John Williams
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you would have to write it within a week, 25 minutes of music or so, orchestrate it and conduct it. Wow. And so that was hard. To do a feature film may have 25 or 30 minutes of music, but you have six weeks to do it and a higher fee and a better orchestra and so forth. So it was a gradual step up that was evolutionary rather than anything planned.
you would have to write it within a week, 25 minutes of music or so, orchestrate it and conduct it. Wow. And so that was hard. To do a feature film may have 25 or 30 minutes of music, but you have six weeks to do it and a higher fee and a better orchestra and so forth. So it was a gradual step up that was evolutionary rather than anything planned.
I tried to play all of them. I spent time with piano, of course.
I tried to play all of them. I spent time with piano, of course.
I tried to play all of them. I spent time with piano, of course.
It's a very unifying thing. Yeah. One of the things that draws our humanity, congeals it. I think what you say about listening presents something very hopeful, I think, about music. We mentioned before that it's not language, it's something general. It may be in the end that Bernstein was right, that it is international. It goes beyond language.
It's a very unifying thing. Yeah. One of the things that draws our humanity, congeals it. I think what you say about listening presents something very hopeful, I think, about music. We mentioned before that it's not language, it's something general. It may be in the end that Bernstein was right, that it is international. It goes beyond language.
It's a very unifying thing. Yeah. One of the things that draws our humanity, congeals it. I think what you say about listening presents something very hopeful, I think, about music. We mentioned before that it's not language, it's something general. It may be in the end that Bernstein was right, that it is international. It goes beyond language.
We're talking about the divisions of the Oxford and Fifth, and the Fifth being the conjunctive language. It's something that I think we can place a little hope in, that it's something we all may share at an intellectual level that isn't particularly linguistic.
We're talking about the divisions of the Oxford and Fifth, and the Fifth being the conjunctive language. It's something that I think we can place a little hope in, that it's something we all may share at an intellectual level that isn't particularly linguistic.
We're talking about the divisions of the Oxford and Fifth, and the Fifth being the conjunctive language. It's something that I think we can place a little hope in, that it's something we all may share at an intellectual level that isn't particularly linguistic.
Yeah. We all do that. Yeah. I wish that could be better or a change of note or phrase or whatever timing. Absolutely.
Yeah. We all do that. Yeah. I wish that could be better or a change of note or phrase or whatever timing. Absolutely.
Yeah. We all do that. Yeah. I wish that could be better or a change of note or phrase or whatever timing. Absolutely.
I think probably the latter, what was required at the moment. Although one of the things that I... I did have a wonderful opportunity in service to orchestrate for military band because there were not a lot of publications for that instrumental combination available beyond Sousa and a few other earlier lights.
I think probably the latter, what was required at the moment. Although one of the things that I... I did have a wonderful opportunity in service to orchestrate for military band because there were not a lot of publications for that instrumental combination available beyond Sousa and a few other earlier lights.
I think probably the latter, what was required at the moment. Although one of the things that I... I did have a wonderful opportunity in service to orchestrate for military band because there were not a lot of publications for that instrumental combination available beyond Sousa and a few other earlier lights.