Wagner was born! Hope someone reminded him...
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17 hours ago, Alex said:
Can imagine JW agonising before the trip which black turtle neck to packAt least it matches the tone of the clarinet!
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Still a few good tickets for Friday for sale....
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3 hours ago, ConorPower said:
Just seen that Paddy Maloney, founder of The Chieftans, has passed away. Williams’s inclusion of Far and Away in the programme will ring a little differently now. I do hope he’ll discuss his collaboration with Moloney a little, in tribute to the great musician who elevated a wonderful score.
Exclusive Interview: Paddy Moloney – The Legacy of John Williams
John Williams & Boston Pops Orchestra - Complete Philips Recordings (NEW 2022 21-CD boxset)
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