\n<\/strong>Friday, September 22<\/strong><\/p>\n
* Mon\u00e9 Hattori, violin<\/p>\n
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- Superman<\/em> March<\/li>\n
- Theme from Jaws<\/em><\/li>\n
- Main Title to The Towering Inferno<\/em><\/li>\n
- Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
\n<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n- Suite from Far and Away *
\n<\/em><\/li>\n- Chairman’s Waltz from Memoirs of a Geisha *<\/em><\/li>\n
- Les Enfants De La Terre (Takayuki Hattori) *<\/li>\n
- Harry’s Wondrous World from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
INTERMISSION<\/p>\n
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- Olympic Fanfare and Theme<\/li>\n
- Theme from Schindler’s List *
\n<\/em><\/li>\n- The Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
\n<\/em><\/li>\n- Devil’s Dance from The Witches of Eastwick<\/em><\/li>\n
- The Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back<\/em><\/li>\n
- Yoda’s Theme from The Empire Strikes Back<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rey’s Theme from The Force Awakens<\/em><\/li>\n
- Main Title from Star Wars<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ENCORES<\/p>\n
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- Cantina Band from Star Wars<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Saturday, September 23<\/strong><\/p>\n
* Hayato Sumino, piano<\/p>\n
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- Superman<\/em> March<\/li>\n
- Theme from Jaws<\/em><\/li>\n
- Main Title to The Towering Inferno<\/em><\/li>\n
- Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
- Theme from Sabrina *<\/em><\/li>\n
- Over the Moon from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial *<\/em><\/li>\n
- Theme from Jurassic Park<\/li>\n
- The Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
INTERMISSION<\/p>\n
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- Finale (III. Allegro Agitato) from Piano Concerto in F (Gershwin) *<\/li>\n
- Olympic Fanfare and Theme<\/li>\n
- Theme from Schindler’s List<\/em><\/li>\n
- Devil’s Dance from The Witches of Eastwick<\/em><\/li>\n
- The Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back<\/em><\/li>\n
- Yoda’s Theme from The Empire Strikes Back<\/em><\/li>\n
- Rey’s Theme from The Force Awakens<\/em><\/li>\n
- Main Title from Star Wars<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ENCORES<\/p>\n
- \n
- Cantina Band from Star Wars<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n
EXTERNAL REVIEW<\/p>\n
The Boston Globe<\/p>\n
‘A Pops salute to John Williams conjures movie magic’ (excerpt)<\/p>\n
By<\/span>\u00a0Marc Hirsh<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very lucky.\u201d So said John Williams (by video) Friday night at Symphony Hall, having spent nearly two hours unpacking selected highlights from his 65-year career as a film composer as Keith Lockhart, clad in black shirtsleeves and suspenders, conducted the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. And while luck is always a wild-card factor in any success, it\u2019s hard not to dismiss Williams\u2019s comment as false humility, coming as it does from the man from whom the most indelible movie scores of the last half century poured forth like a fountain.<\/span><\/p>\n
There\u2019s a reason, after all, that the Pops regularly salute Lockhart\u2019s predecessor \u2014 okay, maybe more than one \u2014 and the weekend\u2019s programming was devoted to the 91-year-old legend behind the music from that movie. And that one. Yes, that one too. To understand his reach, consider that a child too young to have seen \u201cJaws\u201d still knows that what Lockhart called \u201cthe two most famous notes in movie history\u201d signify \u201cshark.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Friday served as a sampler of an oeuvre so vast that there wasn\u2019t even space for \u201cE.T.\u201d or \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d though they both appeared in the montage of Williams-scored films that played over the opening \u201c\u2018Superman\u2019 March.\u201d (The T. Rex grabbing the velociraptor at the precise moment of a stab of brass was a nice, thrilling touch.) In their place were selections it\u2019s easy to assume are personal favorites of Williams, including the main title from \u201cThe Towering Inferno,\u201d which rose up and soared, and the mischievous and playful \u201cDevil\u2019s Dance\u201d from \u201cThe Witches of Eastwick,\u201d with its cellos going berserk underneath cracked church bells.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Pops also nodded to its upcoming Japanese tour (its first in two decades) by featuring the North American debut of violinist Mon\u00e9 Hattori, whose staccato, aggressive bowing danced playfully on her strings for a \u201cFar and Away\u201d suite and whose tremulous phrasing on \u201cThe Chairman\u2019s Waltz\u201d (from \u201cMemoirs of a Geisha\u201d) played against a pedal-point harp that descended like a flower petal floating to the ground. Her father Takayuki Hattori\u2019s ” Les Enfants De La Terre\u201d was Friday\u2019s only non-Williams selection, though its soft horn swells, warm string pulls, and clear throughline revealed a distinct Williams influence.<\/span><\/p>\n
- Devil’s Dance from The Witches of Eastwick<\/em><\/li>\n
- Theme from Jaws<\/em><\/li>\n
- Superman<\/em> March<\/li>\n
- The Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Theme from Jaws<\/em><\/li>\n
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