Author: brycon
Date: 2019-10-01 00:54
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a fun movie as much as the next guy, but people have been connecting with the music of Mozart for well over two hundred years........for some reason that may not be definable. But as good as Rowling and John Williams are, I don't know if the same will be said for them come 2220.
Star Wars came out over 40 years ago. It's music is embedded more deeply in the general psyche than any Mozart piece and shows little sign of fading...
Film music and art music do different things. If you compare the sublime art of Mozart to that of John Williams, sure you'll find the latter lacking. There isn't any Kantian purposeful purposelessness in the Star Wars music: it simply sets the mood and character of, say, the Galactic Empire (though I imagine it does so better than any art music you could substitute). So saying, "Mozart is better than John Williams," is like declaring, "I like Jane Austen more than apple pie!" The statement doesn't really mean that much and no one particularly cares.
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The "Harry Potter Live" idea does not in my opinion "build" anything. It is like a bag of Doritos. You may enjoy it in the moment but it's nothing you'll remember much longer than it takes you to get back to your car, and you'll probably regret it sooner than later.
Because John Williams's music really needs the movie to go with it (and this is why I find his concertos so unsuccessful: i.e. they're movie music without a movie), I don't think it works particularly well in a concert-hall setting. But people really like it, and orchestras make money playing it. (Moreover, I'm sure the larger orchestras have tested movie-music nights with marketing gurus and found them to be something they should be doing.) And what's a better policy, giving audiences some of what they want and then trying to steer them towards Mozart or condescendingly arguing, "John Williams stinks and Mozart is brilliant, so we aren't offering any Star Wars, but you can come to our A major piano concerto performance"?
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