{"id":12950,"date":"2020-05-05T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=12950"},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:41:49","slug":"pops-at-home-boston-pops-virtual-orchestra-performs-summon-the-heroes-introduced-by-john-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=12950","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Summon the Heroes&#8217;: New &#8216;Virtual Orchestra&#8217; Recording by the Boston Pops &#8211; Introduced by John Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keith Lockhart conducts John Williams&#8217; Summon the Heroes with The Boston Pops &#8220;Virtual Orchestra&#8221;: Streaming for a limited time starting Tuesday, May 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-4c2bdf1de66b6a4e4744167fbb929338 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Summon The Heroes - The Boston Pops Orchestra, May 5, 2020\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WHmhQgF3rEE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"page-summary\">The Boston Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, performs a musical video tribute, <em>Summon the Heroes<\/em>\u2014featuring the work originally composed by John Williams for the 1996 Olympic Games\u2014as a tribute to today\u2019s first responders who are providing critical and needed services during the COVID-19 epidemic. John Williams joins the virtual tribute with a musical and spoken introduction taped from his home studio in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Pops musicians themselves conceived of the idea of a \u201cvirtual orchestra\u201d rendition of Summon the Heroes as the perfect piece of music to honor COVID-19 front line and essential workers. Nearly 80 musicians recorded their individual parts in their basement, kitchen, living room, or bedroom!<\/p>\n<p>John Williams wrote <em>Summon the Heroes<\/em> for the 1996 Olympic Games, marking the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games. That same year, a recording of the work by the Boston Pops was released on a CD of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>BSO Recording Engineer Nick Squire and Video Engineer Brandon Cardley, working from their homes, edited the audio and video from 86 individually submitted video files to create the musicians\u2019 gift to all who are giving so much of themselves during this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/brands\/pops\/features\/at-home\/pops-at-home-heroic-performances-may-5.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>More details at the Boston Pops website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/32027-summon-the-heroes-by-boston-pops-with-john-williams-new-2020-home-recording-dedicated-to-frontline-workers\/\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Lockhart conducts John Williams&#8217; Summon the Heroes with The Boston Pops &#8220;Virtual Orchestra&#8221;: Streaming for a limited time starting Tuesday, May 5 The Boston Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, performs a musical video tribute, Summon the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=12950\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}