I went to watch the LSO just yesterday at the Barbican, playing Richard Strauss's Alpensinfonie amongst other things. There were five members of the orchestra actually performing yesterday who have been in the LSO for 35 years or more and therefore might have played on Return of the Jedi and possibly even The Empire Strikes Back (I cannot say for certain only because I have never seen player listings for either of those scores).
The current longest-serving LSO member is first violin Colin Renwick, who I know definitely played on Raiders of the Lost Ark because his name is listed in the booklet. The next longest-serving member is sub-leader Lennox Mackenzie, who joined the LSO in 1980 and shared the front desk yesterday with leader Roman Simovic. Two of the cellists have also been with the LSO since the early 1980s, Jennifer Brown and Noel Bradshaw, as has double bass player Patrick Laurence. All five were playing in yesterday evening's concert. Another long-serving violinist, Nigel Broadbent, retired only recently.
With regard to the Star Wars prequel scores, roughly thirty-five or so of the LSO members have been with the orchestra for twenty years or more and would therefore have played for John Williams on all three of those scores in all likelihood. Make no mistake, John Williams will recognise a significant number of the LSO musicians when he comes to conduct the orchestra in October, god willing. I am happy to list some more of them if anyone is interested.
EDIT: I took this photo yesterday. Lennox Mackenzie is the gentleman immediately to the left of conductor Daniel Harding on the podium. Noel Bradshaw is the cellist with the white hair a couple behind him, while Jennifer Brown is the cellist with the short hair just to the left of him and slightly further forward.
For me - It depends on the point of view. As I said I am selling 4 extra tickets with profit as those corporations. The difference between me and those corporations is that Viagogo etc. are selling them for nonreasonable prices to those unlucky people .. and they are doing it with every event. I had to think about it very well and since I will have to pay 1000USD only to buy tickets for a train to London. I would use some extra money that can cover me expensive train ticket
Also, In a past I have sold one ticket for Morricone for original price and this ticket was lately acutioned for 3 more price.
CipZip got a reaction from Joni Wiljami in 'A Celebration of John Williams in Concert' - Royal Albert Hall, October 26, 2018 (CONDUCTED BY DIRK BROSSÉ)