John Williams – Imperial March
An evening pause: What is most important about this performance is that Williams was doing the conducting on his 90th birthday. The only sour note of this performance is the idiotic masks they made some members of the orchestra wear. Obviously, a horn player can’t give anyone an infection, but a violin player can. Note too how all the VIPs on the front of the stage (such as Steven Spielberg) were also immune from COVID and didn’t need masks either. What fools and hypocrites.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
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“Masks,” they might as well be nazi armbands.
He moves pretty good for 90, and is having a lot of fun.
At least they didn’t make the wind instrument musicians wear masks with holes in them.
Somebody please tell me the pictures that made the rounds during the ‘pandemic’ of kids playing instruments wearing masks with holes cut in them was satire. Please, somebody. I can’t tell anymore.
The hypocrisy and idiocy make this unwatchable, and I love the arrangement.
I’m not as old as him, but I am old enough to appreciate that being able to have the experience, doesn’t matter how it’s actually received, is a significant dopamine hit.
Not quite sex, but sorta.
This is played whenever I enter the room. You may be seated now
Some graduate played this at my brothers graduation. The student actually wore the mask and helmet of Darth Vader.
I don’t think the dean was real happy about it but didn’t stop it.
Trump should adopt this as his 2024 presidential campaign theme music played every time he walks on stage, excellent!
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lz9bLzh9m-Y/VnS-lBBeJuI/AAAAAAAAcZE/-xa0HcVdp5s/s1600/darth-vader%2Btrump.jpg
Win, lose or draw it would make the radicals and kneejerk, self-hating, radical, delusional MAGA haters apoplexic and would cause more spontaneous brain bleeds and blood clot deaths that the mRNA “Vax”.
If only John had done Trek
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/what-if-john-williams-orchestrated-the-music-of-star-trek-the-motion-picture.305226/