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In the meantime, it can still be viewed on YouTube. I think for the next 20 or so hours. Check it out if you can!! It's worth every moment.
It's great! And I thought after an hour it was done, but then there was a whole second part!!!
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This performance was absolutely amazing, beginning to end...I honestly got a little choked up at times. Bravo!
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I worked on the back end a TAD and I believe the concert as for the deal with so many organizations, labels, studios etc. will be up for at least 24 hours. So if you want to watch it, DO IT NOW! It may be up a day or two after, I can't remember the time line that was allowed. But you have 24 hours to watch it if you missed, DO NOT DELAY.
A wonderful enchanting and very heartfelt concert. I have to give some major props to those who put this on as I don't believe they knew much on how to do it, but they gathered a great team behind them and started down the long path of figuring it all out and they did, congrats on that. Was one of the greatest honors of my life to have helped in a TINY TINY way and to have my name in the credits of a concert of music by my favorite film composer, the composer that made me love this music.
I'm curious if the rehearsals were recorded, many times they are so when they put out a Blu-ray/DVD and/or soundtrack they can cross fade between parts if the orchestra was off or if an instrument didn't hit a high note etc. No idea on if this will be on Blu-ray/DVD btw.
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May 14, 2022 - 7:13 AM
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Thor
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Kinda long post ahead.
I had a previous engagement last night, so I missed the live feed. However, I saw it today and was very impressed. If you’ll indulge me a little bit, I’ll relate some of my own personal observations of the evolution of this concert – as a bystander/observer, but with some connections to the people involved, especially the somewhat surprising “Norwegian connection” here. Feel free to correct me, Kim and others, if the details are off.
I think this whole thing started with the Vienna concert in 2013. It was certainly a highlight for me, especially my 11-minute breakfast interview with Horner himself on the top floor of a fancy hotel. But also because I met many other fans, in fact many of you, at the same event, with all the social stuff that ensued. Kim was also there, with a friend of his (who sadly passed away much too young).
But then came the proper “Norwegian connection” (disregarding for a moment the collaboration with Sissel on TITANIC) when Horner wrote “Pas de Deux” in 2014 for the two Norwegian soloists Mari and Håkon Samuelsen. I think that’s one of the reasons for why Horner came to Stavanger, Norway for a concert on May 13, 2015(?), conducted by Wigum(?). I can’t remember why I couldn’t attend, but I was probably at the Krakow film music festival at the time. Or maybe Cannes. Or somewhere else entirely. Either way, I regret it to this day, because it seemed like a fantastic event. You could even hang out with Horner himself as there was a boat trip out in the archipelago. I’m guessing this is where Kim connected with Sarah Horner. And then, of course, Horner passed away shortly thereafter. But the groundwork was laid for this concert.
I’ve never met conductor Torodd Wigum, but in addition to Kim, who I’ve met on a few occasions, I’ve also interacted with Johannes Leonard Rusten, one of the arrangers. I think we were in contact by e-mail in 2014 when we needed his score for the film SKUMRINGSLANDET for jury consideration. Nikoforos Chrysolaras, I hung out with during the Camille award days in Pula, Croatia, in – I think – 2018. So it’s been weird to watch this whole thing come together from people I more or less know. I could never envision a Horner/Norway connection this way.
So…for the concert itself. First of all, I was struck by the professionalism of it all. Somehow, I never expected that, don’t know why. Loved those beautiful segments with Sarah and Emily. The sunset mood shots, the drone shots, the genuine talk, all very professional and probably a bit expensive.
The performance and program itself was great (I’ve never been particularly concerned with the occasional flub, and there weren’t really that many of them in the first place), although the Horner nerd in me will always prefer the osbcure over the well-known. But to get to hear “Spectral Shimmers” was awesome – as others have alluded to, a very post-modern piece that inverts and re-organizes the classical quotes. “A Forest Passage” was very nice. I don’t get why people call it a hodgepodge of his different styles; for me, it’s a very precise and consistent piece. True, it sounds like a melodic film piece, but that’s not a drawback. Loved the simplicity of the stage's mise-en-scene -- just colour changes, not projection or anything. A proper concert.
All in all, I’m extremely impressed that you all got to get this off the ground (and Kim, I had no idea you could write/read/arrange music). It’s a beautiful testament to who he was, and deserves to be recorded for posterity. Thank you!
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I killed that conversation, didn't I?
I loved what you wrote, Thor!
Yavar
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It may be gone, but it's the internet -- eventually it'll pop up on another YouTube channel or on Archive.org.
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