Martinland

Grandson of Star Wars actor Mark Hamill receiving A New Hope OST re-release limited to 5 units from the John Williams Estate, ca. 2077.

JW: I will be king of the concert hall! Lesser composers will be in awe of my virtuosity! Better composers will have already died...!
 
Kid: Your crown needs work.
 

 
 

Some other cool stuff up there, I'd appreciate a like and or subscribe
 
 
 
 

Dear Daisy,
 
In your last letter you mentioned that you really like guys who work with their hands and make things.  Coincidentally, I have recently given up composing for some "real work," as you call it.  Today we are using jackhammers. Tomorrow comes the concrete.  
 
John

"You need a better worker than me on your construction site." - "I know, but they all fell from the scaffolding."

Aloha NOF!
 
It happened in wonderful Dublin.
 
I am curious about ConorPower's assessment of this, since I thought in advance about that sequence and there being no choir - but during the performance not only did I not miss the choir, I heard no obvious distracting synthesizer (quite sensitive to that, being a musician myself) - and I paid more attention to the orchestra, conductor, and overall sound/orchestration details than to the screen. It just worked/blended wonderfully well - all in an acoustic setting (as opposed to e.g. the amplified Final Fantasy 14 concert at the Hammersmith Apollo in London four days earlier - still an amazing experience with more than 3500 excited people in the audience) and with punches and streamers only.
 
For FF they (Alexandra Cravero and members of the orchestra) had a click ... only Anthony Gabriele managed to conduct Superman w/o any visual aids other than the movie itself in June; simply amazing. (he comes from ballet, I had a fascinating post-concert talk with him)
 
Having said that, Caleb Young's conducting was precise and a joy to experience, the sync was spookily close to the picture (e.g. cymbal crash with the wave leaping up the submarine, punches and cuts during flying wing sequence, et cetera) and he really shone after the intermission with a free and fast-paced interpretation of Mutt's theme and especially during the end credits, during which he emphasized the romantic passages in a quasi-rubato style only to finish the Raiders March in a *very* brisk and *exciting* manner - something I would not have thought possible after having heard/seen it so many times. Simply great. Let's not talk about the furious and demanding desert chase, the enhanced dynamics and more...
 
I was swept away by the whole performance ... there were details, for example in the piano sections, that I haven't registered before.
 
There was maybe one phrase and one not very prominent note flubbed in the French horns and brass respectively ... but we're talking about playing the whole score live to picture! We know the LSO recording(s) well enough to realise that this surpasses them almost, if you do not take into account the latter sight-reading during a film recording instead of rehearsing for a concert performance.
 
Sorry for  the baroque answer.
 
No real choir, indeed, but you were not there? I am pretty sure Caleb Young worked on the balance of anything intruding the purely acoustic sound of the orchestra. The balance between the movie sound effects and dialogue was really perfect as well, despite the former having had quite a bit of a presence in the low frequencies; even more so than in June w/ Superman. I should have asked who ultimately balances this ... the sound engineer or the conductor; most probably both, during rehearsals, I presume.
 
Haha, au contraire - see above...

Very nice! Who recorded those?
 
That's amazing - it blended in wonderfully and didn't draw attention to itself, if this was the case ... listen to it again in those FSM recordings ... I will not be able to, probably.
 
Used to buy FSM on paper, even in London soundtrack shops now long gone...
 
Ciao! 

Home Alone with choir is fantastic.  It's one of my favorite LTP shows.  They place the intermission before any choir is needed, so they are not on stage for the first half.  The second half of the film has lots of choir, including the entire church sequence, and it really makes it a fun show.  Plus its just a fun movie to see with a live audience, so much comedic moments to enjoy together

Again, I agree with @Martinland’s assessment of the evening. Really tight and balanced performance on a whole. The Map Room is my favourite cue, and the absence of a live choir didn’t affect my enjoyment of the sequence in the slightest. I did pick up on the synth choir and thought it blended quite well, and didn’t stick out in an irritating manner. 
I see a choir will be used for the Home Alone concerts in Dublin in December - very excited to see how that’s handled. The last LTP concerts I saw with choir were all the LoTR. A high standard was set!!

How does it sound?
 

Someone thinks it will be lol. Of course it’s still available from Disney still. 

And when those become unavailable, we're dependent on streaming services - and those *are* region locked, and also time-limited and unreliable. Not to mention that they often (Amazon at least) have horrid quality, and we have no option to choose between different releases anymore.

Aloha NOF!
 
It happened in wonderful Dublin.
 
I am curious about ConorPower's assessment of this, since I thought in advance about that sequence and there being no choir - but during the performance not only did I not miss the choir, I heard no obvious distracting synthesizer (quite sensitive to that, being a musician myself) - and I paid more attention to the orchestra, conductor, and overall sound/orchestration details than to the screen. It just worked/blended wonderfully well - all in an acoustic setting (as opposed to e.g. the amplified Final Fantasy 14 concert at the Hammersmith Apollo in London four days earlier - still an amazing experience with more than 3500 excited people in the audience) and with punches and streamers only.
 
For FF they (Alexandra Cravero and members of the orchestra) had a click ... only Anthony Gabriele managed to conduct Superman w/o any visual aids other than the movie itself in June; simply amazing. (he comes from ballet, I had a fascinating post-concert talk with him)
 
Having said that, Caleb Young's conducting was precise and a joy to experience, the sync was spookily close to the picture (e.g. cymbal crash with the wave leaping up the submarine, punches and cuts during flying wing sequence, et cetera) and he really shone after the intermission with a free and fast-paced interpretation of Mutt's theme and especially during the end credits, during which he emphasized the romantic passages in a quasi-rubato style only to finish the Raiders March in a *very* brisk and *exciting* manner - something I would not have thought possible after having heard/seen it so many times. Simply great. Let's not talk about the furious and demanding desert chase, the enhanced dynamics and more...
 
I was swept away by the whole performance ... there were details, for example in the piano sections, that I haven't registered before.
 
There was maybe one phrase and one not very prominent note flubbed in the French horns and brass respectively ... but we're talking about playing the whole score live to picture! We know the LSO recording(s) well enough to realise that this surpasses them almost, if you do not take into account the latter sight-reading during a film recording instead of rehearsing for a concert performance.
 
Sorry for  the baroque answer.
 
No real choir, indeed, but you were not there? I am pretty sure Caleb Young worked on the balance of anything intruding the purely acoustic sound of the orchestra. The balance between the movie sound effects and dialogue was really perfect as well, despite the former having had quite a bit of a presence in the low frequencies; even more so than in June w/ Superman. I should have asked who ultimately balances this ... the sound engineer or the conductor; most probably both, during rehearsals, I presume.
 
Haha, au contraire - see above...

Yeah, I remember the Raiders concert at Royal Albert Hall very fondly. I believe it was my first John Williams live to projection. Good times, they should do more Indy.
 
Karol

@Martinland Agreed! A great show altogether. 

Yesterday, w/ whole family, all the three of us... ...it was outstanding really, topped the LSO and film experience, in my humble opinion... <3
 
 

Yesterday, w/ whole family, all the three of us... ...it was outstanding really, topped the LSO and film experience, in my humble opinion... <3
 
 

I'm Bouzereau, and so's my wife!

This has to be Post Of The Month.

I wonder what a potential tracklist would be.
 
1. Main Title: New York, 1932 (4:06)
2. Dead Composers Anecdote (3:54)
3. John Meets Steven (2:34)
4. George's Theme (11:38)
5. Dead Composers Anecdote (Reprise) (3:54)
6. Arrival in Boston (4:35)
7. The Microediting Montage (15:48)
8. Dead Composers Anecdote (Reprise) (3:54)
9. Scherzo for Turtleneck and Orchestra (2:49)
10. The Lasik Scene (5:23)
11. Journey To Tanglewood (3:45)
12. Dead Composers Anecdote (Reprise) (3:54)
13. Welcome To Vienna (1:42)
14. Turning 90 and The Adventure Continues (7:03)
15. Dead Composers Anecdote (For Violin And Orchestra) (feat. Anne-Sophie Mutter) (4:21)

Yesterday, w/ whole family, all the three of us... ...it was outstanding really, topped the LSO and film experience, in my humble opinion... <3
 
 

Yes, on my way home - a brilliant evening. 

Sorry, but last night I dreamed about James Newton Howard.
 
For real.
 
I'm ready to face excommunication.

Mmm... this is a tough one. The beginning of Schindler's List...?
 
 
 
 
 
 

I remember seeing, back in the mid-90s, a headline from the Weekly World News claiming there were elderly people close to death who refused to die until they could witness the OJ verdict. I kinda feel like we're at a pretty similar point now with this Disney CD/LP release.