Kennedy Center John Williams concert 9/11-13/25

[BobaMike 39]

 The Kennedy Center has a John Williams/ Steven Spielberg concert tonight thru Sat.  I'm going Saturday.  The NSO always does a great job with film music.   

Here is what will be played, according to the program.

Jaws Theme

Sugarland Express

CE3K suite

March from 1941

Hymn to the Fallen

Schindler's List

Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra

Theme from Jurassic Park

---intermission

Flight to Neverland from hook

Victor's Tale from The Terminal

The Duel from Tintin

Dartmoor, 1913 from Warhorse

With Malice Towards None from Lincoln

Adventures on Earth from Et

and I would bet the encore would be the Raiders March

 

Not a bad playlist!

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr. Hooper 7,340]

A nice mix, and a conscious avoidance of anything 'Star Wars'—unless the encore happens to be 'Imperial March.'

[BobaMike 39]

It's only Spielberg films, so I doubt any Star Wars will be played.  

[Mr. Hooper 7,340]

6 minutes ago, BobaMike said:

It's only Spielberg films

 

Oops, I somehow missed that. 

[Tom 6,155]

47 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

 

Oops, I somehow missed that. 

 

[pete 1,284]

I didn’t know The Kennedy Center still held concerts! 

 

The Sugarland Express piece? The arrangement from The Spielberg/Williams collaboration with a flute instead of harmonica?

 

 

[BB-8 5,739]

9 hours ago, pete said:

I didn’t know The Kennedy Center still held concerts! 

 

The Sugarland Express piece? The arrangement from The Spielberg/Williams collaboration with a flute instead of harmonica?

 

 

I didn't know The Kennedy Center was still called The Kennedy Center.

[Antonb 124]

I’m so envious. Us in the uk seem to get very little concerts like these unless you live in London. 

[gfiinn 3]

I was at this concert last night and it was a great time. Encore was Raiders March of course and it was great seeing the individual soloists give it their all for each piece ( Schindlers, Viktors Tale etc). I could tell the brass was running ragged near the end though. There were a few cracked notes "With Malice Towards None" by the first trumpet solo but overall a great show. 

[kingtolkien 49]

These selections are wonderful but I would make some changes

Tourists on the menu from Jaws

CE3K suite

March from 1941

Parade of the slave children

Remembrances from Schindler’s list

Keeping up with the Joneses

Belly of the steel beast

Theme from Lost world

Visitor in San Diego from the lost world

---intermission

The ultimate war from Hook

Love theme from The Terminal

The Duel from Tintin

Dartmoor, 1913 from Warhorse

The Post suite

Adventures on Earth from Et

[geom_00 116]

I saw in a facebook post, that this was labeled as a Concert of Stephen Spielberg movies...

[pete 1,284]

1 hour ago, geom_00 said:

I saw in a facebook post, that this was labeled as a Concert of Stephen Spielberg movies...

 

Still not corrected. Just took this screenshot a second ago. Some great comments! "How do you spell it wrong when it's correct in the picture?"

 

[Mr. Hooper 7,340]

4 hours ago, gfiinn said:

I was at this concert last night and it was a great time. Encore was Raiders March of course

 

[pete 1,284]

7 hours ago, gfiinn said:

I was at this concert last night and it was a great time.

 

Glad you enjoyed it! 

I'm curious about the quite rarely performed Sugarland Express. Was it the flute version posted in the video above from one of Williams' concerts in Japan?

[Laserschwert 664]

To be fair, I attended a Williams/Spielberg concert of the LSO, and the encore was Star Wars. Guess that's what you had to get when it's the LSO.

[gfiinn 3]

23 hours ago, pete said:

 

Glad you enjoyed it! 

I'm curious about the quite rarely performed Sugarland Express. Was it the flute version posted in the video above from one of Williams' concerts in Japan?

this one used harmonica

[SilverTrumpet 652]

On 11/09/2025 at 9:03 PM, BobaMike said:

It's only Spielberg films, so I doubt any Star Wars will be played.  

 

They can play that one scene he supposedly directed from Revenge of the Sith.

[BobaMike 39]

This was a really fun concert.  The NSO sounded great, and hearing Sugarland Express was a treat.  It was the same version from the Spielberg-Williams Collaboration album.  The conductor said he emailed John Williams (which I assume means his agent/manager) to ask permission to play it. 

 

A few random thoughts:

I don't think I've ever heard 1941 live before, but it was really fun to watch them play as well as listen to.  

Jurassic Park was the suite with the wonderful T-Rex ending.

Hook/Flight to Neverland was a great way to start the 2nd half.  CE3K's ending still gives me goosebumps.

The program notes were a bit out of date, as it referenced BFG as his most recent score....then the conductor, when talking about Tintin, said it was Williams' only animated score. My only other complaint was that the Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra is the new version, which is not a patch on the original, imho.

 

The NSO does a really good job of programming film music, and even though it's a pain to drive into DC, I always try and attend as many as possible.

[igger6 1,024]

What’s the T. rex ending version of the JP suite again?

[Tom 6,155]

11 hours ago, igger6 said:

What’s the T. rex ending version of the JP suite again?

The normal suite ending.  

[Jay 44,378]

On 25/09/2025 at 12:25 AM, igger6 said:

What’s the T. rex ending version of the JP suite again?

 

The concert version of "Theme From Jurassic Park" is not the same thing as the OST track called that; It's mostly end credits material, with the very end taken from the end of "T-Rex Rescue and Finale"

 

 

 

 

 

In the film that bit scores the T-Rex fending off the last of the raptors and roaring as the "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" banner falls down past him

 

 

[The Score Cleaner 8,904]

Basically the TLW credits version ending IIRC

[Jay 44,378]

They simply recording the 1993 concert arrangement at the 1997 TLW sessions and put it on the OST album and in the film's end credits, yeah.