{"id":13875,"date":"2022-05-20T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2023-01-27T02:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T02:21:50","slug":"a-gathering-of-friends-new-williams-yo-yo-ma-album-to-be-released-on-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=13875","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Gathering of Friends&#8217;: New Williams\/Yo-Yo Ma Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/JW.jpg.42dd870592e131656da01a3086094425-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kGcr3wqAmhrDS0B2b5DPhQDWtzFh-Wglk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LISTEN ON YOUTUBE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-7ca094d0bb9b82a812d996436cd75c26 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"A Gathering of Friends\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=OLAK5uy_kGcr3wqAmhrDS0B2b5DPhQDWtzFh-Wglk&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>JOHN WILLIAMS &amp; YO-YO MA REUNITE ON UPCOMING ALBUM, A GATHERING OF FRIENDS, WITH THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC &#8211; AVAILABLE MAY 20, 2022<\/p>\n<p><b>New Album Features Premiere Recording of a Revised Version of Williams&#8217; Cello Concerto, Plus New Arrangements of Selections from <i>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/i>, <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Lincoln<\/span><\/i>, and <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Munich<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">April 1, 2022<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ <b>&#8212; <\/b><b><span class=\"xn-person\">John Williams<\/span><\/b> and <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Yo-Yo Ma<\/span><\/b> renew their celebrated, decades-long collaboration and friendship with <b><i>A Gathering of Friends<\/i><\/b>, an all-new recording from Sony Classical set for release on <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 20, 2022<\/span> and available now for <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3491685-1&amp;h=2037968096&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoyoma-johnwilliams.lnk.to%2FAGatheringOfFriendsPR&amp;a=preorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" data-rapid_p=\"8\" data-v9y=\"1\" data-ylk=\"slk:preorder\">preorder<\/a>. The album is comprised of two acclaimed concert works the composer wrote for the cellist, plus selections from his film scores for <i>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/i>, <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Lincoln<\/span>,<\/i> and <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Munich<\/span><\/i>. Featuring Williams himself conducting the New York Philharmonic, <i>A Gathering of Friends<\/i> also includes special appearances by the Spanish guitarist Pablo S\u00e1inz-Villegas and harpist <span class=\"xn-person\">Jessica Zhou<\/span>. Accompanying today&#8217;s album announcement is the first track release, Theme from <i>Schindler&#8217;s List <\/i>along with a visualizer featuring <span class=\"xn-person\">John Williams<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Yo-Yo Ma<\/span> discussing the poignant theme.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">John Williams<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Yo-Yo Ma<\/span> first met some four decades ago, when the Oscar-winning composer became conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra and Ma was just beginning his remarkable solo career. Their creative collaboration has extended from the concert hall to the scoring stage to the 2008 inauguration of President <span class=\"xn-person\">Barack Obama<\/span>, all anchored by an abiding personal connection and mutual regard. From their first encounters, each recognized in the other an understanding that, as Williams simply puts it, &#8220;music is our oxygen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The centerpiece of <i>A Gathering of Friends<\/i> is the first recording of Williams&#8217; newly revised version of his Cello Concerto, a work composed for Ma in 1994 and originally recorded for Sony Classical in 2001. As the four-movement concerto was performed over the last three decades, Williams made significant revisions to the score. Ma noted that the new version incorporates even &#8220;bigger changes, structural changes,&#8221; with a final movement that turns into &#8220;one glorious song, spinning and spinning, spinning to the very end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also heard on <i>A Gathering of Friends<\/i> are new arrangements Williams created for Ma of three selections from his Oscar-winning score for <i>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/i> and a new arrangement for cello and strings of &#8220;With Malice Toward None&#8221; from his score for the 2012 film <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Lincoln<\/span><\/i>. The album concludes with a duo arrangement for Ma and guitarist Pablo S\u00e1inz-Villegas of &#8220;Prayer for Peace&#8221; from the 2005 film <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Munich<\/span><\/i>. All three film scores are part of Williams&#8217; enduring partnership with director <span class=\"xn-person\">Steven Spielberg<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The other concert work on <i>A Gathering of Friends<\/i> \u2013 <i>Highwood&#8217;s Ghost <\/i>\u2013 reaffirms the Williams-Ma friendship in the context of the Tanglewood Music Festival and in the spirit of the legendary composer\/conductor <span class=\"xn-person\">Leonard Bernstein<\/span>. Williams composed the work to celebrate the Bernstein centennial at Tanglewood in the summer of 2018, evoking the legend of a ghost said to haunt the Highwood Manor House on the Tanglewood grounds \u2013 a ghost that Bernstein memorably encountered. Williams wrote haunting solo roles for Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s principal harp, <span class=\"xn-person\">Jessica Zhou<\/span>, who reunite for this recording with the New York Philharmonic.<\/p>\n<p>TRACK LIST<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cello Concerto (2021 Revision)<\/strong><br \/>\n01 &#8211; I. Theme &amp; Cadenza<br \/>\n02 &#8211; II. Blues<br \/>\n03 &#8211; III. Scherzo<br \/>\n04 &#8211; IV. Song<br \/>\n<strong>Three Pieces from Schindler&#8217;s List<\/strong><br \/>\n05 &#8211;\u00a0I. Theme<br \/>\n06 &#8211; II. Krak\u00f3w Ghetto &#8211; Winter &#8217;41<br \/>\n07 &#8211; III. Remembrances<br \/>\n08 &#8211; <strong>Highwood&#8217;s Ghost<\/strong><br \/>\n09 &#8211; <strong>With Malice Toward None from <em>Lincoln<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n10 &#8211; <strong>A Prayer for Peace from <em>Munich<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/34143-a-gathering-of-friends-may-20-2022-john-williams-conducts-new-york-philharmonic-featuring-yo-yo-ma-pablo-sainz-villegas-jessica-zhou\/&amp;do=findComment&amp;comment=1876169\">Discuss this topic in our forums <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN ON YOUTUBE JOHN WILLIAMS &amp; YO-YO MA REUNITE ON UPCOMING ALBUM, A GATHERING OF FRIENDS, WITH THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC &#8211; AVAILABLE MAY 20, 2022 New Album Features Premiere Recording of a Revised Version of Williams&#8217; Cello Concerto, Plus&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=13875\">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":[21,4,9,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd-digital","category-concert-works","category-releases","category-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","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=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14681,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/14681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}