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Get ready for two or three Binary Sunsets each episode.

The 2020s will be called his swan song period, we can be sure of that.

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I love precise ensemble play, such as that of Cleveland, Concertgebouw, Staatskapelle Dresden, 1970s-1990s LSO recordings, etc. However, there is an alternative to this. The 'wash of sound' world of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Moritz Rosenthal, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and other Romantics. The overall effect, especially when heard live and very visceraly, is more important than precision, and the tonality is thought to sometimes be served best precisely when the listener cannot sort out all the strands. The Romantics predicted accurately that recordings would make people forget how music feels live and dwell on any inaccuracies forever, for which reason Rubinstein, known to 'lose 20% of notes under the table' refused to play on record other than as an accompanist. The VPO, who consider themselves the custodians of the art of Wagner, Bruckner, and other Romantics, are stubbornly an image of this older time, in a tradition they call 'the Vienna sound'. Due to differing priorities, making mistakes in the VPO is as permissible as playing without passion is in the Berliner Phil. Btw. couldn't resist linking this (7:37+), as it perfectly highlights the irony of speaking about insufficient rhythmic precision when playing Brahms. Even the 'classical' conservatives of the time such as he and Joseph Joachim, took liberties just to show off their freedom to do so. check out the oboist Leon Goossens's rhythmic modification of Tchaikovsky's theme: Is it inferior to Tchaikovsky's idea? Yeah, it is. But the point was that deliberate chaos of your own making shows that you are a free man (or woman), not forced to be like a machine, not forced to 'be optimal' like a part in a factory. This is sadly unrelatable to many.

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But Williams did say in Berlin that upon a return home he would begin working on this score. That was 4 months ago.

I found out the existence of this list for Morricone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ennio_Morricone_concerts Would be nice to have a Williams one too.

Aww.

A hardworking carpenter who loves nature, is kind to everyone, performs miracles, and has something of a cult around him. Fellow disciples, Williams is officially a musical Jesus.

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On a short notice to let the locals in this time! They have been discussing Williams's return for over a year, if not full two years at this point. They were obviously unwilling to commit to announcing such a star event without COVID rules in Austria being lax enough for a concert to take place, and Williams being available. I bet neither side wanted to postpone this collaboration for too long, considering Williams's age. Maybe April, June, etc. were precisely NOT a possible window, and they had to choose between settling for March a mere month prior, or waiting a year.

Some old-timers at FSM (and classical sites) believe that sharing Youtube links can bring misfortune on an individual, so they abstain from it. It's a relic from a bygone era when proto-JWFanners hadn't developed full consciousness yet, and ended each message speaking about themselves in third person, like Pokemon.

I bet a court jury would say 'John Williams'.

putting pressure? He is making a flying drone shoot the kid with lazers so that the kid has no other choice but to do sommersaults if it doesn't want to get hit

Has the Bavarian Radio SO ever played Williams' music? Will it this time?

I would be greatly interested in reading an article about the influence of the music of Williams on the music in LOTR. There seems to be an unspoken shroud of not saying anything whether they are there, and if so, where (I have a few guesses, just as I presume do others). Maybe it's chiefly for legal reasons (if so, then sigh). A dedicated article about Williams and Prokofiev by someone who deeply knows the music of the latter would be cool, too.

Check out the Vertigo! and the Sea Hawk

Yeah, as noted by @Disco Stu, Williams has been available for scoring work for about 50% of cinema's commercial history thus far (1895-2022). It becomes 60% if you start with Saint-Saens in 1908.

to me the most mindblowing thing was that World War II was only as far back in 1977 as Home Alone is now.

Rarely have chamber renditions of Williams's music been as satisfying to me as these are. Thanks for sharing @Jay

I posted this sort of thing about relative distances back in 2019, here it is updated: Puts things into perspective... btw. this year the Vienna Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic both turn 180 (both founded 1842). Williams is exactly half as old.

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