Film Night At Tanglewood
Live broadcast, 2013-08-24



John Williams, David Newman & Audra McDonald
with the Boston Pops Orchestra

A beloved summer tradition continued on August 24 at 8:30 p.m. in the Shed with John Williams' Film Night. Joining maestro Williams and the Boston Pops for this special program ─which featured selections by Alfred Newman, Henry Mancini, Max Steiner, and more─ were guest conductor David Newman, son of Alfred Newman and a film composer in his own right, and superstar vocalist and Broadway and screen actress Audra McDonald, who recently won a Tony Award for her performance as the leading lady in Porgy and Bess. Ms. McDonald joined the orchestra for selections from a number of films, including A Star Is Born, State Fair, and The West Point Story. Mr. Williams also lead the Pops in his own film music, including pieces from Jaws, Indiana Jones, and Hook. (Text from www.bso.org (http://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/48900))


Audio (single) file: MPEG, layer III, v1, 128 kbps, 48 kHz, JointStereo
Original name: bso130824.mp3
ID3 version 2.4.0
Playing time: 1h 45' 56''
File size: 97.0 MiB

Tracklist in .cue file:


01 - Ron Della Chiesa - Introduction

JOHN WILLIAMS & BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
02 - Hooray For Hollywood (Richard A. Whiting)
03 - John Williams - Comments On David Newman

DAVID NEWMAN & BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA:
04 - 20th Century Fox Fanfare (Alfred Newman)
05 - Conquest (From "Captain From Castile") (Alfred Newman)
06 - Cathy's Theme (From "Wuthering Heights") (Elita Kang, violin) (Alfred Newman)
07 - Main Title From "How The West Was Won" (Alfred Newman)
08 - Finale From "Victor/Victoria" (Henry Mancini)
09 - Theme From "The Pink Panther" (Henry Mancini)
10 - David Newman - Introduction To "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and "Casablanca"
11 - Finale From "Breakast At Tiffany's" (Henry Mancini)
12 - Opening / Finale (From "Casablanca") (Max Steiner)

13 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments On First Half

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14 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments On Second Half

JOHN WILLIAMS & BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
15 - Flight To Neverland (From "Hook") (John Williams)

AUDRA MCDONALD, JOHN WILLIAMS & BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
16 - John Williams - Introduction To Audra McDonald
17 - Lose That Long Face (From "A Star Is Born") (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin)
18 - It May As Well Be Spring (From "State Fair") (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers)
19 - Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here (From "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever") (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner)
20 - The Man Who Got Away (From "A Star Is Born") (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin)
21 - Audra McDonald - Comments On "It's Too Late Now"
22 - It's Too Late Now (From "Royal Wedding") (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner)
23 - Audra McDonald - Comments
24 - 10,432 Sheep (From "The West Point Story") (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
25 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments On Audra McDonald

AUDRA MCDONALD & JOHN WILLIAMS (piano)
26 - John Williams & Audra McDonald - Deal About Casablanca Song
27 - As Time Goes By (From "Casablanca", Encore) (Max Steiner)
28 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments On The Encore

JOHN WILLIAMS & BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
29 - Scherzo For Motorcyle And Orchestra (From "Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade") (John Williams)
30 - John Williams - Comments On Spielberg And Lucas
31 - Tribute To Steven Spielberg And George Lucas (Jaws - Star Wars - Raiders Of The Lost Ark - E.T.) (John Williams)
32 - Ron Della Chiesa - Comments
33 - Imperial March (From "The Empire Strikes Back") (John Williams)
34 - Ron Della Chiesa - Final Comments & Acknowledgements


The 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org) archive includes the program notes and a ~20 Mb (damned short) youtube video with a few moments of the night. To extract the files, when requested to type something, use overmybleep

Download link: FNT.7z | Uloz.to (http://ulozto.net/xkNMxGu2/fnt-7z) (118 MiB)

Enjoy. And if you are able to share a better sound, .cue or image file, please do it. As for the password, I don't think you could beat mine. ;)

Thank you very much!

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You are welcome, folks. :)

For the ones who didn't listen to this, here's the explanation of my above comment about the password. It's part of the introduction by David Newman to Henry Mancini's Finale from Breakfast At Tiffany's:


"And Hank(*) used to tell a really funny story about Breakast at Tiffany's, and it... He wrote the song Moon River, Audrey Hepburn sings in the movie. They, everybody loved the song, and so they went to a... what they would call a preview. It's like an out-of-town try-out where you get an audience, they don't pay money, and they tell you what they think of the film.

So they had a reel with the Paramount film, they had great screening, and then the head of the studio comes out and Mancini is there, Audrey Hepburn is there, and he says:

─ You know? I don't like that song. You, you guys, you need to write another song. You ought to take that song out of the film.

And Hank said that Audrey Hepburn, who was very demure, very elegant, said in a very colorful way:

─ Over my bleep bleep dead body are you taking that song out of the film.

And I love that story because I think it describes what Hollywod is, is... a great truth in Hollywood, which is: for all that expertise and the great people that are around and working it, really nobody knows exactly what's gonna happen. You don't know if the film is gonna be a hit, you don't know if it's going to be an artistic hit. And you can't imagine this movie without the song; it's unthinkable, but it just barely got in because the head of the studio didn't want it in, and it had to be forced into the movie."

(*) Henry Mancini

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De nada; you're welcome, friends.

Great story for the PW!
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I listen to all kinds of different s!t and then I always come back to Johnny Williams for clearing my head.... A beautiful gift! Thanks

Thank you kooke!

Magnificent! Thank you very much!

Thousand thanks for this!!