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Aug 13, 2007 - 1:07 PM
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swoony
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Friday, September 14, 2007 8:00PM
Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:00PM
Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:00PM
John Williams:
Sound the Bells!
John Williams:
Flight to Neverland from Hook
John Williams:
Suite from Jane Eyre (Lowood, To Thornfield, and Reunion)
John Williams:
Suite from the Harry Potter films (Hedwig’s Theme, Aunt Marge’s Waltz, Harry’s Wondrous World)
Bock/ John Williams:
Excerpts from Fiddler on the Roof
Whiting/ John Williams:
"Hooray for Hollywood" from Hollywood Hotel
Lane/ Lerner:
"You’re All the World to Me" from Royal Wedding
DePaul/ Mercer:
"Bless Your Beautiful Hide" from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
André Previn/ Betty Comden & Adolf Green:
"I Like Myself" from It's Always Fair Weather
Fain/ Freed:
"The Worry Song" from Anchors Aweigh
Brown/ Freed:
"Singin' in the Rain" from Singin' in the Rain
John Williams:
Sayuri's Theme from Memoirs of a Geisha
John Williams:
A Tribute to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
http://nyphil.org/attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=1361&seasonNum=7
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Thats really cool thats back on his home turf being a Native New Yorker.
A tribute to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg?Sounds good to me. Wish I could see it.
P.S.
I can't stop admiring those grand,sweeping, gestures that Darth Sidious makes in ROTS as he summons up the unlimited power of the dark side of the force and hurls all those senate pods at Yoda [to the tune of Duel Of The Fates].Sidious comes across as a mad conductor of destruction.The Senate chamber being his "orchestra". I wouldn't be surprised if George Lucas was inspired by Williams energetic conducting when he directed that big scene.....
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Sep 17, 2007 - 2:38 PM
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Howard L
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hey, this is from today's NY Times:
Come on With the Rain (Sharks and Ewoks Too)
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The New York Philharmonic has been busy of late, preparing for its gala opening-night concert tomorrow and the start of its subscription season on Wednesday. Yet it found time on Friday night to present a program, mostly of film music, conducted by John Williams. Also taking part was the director, choreographer and dancer Stanley Donen, who introduced scenes from his movie musicals, including “Singin’ in the Rain,” which, let’s face it, is the greatest movie musical of all time.
This was not just an evening of offbeat fun for the Philharmonic. The substantive program included a lot of bustling film music by Mr. Williams and others that few of the musicians may ever have played before. They seemed to enjoy themselves, though, as did an eager audience. This performance and two others over the weekend were nearly sold out.
Mr. Williams, who at 75 still conducts with kinetic energy, has taken flack from patronizing (and no doubt jealous) “serious” composers for the hyperexuberance and heart-tugging sentiment of his film scores. Still, he is a highly skilled and creative craftsman with dramatic flair, a keen ear for harmony and a proven knack for writing uplifting themes that are impossible to forget.
For this program he chose some of his lesser-known music: “Sound the Bells!,” for example, a celebratory piece written for the 1993 wedding of the Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada. In this restless score, with its skittish brass riffs and sustained chromatic string chords, Mr. Williams deftly evokes Asian scales and instrumental colors.
His seldom-heard suite from “Jane Eyre,” a 1971 television movie, was a captivating surprise, especially the first movement, “Lowood,” with bittersweet harmonic language that recalled Vaughan Williams. Not surprisingly, an entrancing suite from the Harry Potter films had young people throughout Avery Fisher Hall sitting bolt upright in their seats.
Mr. Donen, wiry and affable at 83, seemed genuinely touched by the tribute to his work. Scenes from the films were shown on a screen above the orchestra as it played, posing difficult issues of coordination. When the films were made, the dancing was coordinated to recorded music. Here it was the opposite.
Five dance sequences were presented, all timeless achievements from movies Mr. Donen directed, alone or with Gene Kelly, or worked on. The segment began with Fred Astaire in “You’re All the World to Me,” from “Royal Wedding”: the number in which Astaire’s character, delirious in love, appears to dance on the walls and ceiling of a small furnished room. It ended, of course, with Kelly in the title number from “Singin’ in the Rain.”
The program ended with a montage of scenes from “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and “E.T.,” with Mr. Williams conducting patched-together excerpts from his scores. The audience applauded as each familiar theme sounded, then rose for an ecstatic ovation. Let high-art types gripe about Mr. Williams. Among those whose medium has been the orchestra, he is surely the best known, most popular and richest composer in history.
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