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NPR WEEKEND EDITION 2003 - RADIO :.
NPR -
Soundtracks: Music and Film. John Williams and
Leonard Slatkin are interviewed about film scoring and their
collaboration on the concerts with the National Symphony
Orchestra where Williams was invited. See below a list of topics mentioned.
Description:
 Weekend Edition,
Sunday, January 26, 2003 - This past week, composer John Williams joined National Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to open a multi-concert series "Soundtracks: Music and Film." NPR's Liane Hansen visited with the two
musicians....
Oddly enough, early in his career, Williams played in the same studio orchestra with Slatkin's mother.
...
Williams acknowledges the computer technology that has transformed film and music, but says "the piano is my tool." He has a projection room in his studio, and moves back and forth between the film and the piano, establishing what he calls "an intimate relationship with the film."
The series, which touches on music in European films, a broad range of American classics, and the art of synchronization, also features live accompaniment for Fritz Lang's classic 1926 silent film Metropolis.
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Show Information:
Radio Program: NPR - Weekend Edition
Host:
Liane Hansen
Broadcast date: Sunday, January 26, 2003.
Run Time: 40:42 min.
Topics on the program:
Interview to Leonard Slatkin and John Williams:
Interview to Leonard Slatkin
- What was the genesis of this project?
- Was John Williams your first choice?
Interview to John Williams
- How does the scores of yours exists without the film?
- Can the film dictate the tempo of the music?
Interview to Leonard Slatkin
and John Williams
- Would you collaborate then when you are doing a section on Jaws?
Interview to John Williams
- How do you work? .... Do you sit in a piano?
- Do you have an ... overwriting a scene ... or would you with a character, a theme for that character ?
Interview to Leonard Slatkin
- Have you ever want to conduct a film score in session? How was your experience?
- Why do movies need music?
Interview to John Williams
- Why do you think ... It gives you a living ...
- Given that you are so prolific, how do you avoid repeating?
- On Steven Spielberg ...
- Does he tells you what he wants or do you tell him what he needs?
- Does he allow you to go against the grain, against the obvious. My example would be Jaws ...
Interview to Leonard Slatkin
- How would you access the reputation of film music in United States? It seems that in Europe there are composers that compose film music but here we have film composers, do you think that
here film music is less than ...
- Do you find that composers who actually write other pieces for concert hall end up writing better film music?
Interview to John Williams
- What is your pace? Are you joggling four scores at the same time?
Interview to Leonard Slatkin
- How much attention do you pay in the music when you see the movie?
Interview to John Williams
- Has you ever has a score rejected?
- Has ever composed for a certain a piece for a score that end up in a place that you never intended?
- Do you have an example? (gives an example on Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek Motion Picture)
- You broke rules, are there rules or no rules?
- What is the favorite of your film scores?
- So when you go to the movie that you have written the score ...
Interview to Leonard Slatkin
- What is your favorite film score?
Interview to John Williams
- Is there a challenge to conduct John Williams's music?
Interview to Leonard Slatkin
- Do you think that there's a piece of music that's never being used in a movie that should be?
Interview to John Williams
- When do you begin to hear the music from the movie that you are working on?
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