Posted on 02/08/2015 12:49:37 PM PST by EveningStar
The last time i saw the July 4th concert, Lockhart truncated the 1812 overture so horribly, it was barely longer that the Quaker Puffed Rice commercial.
As if the good people of Boston were too “igornant” to listen to the whole thing.
Everybody was FURIOUS.
“He puts hacks like Bernstein to shame.”
LOL Not this again.
BTW Leonard Bernstein wrote only one original film score: ‘On the Waterfront’, and it is one of the all time greats
I don’t like him at all.
Are you sure he wasn’t referring to Elmer?
I quite understand!
Pretty sure.
:)
Oh...OK.
Because when i think of a Bernstein doing movie music, I think of Elmer.
But it looks as though I maybe entered the middle of a “discussion” already in progress. LOL
carry on.
Nobody...NOBODY chops up the 1812 overture on the Esplanade on July 4th.
I don’t care if it doesn’t have anything to do with THE WAR OF 1812, EITHER.
LOL
I love it. It’s thrilling. :)
That would be his father.
Yes.
I love the way Tchaikovsky actually simulates troop movements on the battlefield by weaving together the French Anthem with various Russian Folk Melodies and church music...shows the French gaining territory in the countryside, and then the Czar’s army routing them. There is a passage that actually SOUNDS like troops retreating! And then the church bells and cannon celebrate...it’s like a 20 minute movie done with sound.
I guess kL didn’t “get’ it.
I don’t know why they hired him. He has no concept of what comprises great music.
Carter Burwell.
There is no doubt that Williams is gifted. And I like his very recognizable score.
My two favorites aren’t Williams.
Rosenthal (Requiem For a Heavyweight)
Jones/Edelman (Last of the Mohicans)
What can I say...I like BIG music. That maybe why Williams loses me sometimes.
I would have liked to have seen Concert master Harry Ellis Dickson move into Fiedler’s place when the Maestro retired.
He often subbed for him and knew the music intimately.
The Boston Pops Orchestra had seventeen conductors before 1930, when Arthur Fiedler began a fifty-year tenure as the Pops conductor. Under Fiedler’s direction the orchestra’s popularity spread far beyond the city of Boston through recordings, radio and television. Unhappy with the reputation of classical music as being solely for affluent concert goers, Fiedler made efforts to bring classical music to a wider audience. He instituted a series of free concerts at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, a public park beside the Charles River. Fiedler insisted that the Pops Orchestra play popular music as well as well-known classical pieces, opening up a new niche of popular symphonic music. Of the many musical pieces created for the orchestra, the Pops’ most identifiable works were the colorful novelty numbers composed by Fiedler’s close friend Leroy Anderson, including “Sleigh Ride”, “The Typewriter” and many others.
Under Fiedler’s direction, the Boston Pops sold more commercial recordings than any other orchestra in the world, with total sales of albums, singles, tapes, and cassettes exceeding $50 million. The orchestra’s first recordings were made in July 1935 for RCA Victor, including the first complete recording of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The Pops made their first high fidelity recording on June 20, 1947, of Gaîté Parisienne (based on the music of Jacques Offenbach), and recorded the same music seven years later in stereophonic sound, their first venture in multitrack recording.
Fiedler is also credited with having begun the annual tradition of the Fourth of July Pops concert and fireworks display on the Esplanade, one of the best-attended Independence Day celebrations in the country with estimated crowds of 200,000–500,000 people. Also during Fiedler’s tenure, the Pops and local public television station WGBH developed a series of weekly televised broadcasts recorded during the Pops’ regular season in Symphony Hall, Evening at Pops.
Source: Wikipedia
Indiana Jones Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pNlMgH2p-Y
This is a compilation of the 3 movies (Crystal Skull does not count!)
They were also broadcast on stereo FM radio every Saturday night...and my Dad recorded EVERY single one of them.
Your Dad was a cool guy. :)
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