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OK, 3 important things: 1) All Carnegie Hall inaugural concerts are broadcast on PBS. This year was San Francisco Symphony under Tilson Thomas. HD supported. 2) Most likely the BSO will include On Willows and Birches in their own season in the Symphony Hall 3) As I expected, Ann Hobson Pilot will be the soloist. She's going to retire in the end of the current season. What a better tribute than a new concerto written for her by JW.

Only Wanted.

Really nice cover, Dalboz! But John Williams isn't the arranger, but the composer of the piece.

Chamber music is generally underappreciated. whereas it can be high art as is symphonic music. More doesn't mean better.

I agree, the first notes are the same but the rest of the phrase corresponds to the usual Williams phrasing. But, as I said in my earlier posts in this thread, the theme would be in the vein of American Collection (Masterpiece Theater).

He compares a 25 minute large scale work for symphony orchestra, choir and children choir and pre-recorded voices and sound to a 4 minute chamber work that is based on a popular song. What a great critic, with so much argumentation.

Thanks, Jason!

It's easy with a FLV converter. Whoever wants the MP3 can send me a PM.

How's the video quality in yours, KM?

The RealPlayer Download & Recording Plugin works. You get a nice 18.7 MB .flv download. Much easier than that: http://msnbc.vo.llnwd.net/e1/video/flash/n_yoyoma_090120.flv

Even the Chinese are more respectful towards JW's music.

Fabulous! I hope the sound is good, I have recorded it from several radio stations (some dialogue on them too) and it didn't seem to be direct sound from the musicians but instead taken from the crowd.

Great piece, not exempt from virtuosity. It had dialogue all over the place on the TV channel I was recording from I hope someone got a clean recording.

Let's not forget this isn't the first time that "Simple Gifts" serves as inspiration to Williams. He quoted it briefly in the American Collection theme. A theme played, again, by Yo-Yo Ma

I don't think that foreigners are less capacitated to write music ala Ifukube. If many Japanese orchestral scores (especially the kaiju eigas) sound like him it's mostly because of the Ifukube school that has prevailed for decades in the Japanese entertainment industry. In my opinion, of course. Mason Bates, Kevin Puts, Eric Whitacre, Thomas Adès, Olga Neuwirth... are some of my favorite young composers. Not writing for movies, unfortunately. As for film composers under 50, I would choose Roque Baños as the most gifted one. Carles Cases is even better but he's turning 50 this year...

"I got it!"

Boring. Same 2 chords over and over again. Plus it sounds like everything else Newman has done before in his new age vein.

OK, I'll start. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (John Williams) Gake no Ue no Ponyo (Joe Hisaishi) Km. 31 (Carles Cases) Wanted (Danny Elfman) Holocene (Jonas Bohlin)

Agh, after doing some cleaning up of the image and color enhancement (and a little of imagination), I finally figured out the last missing word, EXPENSES. MEANT and COMPENSATION are both right.

That's really sad news. She's been a close collaborator and friends with Williams for decades, and hasn't got the recognition she deserves. She'll be sorely missed

And Amistad and SPR have some of their roots in Copland.

You need to listen to more Copland, Joey.

I predict some of the TV presenters will talk during the piece, at least in the beginning, doing some obvious comments on Williams, Ma, Perlman... and the piece itself. We need to record it from a communicator-free TV channel.

Sarcasm, obviously.