Page 1 of BBC Proms - John Williams

Just catching up on this with iPlayer, anyone else see it? Amazed at how tight the BBC Orchestra is, sounds incredible!

Got to admit when I heard the Superman theme I almost cried. If a piece of music can symbolise one man I think the Superman Theme pretty much sums it up.

What did you think (if you've seen it that is 😁)

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Westy says...
"Amazed at how tight the BBC Orchestra is, sounds incredible!"
Why wouldn't it? Top orchestra and all that.
Not exactly Bernard Herrman and the NDO. One for the (very) oldies there.

Haven't seen it and thanks for the heads up. I will seek it out.

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Loved the music... Katie Derham's jokes, not so much!

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Yeah +1 on the Katie Derham thing, felt a bit awkward!😁

You'll have to pardon my ignorance on the BBC Orchestra thing but yes, they're fantastic 👍

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I was expecting it to be the usual crowdpleaser with only the most popular, iconic themes, but surprisingly there was a decent sampling of his less well known scores too.

The Saxophone solo from 'Catch Me If You Can' was especially good!

Just watching it on iPlayer now and seeing much more of the orchestra than you ever used to in Proms of yesteryear.
Can't shift images of Hoffnung's cartoons from my brain.



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