Unexpected random encounters with the music of John Williams

[Darth Mulder 172]

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=807611021675615

[bruce marshall 1,964]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1311289210696927/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

[pete 1,298]

Liberty Fanfare played just after the Sousa Monty Python Theme at the big general meeting thing in DC.

A watered down Liberty Fanfare - anyone know what recording it is? Sounds pretty crappy.

Is this OK to post? I was actually wondering if Williams would get played after a few Sousa pieces, but I was hoping for a different piece.

 

Midway on a different broadcast? Not sure if I'm hearing what's played live or not. Argh, one was live, and one wasn't. ( I think!)

 

Snippets here.

 

 

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On 27/09/2025 at 4:00 PM, Naïve Old Fart said:

Ok, you asked for it.

Plug in. Set the Way Back Machine to last Wednesday. I'd traveled over to the mainland to buy me a new car. I caught a bus to the nearest town, for a wee look around. On the way back, my bus turned into the school bus (I shit you not; I had to catch a free bus up to the local school, and needed to transfer). The bus filled up with all sorts of children from 11yo to 15yo, and some started singing #da-da-da da-da, da-da-da da-da, da-da-da, da da da daaa#. I couldn't help but smile.

 

[Mr. Hooper 7,962]

On 27/9/2025 at 10:00 AM, Naïve Old Fart said:

The bus filled up with all sorts of children from 11yo to 15yo, and some started singing #da-da-da da-da, da-da-da da-da, da-da-da, da da da daaa#. I couldn't help but smile.

 

If they sang the 5th and 6th "doo-noo-DOO-noo-noo" bars, I hope for their sake that @Andy wasn't on that bus...

[Jurassic Shark 16,049]

Andy: "NOO-NOO-NOO-NOO-NOO!"

[NewBlueEyes 149]

 

[Jurassic Shark 16,049]

Very good!

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So much for the influence of Brahms...

[Tom 6,386]

17 hours ago, NewBlueEyes said:

 

Worst theme ever.  Wait a minute, I think I have the wrong thread.

 

While obviously ripped from the suspense style of the time, it is quite a substantive cue, all things considered.  

[NewBlueEyes 149]

On 02/10/2025 at 5:19 AM, Tom said:

Worst theme ever.  Wait a minute, I think I have the wrong thread.

 

While obviously ripped from the suspense style of the time, it is quite a substantive cue, all things considered.  

It was before Johnny's major debut.

[Yodaschild 1,582]

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[Naïve Old Fart 12,654]

Last night, on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal (a radio station broadcasting almost exclusively in the Gaelic language), I heard 'Platform 9 ¾ and Journey to Hogwarts', and 'The Quidditch Match'.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one 

I'd forgotten how utterly brilliant the latter cue is!

[Mr. Hooper 7,962]

Was channel surfing last night and Sunday Night Football was on, which meant—you guessed it—some 'Wide Receiver'!

[Marian Schedenig 11,313]

I know nothing about football or football terminology, so whenever I read "Wide Receiver", my brain instantly jumps to this:

 

[Tom Guernsey 3,586]

A couple of unexpected references to (if not direct encounters with) JW’s music in November 2025’s BBC Music Magazine…

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 11,313]

1 hour ago, Tom Guernsey said:

A couple of unexpected references to (if not direct encounters with) JW’s music in November 2025’s BBC Music Magazine…

 

Ok, but what's it got to do with RVW's 5th?

 

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Not strictly a Williams encounter, but I don't know where else to put this.

 

QI posted (take with the usual grain of salt):

Quote

Your strongest music-related memories are formed around age 14.

I was 14 when Jurassic Park was released. I was 15 when slightly less than one year later I discovered John Williams and overnight both U-turned and defined my musical taste. But even before that, before I actively thought about film music, I remember seeing the Jurassic Park soundtrack album in shop windows and feeling tempted to buy it.

 

 

*) I wish there were a way to tell the board not to combine two consecutive posts because the first is a reply to a previous post while the other one is a totally unrelated new bit…

[Tom Guernsey 3,586]

7 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Ok, but what's it got to do with RVW's 5th?

Yes I guess that’s a bit confusing. It was an article about music to turn to when times are tough. RVW 5 was one of the examples.

[Marian Schedenig 11,313]

6 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:

Yes I guess that’s a bit confusing. It was an article about music to turn to when times are tough. RVW 5 was one of the examples.

 

But is the RVW mentioned in the text (outside of the snippet you posted)? Or did they just put it in as an image without further comment?

[Tom Guernsey 3,586]

1 hour ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

But is the RVW mentioned in the text (outside of the snippet you posted)? Or did they just put it in as an image without further comment?

Here’s the rest of this part of the article… the image is more relevant in context!

 

 

[Marian Schedenig 11,313]

Ah! I should revisit that. I have the Haitink cycle since my latest visit to Music & Video Exchange two months ago.

[Tom Guernsey 3,586]

1 hour ago, Marian Schedenig said:

Ah! I should revisit that. I have the Haitink cycle since my latest visit to Music & Video Exchange two months ago.

Nice find. I don’t have Haitink’s RVW but might have to look it up. I really like his Shostakovich and Mahler. 

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22 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:

A couple of unexpected references to (if not direct encounters with) JW’s music in November 2025’s BBC Music Magazine…

 

 

Snap! Just bumped into these in the physical copy I bought today in Hamburg.

[Tom Guernsey 3,586]

Not strictly unexpected, but wandering around a huge and astonishing arboretum (in Singapore) that’s also full of superbly executed animatronic dinosaurs with the Jurassic Park themes (and the main Giacchino theme from the first Jurassic World movie) on a loop isn’t the worst way to spend an afternoon…

 

 

 

[Tom Guernsey 3,586]

7 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:

Not strictly unexpected, but wandering around a huge and astonishing arboretum (in Singapore) that’s also full of superbly executed animatronic dinosaurs with the Jurassic Park themes (and the main Giacchino theme from the first Jurassic World movie) on a loop isn’t the worst way to spend an afternoon…

 

 

 

Slightly more unexpected was hearing Dance of the Witches played over the speakers at Luna Park for Halloween. Good choice!

 

Oh yeah, now in Australia…

[bruce marshall 1,964]

Tonight, the cellist for the NYP was a guest on SiriusXM movie music show.

Talked alot about JW and how much he loves his music, especially SW, ESB, E.T.

Also cited INTERSTELLAR as among his favorite scores of all-time!

 

If you have the app you can access the show after it replays 

 

Tell me about it!😍

[bruce marshall 1,964]

A group of elementary school students out on a field trip passed me by the other day.

One kid, the fat one , was chanting " The Imperial March"!

[Mr. Hooper 7,962]

25 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

A group of elementary school students out on a field trip passed me by the other day.

One kid, the fat one , was chanting " The Imperial March"!

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2 hours ago, bruce marshall said:

One kid, the fat one , was chanting " The Imperial March"!

How do you "chant" the Imperial March?

[bruce marshall 1,964]

27 minutes ago, Jesse said:

How do you "chant" the Imperial March?

Bo- bom - bom

bom-be-bom, bom- be- bom

 

Obviously 🙄 

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/inbIJCfVXSE?si=SyYKovQiw-oHq7U3

[Tom Guernsey 3,586]

Air New Zealand has excellent taste in music….

 

 

[Jilal 662]

On 06/11/2025 at 6:00 PM, bruce marshall said:

the fat one

 

Was that really necessary?

[The Score Cleaner 9,513]

Just now, Jilal said:

 

Was that really necessary?

I read it like this: 

[bruce marshall 1,964]

2 hours ago, Jilal said:

 

Was that really necessary?

Yes 

Because he had the capacity to sing bom-bom - bom..( see YT link above)

A skinny, pre- adolescent   would have a high- pitch voice

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[ciarlese 280]

Just seen this Christmas bumper on an Italian TV channel...

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[Andy 7,137]

 

[Marian Schedenig 11,313]

I was going to post that here - then I figured the use of JW's music isn't unexpected, and forgot to post it in some other thread. 

 

At first I wasn't sure where this was going or if I'd just missed what's supposed to be funny about it - but then the actual fun began.

[Jurassic Shark 16,049]

Exactly how I remember the film.

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On last sunday evening, the French public television company broadcasted a lengthy interview with well-known comic/actress Muriel Robin filmed in a few places in Paris, which ended with her attending a rehearsal of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for their end of year concert dedicated to John Williams (cf. this topic), and pseudo-conducting an excerpt of Indiana Jones. It's both a bit embarrassing and a bit heartwarming. 

 

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/19h-le-dimanche/20h30-le-dimanche-avec-muriel-robin_7654919.html

 

(might be geoblocked but I don't think so) 

[bollemanneke 4,279]

Carrefour, a supermarket chain, has been running an end-of-year food ad that seems to use an electronic variation on Christmas Break from HP2.

[pete 1,298]

Joe Hill is a fan! Stephen King raised him well! 

 

 

 

[BB-8 5,942]

"song writer" lol

[Jurassic Shark 16,049]

He must be referring to Duel of the Fates, which is a great song.

[Chen G. 5,797]

Someone at work as the Raiders' march as their ringtone. So I keep hearing it on occasion.

[bruce marshall 1,964]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/753529633848532/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

[Jurassic Shark 16,049]

15 hours ago, bruce marshall said:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/753529633848532/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

 

Great clip! PDQ Bach really deserves to be programmed more. And I've seen that conductor somewhere before...

[mrbellamy 7,882]

Truly unexpected while listening to this NSFW Richard Pryor routine (timestamped 30 seconds earlier for context, John Williams at 5:57)

 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,654]

I just watched the ice skating, with the JAWS music.

That was pretty random, but it beats Ravel's BOLERO, I suppose