Jay 37,289 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Surprised I haven't seen a single post about this yet. Mr. Williams has been in Boston all week, doing shows at Symphony Hall Tuesday through Friday. The girlfriend and I are going to tonight's show - is anybody else here going? Or went to one of the ones earlier in the week? Any idea what the set list is?Where are you supposed to go after the show to try to get an autograph? I'd love to get my new HOOK LP autographed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,983 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 A friend of mine traveled from Italy and went to see Monday's concert--he was also able to catch JW and took a picture with him.Please, report about the programme he performed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 I was told the program earlier this week included the following:Sound the Bells1941 MarchCE3K SuiteHedwig's ThemeHarry's Wondrous WorldAdventures On EarthLiberty FanfareLove Theme from SupermanSuperman MarchCinema Paradiso Love ThemeImperial MarchPrincess Leia's ThemeThrone Room and FinaleRaiders MarchApparently during Superman there were clips from all the Superman and Batman movies (held over from the Warner Bros. tribute last Summer?) including Keaton in the library in Batman Returns when the signal is projected behind him. It sounded amazing. I was planning to go tonight but tickets sold out. I'm going to Tanglewood in August! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Yep, my girlfriend and I went on Wednesday. Great show. The program is indeed what was posted ("Raiders March" is the encore), but - I'm not sure if this happened every night - it also included a new composition by Williams in celebration of his 30th anniversary with the Pops. Somebody came out and "surprised" Williams with a short film, then asked him to conduct since "nobody else was onstage." Cute, I suppose. It was the only clip show that wasn't awkward; just some nice footage of Williams and the Pops. That Superman and Batman montage set to the Superman March made us cringe! Why Batman? Why!? Actually, it was really nice to hear Williams do the Love Theme and March in concert. That doesn't happen too often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingPin 201 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Actually, it was really nice to hear Williams do the Love Theme and March in concert. That doesn't happen too often.I think seeing him conduct the March from 1941 is an even rarer treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Yep, my girlfriend and I went on Wednesday. Great show. The program is indeed what was posted ("Raiders March" is the encore), but - I'm not sure if this happened every night - it also included a new composition by Williams in celebration of his 30th anniversary with the Pops. Somebody came out and "surprised" Williams with a short film, then asked him to conduct since "nobody else was onstage." Cute, I suppose. It was the only clip show that wasn't awkward; just some nice footage of Williams and the Pops. That Superman and Batman montage set to the Superman March made us cringe! Why Batman? Why!? Actually, it was really nice to hear Williams do the Love Theme and March in concert. That doesn't happen too often.Sounds great! Specially the part about that new composition! Could you tell us what was the piece like?Oh, and always ask this but... Any videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 The new piece was pretty boring, to be honest. Very tonal and regal sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 King Mark should be all over that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 OMG can I hear it somewhere?please please tell me someone recorded it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,639 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 the BSO page mentioned that a clip show was going to be set to Hymn to New England. Are we sure that it was a new composition and not the hymn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Oh... yeah, it was Hymn to New England. Sorry for the confusion, folks. No new composition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Heads up that WCRB 99.5 Boston is scheduled to air Williams' Saturday night concert live. I'm hoping they'll allow it to be streamed online this year. If not someone from the Boston area will have to record it for us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 It's now streaming live online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Listening.Not sure if I can record with my crap PC now. Star Wars is playing now right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Star Wars Main Title concluded.Now words from John Williams and then Suite from Jane Eyre.This is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Listening now...I think...should be Jane Eyre right now, right? I'm not familiar enough with the score to know if that's what I'm hearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 I'm trying to record at higher bitrate than 128k with VLC player but can't find the optionThe metadata says the stream is 128k though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 I'm in the chatroom right now if anyone'd care to join me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 The chatroom isn't letting me in right now...not sure why.EDIT: And yes, I recognize it as Jane Eyre now. Guess I went to the right place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 well,I got into the chatrom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Thanks for the heads up Foxfan. I had no idea this was even going down tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Indeed!I must say, I prefer the snare drum to be a little subtler in the Imperial March, though. And I say that as someone who loves to really pound pretty hard on snare drum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 lol, JW not remembering what the extra music was in the CE3K Special Edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 The main title from Star Wars didn't sound as "big" as I'm used to hearing it (must be the microphone placement and mixing), but the imperial march was great.The part about the Boston Pops recording two minutes of CETK was news to me! Anyone know which minutes they were exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 yes,it the "inside the mothership" sequence for the 1980 special edition .This is not on any of the score albums ,only on the By Request album Boston PopsTechnical difficulties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 "Space travel takes a while...time is measured in different dimensions." Nicely handled.EDIT: Bummer! I guess we aren't going to get to watch the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Damn I was so hoping to see the clips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Datameister you should find the golf course that John Williams walks at dusk every evening and get us all autographs. I'll mail you my creased Home Alone 2 liner notes that I had stuffed into my ass pocket a couple years ago ready to autograph when Williams got right up next to me...and security rushed him to his car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 It's got to be either Holmby Park or the Los Angeles Country Club. If it's the latter, all I'd be able to do would be intercept him before or after, since it's a private club, but I don't think Holmby Park is closed to the public. I haven't been to either, but I can walk to them in perhaps a half-hour. (UCLA student...no car at the moment. )Anyway, I keep meaning to go over there to see if I get lucky, but of course, such efforts would be fruitless this week with him on the other side of the country. I don't know when he's heading back to LA - I'm not that much of a stalker - but I'd like to give it a shot sometime this week, or perhaps next weekend. I don't know if I'll ask for an autograph...more likely I'd just thank him for the countless hours of jaw-dropping music he's created, and if he seemed to be in a particularly good mood, I might get a picture of us with my camera phone. I really don't want to annoy the man - I just would like to meet him while he's still around, as sad as that thought is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 I need to figure out a way to meet him at Tanglewood. However I need to perform certain favors, I don't care. They can expect phone calls and e-mails in the next few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 They're playing music from that hack Beethoven .Bring back JW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 This is fine for an elevator or, say, the Titanic first class dining room. Not a God damned John Williams Boston Pops show. Do not want! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 yes,it the "inside the mothership" sequence for the 1980 special edition .This is not on any of the score albums ,only on the By Request album Boston PopsTechnical difficultiesOK, but which minutes are they on the DVD?Beethoven piano concerto playing now. Interesting to hear Williams conducting "non-Pops" music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Haha, yeah, I could do without this. But then again, I'm trying to get some work done at the same time, so perhaps it's for the best that I don't really care about the music I'm listening to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 ^^FoxfanActually JW is backstage...the announcer said it was some other conductorAs for where the music is in the DVD...that scene was cut from the latest CE3K cut I think, so it might be in the deleted scenes .It's on old VHS tapes of the Special Edition though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Hedwig's Theme next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 it could be another owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Is there a more famous theme for an owl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Oh wait, it was another conductor. I've heard Williams conduct a Mozart concerto at the first concert I attended in May 2003.Remember that it's the Boston Pops' tradition to perform more "serious" music in the middle of the concert. The whole purpose behind the Pops concerts was to get "ordinary" folks in the door and introduce them to music they wouldn't have otherwise listened to, all while pleasing them with music they like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Are they cutting out music from the concert? Because were hearing pre-recorded crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 I was wondering the same thing. How else all this downtime possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 There are two intermissions during Pops concerts.Hopefully the maestro is OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Maybe he's playing the new piece and they don;t want anyone to record itWell,that just keeps going doesn't it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 So far it seems we've heard mostly pre-recorded music, non-Williams music and Williams interviews as opposed to actual Williams pieces. I was expecting more of the program I posted on page one. Edit: never mind, here most of it comes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 A Tintin world premiere would be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Im hearing the orchestra rehearse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Ha! Told you! Hedwig's Theme! More stuff first, though.Also, this announcer's accent is interesting to me. A lot of what he says sounds just like what I'd expect from radio announcers in California, but then the Boston accent (I think) creeps in here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 if one piece sounds like unmistakable JW, it's this one.Wait, maybe William Ross actually composed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 This is what I clicked to hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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