Tom 2,726 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Williams performed an arrangement of Memoirs in Tanglewood in 06 that was a virtual cello concerto. I hope that is what they are recording in Chicago. Hopefully we will get word on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scissorhands 16 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 What are they recording in Chicago? Who?SELF-EDIT: Ooops, news in the main site. GREAT! I hope they record that suite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QMM 4 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Dammit I'll be in New Zealand when this happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scissorhands 16 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 This is more than a simple suite: it's a whole concert with music from Memoirs of a Geisha!http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=3,11,6,1&EventID=2483It will be as well the first official live concert recording release of John Williams. Such amazing news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 1,931 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Oh my God, these are incredible news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 2,726 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Perhaps someone should remind Williams to record the horn concerto while he is in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Wow! Looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,519 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 This is absolutely wonderful news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 55 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Can't wait for the official bootleg recording of this. Why wait for Sony? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 2,924 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 This is more than a simple suite: it's a whole concert with music from Memoirs of a Geisha!http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=3,11,6,1&EventID=2483It will be as well the first official live concert recording release of John Williams. Such amazing news!How many Memoirs recordings do we need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 1,931 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 It is a sublime score. To hear arranged in a suite and recorded on an official release is a dream come true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpigeon 3 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 This is great news! I absolutely love this score, but have lamented the fact that Williams has come up with so many brilliant arrangements of these themes (many of them better than those on the OST album), but that they weren't included on the soundtrack. So I have a feeling this may be a more exciting album than the soundtrack. I can't wait!Ted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 It is a sublime score. To hear arranged in a suite and recorded on an official release is a dream come true.I concur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Hoyt 13 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I can't wait. I really enjoy Memoirs, its one of those scores that always takes me back to a certain place. Hopefully they don't wait too long after the concert to release it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 It is about time Memoirs concert piece got a proper recording. The stuff he did after the film was released was loads better than the in movie music. This is what they'll be recording, I presume - the huge suite he performed at Tanglewood. Such complexity yet simplicity and beauty in the concert version of the score. I was so happy he just kept on writing that score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 1,931 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 So does anyone how the track list might be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 So does anyone how the track list might be?I might... I'll let you know later this evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 2,924 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I'd rather have a recording of Williams complete Harry Potter suites,in good sound to replace all the crappy bootlegged recordingsor something we don't have,like the horn concerto.Memoirs is definately not some of Williams best themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 1,931 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Few other scores are as suited for the suite format as Memoirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I'd rather have a recording of Williams complete Harry Potter suites,in good sound to replace all the crappy bootlegged recordingsor something we don't have,like the horn concerto.Memoirs is definately not some of Williams best themes.Let me rephrase you: I'd rather have a recording of Williams complete Memoirs of a Geisha suite,in good sound to replace all the crappy bootlegged recordingSomething we don't have,like the horn concerto, would be nice too.Potter has definately some of Williams best themes, but not the very best.So does anyone how the track list might be?I might... I'll let you know later this evening Later in the evening hasn't arrived yet, but I found the answer right here in the site.Suite from Memoirs of a GeishaSayuri's Theme, Going to School, The Chairman's Waltz, Brush on Silk, Chiyo's Prayer, Becoming a Geisha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 126 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Very excited about this, but let's hope that concert arrangement as we got in bad quality from that recent concert is included! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Very excited about this, but let's hope that concert arrangement as we got in bad quality from that recent concert is included!I'm guessing you mean the one with the Thornton School of Music SO... If he's doing the same suite as the one performed in 2006, then won't be that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 783 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Let me rephrase you: I'd rather have a recording of Williams complete Memoirs of a Geisha suite,in good sound to replace all the crappy bootlegged recordingSomething we don't have,like the horn concerto, would be nice too.Potter has definately some of Williams best themes, but not the very best.HAHA! lol, man.Can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,284 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 It is a sublime score. To hear arranged in a suite and recorded on an official release is a dream come true.I concur.Me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,548 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Well, let's hope they will do a video recording of the concert as well. It would be a magnificent DVD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,519 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Memoirs is definitely one score I love to hear reinterpreted and rerecorded.And now Johnny should record a suite from Angela's Ashes as well. Another score well suited for a suite treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Memoirs is definitely one score I love to hear reinterpreted and rerecorded.And now Johnny should record a suite from Angela's Ashes as well. Another score well suited for a suite treatment. Williams and Ma recorded at least a few movements from the Angela's Ashes suite during the Cello Concerto sessions... Hopefully we'll have those released at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 126 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I'm guessing you mean the one with the Thornton School of Music SO...If he's doing the same suite as the one performed in 2006, then won't be that one.Damn, what a pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarbas 1 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I'm very happy with these news! I love Memoirs and concert arrangements are always welcome, mainly because the themes and musical phrases can be developed without the pressure to fit the images.I'd like to hear a concert suite from Angela's Ashes score too... imagine, for example, the initial melody from Angels Never Cough totally developed in a theme... wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,548 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 I'd like to hear a concert suite from Angela's Ashes score too... imagine, for example, the initial melody from Angels Never Cough totally developed in a theme... wow!The actual "Suite from Angela's Ashes" is a lovely and moving piece of work. It's a suite for narrator and orchestra, much like the one from The Reivers. There is also a prominent role for solo cello. I really wish JW will record it soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarbas 1 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 The actual "Suite from Angela's Ashes" is a lovely and moving piece of work. It's a suite for narrator and orchestra, much like the one from The Reivers. There is also a prominent role for solo cello. I really wish JW will record it soon.Is there a unofficial audio or video recording of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 480 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Awesome.*cue explosion*- Marc, who is curious about this, but has sort of gotten over MoaG already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 The actual "Suite from Angela's Ashes" is a lovely and moving piece of work. It's a suite for narrator and orchestra, much like the one from The Reivers. There is also a prominent role for solo cello. I really wish JW will record it soon.Is there a unofficial audio or video recording of that?There is Williams premiered it in 2000, with Frank McCourt narrating, Yo-Yo Ma on the cello, Ann Hobson-Pilot on harp, and Williams himself conducting the Boston Pops from the piano. That performance was recorded by PBS for an Evening at Pops televised show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 783 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 he conducted from piano? hmmm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 He did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,284 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 he does, sometimes. Isnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 he does, sometimes. Isnt it?It is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 126 Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 I've seen Gabriel Yared doing this too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 5,520 Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 he does, sometimes. Isnt it?And why shouldn't he? Mozart did it, Beethoven did it, Barenboim does it, Young does it. And many more I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 964 Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 he does, sometimes. Isnt it?And why shouldn't he? Mozart did it, Beethoven did it, Barenboim does it, Young does it. And many more I'm sure.One of my favorite performances of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is the one by Bersntein conducting the NY Phil from the piano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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