GlastoEls

Immediately blocking the calendar and already permission from Mrs GlastoEls received!

Clever girl!

Massive congrats on what is genuinely a fabulous resource and such a well natured place. I myself have made real life friends from the site and met up with Williams nerds in Milan, Vienna, Berlin, and closer to home in London. Here’s to the next 25!

Appreciate the review!

More an expression of shock, Jay!

How much?! 😳

Watching the OT makes me feel 8 years old again in all honesty! (and thank goodness that George Lucas resisted calls to make the ending of Jedi bittersweet so my childhood is forever happily locked at a party on a forest moon!)

That reminds me of the old Joseph Heller line (how true it is, I don’t know): Interviewer: “You’ve not written anything as good since Catch 22” Heller: “No, but no one else has either!” And that’s how I feel about Star Wars. Nothing has quite captured me ever since the OT as a youngster and I doubt ever will. So “good” (Mandalorian, Clone Wars) to “very good“ (Andor) is more than enough for me.

Brief update in The Times interview today when they asked him what’s next: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-williams-maestro-of-the-melodic-spark-0w6mbp5fm “Most imminently there's a piano concerto to be written for Emanuel Ax ("I finished the first movement yesterday")”

Just read The Times article: no mention of Williams conducting in London (just references the ASM concert) but interestingly does say “starry guest-conducting gigs in Vienna next year and Berlin in 2025”.

My whole household - here in London - has just jumped to red alert! 🤣

Wait.. WHAT? January? London?

Big +1 to this. It’s so fascinating hearing the obstacles to getting magic like this done.

I loved seeing that in Milan. Sometime, give me two hours, a nice drink, my reading glasses and a comfy chair to really look at it!

Did exactly the same!

My amazing wife got the hints and this was under the tree today - Merry Christmas to all!

How much for a bowl of risotto?! 🤣 (JWFan meet-up joke!)

Immediate purchase!

This, exactly.

Red 5 standing by!

En route and excited, with black turtle sweater on and carrying my umbrella purchased at the Musikverein gift shop! 🤣

Havergal Brian’s The Gothic.

Really looking forward to this.

Terrific news!

They are - I just picked up Temple this week from Amazon.