Monday, April 28, 2014

Local Moron Puts On Airs, Goes To Symphony.

General observations about seeing John Williams conduct the Oregon Symphony tonight:

  • It is impossible to avoid mentally superimposing The Crawl above an orchestra playing the Star Wars theme.
  • John Williams anecdotally refers to Yoda as “The elder wizard character from the second film”.
  • The theme from Close Encounters is badass.
  • The moment when the Eliot’s bicycles takes flight in E.T. is so emotionally tied to the score that hearing it live sans picture actually had the same effect as when I saw that scene in the theater at age 7.
  • Don’t worry about not seeing Indiana Jones listed in the program. There will be an encore.
  • John Williams is not the sort of Maestro who is afraid to follow the Indiana Jones encore with the theme from the NBC Nightly News.

2 comments:

  1. He's the one playing the piano on Mancini's Peter Gunn soundtrack, too.

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    1. Crazy! I've had that LP for years and never made the connection. No surprise really, dude is a hit machine. Seriously his IMDB is almost too much to take in at once.

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