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The thing about music is that it will present itself
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John Williams: Live in Vienna

The thing about music isthat it will present itself and immediately become evaporatedinto...

The thing about music is
that it will present itself and immediately become evaporated
into space and time, it's gone

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The thing about music is that it will present itself
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and immediately become evaporated into space and time, it's gone.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
03:33:37
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
music
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Movie Summary

Explore the live recordings of the Hollywood legend's Vienna Philharmonic 2020 debut.
- It will stay in our memory, hopefully. - It stays in our memory. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:04
- It will stay in our memory, hopefully. - It stays in our m...
It's fixed in time. You play the piece, and now the time has gone. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:08
It's fixed in time. You play the piece, and now the tim...
So when you are working on... - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
So when you are working on...
Have you already started to work on the violin concerto? - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:04
Have you already started to work on the violin concerto?
No, I only finished Star Wars a few weeks ago. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:06
No, I only finished Star Wars a few weeks ago.
The schedule was such... The film was almost in the theatre. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
The schedule was such... The film was almost in the theatre.
We were almost selling seats, and I was still writing the music. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
We were almost selling seats, and I was still writing the mu...
So that was our production schedule. Not unusual, by the way, for Hollywood. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:06
So that was our production schedule. Not unusual, by the way...
|t's a human trait to be having last-minute work. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
|t's a human trait to be having last-minute work.
But how do you usually go about a concerto? - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:09
But how do you usually go about a concerto?
Do you use something which is already existing? - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
Do you use something which is already existing?
I think maybe what I would do... Every situation is different of course. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
I think maybe what I would do... Every situation is differen...
The thing about writing concerti, which I think |'ve written 11 or 12, - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:09
The thing about writing concerti, which I think |'ve wr...
And I think a part of what |'m trying to do is - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:10
And I think a part of what |'m trying to do is
That's one way to think about it. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:04
That's one way to think about it.
It's possible to write two or three little themes - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:08
It's possible to write two or three little themes
When I was a youngster, we had all the people that you mentioned, - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:10
When I was a youngster, we had all the people that you menti...
They established a style of writing for film. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:06
They established a style of writing for film.
Because in the beginning of film, in the 1930s, we didn't know what to do. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
Because in the beginning of film, in the 1930s, we didn'...
We have sound now, we have to confront the question of how to do this. - John Williams: Live in Vienna 00:05
We have sound now, we have to confront the question of how t...