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It doesn't how many times you ask or begin playing. I am not going to sing anything from Rigoletto or anything else for that matter. Now, what the hell was I talking about?
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John Williams' Film Night at Tanglewood, Aug 2 and 3, 2024
Tom replied to Smeltington's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
Welcome to Saturday at Tanglewood. After performing so many of my older, rarely performed pieces last night, I thought that for tonight we would play the Throne Room and End Credits on repeat for two hours. -
Why did John Williams never have a cameo in a Spielberg movie?
Tom replied to JTN's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
Williams demanded a decked out trailer and insisted on his own hair guy. -
Why did John Williams never have a cameo in a Spielberg movie?
Tom replied to JTN's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
It is an open secret in Hollywood that Williams is a demanding and difficult actor to work with. -
The website is fantastic--thank you for all of your hard work on behalf of us fans and those wishing to learn more about JW.
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Hopefully these Olympics won't have athletes competing who won medals at previous Olympic games. They might still be better than the competition, but that is not how winning should work.
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It seems like we are close enough in range of the Olympics that they would ask him. It would be a cool bookend of sorts with the 84 LA games.
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I know we are a score-first fandom in general, but I think we can expect several more concert pieces (and maybe a fun occasion piece here and there).* *and maybe, just maybe, if we hang around long enough we will get to hear the Vienna Ball Fanfare.
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There is also a new Superman film that is already shooting, I believe.
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Stolen from the snob thread: Mancini, Goldsmith, Williams top, Rosenman, North bottom:
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The Force Awakens says hello.
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My guess is that it actually happened--though, of course, as a joke to Harrison Ford.
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Did Jerry Goldsmith really call John Williams “such a snob”?
Tom replied to JTN's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
I think the fact that he was already a household name played a huge role. These comments make BPO seem borderline racist. Seiji had been the conductor of the BSO for 7 years at this point for heaven's sake. I don't think his literal name had anything to do with it. -
I think he is asked so much that large stretches without anything rarely come up. He talks about the tuba and viola concerto being somewhat spontaneous. Heartwood probably the same. I wonder how much the piano concerto is him and how much Ax asking. I do think that he loves the popular vein of composing more than he realizes or at least sometimes lets on. Jumping at the ESPN thing the way he did and the comments in this interview point to him wanting more than just concert-hall composing. 50 years from now, musicologists are going to be dumbfounded that he pulled off a lifetime worth of work for the concert hall and a lifetime worth of work for movies (and a hell of a lot of occasion pieces to boot). He seems so balanced. His comments on Goldsmith and others being unhappy due to their career frustrations is so perceptive. He found the recipe for a lifetime of happiness as a composer--something that very, very few composers (from Mozart to Beethoven to Goldsmith) have pulled off.
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back in the 90s when I watched SNL, there would be times when I was not sure whether the commercial I was watching was legit or a spoof. I am having the same confusion with "Rouge Two."
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Why did John Williams never have a cameo in a Spielberg movie?
Tom replied to JTN's topic in JOHN WILLIAMS
Looking for better dental care.