HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY, MAESTRO WILLIAMS!

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2012
  • In celebration of John Williams' 80th Birthday.
    Happy Birthday to John Williams, one of the greatest composer of our era and personal hero wishing him the very best and plenty of years of great health and work!
    President Bush presents John Williams with the Kennedy Center Honors Medal in 2004.
    Medley of themes by John Williams
    United States Marine Band, "The President's Own"
    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

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  • @RutabegaNG
    @RutabegaNG Місяць тому +1

    Welp, that was my childhood right there.
    I was fortunate enough to see the Maestro conduct live in 1993. 30+ years and it's still one of the strongest memories I've got.

  • @daltonmoen1404
    @daltonmoen1404 8 років тому +21

    I never realized how important and prominent his music was to my childhood. I probably saw every movie he did with Spielberg growing up and his music played through my head and still does today, daily

  • @tanjanovicic2926
    @tanjanovicic2926 2 місяці тому +2

    Magnificent!
    🌹🌹🌹❤🎂

  • @barbaraprice2550
    @barbaraprice2550 Місяць тому

    Bring back memories and bravo to the orchestra/conductor. Happy Birthday to John Williams.

  • @ja20585
    @ja20585 10 років тому +29

    This is the most breath taking performance. The US Marine band is spectacular playing at a pinnacle event the greatest music of our time.

    • @reyfernandezjr
      @reyfernandezjr 9 років тому +3

      totally agree with you, outstanding performance.

  • @ewouthonig371
    @ewouthonig371 3 роки тому +10

    You know the music is iconic when you have no trouble at all to name the movies the themes are from.

  • @DenYeletskykh
    @DenYeletskykh 12 років тому +5

    This is magic in pure form!

  • @barryjacobs8524
    @barryjacobs8524 9 місяців тому +1

    Brilliant. 😊

  • @geraldjohnson848
    @geraldjohnson848 7 років тому +3

    Feb.8: (85) Happy birthday Composer-conductor John Williams, Academy Award winner. Thank you and God bless. Thanks for the upload, Hector JW2007. Blessings

  • @LightAndSpace
    @LightAndSpace 11 років тому +6

    Well, may be since you can't summarize the work of his lifetime in 5 Minutes.. some pieces fall apart. When you listen to the 6 Star Wars Scores, there are so many great themes, which will last forever. The Imperial March, The Duell of the Fates, Jodas Theme, The Asteroid Field, The Flagg Parade and so on. Then we have Schindlers List, Memories of a Geisha, The Lost world, Hook, A.I., Seven Years in Tibet and so on.. As Steven Spielberg said: "In all his pieces is some kind of genius."

  • @ThatLegoBuilder
    @ThatLegoBuilder 11 років тому +3

    The percussionist playing snare during "Superman" looks like he's having the time of his life. But John Williams is a great composer, so he'd better be. :)

  • @Thrillmaster100
    @Thrillmaster100 12 років тому +6

    at 3:04 John looks like he's saying in his head, "The usual..."

  • @susanbuck9964
    @susanbuck9964 10 років тому

    This is a beautiful sound God how I wish I ply this way Dick Buck

  • @HollywoodLito
    @HollywoodLito 12 років тому +8

    2:46 is where it REALLY starts to get good!!

  • @xtinelorenzo
    @xtinelorenzo 3 роки тому

    Wow

  • @numantau
    @numantau 3 роки тому

    Is there ANY reason why they looped the soud of the applause at the end?

  • @FurnaceMastaah
    @FurnaceMastaah 12 років тому +1

    Whatever happend to Jurrasic Park... I'll never know.. :

  • @mmaybrown
    @mmaybrown 8 років тому

    What are the name of the pieces played in this medley?

  • @ashleyt6054
    @ashleyt6054 9 років тому

    the jaws theme should of been longer

  • @wdenegri
    @wdenegri 11 років тому +1

    is like hearing a 5.1 track trough a pair of cheap mono headphones....

  • @ashleyt6054
    @ashleyt6054 9 років тому

    what happened to jaws?????

  • @Bugleur
    @Bugleur 11 років тому +1

    the conductor is Leonard Slatkin, no ?

  • @ScarletWitchJakarta
    @ScarletWitchJakarta 11 років тому +1

    Representatives of the US empire play the Star Wars empire theme. How fitting.

  • @timboleo
    @timboleo Рік тому

    I wonder if John Williams ever gets bored hearing his own music.
    Can he even watch any of his movies?

  • @susanbuck9964
    @susanbuck9964 10 років тому

    I practice 50 t0 60 minuets a day & that's about 90 minutes a day--not enough . Need to do at least twice as much to be functional . Wish I could live my life over again ! Dick Buck

  • @Tinsby
    @Tinsby 8 років тому +1

    I remember Leonard's father Felix, and the " Fantastic Strings "........ sadly lacking in this orchestra are any sort of stringed instrument, poor John must be cringing inside! Nice orchestra but the Pops it ain't!

    • @markjuarez6469
      @markjuarez6469 8 років тому +2

      +Tinsby No shit, sherlock. They clearly announced it was the President's Own. No one said it was an orchestra.

  • @Kinopanorama1
    @Kinopanorama1 8 років тому

    Wretched performance. Lots of wrong notes, sloppy entrances. I imagine JTW would not be amused.

    • @markjuarez6469
      @markjuarez6469 8 років тому

      +Kinopanorama Widescreen Preservation Association Incorporated You must have really slowed the video down and studied parts that go by so fast that we can't tell the music isn't computer-generated.

    • @Kinopanorama1
      @Kinopanorama1 8 років тому +1

      I have the full orchestral score, so am able to follow the performance.

    • @roheryn43
      @roheryn43 4 роки тому

      Would like some examples please!! Your orchestral scores are not what’s being played here. This is a transcription for band and a good one at that! I have perfect pitch and for the life of me I couldn’t hear 1 if any mistakes!