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4 hours ago, aj_vader said:

I agree, it's far too loud (dialogue, sound effects). The best mix was when I saw A New Hope by the LSO in 2018 (Royal Albert Hall) [Saturday Evening showing], however it was still too loud for my liking. 

 

The worst one was Empire Strikes Back in the Albert Hall (Dirk Brossè and London Philharmonia). I was sat in the stalls right behind the engineers/producers and someone went down and collared one of them, essentially asking them to turn the sound and dialogue down as the music in places was barely audible. I couldn't hear everything said as it was the interval, but it seemed to be a little heated. The engineer ultimately said something along the lines of, "it's standardised and we can't change it". The London Philharmonia are obviously a great orchestra, but they don't have the same 'clout' as the London Symphony Orchestra, so the Empire concert was easily the weakest of the original trilogy presentations there at The Royal Albert Hall. 

 

I saw E.T. at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and thats a much better venue for this (I think), the balance was excellent throughout. 

 

I watched ROTJ at the Bridgewater Hall and the music was covered by voice and sound effects for pretty much the whole concert. I send then an email to complain about it (after all I had paid nearly £100 for a "live music concert"...)  and they replied they are not responsible for the mixing as it's something set in advance and they have no control on.

Went to watch it at the RAH later on and it was much better, similar to all the previous live movie concerts I had attended there.

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1 hour ago, ciarlese said:

 

I watched ROTJ at the Bridgewater Hall and the music was covered by voice and sound effects for pretty much the whole concert. I send then an email to complain about it (after all I had paid nearly £100 for a "live music concert"...)  and they replied they are not responsible for the mixing as it's something set in advance and they have no control on.

Went to watch it at the RAH later on and it was much better, similar to all the previous live movie concerts I had attended there.

I know why the E.T. one was so much better, because the Halle Orchestra put the event on and Disney Concerts weren't producing it. Disney Concerts are the producers of every Star Wars Live To Picture unfortunately. 

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8 hours ago, aj_vader said:

I know why the E.T. one was so much better, because the Halle Orchestra put the event on and Disney Concerts weren't producing it. Disney Concerts are the producers of every Star Wars Live To Picture unfortunately. 

One would think that they could not be this clueless about why a person would go to one of these.  

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18 hours ago, aj_vader said:

Yes, they all include subtitles. E.T did as well. I would assume they all do. 

 

Interesting. When I saw the Close Encounters concert in Lincoln Center, it didn't have subtitles. I guess it's an outlier

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7 hours ago, Tom said:

One would think that they could not be this clueless about why a person would go to one of these.  

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15 hours ago, Corellian2019 said:

 

Interesting. When I saw the Close Encounters concert in Lincoln Center, it didn't have subtitles. I guess it's an outlier

 

I don't recall subtitles when I saw Empire. That was, what, 2019 I think?

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New USA booking for TLJ:

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Norman Huynh, conductor

Saturday, April 13, 2024; and Sunday, April 14, 2024

Stifel Theatre. St. Louis, MO

 

https://shop.slso.org/7916

 

I'm glad that some USA orchestras are taking a chance at doing a Star Wars LTP concert from unpopular trilogy.

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Keitaro Harada is conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra performing A New Hope in September: https://www.promax.co.jp/archives/event/202311272

 

The Osaka performance is on 2023-09-24 at 16:00. There will be 2 performances in Tokyo on 2023-09-30 at 14:00 and 18:30.

 

In fact, there are quite a lot of Star Wars LTP concerts scheduled for the next year: https://www.moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=concertlist

 

Currently:

A New Hope: 31

The Empire Strikes Back: 15

Return of the Jedi: 36

The Force Awakens: 25

The Last Jedi: 7

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3 hours ago, Quppa said:

Keitaro Harada is conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra performing A New Hope in September: https://www.promax.co.jp/archives/event/202311272

 

The Osaka performance is on 2023-09-24 at 16:00. There will be 2 performances in Tokyo on 2023-09-30 at 14:00 and 18:30.

Unfortunately, this news suggests that the LTP concert of SW:TROS doesn't exist.

 

You'll remember that this said orchestra was the one that did the world premiere of the SW:TLJ LTP-concert in October 2019. 

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1175955877150568449/pu/vid/608x1080/a-sP4V7BAGVbPVfd.mp4?tag=10

If the LTP concert of TROS was created, then that orchestra would have booked it for this September instead of ANH.

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On September 1 and 2, the LA Phil presents the climactic sixth episode of the Star Wars saga, Return of the Jedi, with David Newman and the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing John Williams’ legendary score live to picture.

 

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https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/events/performances/2348/2023-09-01/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-in-concert

 

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ESB is widely regarded as the best SW (if not best as such) soundtrack of all time.  I would assume that is the reason (or just a coincidence).  

 

Either that or they have changed Vader's dialogue to "I am not your father, but I am the father of a new character to be introduced in Episode X."  

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4 hours ago, SyncMan said:

 I have zero involvement with that kind of artistic planning unfortunately, so I can't give any special insights.

 

Personally I agree with what Tom said:

 

3 hours ago, Tom said:

ESB is widely regarded as the best SW (if not best as such) soundtrack of all time.  I would assume that is the reason (or just a coincidence).  

 

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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announced 3 dates for The Force Awakens in May next year. They previously performed the Australian premiere back in 2017.


I hope this means The Last Jedi might happen later in the year - to my knowledge it hasn't been performed in Australia. Even better (for the novelty) would be The Rise of Skywalker.

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On 06/06/2024 at 10:00 PM, Quppa said:

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has announced 3 dates for The Force Awakens in May next year. They previously performed the Australian premiere back in 2017.


I hope this means The Last Jedi might happen later in the year - to my knowledge it hasn't been performed in Australia. Even better (for the novelty) would be The Rise of Skywalker.

Seems strange to me that Nicholas Buc isn't conducting this one.. I can't be sure but hasn't he done all the MSO Star Wars concerts so far?

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On 09/06/2024 at 1:10 PM, Pat_S said:

Seems strange to me that Nicholas Buc isn't conducting this one.. I can't be sure but hasn't he done all the MSO Star Wars concerts so far?

 

Maybe Buc is booked elsewhere - he seems to go all around the world conducting these concerts. Northey previously conducted the 2018/2019 MSO performances of ANH and ROTJ.

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14 hours ago, crocodile said:

The original film is brilliant with live score. The 2018 performance at Royal Albert Hall with LSO playing it was one of my very favourite concert experiences ever. 😀

 

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Same, it was spectacular. That was my first LTP experience as well. 

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When I checked in when I got here, FoirSquare told me that I hadn't been here since November 2021. Has it really been that long since Williams has conducted here? I feel like my late 20s and 30s were full of seeing him consistently here, every spring!

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1 hour ago, Jay said:

 

 

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I would phone the orchestra administrators that sell apparrel like that for these Star Wars LTP concerts and ask if Disney sells them online and they would say, 'no'.

 

So, what happens to these clothes if the vendors can't sell them all? :angry:

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1 hour ago, Jay said:

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When I checked in when I got here, FoirSquare told me that I hadn't been here since November 2021. Has it really been that long since Williams has conducted her? I feel like my late 20s and 30s were full of seeing him consistently here, every spring!


September/October 2021 was when he conducted the BSO for the Boston premiere and recording of Violin Concerto No. 2; I’m surprised it was that long ago too, feels like it was a year ago tops!  I’ve been to a number of concerts since then, but I’ve always seen Keith Lockhart conduct…

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19 hours ago, SyncMan said:

I would phone the orchestra administrators that sell apparrel like that for these Star Wars LTP concerts and ask if Disney sells them online and they would say, 'no'.

 

So, what happens to these clothes if the vendors can't sell them all? :angry:

 

If it's anything like where I work, the surplus is offered at clearance prices to the employees.

 

Or else maybe they're just destroyed.

 

A bit of a shame if it's the latter.  As least with the former, someone would be enjoying the shirt.

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5 minutes ago, SyncMan said:

@Quppa, @Pat_S, @crumbs: Listen-up

TLJ-In Concert booking in Australia.

July 18 (one show), and 19 (2 shows), 2025

West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Jessica Gethin, conductor
Riverside Theatre, Perth

 

https://www.waso.com.au/concerts-tickets/whats-on/concert/last-jedi

 

Thanks for the heads up! Australian premiere of The Last Jedi... the MSO have really missed a trick not bothering with TLJ and TROS LTPs, especially when they could've had world premieres for the latter.

 

Tempting to make the trip to Perth for this, I've never been!

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On 08/12/2024 at 11:11 PM, SyncMan said:

@Quppa, @Pat_S, @crumbs: Listen-up

TLJ-In Concert booking in Australia.

July 18 (one show), and 19 (2 shows), 2025

West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Jessica Gethin, conductor
Riverside Theatre, Perth

 

https://www.waso.com.au/concerts-tickets/whats-on/concert/last-jedi

Do I fly to Perth to see it or do I hold out hope that the MSO will do it sometime soon.... 

I've never been to WA before either so it probably would be a great excuse to go. Thanks for posting!

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7 hours ago, Pat_S said:

Do I fly to Perth to see it or do I hold out hope that the MSO will do it sometime soon.... 

I've never been to WA before either so it probably would be a great excuse to go. Thanks for posting!

Being that...

  1. TLJ is a divided movie amongs the Star Wars fans
  2. The concert is 2 hours and 45 minutes (20-minute intermission included in the running time)--which means union musicians get 15 minutes of overtime-pay because they are on stage performing for over 2 hours and 30 minutes (I'm speaking only in USA union rules, or course).

...I would consider it.

 

Again, speaking from America, I had to travel over 3,000 miles to San Francisco to attend the 'The Matrix' LTP concert in July 2022 because I knew that this concert, believe it or not, hasn't had any USA bookings in the 9 years since it last played in a USA concert-hall.  I'm glad that I made the trip.

 

Perhaps the WA orchestra-staffer that book this concert knew this concert's limited performance history and the demand among the concert-goers decided to take advantage of it, so yeah @crumbs , the MSO missed-out on the opportunity to be the first in booking this.  Maybe, the MSO is playing it smart and monitoring how well the WASO does with this before they book it.

 

 

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