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Also thanks to @rpveewho captured some additional vibes.

This is an awesome listen, thanks for sharing @Max & @rpvee!
 
EDITED: Sorry rpvee, missed your post!

I genuinely just misread this thread title as Jurassic Shark.

“The Imperial March” is sampled on “Overcoming the Past,” while “Princess Leia’s Theme” is on “Saying Goodbye.”

Thankyou so much for recording this. For me living in the uk I would never have the opportunity  to attend this. So thankyou.

Beat me to it by less than an hour! lol.
 
Well, here’s my recording too.
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sqSxB-05FCSjxPmewMAWiFsOH--4b-AD/view?usp=sharing

Hey everyone,
 
I meant to upload this sooner, but here is my recording of JW's Q&A before the Jurassic Park Live to Picture last Friday. My phone battery was running low, so I only got an audio recording of it.
 
John Williams at the Kennedy Center (June 24, 2022)
 

People on twitter thanking Natalie Holt for cues written by William Ross...
 

@rpvee, the hero of JWFan!

I’ll post my audio of the Q&A in a new thread later today.

"Second flute still at dinner. It's, now, a solo".

3:24

WOWOWOW! That entire section of that video (55:40-57:41) is INCREDIBLE to see!!!  Wow!

Hmm maybe that footage wasn't all filmed by the BBC after all. I just learned of the existence of this other documentary by French cameraman Michel Parbot which most people thought never existed until it made its way onto the internet in 2018:
 
At 55:40 here you can see a lot of the same recording sessions footage, but without any voiceover. There's some footage here that isn't in the other documentary and vice versa

I was rewatching this excellent 1980 BBC documentary on the music of the Empire Strikes Back:
 
It contains considerable footage from both the recording sessions and the spotting sessions of Empire. I was curious if anyone here knows anything about where this footage came from. Did the BBC just film bits of it specifically for the documentary? Or did they film large chunks of it for editing down later and for Lucasfilm to use for general purpose marketing use? I wonder how much of both the recording sessions and the spotting sessions were actually recorded and if any more of this footage survives beyond what's just in the documentary. 
 
Also, if the BBC filmed it, is it possible that the raw sessions footage exists in their archives somewhere? I'm not a Brit but I believe the archives should be openly available to British citizens right?
 
 
edit: before submitting this I looked up the person credited for photography, Kenneth MacMillan: https://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/macmillan.htm
Looks like he definitely did work for the BBC
 

Looks like a perfect way to relax his back after a day at the piano…

Oh my God!
 

Updated my post with the correct mention of Lex Luthor's Lair.
 
The intermission was right after Superman saved Airforce One.

What an amazing night!
 
I was there with my mum, who made me my very own Superman costume at the age of five. In terms of music, the soundtrack to Superman has had a bigger impact on my life than any other. The Royal Albert Hall was more or less fully seated, except for a few seats from people who’d not been able to fit the new date into their schedule due to the two year delay. You could tell that the crowd was excited to be here, every other attendee sporting some kind of Superman attire - a t-shirt, a cap or a pair of shoes. We were lucky enough to have great seats. Right in the middle of the screen, in the middle of the Arena (row 12, if that means anything to anyone).
 
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra entered the stage to the crow’s applause, and once the main credits started rolling - wow! That pulsating ostinato is the stuff of dreams and I had a huge grin on my face it as it bloomed into the full fanfare. I picked up some new instrumentation during “The Planet Krypton”, but I guess that’ve always been there, just hidden in the mix. It was also great to hear the unabridged “Destruction Of Krypton”.
 
I also have to point out that seeing Superman on the big screen is quite a different experience than in your home theater - everything is more impactful. Seeing people fall to their deaths as Krypton was torn asunder and the consequential explosion of the planet… it was more dizzying and more horrifying than I’ve ever experienced before. And that carried on through the movie.
 
I picked up a few things I hadn’t before:
Jor-El’s emblem isn’t fully attached, just pinned at each side. Clark encounters a polar bear on his way through the Arctic. When clark stops to take out the green crystal to throw towards the horizon, you can clearly see the blue red and yellow-fabric poking slightly out of his bag.  I also enjoyed the little details in the arrangement in the hall like the Superman lettering spelling out the word “Intermission” half way through the performance. The Supermen in attendance also added to the enjoyment.
 
The audience was great. Laughing, ooh-ing and aw-ing in all the right places, as there was a communal feeling that we were really sharing something special together. 
 
I am so happy to have been able to attend. Although I’ve heard “The Superman March” performed live a couple of times (always a treat), I never would have dared to dream that I’d have the privilege of hearing “The Planet Krypton”, “The Trip To Earth”, “Growing Up”, “Leaving Home”, “The Flying Sequence” and “Lex Luthor's Lair” performed live. It was an actual dream come true.
 

Gosh I wish this whole thing had been recorded!! I could listen to him speak all day