{"id":4038,"date":"2013-11-01T23:08:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T03:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:23:05","slug":"k-w-symphonys-john-williams-and-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/k-w-symphonys-john-williams-and-spielberg\/","title":{"rendered":"KW Symphony&#8217;s &#8220;John Williams &#038; Spielberg&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony&#8217;s performance of\u00a0&#8220;John Williams and Spielberg.&#8221; What this means, of course, is that they played the music of John Williams that he composed for movies that Steven Spielberg directed. As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/best-soundtracks-by-year\/\">noted recently<\/a>, Williams is one of my favourite movie composers. Not all of his great scores are for Spielberg movies (notable exceptions would be <strong>Star Wars<\/strong>, <strong>Superman<\/strong>, and <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong>) but many of them are. Here are the movies whose scores were represented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1941<\/li>\n<li>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/li>\n<li>E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial<\/li>\n<li>Hook<\/li>\n<li>Jaws<\/li>\n<li>Jurassic Park<\/li>\n<li>Raiders of the Lost Ark &amp; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/li>\n<li>Saving Private Ryan<\/li>\n<li>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/li>\n<li>The Terminal<\/li>\n<li>Warhorse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen <strong>1941<\/strong>, <strong>Saving Private Ryan<\/strong>, <strong>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/strong> or <strong>Warhorse <\/strong>so I wasn&#8217;t familiar with that music, but I&#8217;m very familiar with the rest of it.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights were <strong>Jaws<\/strong>, <strong>Jurassic Park<\/strong>, and <strong>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/strong> &#8212; as I expected. But the march from <strong>1941<\/strong> was a revelation &#8212; it was new to me, but I absolutely loved it. The piece is reminiscent of Aaron Copland.<\/p>\n<p>The main theme from <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> was played as an encore.<\/p>\n<p>If you think John Williams only writes one type of music, this concert would disabuse you of that notion. As the conductor intended, the selections demonstrate Williams&#8217; tremendous range. From the gentle <strong>War Horse<\/strong> to the joyous <strong>Hook<\/strong> to the sinister <strong>Jaws<\/strong>, each piece was memorable.<\/p>\n<p>The symphony was terrific as always. I noted one little problem but that was it.<\/p>\n<p>The conductor was Michael Krajewski &#8212; he spoke in between pieces and was informative and funny.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre in the Square is a splendid venue &#8212; you can hear everything even from the very back row in the balcony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony&#8217;s performance of\u00a0&#8220;John Williams and Spielberg.&#8221; What this means, of course, is that they played the music of John Williams that he composed for movies that Steven Spielberg directed. As I&#8217;ve noted recently, Williams is one of my favourite movie composers. Not all of his great scores are for Spielberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[13,5,72],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-of-music","tag-music","tag-review","tag-soundtracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9295,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}