Faleel 5,340 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 "Eight-time Olympic medalist Apolo Anton Ohno will host a tribute to Team USA, honoring the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams, featuring five-time Academy Award-winner John Williams conducting his "Olympic Fanfare." Broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, A CAPITOL FOURTH will air live in HD on PBS Wednesday, July 4, 2012 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET"http://www.prnewswir...-161080405.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendal_Ozzel 36 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Cool beans. I'll be watching! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 cool, I'll watch it on TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Damn. No tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Cool, we didn't know about this.Oh wait... it was posted here on June 12...http://www.jwfan.com/?p=4737Anyway, the new PR contains additional info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Yeah but who actually reads the front page? Most regulars bookmark straight to forum index. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I have a bookmark for General Discussion and Other topics. And I check the main page about once a weekShow started. this is soooo boring. I hope they put JW soon so I can change the channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Well I for one am glad Faleel gave a heads up for the many of us who may have missed that or simply forgotten.Thanks Faleel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Host introducing JW as the best american composer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendal_Ozzel 36 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 A bit of Liberty Fanfare earlier....Ooh, here's Johnny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I remember those huge trumpets from a few years ago and someone made a flub in the piece. I hope it goes well this timeHey somehow the bridge theme and the trumpets sounds different than usualPerfect performance !!! And I think JW looked great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I heard a couple of flubs tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Well I for one am glad Faleel gave a heads up for the many of us who may have missed that or simply forgotten.Thanks Faleel!Shouldn't you have thanked him first instead of directly belittling this site's main page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I heard a couple of flubs tonight.They weren't obvious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Well I for one am glad Faleel gave a heads up for the many of us who may have missed that or simply forgotten.Thanks Faleel!Shouldn't you have thanked him first instead of directly belittling this site's main page?Hmmm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Here's the promotional video:[media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hOuVen97a4Hopefully Williams' performance will be available soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I forgot to DVR this. I was going to actually attend but I didn't plan well enough in advance and realized I wouldn't have enough time to get back for work tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWfangirl1992 18 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Ah man I wish I saw he was going to be on this right before it ended. How was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 The mic-ing/mixing was awful.. you could barely hear the orchestra's trumpets. Especially evident during the Liberty Fanfare and the West Side Story excerpt. It was only fixed in time for the 1812 Overture. Also the local station (WETK - Vermont Public Television) interrupted the show 5 times for weather alerts due to a thunderstorm, including during Stars and Stripes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 The Capital Fourth is always a good show. Respectful of the arts, without resorting to abominations like Katy Perry as a headliner like it was for the Macy's celebration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWfangirl1992 18 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I agree about Katy Perry although I was HIGHLY disappointed by the Boston Pops show. Why the hell would they be playing Coldplay and other pop music during the fireworks when they have the Boston Pops?! Not to mention I have no idea what Coldplay and the other songs have to do with America or our freedom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I agree about Katy Perry although I was HIGHLY disappointed by the Boston Pops show. Why the hell would they be playing Coldplay and other pop music during the fireworks when they have the Boston Pops?! Not to mention I have no idea what Coldplay and the other songs have to do with America or our freedom...We didn't even watch the Macy's. When I saw the titles flash across with her name, we immediately stopped it and switched back the Capital show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxfan 128 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Actually the Boston concert starts at 8:00 or 8:30 and the entire thing gets broadcast locally on WBZ. The national CBS network only joins in for the end of the 1812 Overture, a headliner song, the patriotic sing-along, another song, and The Stars and Stripes Forever. The concert officially ends with this last piece (as they've been playing for over 2 hours) and the fireworks are set to a pre-recorded playlist as the place empties out.Also they never admit that it's not the "real" Boston Pops (made up of BSO players) but rather the Boston Pops ESPLANADE Orchestra (freelance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWfangirl1992 18 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Ah that's good to know, but a major let down that they only show that little bit of the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 The mic-ing/mixing was awful.. you could barely hear the orchestra's trumpets. Especially evident during the Liberty Fanfare and the West Side Story excerpt. It was only fixed in time for the 1812 Overture.Also the local station (WETK - Vermont Public Television) interrupted the show 5 times for weather alerts due to a thunderstorm, including during Stars and Stripes.it's really crappy when they do that. Do people really need to be warned about these things in the middle of a TV show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Was the West Side Story/Liberty Fanfare bits worth watching? I DVRed it and skipped to JW's contribution without watching anything else.I thought it was good, except for a few instance when the low brass was very clearly out of sync with the rest of the orchestra. Usually they rushed the downbeat. Also the cymbal player was early on the last cymbal crash. JW looked great, it was awesome to see him conducting in Washington DC.I agree about Katy Perry although I was HIGHLY disappointed by the Boston Pops show. Why the hell would they be playing Coldplay and other pop music during the fireworks when they have the Boston Pops?!The Boston Pops are known for...pop hits. Their concert music is usually light and accessible, and they frequently record/perform pop songs, either instrumental versions or with singers. That is nothing new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Host introducing JW as the best american composerFair enough. Hans Zimmer is German.~*~At any rate, celebrating the Fourth of July is silly without also celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783. We didn't win our independence on July 4, 1776 -- it's the day we signed a piece of paper that thumbed our collective colonial noses at the Crown. We're just lucky we had French help to win the war, or the Fourth of July would be known in England as the day they got to hang a whole bunch of traitors. It's the difference between the day you tell your parents that you're moving out, and the day you take the last piece of junk out of their basement and (maybe) hand in your house key. It's all about perspective, but one is more effective than the other."Fourthajuly" is more catchy than "Thirdaseptember," which already has its own summer's end holiday in Labor Day. We do need that mid-summer holiday of July 4.Just sayin'. Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Host introducing JW as the best american composerFair enough. Hans Zimmer is German.~*~At any rate, celebrating the Fourth of July is silly without also celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783. We didn't win our independence on July 4, 1776 -- it's the day we signed a piece of paper that thumbed our collective colonial noses at the Crown. We're just lucky we had French help to win the war, or the Fourth of July would be known in England as the day they got to hang a whole bunch of traitors. Actually, the Declaration of Independence was ratified on July 2nd, signed on August 2nd (although it took a few extra days to get all the delegates' signatures). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 no Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I never thought Wojo would be chastising me on obsessing over irrelevant details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 It's refreshing, as I've grown tired of people who miss the point. Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 ...because we know Wojo's posts are always addressing the substance of a post, and never the peripheral information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 no Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I would rather point out hypocrisies displayed by board members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 no Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Jesus, I was pointing out an interesting piece of information that is commonly mistaken. Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I have terminated this conversation. Good day. Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I have terminated this conversation. Good day.Great. Can we go back to te original topic now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 I did. Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 My favourite part of that fiasco was looking at who liked Wojo's posts. Jay and Wojo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Yeah, thanks, missed one.Regardless of the forum front page -- I don't do dialup when I'm at my family's -- I wish I would have remembered that JW was on TV, because my family and I decided that due to an absolutely terrible thunderstorm we endured -- high winds, torrential rain, and quarter (25 cent)-sized pieces of hail, how we escaped tornadoes, only Jeebus Nose -- we would not drive the fifteen miles to the nearest "city" to watch the local symphony perform patriotic pieces (plus 1812) and fireworks. We figured the world was ending there, too -- but it didn't, the show went on without Hitch. So we stayed in and watched The Muppets, which was good, but not really patriotic.I'll feel more patriotic on September 3rd, c'est vou'plait.I'll feel more patriotic on September 3rd, c'est vou'plait.It's "s'il vous plait" Why yes. Yes it is. French plus 12:20 AM equals dib-dib-dib-dib-dib... (flicking lower lip with index finger repeatedly) Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 I'll feel more patriotic on September 3rd, c'est vou'plait.It's "s'il vous plait" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,242 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Here's an audience recording of Williams' performance: Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Did anyone notice the awkward green screening of the maestro against the Capitol on the monitors? Seriously...this is 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,625 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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