Brando

Two hours of variations on Yub Nub 

Yeah, he keeps returning to this piece!
 
Reminds me of Adventures of Mutt becoming a mainstay long after memories of that film faded.

A wonderful experience of a lifetime it was for me.  Still processing it, can't quite believe it.  I saw John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl!
I love how in tune the orchestra was with JW on selections like Olympic Fanfare and The BFG.
It's like, David Newman is a very competent conductor, and the orchestra sounded great under his baton (especially Sabrina, which is a lovely score to hear live), but when John got warmed up, it was just electric.  There were moments where you felt he was getting exactly what he wanted, just the right balance during the high points of the Olympic Fanfare, clarity in the rapid intricate wind passages in The BFG (it was astonishing to see how vigorous he got at that point), and the rousing and precise end to Adventures of Han.
I love how he seemed to want the audience to really like BFG, he appears proud of the work.
 
Of course the encores were incredible.  The music itself was very familiar, but the way he drew on the crowd's excitement and love and infused that energy into the orchestra was just thrilling to be part of.  

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

But in general I think that Abrams is responsible for the fact that he always changed the content of the entire film on the one hand and had no clear plan on the other, as he already admitted. There's that one scene in one of the documentaries where John Williams said that J.J. Abrams always wanted new music and then they always apologized to each other that John didn't write the right music (why is he apologizing for that, it's Abrams fault that the music didn't fit anymore) and Abrams for asking for new music. So I think it's primarily J.J Abrams's fault.
 
Matessino for the expanded album sometimes?
Maybe a new album will bring clearity to this, who knows. But I think for every outsider it is impossible to understand everything. Many decisions were made practically immediately on the spot and that was never communicated to the outside. I wonder if Matessino can see through that. Hopefully there are still records somewhere of all the decisions. If not, the memories will be lost over the years anyway. Maybe there will be a documentary about the circumstances, where many things will come to light. Like Hearts of Darkness about the circumstances of Apocalypse Now.😂😂😂

Yeah, was the one disappointing aspect of an otherwise wonderful show. 
Especially since we got TLJ, Galaxys Edge and Solo in 2019. 
When Newman and Williams came out both wielding sabers, I thought “this might be it!” Alas the lights came on soon after. 
Still a great experience, and I really enjoyed the selection of the non-JW scores. 

That golf thing he did with the lightsaber was great.

Encores were
 

My sister, cousin and 6-year old niece went to the performance last night. My niece has been to the bowl before, but not to see John Williams. Her review is succinct:
 
”I had no idea idea this would be so magical. I wish this night would never end.”
 
 

JW looked spry and anticipating the orchestra and music rather than following. (I last saw him in Chicago and Boston about 3 years ago and he looked fatigued/distracted.) Typical recent concert fare. Three encores. The highlight of the evening was the ‘84 (?) Olympic theme set to recent highlights of winter and summer games. This was truly phenomenal video editing and synchronization. The audience loved it. I would love to see it released. 

Good. That'll give ol' J-Dubs some extra time to nix a few more cues from the release.

It has a defective CD, 1 year delayed.

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=145068&forumID=1&archive=0

Given the pandemic, these concerts are truly momentous occasions.
 
I can't understand why they wouldn't record and broadcast these for everyone to enjoy, especially with half the world stuck in lockdowns and orchestras struggling to regain normality.

Let's look back at a statement MV made back on May 1st of this year, here.
 
"We currently have 8 titles still waiting approvals at UME which has been going on for a long long time
Two titles at Sony Music
1 over at WMG
And a host of others all over town.
X-Men was the first title to get out of that UME log jam. Hopefully others will follow shortly."
 
Since that post, LLL has announced:
 
UME/UMG (Universal music):
Always Somewhere In Time Glory SME (Sony music):
none WMG (Warner music):
A.I. Artificial Intelligence re-issue Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan all over town
Caboblanco (Silver Lion Films) Dragonslayer (Paramount Pictures) Infinite (Paramount Pictures) Internal Affairs (Paramount Pictures) Waiting for Barbarians (Pianella Music) Time Tunnel Vol 2 (Synthesis Entertainment, 20th Century Studios and Legendary Pictures) Snake Eyes (Paramount Pictures) Woman Warriors (Higher Purpose Production) Stripes (Sony pictures)  
So remaining from his May 1st post are still 5 more Universal Music titles, and the 2 Sony Music titles (which incidentally, he first mentioned back in February 2019)
 
 
 
 
 
Wondering which Williams scores are controlled by Universal Music or Sony Music?  See John Williams scores - By Music Label

and the Time Tunnel vol. 3
Probably next mounth