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My brother managed to pick up two of them. He said that at the end of the concert, the staff placed a bunch of them on the table where the programmes were, and people started grabbing them really quickly in what could be described as a frenzy. A random person even tried to take the two posters out of my brother's hands. It was crazy. He even had to hide them!

Anyway, I gave one of the posters to @Martinland during the meetup. He has a massive John Williams archive, so the poster will feel at home there. It would be nice to digitize it in high resolution, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Maybe it would be easier to just ask La Scala for a .pdf. They should have one.

Yeah I have a picture with the maestro 🤣! 

Thank you, thank you so much again! <3
 
Yours was a very special surprise and this very poster will find an equally special place at home - in Martinland...  I will never forget that - thanks and greetings to your brother as well!
 
*hug*

My brother managed to pick up two of them. He said that at the end of the concert, the staff placed a bunch of them on the table where the programmes were, and people started grabbing them really quickly in what could be described as a frenzy. A random person even tried to take the two posters out of my brother's hands. It was crazy. He even had to hide them!

Anyway, I gave one of the posters to @Martinland during the meetup. He has a massive John Williams archive, so the poster will feel at home there. It would be nice to digitize it in high resolution, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Maybe it would be easier to just ask La Scala for a .pdf. They should have one.

For the history books, I feel the need to mention that those ridiculously tiny bowls of risotto cost €35 each, and we realized that only when we got the bill at the end.

Looking good, @bigjimwilson  

Saying that the orchestra played badly is totally unjust. I don't know what the standard references of these people are, but the orchestra was absolutely great. Was everything perfect? Of course not, as virtually any live performance is. It's known that London or US brass sections are always more powerful and precise than any European orchestra, but the brass of the Filarmonica yesterday did a great job nonetheless, especially the horn section, whose principal did some tearjerking playing on the Love Theme form Superman and the big Princess Leia solo. The trumpets perhaps weren't as powerful as Berlin or Vienna, and played in a more "Italian" fashion during the Raiders March, but that's one of the perks of hearing these pieces performed by orchestras who are not used to them. It should also be said that the theatre has a characteristic opera house acoustic (i.e. very dry, without virtually any reverb, but with lots of low-end frequencies becoming very prominent) and that's something that surely made the music sound a bit different than usual, especially if compared to Berlin's Philharmonie or Boston's Symphony Hall.

I am so glad you guys got to have a good time there!
 
When we (me, @TownerFan, @bigjimwilson, @Jim Ware, @Chewy, @crumbs, @fommes+ wives so a total of only like 12 people) showed up (at like, 1030), they told us they could not take us! Even though there was many open seats at the bar? 
 
So we had to find another place that ended up having good drinks and food, but a cluster of a bill situation. @bigjimwilsongot a picture of all of us he can hopefully post
 
After that place closed, we tried 1...2...3...4? Other bars... And they were all closed. Milan did not want to take our money in exchange for alcohol on a Monday night. Oh well. 
 
It was still a magical evening

For the history books, I feel the need to mention that those ridiculously tiny bowls of risotto cost €35 each, and we realized that only when we got the bill at the end.

For the history books, I feel the need to mention that those ridiculously tiny bowls of risotto cost €35 each, and we realized that only when we got the bill at the end.

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!

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There are microphones and cameras!

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Almost got assassinated by a pigeon while trying to film the Duomo di Milano  VID_20221211_120102.mp4  

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!

A great night at the Park Hyatt!

I managed to get a picture with ASM during the interval!