TownerFan 5,218 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Patti LaBelle, Jordin Sparks, Michael McDonald and others will join headliner Frankie Valli at “A Capitol Fourth” concert.Organizers say the July 4 celebration at the National Mall will be hosted by Tom Bergeron of “Dancing with the Stars.”Other performers will include Sara Evans, Kendall Schmidt and Kelli O’Hara. Composer John Williams will conduct a new arrangement for orchestra and chorus of the “Star Spangled Banner” to mark its 200th anniversary.“A Capitol Fourth” will be broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. EDThttp://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/05/28/tom-bergeron-jordin-sparks-patti-labelle-set-for-a-capitol-fourth/Thanks to Mari for pointing it out on Facebook! Mari 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 5,141 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Well, that sounds pretty cool. My first thought was that this will not be a new version, but the one we have had for years now. But, if it involves an chorus, it will have to at least be a revision of the existing wind band arrangement. I think this is the third year in a row Williams has conducted a piece at this concert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Cool! I'm guessing JW made the arrangement? This would be his third time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,327 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 it has a chorus so it's new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,456 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 A chorus for the Banner? You mean, one that isn't all the old people and vets around me singing? What a novel concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igger6 953 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 The press release doesn't actually say that Williams created the arrangement, does it? Or is that implied by the fact that he's conducting it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 5,141 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 It is implied. It seems exceedingly doubtful he would travel to DC to conduct only one piece and not have arranged it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 966 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 A chorus for the Banner? You mean, one that isn't all the old people and vets around me singing? What a novel concept.Star Spangled Banner, for Orchestra, Singing and Removed Hats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,867 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 And turtlenecks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,327 Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 I am really looking forward to seeing this on TV. I remember last year's "A Capital Fourth," when the Maestro performed his suite movement from "Lincoln." That was phenomenal. Looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,816 Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 And turtlenecks.Removed turtlenecks? Oh my... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Demondm810 413 Posted July 3, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted July 3, 2014 My brother in law was in the orchestra for this. He knows my obsession and sent me a couple pics. They're just cell phone, sorry about quality. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Mr. Brown, Smeltington and Incanus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,816 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Cell phone quality picture or not thanks for sharing them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 we need video with sound!oh wait this will be on TV right?K.M.Setting his DVR now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 1,374 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 This is usually broadcast, and always pops up online a couple of days after the thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Williams is looking well in the picture too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Just read the story on this. Can't wait to hear it. No small honor, performing the anthem on its 200th anniversary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Wish I still lived there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,270 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 The new arrangement features "choirs, trumpets, an orchestra and cannons".http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/events/2014/07/03/john-williams-to-debut-new-version-of-us-anthem/12157489/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 ooh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I'm a bit late watching ('i recorded it though), ..is the anthem passed?ok, watching it on the DVRWilliams himself is even introducing the piece with some patriotic words!oh it's different!it was great!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 That was awesome! Loved the Williams button at the end of the piece!I think the cannons referred to in the press release were in the video played during the bridge. There certainly weren't any cannons fired on the National Mall.I am very glad to see how young and lively he looks at 82. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 it was like a re-working of the Brass arrangement. The opening fanfare was different, they added the choir but the rest was similarthere was also a new bit when Williams was talkingI am very glad to see how young and lively he looks at 82.He seemed really into it, he was even singing along while conducting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,270 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I think the cannons referred to in the press release were in the video played during the bridge. There certainly weren't any cannons fired on the National Mall.Yes there were some real cannons firing on some ledge, they showed them during the fireworks in the 1812 OvertureI'm also pretty sure Williams composed the little into that played when he was talking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,327 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 This is the best and most beautiful arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner I have ever heard. Bravo, Maestro. Absolutely phenomenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brown 91 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I like the bullet-proof glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 The intro is actually part of the piece, since the orchestra doesn't stop when Williams starts the fanfare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 When does it appear in the program? I'm not gonna sit through the rest of the crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 629 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I hope this ends up on YouTube soon... I wasn't able to see it or record it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airmanjerm 79 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 When does it appear in the program? I'm not gonna sit through the rest of the crap.Top of the program...first thing. No crap to sit through until after the anthem and that tragic patriotic medley. I liked the arrangement....it's nothing earth-shattering or new. And that's the part that I liked best about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Yep, not sure where else I thought it would be. Thankfully avoided all of the other "special" guests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airmanjerm 79 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Dear God. They used one of my stock medleys, the one after the anthem. Grand Old Flag into This Is My Country, etc. Never liked it.If I hear another vocalist pronounce "emblem" as "amblem" I'll scream! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igger6 953 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Fantastic arrangement! A beautiful, slow string intro followed by shades of "Hymn to the Fallen" in the opening chords. (Too bad they were late turning on the chorus's mics.) Nice trumpet blasts throughout, and a really killer finale. One stretch reminded me of an earlier Williams arrangement (the one available on a US Air Force Band album called To the Edge of Space), but overall it was much more traditional and accessible than that one.I hope there will be a recording someday, so I can really pick apart the harmony. Beautiful tribute, and what a shock to see the Maestro giving the intro! God bless America! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,729 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 But the mics for the choir was too loud and you could not the orchestra well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,539 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Starts at about 10-minute mark:http://youtu.be/tEf08fUEmpkKarol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Trilogy 39 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 There is also the beginning of "Liberty Fanfare" directly after the "Star Spangled Banner". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I was actually pretty disappointed by the arrangement. Nothing new here...most of the parts that deviated from the standard Star Spangled Banner arrangement were from JW's wind band arrangement or the version he wrote for the World Series a few years ago. Maybe I was getting my hopes up too high for a new approach, after hearing JW's wildly inventive Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra. I much prefer the World Series version...that had some really unexpected twists Quintus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 1,374 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Thank you for the link. Hopefully will also pop up in HD soon.The arrangement itself sounds like a revision of the 2001 one from the Rose Parade.As for Liberty Fanfare, that one is a regular on this concerts, and particularly on The Capitol Fourth (this years and past ones) it uses prerecorded bits of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,270 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Here's the full performance of the new arrangement (still low quality, same source as the previously linked video). Includes Williams' intro and the beginning of Liberty Fanfare. The intro is actually part of the piece, since the orchestra doesn't stop when Williams starts the fanfareIt certainly looks so. Mari 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brown 91 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Always a pleasure to see The Maestro in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 8,431 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Cool! Very "full-on" and American (and very different from how we do it over here), but there's a definite appeal in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Brausam 221 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I don't think we should be looking for something "different" in an arrangement of this piece. If we get too inventive then it goes away from being something respectful or celebratory and becomes something more of an artist trying to show off - kind of like what we see with vocalists at the Super Bowl year after year. The Star-Spangled Banner shouldn't be used as a personal artistic platform to that degree, lest we start alienating the people whom the anthem really matters to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airmanjerm 79 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I don't think we should be looking for something "different" in an arrangement of this piece. If we get too inventive then it goes away from being something respectful or celebratory and becomes something more of an artist trying to show off - kind of like what we see with vocalists at the Super Bowl year after year. The Star-Spangled Banner shouldn't be used as a personal artistic platform to that degree, lest we start alienating the people whom the anthem really matters to.Preach! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,270 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Higher quality version now available: Code 000. Destruct. 0. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 629 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Thanks! Williams was really entertaining to watch here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 966 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 'murica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,454 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Disappointing arrangement and nowhere near as rousing as his 1996 Olympics version.I'm surprised by how ineffectual this is.On the plus side I was emotionally respondent to how well and rigorously precise the Maestro was in the clip. A magnificent fellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyD 1,327 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 This is the best and most beautiful arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner ever done. This new arrangement for chorus and orchestra done by the Maestro was phenomenal. I shed a tear or two. It was nice to see him introduce his arrangement with patriotic words and background history of the song. God bless John Williams, and God bless the United States of America. airmanjerm and Sharkissimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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