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Does any know if any of the LSO players that performed on the actual ROTJ scoring sessions back in 1983 are playing with this current LSO, now?

You've probably known it already, but I'm putting here for posterity. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is holding a raffle for a give-a-way of 5 copies from Varese's 2022 Deluxe Edition CD release of Goldsmith's RUDY score. This promotion-notice comes 2 days before the label would officially announce the title of their new Deluxe Edition CD release on September 16, 2022

It is not an official album press release, but a friend of mine that is going to the RUDY LTP concert in Indianapolis tomorrow got this email today from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. This is the link to that CD from Varese's website, but it is not ready yet. https://varesesarabande.com/products/jerry-goldsmith-rudy-the-deluxe-edition-cd?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9-16-22_FS1_PCE_FRI&utm_content=version_A&uid=639352&sourceNumber=32251 Stay tuned! Edit: Here is the album cover that appears in the said orchestra's Facebook page. Description of album content from that Facebook post: "This Deluxe Edition expands the sequence to 67 minutes and features new liner notes by Tim Greiving, who interviewed the real-life Rudy Ruettiger, writer Angelo Pizzo, director David Anspaugh and actor Sean Astin, as well as Get Out composer Michael Abels, who worked at the sessions. Archival comments by Goldsmith and contractor JoAnn Kane are also included."

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra John Williams, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA USA. Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 7:30pm https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/John-Williams Program: Sound the Bells! Violin Concerto No. 2 (San Francisco Symphony Premiere) Flight to Neverland from Hook Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Duel, from The Adventures of Tintin Nice to be Around, from Cinderella Liberty Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter Throne Room & Finale, from Star Wars: A New Hope Tickets go on sale Friday, September 16, 2022 at 10:AM PST

...when you are in an aisle seat at an LTP concert and before the show you hope and pray that the hall has a technical malfunction with the projection and audio amplifiers so that the orchestra plays the film’s entire music score without the film, but you would settle for not hearing the dialogue and sound-effects track.

I agree with that. Just a theory, but it might be that the LTP concert-rental for TROS is already created, and that Disney-Concerts may be making it known to their clients--the orchestras that have been using their rentals over the years--before going public. I’m basing this on my observing the bookings of 2 other Disney-Concerts LTP rentals— ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Hocus Pocus’. I’ve noticed orchestras booking those two, but I’ve not seen the image-logo of these concerts in Disney-Concerts’ website. It was after some months have passed shortly before the first performances of these concerts that their image-logos began appearing in the renter's website. Where I am, in the USA, the orchestra-concert season—covering September through August-- has started so the content for most of the orchestras’ schedules are finalized. No orchestras there, or anywhere—according to the Movies in Concert website—is doing TROS. If my theory is true, orchestras that may be interested in booking the TROS-LTP for the 2023-24 season may show up in their schedules during the first quarter of 2023. The first schedule I would look at in 2023 is from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, since they’ll be doing TLJ this May.

The LTP concerts of TFA and TLJ exist. The LTP concert of TFA premiered in New York City, NY on October 6th, 2016. Coursey of the website, Movies in Concert, here is a list of venues that are playing that in the future. The LTP concert of TLJ premiered in October of 2019 in Tokyo Japan. So far that is the only orchestra that has used the rental. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra will be doing it this May. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/star-wars-the-last-jedi-in-concert/ The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is the second orchestra that will be doing it. I haven't heard anything about the LTP for TROS. The image-logo for that would be seen at the 'Disney Concerts' website.

This reminded me of an article from the June 1979 (number 23) issue of 'Starlog' magazine where Dan O'Bannon, screenwriter of the film "Alien', was quoted as saying that he and director Ridley Scott wanted Tomita to score that film.

American Youth Symphony Orchestra. Carlos Izcaray, Conductor Royce Hall at UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. Saturday, November 5th 2022 at 4pm Tickets go on sale September 27th 2022 https://www.aysymphony.org/14-annual-hollywood-project-concert-2022/

The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra of Louisiana will be doing the SW:ANH LTP concert this September. https://acadianasymphony.org/concerts/ A member of the orchestra’s Board of Directors, Kohlie Frantzan, claims in this post from his Facebook page that Jack Nitzsche was the first choice as composer for ‘Star Wars.’

Pre-concert talk at 7:10pm with director David Anspaugh, writer Angelo Pizzo, and Rudy Ruettiger. https://www.facebook.com/rudyinconcert/photos/a.2100638116635256/5677736015592097

Rehearsal video of this concert by said orchestra. https://www.facebook.com/100064360257143/posts/pfbid02MPQuvLjbbbAUX6B5AxSj8sFNBaPtGzV5JrU4HApftW9gMVWGTQUrwEF5H9PHEDLDl/

I am thinking that in order for a movie with a classical/romanticism-type orchestral score to get released today, these following key production people, outside of the director, have to sign-off on it: The person paying for the entire film’s budget—most likely the executive producer. The distributor who has to sell the film with that type of music to those who will be showing it—theatres, TV stations, streaming platforms, etc. Take the film, ‘Legend’ (1985), for example. The film was made independently but it needed the resources of major film-studios to get the film seen by the public. The production company delivered a version of the film that featured a lush, Debussy-like orchestral score by Jerry Goldsmith. The first theatrical cut with that score was released in Europe by distributor, 20th Century-Fox, however, things changed when the film was prepped for release in the USA. The film’s distributor for that territory—Universal Pictures—decided that the film would appeal to younger viewers (the film's lead actor--Tom Cruise--was a rising star at that time for that audience) by trashing the lush, Debussy-like orchestral score and replacing it with a New-Age, electronic-infused score from Tangerine Dream. In the end, the film failed theatrically in the USA, anyway. So, it may take the combined forces of a production company and a distributor who both share a taste of films from the late 1970's through the 1980's to bring film music back to that lush-orchestral style of writing by using it on a film that is going to be a bit hit.

Apparently, the end credits are shown during the concert, but no music is played as the audience and musicians are filing out the hall.

This fan scored a meet-n-greet and an autograph with the composer at that LTP concert in San Francisco, CA early July 2022. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfhu1ZnPvqB/

There is an LTP concert created for 'Wonder Woman' (2017) https://schirmertheatrical.com/show/wonderwoman/ The world premiere would have taken place in Paris, France on October 28, 2022... but it is now cancelled. https://www.ledomedeparis.com/fr/spectacle/125/wonder-woman

It's for Marcus Mumford. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/18/entertainment/steven-spielberg-marcus-mumford/index.html

Here's a USA booking of Jurassic World LTP concert, 2 and 3/4 years after the last one. Utah Symphony Orchestra August 12 and 13, 2022 https://utahsymphony.org/event/id/28463/

LTP concert of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" San Francisco Symphony Orchestra December 16th and 17th 2022 https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/How-the-Grinch-Stole-Christmas

For LaLa Land's sake, all the units of their "Planet of the Apes' CD-Box set have better be sold. Because this JP release, has convinced me to wait unit 1st 'Planet of the Apes' remastered-CD soundtrack gets released.

For that 2nd video, I got the link from here in the forum and someone mentioned that it was from the Olympic Studio scoring sessions but I can't find a post that mentions this. So I am not 100% sure if that footage is even a film-scoring session project. However, I am certain that the said segment was broadcasted on TV in 1983, the year of ROTJ. So, who knows?

There are these: This is from the ABC-TV News program, '20/20'. It features footage of the Abbey Road scoring sessions. Also, This one has a brief clip of the Olympic Studio scoring sessions but no original audio on that film.

Bill Conti's 'Master of the Universe' (1987). See page 8 on the liner notes from Intrada's 2012 CD release-ISC vol. 205.

Who wants to make a bet that the 20-second-long cue will turn-up in Intrada’s CD re-release 10 years later? BTW, at what point in the movie is this cue?

I appreciate your clarifying that, @rough cut For that sequence of the detectives tailing Otis, was there music over the entire sequence at the concert? (You don't have to respond, rough cut, if you don't want to. Anyone else who attended the concert can respond.) I’m asking because in both the theatrical cut and the director’s extended cut, the music fades-out over this shot… …and reappears about 2 minutes later over this shot... Also, Mike M. said that there will be some music restored exclusively for this concert so I was wondering if that sequence was one of them.