JOHN WILLIAMS

Is that right Dr. Phil?

Pffff...everybody's a shrink these days. Or can be.

So , anyone feeling the 'jive' yet for the upcoming Star Wars In Concert ?
My 'force' is already flowing !

Yesterday a couple of us visited Antwerpen for Star Wars in CONCERT, and in short it was AMAZING. Fantastic selection of cues, amazing orchestral performance of the Royal Philharmonic, well added light effects, sound effects and dialogue, and of course unforgettable music.

Highlights were aplenty, but the concert suite of The Flag Parade was super, The Forest Battle was groundbreaking, and The Imperial March received 2 stunning versions, of which the second will remain a pleasant memory no matter what

Oh and Anthony Daniels aka C-3PO was amazing, funny and charming, he added the remaining flair that was missing that evening.

I've heard we Europeans are much more reserved, but during the concert I didn't notice that at all. We were like little children, wanting more and more

Oh and it was great to see Martijn, Eric, Mario, Tim and Bregt again, Bregt also brought his brother along for the ride, and Eric chose to inspire his son with some good old filmmusic (not that he needed that inspiration because he was already sold )

Ah, what an evening.
I can't add anything more than it was absolutely magnificent

2 thumbs up

A superb evening, I had the time of my life. The whole package was incredibly impressive, the music selection was great, the on screen clips were well-edited and the laser light show was something I had never experienced before, and it was appropriately used... When the green lasers filled the entire hall my jaw was dangling on the floor.

From the top of my head these were the cues used, sometimes altered a little bit but I didn't mind that ...
- 20th Century Fox Fanfare
- Main Title
- Duel of the Fates
- Anakin's Theme
- The Flag Parade
- Across the Stars
- Battle of Heroes
- The Dune Sea of Tatooine / Jawa Sandcrawler
- Binary Sunset / Cantina Band
- Tie Fighter Attack
- Princess Leia's Theme
INTERMISSION
- The Clash of Lightsabers (not entirely)
- The Imperial March
- Yoda's Theme
- The Asteroid Field
- Luke and Leia
- The Forest Battle
- Light of the Force
- The Throne Room / End Title
ENCORE: The Imperial March

As you can see an awesome selection. I also loved walking around the entire thing, it had that undeniable Star Wars vibe, with lots of amateur jedi's, stormtroopers and others justifying their pay. The only thing missing from the exhibit were the miniatures and models, which I would've loved to see, I mean not even the Millennium Falcon or the Tie Fighter were on display. But I guess that would've been too hard to do, logistically. But Darth, 3PO, Chewie and a certain someone in frozen carbonite were there, among others. So no complaints there !!!

So the music was fantastic, as were the performances, the percussion and the brass section had that special kind of oomph you only hear in live events. It was great meeting up with Bregt and brother, Martijn, Eric and son, Tim, Mario and Thomas.

An evening to be remembered for sure.

Was it at the Antwerps Sportpaleis? Where the Lord of The Rings concert was a few years back?

for real?
No, this concert topped the Williams one, because of the orchestra, which was outstanding
I still rank this alongside the Goldsmith one though (played in Gent Belgium), because that was just mesmerizing for various reasons

Anyway, apparently everybody said this was much better than the LOTR concert in Sportpaleis (I'm talking about the sound of course)

My review/experience here.

Why is this thread being used when we have both a thread for this particular concert series AND a non-specific concert thread?

With all this anarchy around, next think you know people'll be going off-topic.

We humbly apologise your worshipfulness...

You may transfer posts to the other topic if you feel like it.

So, I mentioned this in the Now Playing thread and got no response, but I was wondering if there were any people here besides me who preferred Munich over Schindler's List? Like the movie, I was just more moved by the music of the former than the latter.

Munich's not bad... but it relies heavily on a lot of what Williams composed in Angela's Ashes which I think is a far better score than Munich. As for Schindler's List... it's a fooking masterpiece. "Remembrances" slays me and the rest of the score and adapted folk melodies are so perfectly spotted! Schindler's List brought out the best in both Spielberg and Williams.

-Erik-

Well I liked Angela's Ashes too, so that's not really an issue. I think it may be that I'm not a huge fan of solo violin, which takes up much of Schindler's List. This is also why I wasn't bowled over by Newton Howard's The Village.

It's all good, though. I'm a big fan of Williams' tragic scores, so there's merit in all of them.

I thought Munich was a better film than Schindler's List, more honest.

Score wise it's Schindler's for me.

I liked Munich, I mean really liked it. It took me completely by surprise in fact. I haven't seen Schindler's List recently enough to confidently compare but at this stage I'd be prepared to say that they're just about on a par with each other.

Munich is a very good modern Williams album; but of course it's nowhere even near Schindler's List. With the latter he broke new ground. Munich is far different, and it's much more influenced by the modern film musical surroundings (some Zimmerisms in the too) whereas Schindler's List was one of those rare masterpieces where he set new ground, he really re-invented himself in a wholly diachronic piece of work.