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Gramophone podcast.
 
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/podcasts/article/james-ehnes-on-leonard-bernstein-and-john-williams

Mike could very well be knee deep in SW expansions right now, and his answer will still be 'no, that's currently not happening' because he can't answer that. As he also said, we must have patience.

Yes, that's it. Thankfully, we did get a handful of Williams premieres out in this 'wild west' time.

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of The Sugarland Express, the very first Spielberg/Williams collaboration. Both Intrada and LLL have tried to release this score over the years (LLL as the opening title of their Universal heritage collection in 2018), even presenting an assembly of the score to Williams before he nixed the release.
 
Years later, Mike Matessino mentioned he had "an idea" to change JW's mind about releasing the score, but we've heard nothing since.
 
There's only 3 non-Disney/pre-2005 Spielberg/Williams scores remaining for Mike to expand (Sugarland, CMIYC and Terminal). Could the 50th anniversary be the trigger that finally convinces Williams to change his mind on Sugarland, and bring Mike's restoration of the Spielberg/Williams collaboration full circle? (at least for the scores the labels can currently access).
 
Spielberg is attending a June screening of the film at the Tribeca Film Festival, complete with a post-screening conversation with the director. Any JWFanners planning to attend? Not sure if they're doing an audience Q&A but it might be a great opportunity to ask him about a soundtrack release.

My friend....you bump for noone.

Well it reminded me of this post:
 
 
So Williams has cited him before as one of his favorites and they have apparently been friendly at Tanglewood. I guess mutual respect lead to an opportunity to perform together. Maybe Williams started writing letters to Tommy Baby. 

Also find the Williams/Ades combo very random, but definitely not complaining...I wonder how that came about!

They're finally doing the patch up sessions. 

John Williams really turned 90 and decided he wasn't fucking around anymore. 

Apparently it’s international tuba day (but of course it is…). However, as Naxos chose to mark the day by highlighting JW’s tuba concerto, a good opportunity to bump this thread. A fine recording!
 
 

Scherzo for Abduction and Rectal Probe

Aren't the originals leather bound in JW's place?

If you never saw it, Finale did a very cool interview with him in 2017 about their process lately with Williams 

Also appears on Pentatone's official release schedule for 2024 https://issuu.com/pentatone/docs/pentatone_releases_2024_issuu - page 11.

 
Sadly, searching that document only brings up that 1 result...but it's great to have Williams on another label. Not sure, but I don't think there were any of his works on Pentatone.

https://www.discogs.com/release/29790961-Bernstein-Williams-James-Ehnes-Saint-Louis-Symphony-Orchestra-Stéphane-Denève-Serenade-Violin-Conc
 
This might actual come from a live recording from November 2019, with Williams in attendance. If that's the case, the original concert line up included Barber's Adagio and Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony.
Of course, until more info is out, they might have the recorded the concerto during the rehearsals. 

A new arrangement for this week’s concerts would be my guess but you never now

The Garfield Movie

He looked much better/fitter in the Pittsburgh video from december. If I remember correctly it was very hot and humid in Japan so it's no wonder a 91 year old feels that. The white jacket makes him look older too.

High resolution grabs from the website
 

I wrote to their PR dept requesting to kindly send me Williams signed copy.
You just have to write convincingly and politely.
 
It worked for me..TWICE!
 
 
 
Okay here is my email from my archives with some contacts from 2017..which I wrote to and received:
 
Bernadette Horgan • BHorgan@bso.org
 
I will be out of the office until Monday, September 11.  If you need a response between September 1 and 4, please contact Taryn Lott at tlott@bso.org or 617-638-9283; after September 4, please contact Sam Brewer at sbrewer@bso.org or 617-638-9284.  Thanks.  Be well.  Bernadette, 617-510-0597.
Dear Bernadette,   I received the John Williams signed picture today. Thank you all. I'm truly honored.   Best and kind regards, Amer   On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:33 PM, AMER ZAHID <amer.zahid@gmail.com> wrote:  

I love the lyrics too! They speak to me!
 
"Laa laa laa la la-laaaa"
 
 

"Desert Song"?! So The Dune Sea of Tatooine was originally a song? I'm assuming George Lucas' plan was for the argument between C-3PO and R2-D2 to be a musical number.

High resolution grabs from the website
 

The interesting thing is that Williams's concert work has become much more innovative in the last 10 years--and I expect the piano concerto to push things further. 
 
Plus, the use of the flute in the BFG was all sorts of fresh.