STAR WARS - Live To Projection Concerts

[TownerFan 4,978]

There it is. The Original Trilogy plus The Force Awakens, live to projection!

 

http://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/explore/1718/star-wars

 

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Experience these films as never before at the world’s first-ever live performance of Star Wars – Film Concert Series! Don’t miss your chance to see these epic films on screen with the unparalleled New York Philharmonic performing the iconic music of John Williams. Tickets are available only via presale to New York Philharmonic 2017–18 subscribers and current members at the Patron level and above; any remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on May 4.

 

[Jim Ware 487]

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[BloodBoal 7,538]

Another step towards complete score releases!

[mstrox 6,069]

Wake me up for WAR HORSE.

[Jay 33,776]

This is awesome!!!

 

 

15

SEPTEMBER, 2017FRIDAY

8:00 PM Special Event

Star Wars: A New Hope – In Concert

 

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16

SEPTEMBER, 2017SATURDAY

8:00 PM Special Event

Star Wars: A New Hope – In Concert

 

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26

SEPTEMBER, 2017TUESDAY

7:30 PM Special Event

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert

 

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27

SEPTEMBER, 2017WEDNESDAY

7:30 PM Special Event

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert

 

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28

SEPTEMBER, 2017THURSDAY

7:30 PM Special Event

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert

 

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4

OCTOBER, 2017WEDNESDAY

7:30 PM Special Event

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – In Concert

 

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5

OCTOBER, 2017THURSDAY

7:30 PM Special Event

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – In Concert

 

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6

OCTOBER, 2017FRIDAY

8:00 PM Special Event

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – In Concert

 

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OCTOBER, 2017SATURDAY

8:00 PM Special Event

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – In Concert

 

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[Disco Stu 15,483]

Holy shit!  That's so cool even if there's no way I'll be able to go to any.  Can't wait to find out the details of how they handle all the Starkiller attack scenes since that's where the most awkward music edits are.

[Jay 33,776]

 

Experience these films as never before at the world’s first-ever live performance of Star Wars – Film Concert Series! Don’t miss your chance to see these epic films on screen with the unparalleled New York Philharmonic performing the iconic music of John Williams. Tickets are available only via presale to New York Philharmonic 2017–18 subscribers and current members at the Patron level and above; any remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on May 4.

15 SEPTEMBER, 2017 FRIDAY 8:00 PM - Star Wars: A New Hope – In Concert
16 SEPTEMBER, 2017 SATURDAY  8:00 PM - Star Wars: A New Hope – In Concert

26 SEPTEMBER, 2017 TUESDAY  7:30 PM  - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert
27 SEPTEMBER, 2017 WEDNESDAY  7:30 PM - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert
28 SEPTEMBER, 2017 THURSDAY 7:30 PM - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – In Concert

4 OCTOBER, 2017 WEDNESDAY 7:30 PM - Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – In Concert
5 OCTOBER, 2017 THURSDAY 7:30 PM - Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – In Concert
6 OCTOBER, 2017 FRIDAY 8:00 PM - Star Wars: The Force Awakens – In Concert
7 OCTOBER, 2017 SATURDAY 8:00 PM - Star Wars: The Force Awakens – In Concert

 

http://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/explore/1718/star-wars

 

The New York Philharmonic will present the World Premiere of the Star Wars - Film Concert Series, September 15-October 7, 2017, featuring screenings of the complete films A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Force Awakens with Oscar-winning composer John Williams's musical scores performed live to the films. The concerts will be led by acclaimed conductor David Newman.

 

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/New-York-Philharmonic-Announces-2017-18-Season-20170208

 

 

Star Wars -- Film Concert Series to Feature Iconic Scores Performed Live To Film

World Premiere features Composer John Williams' Complete Scores from A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens Performed Live to Picture by the New York Philharmonic, Conducted by David Newman

Series Launches September 15, 2017

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BURBANK, Calif., Feb. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Philharmonic will present the World Premiere of the Star Wars -- Film Concert Series featuring screenings of the complete films A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Force Awakens with Oscar-winning composer John Williams' musical scores performed live to the films. The concerts will be led by acclaimed conductor David Newman.

Since the release of the first Star Wars movie nearly 40 years ago, the Star Wars saga has had a seismic impact on both cinema and culture, inspiring audiences around the world with its mythic storytelling, captivating characters, groundbreaking special effects and iconic musical scores composed by Williams.

Fans will be able to experience the scope and grandeur of these beloved Star Wars films in a live symphonic concert experience, as the Star Wars -- Film Concert Series premieres from September 15 through October 7 at David Geffen Hall in New York City. The schedule is below:

Sept. 15, 8:00pm Concert - A New Hope (world premiere)
Sept. 16, 8:00pm Concert - A New Hope

Sept. 26, 7:30 pm Concert - The Empire Strikes Back (world premiere)
Sept. 27, 7:30pm Concert - The Empire Strikes Back
Sept. 28, 7:30pm Concert - The Empire Strikes Back

Oct. 4, 7:30pm Concert - Return of the Jedi (world premiere)
Oct. 5, 7:30pm Concert - Return of the Jedi

Oct. 6, 8:00pm Concert - The Force Awakens (world premiere)
Oct. 7, 8:00pm Concert - The Force Awakens

Legendary composer Williams is well known for scoring all seven of the Star Wars saga films, beginning with 1977's Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Score.  His scores for Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens each were nominated for Oscars for Best Original Score.

Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 22 Grammy Awards. With 50 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the Academy's most nominated living person and the second most-nominated individual in history, after Walt Disney.  In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams' score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars also was preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."  Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and he received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, the National Medal of Arts in 2009, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016.  Williams has composed the scores for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).

The Star Wars -- Film Concert Series is produced under license by Disney Concerts in association with 20th Century Fox and Warner/Chappell Music.

STAR WARS and related properties are trademarks and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. © & TM Lucasfilm Ltd.

 

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[Muad'Dib 1,759]

How are they gonna handle all those crazy edits on The Falcon?

[Jay 33,776]

Great questions

[Amer 1,934]

Wow! if the LLL JURASSIC PARK set came to life because of the planned Live to Film concert, then with this happening, perhaps we can be hopefull for a mega STAR WARS Box set?

[Jay 33,776]

Let's hope!

[Marian Schedenig 7,229]

Two things:

 

1. Europe next, please

2. And hopefully new CD releases

[Will 2,157]

Wow. What a week. 

 

First, the CSO concert, then this. Wow. 

 

I have to see TFA LTP. Holy crap. I never thought it would be this soon. 

 

The level of awesomeness in seeing/hearing that one live... Christ, that will be awesome. As many of you may have realized, this score was a major catalyst in my JW fandom, and has a lot of special meaning to me emotionally for that reason. 

 

Hope the CSO spreads them out so I can go to all. Interesting that they skipped the prequels.  Probably a logistical problem with the choir and such anyway. 

 

Hmm, there are two 2017/2018 CSO at the Movies presentations that haven't been announced yet...

 

Will, who feels almost like crying joyfully right now. 

 

 

Oh, and by the way, did I just call this or what?! Within hours of my prediction!!! Hours!!

 

 

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I just had a stunning realization.

 

Twice over the last couple weeks, the JoAnn Kane Music Service has posted photos of JW's original SW scores.

 

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Now, could this be evidence that they're working on something with the scores? Say, live to projection concerts?!

 

[Muad'Dib 1,759]

3 minutes ago, Will said:

Hope the CSO spreads them out so I can go to all. Interesting that they skipped the prequels.  Probably a logistical problem with the choir and such anyway. 

 

 

ROTJ has certain sections with choir.

[Will 2,157]

27 minutes ago, Muad'Dib said:

 

ROTJ has certain sections with choir.

 

But it's not as much, right? (Or is it? - I've only heard the full score once) 

 

And the choir isn't as popularly iconic, anyway, right?

 

I.e. you might be able to get away with not using it, whereas if you do Duel of the Fates without choir...

 

Actually, the more I think about it though, the more I think that maybe they just figure people don't want to watch the prequels. I mean, really, if they wanted to, they could do the Duel of the Fates, etc., choir through speakers and who would really care that much? 

 

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Interesting that these concerts are not by Film Concerts Live.

 

Hopefully Williams will still write entr'actes though. 

 

It seems he did for the CineConcerts Potter 1 so that is encouraging. 

[Manakin Skywalker 4,384]

So much good news since Sony lost the rights.

[artguy360 1,776]

Oh man, it would be amazing to attend one of these. 

[Amer 1,934]

I wonder how they will address the source music for JEDI.. Unless they found the sail barge source music or are they going to play it live.Is it going to be JEDI ROCKS or LAPTI NEK.?

[Balahkay 626]

Or a better question... Yub Nub or Victory Celebration??

[Jay 33,776]

Source music will just play through the speakers with the rest of the film's audio. 

 

The orchestra is there to play the score. 

[artguy360 1,776]

The Emperor's theme in ROTJ must be performed by choir as well as the climatic scene between Luke and Vader. It would be unfortunate if they used syth for those scenes.

 

Edit: is it choir or solo voice?

[Will 2,157]

45 minutes ago, Jay said:

Source music will just play through the speakers with the rest of the film's audio. 

 

The orchestra is there to play the score. 

 

Isn't Mr. DNA source music?

 

(yes, I know the situation would be different here because much SW source music demands a different ensemble)

[Manakin Skywalker 4,384]

How about the inserts in ROTJ? Like the one where Chewy steals the walker? You think those will be incorporated, or they'll just use the original versions?

[Jay 33,776]

47 minutes ago, Will said:

Isn't Mr. DNA source music?

 

Yes. 

34 minutes ago, Manikin Skywalker said:

How about the inserts in ROTJ? Like the one where Chewy steals the walker? You think those will be incorporated, or they'll just use the original versions?

 

Of course they'll use the inserts; Why wouldn't they? 

[Manakin Skywalker 4,384]

33 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

Yes. 

 

Of course they'll use the inserts; Why wouldn't they? 

No idea. I've never attended one of these concerts before, so I don't know exactly what they include. I was more-or-less referring to the overlays.

[curlytoot 97]

As a diehard NY Philharmonic fan, I so wish they would record these concerts and release them. Even if the sound effects were obvious. The orchestra is phenomenal, and it is about time that we get some new recordings of these scores.

 

If only Disney and the Philharmonic could work out a recording deal, and record during the rehearsal weeks (without sound effects) for commercial release. They would sell like crazy.

[Incanus 5,618]

Excellent news!

 

Hopefully these concert will come to Europe as well!

[FC4L 87]

Based on the rising popularity of the LTP concerts I'm sure these 4 (5) films will begin a world tour. With Raiders coming up for me in May I'm hoping Jurassic Park is on tap for next year and the full Star Wars ensemble the year after!

[Manakin Skywalker 4,384]

Has a concert like this ever happened for a film that hasn't had a complete score release (talking about TFA)? I'd like to think that this is a solid confirmation of a TFA complete score, but I'm sure that won't be the case.

[crumbs 13,567]

Awesome news! Surely the best sign yet of complete score remasters for the OT. Disney's accounting team will perk up when these concerts sell out months in advance.

 

Curious to see how they handle the horrible SE music edits, especially the mess Lucas created with Rescue from Cloud City.

 

8 minutes ago, Manikin Skywalker said:

I'd like to think that this is a solid confirmation of a TFA complete score, but I'm sure that won't be the case.

 

We're in uncharted territory with Disney pulling the strings, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see an expanded TFA in the next few years. Would be a great marketing exercise to accentuate each new film's OST.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[toothless 959]

9 hours ago, Will said:

 Probably a logistical problem with the choir and such anyway. 

 

 

 

Well, LOTR LTP concerts have a significantly large choir and this is not a problem so

[Laserschwert 373]

So maybe these screenings will now use the rumored 4k scans of the theatrical versions of the OT? That way the problem of SE edits doesn't even need to be taken care of.

[Mr. Breathmask 485]

I wouldn't count on it. They're billing Star Wars as A New Hope, after all.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,257]

Star Wars: Episode One - No Hope

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Will 2,157]

The more I think about it, the more I'm certain they'll do the prequels at some point.

 

They must just want to start with the most popular ones to see how they sell, and then go from there.

 

Because even with the prequels, I'd think there's a ton of money to be made. 

[Giftheck 807]

That may be, but there's also a ton more work to do for them. Lucas really butchered the score in those films and replicating those butcherings for a live performance isn't going to be easy.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,257]

51 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

Thomas Newman should be the conductor at those concerts to prepare himself for what's to come.

 

Coolman!

[Disco Stu 15,483]

11 hours ago, someonefun124 said:

Or a better question... Yub Nub or Victory Celebration??

 

Sadly, I'd bet that these are going to be the films/scores as of the 2011 blu-ray, as even after the Disney sale those are still considered the "official" versions of the films.  I wouldn't be surprised if it was in the sale contract to Disney to keep Lucas' changes! Of course, that's baseless speculation on my part.

[Jay 33,776]

I'm sure they'll be the same versions sold digitally by Disney right now, of course.

 

Which is too bad.

 

It would actually be a great opportunity to show the original versions, since you could use the official DVD that isn't anamorphic or anything, but the picture quality doesn't really matter at a concert like this

[Disco Stu 15,483]

4 minutes ago, Jay said:

I'm sure they'll be the same versions sold digitally by Disney right now, of course.

 

And they're exactly the 2011 bluray versions, right?  I'm assuming that, but I've never actually watched the versions Disney sells.

[Jay 33,776]

6 hours ago, Manikin Skywalker said:

Has a concert like this ever happened for a film that hasn't had a complete score release (talking about TFA)?

 

Technically, Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King, Star Trek 09, Star Trek Into Darkness, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tge Empire Strikes Back, and The Return of the Jedi are still not available completely complete, but let's call them close enough for now.

 

The truly definitely LLL Home Alone and Jurassic Park weren't out until after their Live To Projection concerts started, but came out the month after.

 

Planet of the Apes, Batman, Star Wars, Independence Day, Aliens, and Back To The Future were available complete before the concerts.

 

The Matrix has an expanded release, but its most certainly not complete by any means.  Interstellar is available expanded but not complete, unless you add in website download files

 

Psycho has never had its original recordings released at all, but there are complete re-recordings available.

 

So, we end up with: Titanic, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Perfume, Harry Potter 1-8, and The Force Awakens as Live to Projection concerts for socres that have not had any sort of expanded form at all (apart from TFA's promotional FYC)
 

I'm probably forgetting some...

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Giftheck 807]

If this L2P comes across to London, the LSO should perform. It would be very interesting to see how they perform those scores after all this time. I'd also be curious to hear how they would perform TFA.

[Tom 4,009]

29 minutes ago, Gistech said:

If this L2P comes across to London, the LSO should perform. It would be very interesting to see how they perform those scores after all this time. I'd also be curious to hear how they would perform TFA.

with lots of musical instruments. 

[Muad'Dib 1,759]

6 minutes ago, Tom said:

with lots of musical instruments. 

 

 

[Mr. Breathmask 485]

1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

And they're exactly the 2011 bluray versions, right?

 

Almost. For this version, the 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare have been removed. Instead, the final notes of the ESB end credits play over the Lucasfilm logo.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,257]

Brilliant!

[Disco Stu 15,483]

57 minutes ago, Mr. Breathmask said:

 

Almost. For this version, the 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare have been removed. Instead, the final notes of the ESB end credits play over the Lucasfilm logo.

 

Well sure, but I meant as far as actual film content.