Daily News | Star Wars and a new concerto: John Williams conducts his own music with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Nostalgia was obviously a powerful pull for those who bought a ticket to recapture the feeling of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — as in, your childhood movie theater, c. 1977. But there was a tantalizing intermingling of forces in the air Tuesday night.
Tuesday night’s concert was a benefit for the orchestra and Academy of Music, and some patrons had attended pre-concert receptions and a dinner. Thursday night’s repeat at Carnegie Hall is also a benefit, for Carnegie’s education and artistic programs. Williams and Mutter have been working together for several years, and whatever collaborative synergy they may have it was clearly Mutter’s singular qualities that made the evening work.— it sets off my schmaltz alarm when it comes on the radio.
Strangely, perhaps, I found myself missing the movie screen in a series of selections from Williams’s film scores. “Flight to Neverland” fromis loud and proud, but it isn’t the composer’s best work, and there isn’t enough to interest the ear without something for the eye.were wonderful as always with a Straussian expansiveness that fills your chest with excitement.
Yes, there are lots of influences in the score , but the overall weave adds up to a true original. Not many works can sustain light mist and dark shadows as long as this one does. Fewer still do it so absorbingly. Where is the light, the sense of triumph and optimism, for which Williams is known? You do get a major chord at the end. But it’s quiet and brief, and it’s so lacking in vehemence you wonder whether the composer means it. Here, the good guy doesn’t win with a flourish at the end. For that we’ll always have the movies.
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