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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")”

Did exactly the same!

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”.

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")”

If Williams comes to Berlin in 2025 I hope I might be able to see him there live for the first time. It's the closest he'll ever be to where I am

More an expression of shock, Jay!

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

Wait.. WHAT? January? London?

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")”

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!)

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")”

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!)

Not just young. It's also when there was nothing even remotely like it. Not even all the things it borrowed from. It literally changed the game.
 
 
Hmmm. There are new things I love. There are still things I obsess over. (The Expanse.) There are other film scores I play into the ground. But something that hit me like Star Wars? I'm trying to think of something more recent that The Wrath of Khan that even comes close.
 
Again, how much of that is a factor of how much of a game changer Star Wars was and how much of it is not being 8 anymore? Dunno.

Pretty much sums it up for me. And I think you had to have seen Star Wars at a certain age to get that feeling. TESB, an objectively better film, comes close, very close, but nothing can top seeing Star Wars the first time when you're young.
 
And the closest I came as an adult to that kind of experience was Fellowship of the Ring. But even then, it's a completely different feeling.

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")”

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")”

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

Wait.. WHAT? January? London?

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")”

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. 

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”.

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”.

The Vienna "announcement" might be a fluke, too - Fabio Luisi is conducting ASM and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Vienna in June:
https://www.anne-sophie-mutter.de/konzert/2024/06/07-06-2023-john-williams-violin-concerto-no-2-2-2-2-2-2/

Wait.. WHAT? January? London?