Mr Hollands Opus - An American Symphony
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- This is the last scene from the fantastic movie "Mr. Hollands Opus". A great song conducted by an great actor. Sorry, I just have the german version but I guess that´s not important for the intro ;-) Have fun and if you liked the song also take a look at these:
• An American Symphony
Awesome...
I remember playing this in orchestra when I was in high school. Probably one of the best pieces we ever played.
That lady in the crowd, (who mr. Holland hugs and kisses on the cheek) with the curly hair and spectacles was Ms. Rowena Morgan herself!! She is ofcourse, much older here and it was she who knew that Mr. Holland was writing his Opus! And it was she who wanted to give back something to Mr. Holland for his sincerity and guidance. Obviously, she realized by then, that he did the right thing in not following her to NY.
This movie was truly inspiring! I got the soundtrack and must have played a million times!
Richard Dreyfuss was brilliant & the film is one of my favourites ...It also points out how a good teacher is valued by his/her students for years after their school days.
Very moving
I already bought at least four of my friends this movie. I watched it a hundred times.... and counting. The movie reminds me that the success in life cannot be measured by what we have, but rather what others become because of what we do.
MY MUSIC TEACHER IN ELEMENTARY SAID THEY WOULD GIVE ANY STUDENT WHO WENT AND SEEN THIS MASTERPEICE IN THE THEATURE AN AUTOMATIC "A"
I DIDN'T SEE THIS MOVIE UNTIL YEARS LATER....BUT AT THAT POINT AND YEARS AFTER I UNDERSTOOD AND APPRECIATED THE REASON AND THE BEAUTIFUL COMPLETE MUSICAL AND LIFE ADVENTURE THIS MOVIE OFFERS...
IT SHOULD BE MADE "REQUIRED WATCHING" IN ANY MUSICAL CLASS OF ANY SCHOOL REGUARDLESS OF GRADE OR ACADEMIC LEVEL...
And here I am in 2024 still loving that movie!
the last chord is simply amazing.
Great movie.
seriously, i started watching this for fun and now im like sobbing!
AMAZING. I always loved this song & this movie.
it gives me goosebumps everytime..
This is a LANDMARK FILM ! I wish more of our music today sounded this good !! This is truly a Masterpiece . Mark E. Switzer
What I love best about this scene is how you can see the look on the principal of the school's face is how he is thinking, "Why the hell did I fire him?"
I watch this film like 5-6 yrs ago when i was in early 20s.. it was a great film..... and now i am 32yo! i still love this... NICE!!
@mocatom it's actually originally scored to be conducted 2/2 with massive subdivisions especially in the electric bass part, but they kind of screw it up in this movie and have him conduct in 4 (Still the same subdivisions though). The song played is actually a part of a larger piece altogether, still called the american symphony, but by Michael Kamen (obviously it wasn't composed by a man named Glenn Holland). Oh, and this recording is a half step (ish) higher than in the movie.
Then you've never been to the Tri-State Band Festival in Enid Oklahoma. Those kids are/were high school kids, and by the time they give their final concert, and have an amazing sound.
I love this song we just got the music sheet in band cuz we r gonna play it for our concert and i really liked it!! yay for the bass clarinets!! we rock!! BASS CLARINET FOR EVER!! AWESOME frech horn sound and the sound overall
@airraider2004
Cole appreciate his father's music in this movie.
And this would be the first time he's heard it being performed.
I love this movie.
I have loved this piece since I knew it existed, but I had never seen the movie which it came from. When I saw this, there was dripping something wet, salty and clear out of my eyes...! ;)
My grade school music teacher went to the school where this movie was filmed.
this song brings a tear to my eye
they pratice six weeks before, and the kids help them adlib and Govenor Lang teaches her kid to play the clarinet
so she still has the touch
To lausaurum...I believe the meter of the piece is 12/8 time which justifies Dreyfus using a 4 pattern in his conducting. He also uses some 2 patterns in his interpretation to convey this to the musicians. The fast speed of the 8th notes makes this necessary.
awesome song and spot in movie
@airraider2004
And oh one more thing, deaf people also can listen to music in their own way by feeling the vibrates and other ways. There is always ways that deaf people come up to actually understand the music and how much someone pour into the music.
top 10 movie of all time.
@airraider2004
this movie. And when someone, like WatchHawk said this "I feel so bad for his freaking son. The poor guy can't hear what his dad worked on for 30 years.", is exactly what people do.. and that is 'assume' that his son would never appreciate music that his father worked hard for 30 years. This is exactly why I must stand up and tell him that it is ignorant thing to say, period. My older brother write his own many songs and I am able to fully appreciate his music, just like
habe ihn auf Video^^- ist einer der Filme, die man immer wieder sehen kann!
großartige Musik ;)
You gotta love that Beatles reference at the end - definitely the best part.
Michael Kamen composed such awesome work. Requiem en pax.
Richard Dreyfus is a fantastic actor! What talent! I love the scene where the horn player spits the gum on the floor to the girl next to him, just like he did earlier in the movie!
loved this movie!
@macree01 If you've seen the whole movie, you'd know that earlier in the movie, a kid named Lou Russ joined the marching band, and he wanted to play electric guitar for it. Then we found out later that he died in the war. I guess they had the guitar in there as a tribute to him.
@gmichali Because, to my knowledge, in the US a State Governor would have little or no control over the financial workings of a small school--public or private. The decision to cancel the arts classes was vested in the school board, not any local or state legislature, so unless she can pass legislation specifically preventing it, there's not much she can do about it.
The very last chord in this is very similar to the very last chord at the end of the Beatles song "A Day in the Life."
To lauxaurum...I believe the actual meter of the time is 12/8 which justifies Dreyfus conducting in patterns of 4. If you look closely, he also does direct some patterns in 2. The fast speed of the 8th notes justifies this directing pattern which also is conveying his interpretation to the musicians.
Boy did you miss the point. . .did you even WATCH the movie? It's not about making the greatest symphonic piece, it's the fact that he finally made one. . .period.
ahhhh the late great Michael Kamen
I LOVE THIS MOVIE
love this song
On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give this piece about a 7.
@Chaoic16 - you're right. I no idea about deaf people. I don't understand why you're attacking me. I apologize for my ignorance, but I was just showing pity for his son, because he can't actually HEAR the music. If you still understand and it appreciate it, then marvelous. My bad.
@WatchHawk
And also, deaf people doesn't appreciate people having a pity on them. I am one of them, because when we lost one sense, we always find way around our limits and we have NO limits of doing anything we wish to do! That's why when someone said something so pitiful, it is discrimination against us. We always go through many of discrimination in our lives, because these people don't understand anything about deaf people and their lives.
me encanta esta pelicula!!!!
@WatchHawk
I apologize for attacking you like that. I am so tired and sick (same thing applies to other deaf people) of people saying that they 'wish' that we 'COULD' hear the music is like saying that we will never be able to appreciate music. That is very untrue, deaf people, including me truly understand and appreciate the music in our own ways. At once when you lost one of your sense, you develop sixth sense and you use that to make up for sense that you lost.
I feel so bad for his freaking son. The poor guy can't hear what his dad worked on for 30 years.
i love everything about this movie... anthony natalie is cute and a grat actor.. a real plus
We are playing it in orchestra ight now and it is in four fourths time
This is going to sound totally nit-picky, but I think the symphony in this vid is a half step higher than the original.....I can't be sure, but I've heard it SOOOOOOO much....this sounds high. Great piece, anyway
now I know ....
we're gonna need a bigger auditorium.
I don't want to rain on anybody's party; this was a good movie & a good song. But really, sounding like this would be completely implausible. Most of these people would still be high school level players, and for them to all of a sudden come together with the intricate rhythms that are played here, and that they could sound like this? Speaking as a musician myself, I just don't buy that. But as with most movies, you buy the premise, you buy the bit.
@lostalex77 Actually, German.
The poster of the song only had the German version.
*grins* You can't enjoy it at your funeral. Just play it a lot now.
Basicly the message is about makeing choices. (sorry for my miss spelling by the way)
I wish I had teachers like this when I was in High School...all our teachers were in class just for the paycheck and nothing more. :(
Sometimes no matter how you feel money still controls what happens.
The words are in german, but it is still in american sign language, so if you know that, you can understand it.
The one thing that has always bothered me about this scene: Did the band practice this beforehand, or are they sightreading? If they're sightreading, they sound damn good.
its like ridein a bike
I agree.
I wsh our school had an orchestra, but we are too small.
この映画大好き
Boy did you miss the point. . .did you even WATCH the movie? It's not about making the greatest symphonic piece, it's the fact that he finally made one. . .period.
And yes...posted twice, sorry...I'm YT stupid.
If you know anything about deaf people then you know that they can still feel vibrations. Also with that un-tolerant attitude then your a discrase to your mom. Dont be a hater
@airraider2004
You have not even been deaf before right? Then you have NO idea what it is like when people usually assume that just because you are deaf, it mean you can never appreciate the music like hearing people do. You obviously don't even know about the difference between deaf and 'hard of hearing' as you have shown in your posts. This movie, in fact, is one of my favorite movie with the struggling relationship between his father and son. I truly understand the precious part of
Alguien conoce el tema de cuando el protagonista se entera de que su hijo va a ser sordo??? es un tema instrumental creo que lo escuche tambien en otra pelicula... con instrumentos de orquesta... es muy triste la musica ... alguien ayudeme porfis
It was Beethoven who was deaf, good sir.
wow nice song!
did this movie come with a message?
@gmichali I don't think that's true. She could slapped with misappropriation of funds. Just because governor doesn't mean she snaps her fingers and send tax money to a particular school for a particular thing.
@gmichali Maybe she already tried that?
what truck there was no truck in the ending. This is the ending
it's not English :'(... how stupid i am, i just wanna listen to the music lol, i loved it by the way
Omg! is that was he was doing? He bad! Right next to the same poor girl too! Thanks for clarifying, I really did think it was gum he was spitting out! Only me!
Loved the piece...Good movie...Hate the fact that they have this clip in Japanese or whatever...English damn it lol It's all good. Teasing. Now go make me some dim sum Takashi.
I'm guessing because politics doesn't bow to just one person. If it were that easy, all schools would keep their music funding today.
@airraider2004
Firs at all, that is where you are completely wrong, when you said "I also know that deaf does not always mean completely deaf", and that is called 'hard of hearing". You see? There is big difference between deaf and 'hard of hearing", deaf is when you completely can't hear any sound at all. When You are not completely deaf, then you are officially hard of hearing. And I am quite offended that you said I am ignorant one. I 'll tell you something,
please let us know if is in english or not
@WatchHawk
That is ignorant and stupid thing to say! That is so UNTRUE, you are obliviously NOT deaf person and NO IDEA about deaf people, period! I am deaf and I fully appreciate music and fully understand the music. Each of us learn about music in our own way. I may not hear the music but I feel many different waves and vibrates from music itself. Same thing with other deaf people.
an opus means a great work; I think it's Latin.
Then try saying the symphony was weak, and leave it at that. An opinion is fine. Being completely degrading for no reason isn't. I hope you're more pleasant in person.
Um, is this in english? (the video I know the movie is)
sie spricht* deutsch :)
is that really what is important here?
Okay, whats with the annoying back beat and usage of electric guitars ? That just kind of took away from the whole thing for me.
In English, please.
wtf, why is it in chinese???
foul language and self-centered agrandizement kinda thing. put in some rhythm and booty-shaking and you got rap. still, it's trash to me.
The worst movie of all time