{"id":16481,"date":"2025-04-30T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=16481"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:35:12","slug":"williams-not-conducting-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=16481","title":{"rendered":"Williams NOT Conducting in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press statement:<\/p>\n<p><strong>St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve takes over the baton from John Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is with great regret that due to a health issue from which he is still recovering, John Williams will be unable to travel to Berlin to participate in the concerts in June. His close friend and musical associate, St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve, will conduct the concerts from 5 to 7 June with the programme conceived by John Williams, which remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The Berliner Philharmoniker and John Williams are very grateful to St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve for his willingness to take over the concerts. \u00a0St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve is music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the New World Symphony, and principal guest conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.\u00a0\u00a0In 2022, Den\u00e8ve was given the honour of conducting John Williams\u2019 official 90th Birthday Gala at the Kennedy Center with the NSO Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thu 05.06.2025 20:00\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Fri\u00a0 \u00a006.06.2025 20:00\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sat\u00a0 07.06.2025 19:00<\/strong><br \/>\nPhilharmonie Berlin, main auditorium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Berliner Philharmoniker\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve\u00a0<\/strong>conductor<br \/>\n<strong>Bruno Delepelaire\u00a0<\/strong>cello<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Williams<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Sound the Bells<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Superman March<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Dracula<\/i>: Night Journeys<br \/>\n<i>E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial<\/i>, Symphonic Suite: Three Million Light Years from Home<br \/>\n<i>E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial<\/i>, Symponic Suite: Stargazers<br \/>\n<i>E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial<\/i>, Symphonic Suite: Adventures on Earth<br \/>\n<i>Hook<\/i>: The Flight to Neverland<br \/>\n<i>Jaws<\/i>: Out to Sea\/The Shark Cage Fugue<br \/>\n<i>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/i>: Fawkes the Phoenix<br \/>\n<i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone<\/i>: Harry\u2019s Wondrous World<\/p>\n<p><i>Memoirs of a Geisha<\/i>: Sayuri\u2019s Theme<br \/>\n<strong>Bruno Delepelaire<\/strong>\u00a0Violoncello<\/p>\n<p><i>Star Wars, The Force Awakens<\/i>: March of the Resistance<br \/>\n<i>Star Wars, Return of the Jedi<\/i>: Luke and Leia<br \/>\n<i>Star Wars<\/i>, Suite for Orchestra: Main Title<br \/>\n<i>Star Wars<\/i>, Suite for Orchestra: Main Title<\/p>\n<p>Source: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berliner-philharmoniker.de\/en\/news\/cancellation-john-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berlin Philharmonike<\/a><\/strong>r<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/36860-john-williams-returns-to-berlin-for-three-concerts-june-5-7-2025\/&amp;do=findComment&amp;comment=2094698\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press statement: St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve takes over the baton from John Williams It is with great regret that due to a health issue from which he is still recovering, John Williams will be unable to travel to Berlin to participate in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=16481\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481","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=16481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16489,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions\/16489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}