London Star Wars Concert

Are you sure The Throne Room/End Title isn't the same concert version that is on all the Star Wars re-recording compilations.

-Erik-

I was going to answer for you, with 'Martijn' replacing 'ME!'

Awesome review M. I more or less expected the approach used on the extra dvd of the ROTS score... Scenes from the films with dialogue and sound effects edited to the music. In fact the clips used here were the exact same found on the dvd. Because I expected this it didn't annoy me nearly as much as it did for you.

Hm... I'll try.
It was a variation right at the end of the classic Throne Room theme (so before seguing into the classic end theme), "swirlingly" dipping into darker tones and some modulations that touched upon the same note and chord progressions as the Throne Room/Force theme without actually becoming it.
After that it reverted to the second half of the classic Throne Room theme, though slightly more contained and less exuberant, to go into the End theme.

Wow. It's times like these I really wish I'd paid more attention to formal musicology.

Anyway, it lasted about 5-6 minutes, I guess.

I'm thinking now that maybe they cut up some bits of the Revenge Of The Sith end track (New Hope), and interspersed it here and there into the classic Throne Room score? I'm not certain at all. I'm going to have another listen at that track.

Did it make any sense?
It just looks like gibberish...

Makes sense to me.

Nice review Martijn !
It was an excellent concert indeed , I had my fair share of goose bump moments during some of the tracks .
The dialogue didn't bother me that much - and on occasion I thought it gave some extra sentimental touches to the ensemble . My son enjoyed it just as much as I did . The concert merchandise sold there was ... well , expensive , so if you're going to see it - bring enough cash with ya . I'm glad I finally got to meet some of the members here . Thomas , Gilles & Mario - it was a fun evening worthy of repetition ... I also briefly met Bregt and his brother . Nice to see you there as well . I hope the Sportpaleis will support other OST projects should they come along . I'm looking forward in seeing you all again and that's probably at the John Barry concert ?! Or maybe there's another meet in between , who knows ? An MT meet at the Efteling perhaps , eh Mario ?

PS : If the photos turn out ok I'll send them on through ...

Why the hell would they do that? They might as well have gone up to Frank Oz and said:

"You know the work you did for The Phantom Menace? Yeah. Well... we've decided to rub shit all over it."

Next we'll see a friggin' digital Yoda in Empire and Jedi!

to the power of

I guess they did it for continuity sake... oh wait... nevermind.

-Erik-

Hey ! We'd love to see the photos if you have the time.

It was a fun evening, if they ever do this for Goldsmith and the Star Trek series I'm game, no doubt about that.

Neither did I to be honest. But I much much MUCH preferred it to the digital Yoda they ended up with.

Well, I liked the CGI Yoda from Episode 2 and 3, so personally I can't wait for them to remove that weird looking puppet from TPM

This is BTW from the Wikipedia article about Yoda:

"Yoda has been redone in CGI for a later release of The Phantom Menace. This edition will most likely be part of a future release of the Star Wars saga. A clip of the new CG Yoda from The Phantom Menace can be seen in the featurette The Chosen One, included in the DVD release of Revenge of the Sith."

But back to the concert. Someone here wrote that there was an encore version of The Emperial March? If my memory hasn't failed me, there was no encore at the first concert last year. That was actually the only thing I thought the concert was missing... that, and a (better) map over the O2 Arena, so I wouldn't have missed the Star Wars exhibition

Lifeless, soulless digital crud. That's what CGI Yoda amounts to.

Lucas is too much of a fucktard to make his digital characters interesting and lacks the ability to make the audience care about them. In Empire and Jedi, Yoda LIVES; in the prequels ("Space Fights 1, 2 and 3" as I like to call them - NOT Star Wars) he's just a collection of unconvincing pixels in what are soulless, humorless, poorly made films themselves.

I can't agree more with both of you.

p.s. That moment where Yoda ressurects the X-wing is possitively religious, combined with JW's sublime score it's a real chills up and down the spine moment.

....oh!!!

Fixed