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8 minutes ago, karelm said:

At 8:31, he says "Last year I wrote an overture..." what work was this?

Since it's early 80s, it could be the Comedy Overture that was reworked into Monsignor's Meeting in Sicily and its theme used in a couple more cues in the score.

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6 minutes ago, Holko said:

it could be the Comedy Overture that was reworked into Monsignor's Meeting in Sicily

Isn't that the Esplanade Overture?

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34 minutes ago, Falco said:

Isn't that the Esplanade Overture?

Oh yeah, that's its "proper" name. I was thinking of this interview bit:

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In May of 1982, John Williams told Richard Dyer, “On my desk right now I have the score of a ‘Comedy Overture’ of my own — I hope to finish it in time to play it during June.

 

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Williams says he was very happy with the 2nd season, talks about being in Tanglewood soon and discussing his future with the Pops "by Christmas", so I suppose the interview must have taken place sometime in the summer of 1982?

 

Edit: After the sound comes back near the end, the interviewer says "now, in the spring season"… so it would have been during the spring of 1982 I guess.

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It's a good interview that was shared here a few years ago (it was not on Youtube at the time, but from some Boston-based TV network site, if memory serves).

 

Cool story about Maxwell Davies, karelm!

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5 hours ago, Thor said:

It's a good interview that was shared here a few years ago (it was not on Youtube at the time, but from some Boston-based TV network site, if memory serves).

 

Here:

http://bostonlocaltv.org/catalog/V_6OIPEM43A5JZJZY

 

Linked to from here:

https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_60673B93607D4398A1809C94F08B2F20

 

Date of the interview is given as July 1, 1981.

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10 hours ago, thx99 said:

 

Here:

http://bostonlocaltv.org/catalog/V_6OIPEM43A5JZJZY

 

Linked to from here:

https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_60673B93607D4398A1809C94F08B2F20

 

Date of the interview is given as July 1, 1981.

Wow, so just at the end of his first season.  Fascinating.  So Raiders of the Lost Ark had just premiered a few days earlier than this interview for context.  ROTLA premiered June 12, 1981. 

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