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Malcolm96

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    Malcolm96 got a reaction from Tom Guernsey in John Williams concerts in London (1985/1996/1998)   
    Hi, gents. I was excited to find this thread on here. In 1996 I was eleven years old and desperately wanted to attend the Barbican concert. Living in Yorkshire meant I didn't make it. BUT, I listened to the broadcast on Radio 3 and bootlegged it! I still have the original tapes (including bits of JW's segues in between items), and about 15 years ago excerpted the tracks onto another tape, which I am this very evening converting to .wav format to put on a CD. 
     
    Would anyone like to hear these very grainy, low-quality tape captures of the 1996 concert?
     
    EDIT: I now see that someone earlier offered a recording and it is apparently not rare! Forgive my oversight!
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    Malcolm96 reacted to scoreman36 in John Williams concerts in London (1985/1996/1998)   
    The radio broadcast from 96 is not exactly rare, but I've got an mp3 if anyone wants it (no encores though)
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    Malcolm96 reacted to QuartalHarmony in John Williams concerts in London (1985/1996/1998)   
    Whilst digging out the programmes, I also found an article from ?Classic FM magazine from around Spring 99, mainly covering the recording and release of the TPM score. Most of the article is the usual fluff about Star Wars being popular (duh), Williams having recorded the music for all of them with the world-reknowned LSO (ditto), but there was a short section with one of the horn players from the original Star Wars sessions who was brought back for TPM. Some nice anecdotes that I don't think are that well known (snoring horn player, for example?) and confirmation that the ANH recording sessions in March 1977 were, indeed, Maurice Murphy's first paid gig with the LSO.
     
    There's also a reference to the 1998 concerts, where the audience's reaction to JW was, apparently, even more adulatory that that afforded to Bernstein, Solti or Abbado!
     
    Mark
     
     


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