John Williams Conducts Flight To Neverland from Hook (1993)

Conductor & Composer : John Williams
Boston Pops Symphonic Orchestra (1993)

[@jonathanh2o621]

I’m Hooked on John Williams! My childhood made rich by his beautiful imagination!

[@manuelorozco7760]

My favorite movies he did music for are Star Wars Episodes 7&8, Harry Potter 1&2, ET, Indiana Jones sequels and Superman

[@FunkadelicFlea]

@@manuelorozco7760 I absolutely love the music from Schindler's list and Jurassic Park!!

[@manuelorozco7760]

@@FunkadelicFlea To each their own

[@FunkadelicFlea]

@@manuelorozco7760 of course. I do like the parts you named as well, it's always hard to pick a favorite from all the music of John Williams!

[@manuelorozco7760]

@@FunkadelicFlea That’s fair

[@wtfduud]

William's music sounds so magical.

[@sbarrow06]

In loving memory of Robin Williams and Bob Hoskins....

[@manuelorozco7760]

Can’t believe they died the same year

[@sbarrow06]

@@manuelorozco7760 And only 4 months apart. That's crazy!

[@manuelorozco7760]

Sekou Barrow I was 21 when it happened. Then nine months after Robin passed, I saw Hook for the first time on Netflix.

[@sbarrow06]

@@manuelorozco7760 I first saw it in 1991 when it first came out in theaters.

[@manuelorozco7760]

Sekou Barrow That's over a year before i was born

[@petermacdonough9077]

2:30 Always brings tears to my heart!! So beautiful!!! THAT'S RIGHT PETER, NEVERLAND

[@preppychrisbou]

Peter MacDonough Bangarannnnng! Good form Petah.

[@fionalucy7694]

Oh there you are Peter 😍💖

[@FC-eh8nz]

Hands down, one of my FAVE movies growing up. This tune is a strong pull at the hearstings.

[@dynamicdave2647]

Me too. I love hook music. Im surprised its not mentioned more among john williams best scores

[@metalheadjock3513]

After first hearing this piece in 1995, I tell you honestly, I became obsessed with this piece....maybe because I'm a clarinetist. Not a day goes by when I don't hum the flight music. A great example of gorgeous, colorful orchestration. The piccolo part is something I can't get put of my head!

[@johannpopper1493]

Agreed, but I really wish you had typed, "maybe because I'm a pirate."

[@birdlover7776]

@@johannpopper1493 lol

[@FlownXp]

Hook is so wonderful movie.

[@jerramaurice7836]

FlownXp YES IT IS

[@manuelorozco7760]

No wonder I missed out on it as a kid. I was born over a year later but didn’t watch Hook for the first time until five years ago.

[@filmscorelife4225]

This is the "Prologue" mashed with "Remembering Childhood." I've listened to this score so much!

[@12348477]

Such an uplifting piece of music. Hook is one of favorite films not just from childhood but from adulthood as well. Listening to a soundtrack like this and seeing all the individual instruments making one piece of music, is like looking at a painting close up and seeing all the individual brush strokes.

[@manuelorozco7760]

I never watched it as a kid. But I have watched it for the first time five years ago. I’m 27 currently

[@morbidlyobeserobocop3038]

Bangarang.

[@oscarrojas9799]

This song brings me happy thoughts

[@Wileherbal]

0:01 to 0:22 is the best part by far! Insanely underrated piece!

[@RaDicAL808]

BANGERANG!!

[@preppychrisbou]

Maybe my favorite theme by John Williams.

[@sheilaisaac3379]

Love John Williams music, it's so up-lifting.

[@jimhults4916]

That my John Williams.

[@IloveChrome846]

No...MY John Williams. Jk. Great to hear of your appreciation for this work. Williams extracted the tune not only from the somewhat trite trailer music, but from the score itself. He fleshed-out the work adding a concert ending in tandem. The issued-in-octaves bah dah, bah dah, bee dah dah dh duhhh..in both the trumpets and trombones is unforgettable. So glad to know others appreciate this piece. You can have him one day, but I get him the next...deal? Blessing upon you, man.

[@nonickanonym-bleiben2944]

A tear for every happy thought.

[@piotrsegal6475]

It's like something taken out of one of those Disney's classic. Pure magic. No Oscar nominee? What the hell, Academy???

[@drh1999]

it was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack but didn't win somehow

[@sayenshin]

It went against Beauty and the Beast from Alan Menken, equally as talented as M. Williams. Even though this piece is beautiful, I believe B&B was superior and quite a revolution in the animation industry.

[@piotrsegal6475]

The whole movie is an underestimated gem. Never understood the whole wave of criticism. It has got this charming, yet mature storytelling Spielberg mastered, just like in case of A.I.

[@Martyprod2]

you're right ! Hook is, despite all the criticism, a very beautiful movie, and i never understood them, same with A.I, they are part of my favorite spielberg movie. it's one of the best williams soundtrack I did the transcription of the WHOLE soundtrack, before knowing that a songbook was out there lol... anyway, this year, Alan menken completly deserved his oscars, from the Score to the song one as well ! the criticism has not only been about Hook, his quality etc.. but the reverse too "why williams didn't get the oscar (well after 45 nominations ,and only 5 wons we start to be used to it lol)" but as well about "does menken deserve his 8 oscars, which is more than what williams got ?". well, the question is badly asked. i saw so many this line here and there during the last 25 years.. Menken completly deserve Each oscar he got. the problem about williams and the academy is more about the other oscars that didn't go to Williams :). it's the academy awful taste in music most of the time, not menken fault in anyway. Beauty and the beast and the little mermaid, not only saved disney, but put on track a genre which was not there and like you said, made a revolution in the animation industry ... the animated musical ! sure there were songs in the past in disney movies, but not at this point and not as a musical. but i admit i'm not completly objective in my comment, i'm not only an huge williams fan, but as well, a crazy fan of menken... kzbin.info/www/bejne/npbcf3mJntyCq5o

[@Martyprod2]

i completly agree with you. from what i understood about hook, well, the criticism are kind of the same and at the same time the reverse for A.I. it only proove that the only opinion to be followed is ours, and they are mostly ok for us, can't be applied to others. not only speaking that press critics are just *** censored ***. Hook, "too much disney" A.I "too much spielberg" lol... "Spielberg killed Kubrick" "the end is awful, here is E.T Again" (nobody back then understood it, and spielberg had to explain the "end"...) "the end is soooooo spielberg, and killed the movie, it's not kubrick !." most of A.I criticism came from Kubrick's fan boys... not sure about that, but it's the only movie where spielberg did a presentation to explain what's happened... he didn't had to do it for movies like Munich, but he had to do it for A.I ! i have often been insulted by telling this but A.I is in my 5 favorite Williams soundtrack and my favorite Spielberg movie. (i could tell 1 but too much insult in the past, so i tell 5 now ;)). like telling that indiana jones III was my favorite indiana jones movie...

[@fionalucy7694]

Brings back fond childhood memories. So beautifully amazing 💖💖💖💖💖

[@charayahbowman2941]

My fav. ♥️♥️♥️

[@laksiwmthdb9947]

This is the maximum exponent if musical artistry. And that is it

[@jackbarks]

great film, beautiful music... happy thoughts of Robin :)

[@avenellroad]

Violins and harps in the last part are so so magical.

[@jerramaurice7836]

Robin, I love you so much and I will always miss you 😢😢😢😙😙😙

[@manuelorozco7760]

Growing up, I never had a particular favorite of his movies.

[@manuelorozco7760]

I was just rewatching Hook off of Showtime on Demand the other night. Other than Night at the Museum 3, this was the first movie I’ve seen starring Robin Williams since his passing. Hearing this beautiful music makes me think Why on Earth I chose not to see the movie as a kid along with my two brothers. Because Hook hasn’t aged much for something nearly 30 years ago.

[@HeckmanFT7]

And the best conducting is John Williams

[@rauljuarez9126]

You can hear bits of Across the Stars in this

[@marcodesousa2658]

Tao bom que foi ser criança quando vi este filme 3 vezes no cinema, tantos sonhos para realizar, que inspiração tão boa, nunca mais se viu um filme como este. Muito graças a esta banda sonora que tornou este filme tão mágico. Hoje vejo-o com a minha filha e olhando para trás e vendo o presente sinto-me feliz 😀

[@preppychrisbou]

Good Form!

[@CorgiaiLover]

Pans back !!!!!

[@mousetreehouse6833]

I've been infatuated with John Williams ever since seeing "Jaws"- in the theater - at least 5 times! ( On a technical note, is there any way to boost the volume? All I have is a smartphone...)

[@Martyprod2]

Unfortunatly i didn't normalized the sound of the file when i uploaded it back then (that's mean it will boost the sound of the original soundtrack at it maximum without making distorsion). Check in your video player of your smartphone (you have an android or an iphone ?) if there is an EQ, something which can modify the volume and frequencies of the sound of what you play. if there is no such an option, There is one in other video player, like VLC etc (which are available for smartphone too). they have such an option in the player. you'll see then, that in the EQ you can normalize or boost the sound, by for example, adding more Db or put some frequencies louder.

[@TomGoldsmithguitar]

Great lydian interchange

[@hoursofmusic0708]

PETER PAN!!!!!!!!!

[@jackwhitaker3578]

Flashing between black white faster than I transition from fine to utter mess

[@user-ti8xb6cs7w]

인천공항에서 하는 온 아트 유스 오케스트라 단원 손

[@jimhults2490]

0:02-0:25 it look like "Captain QVC The Conqueror" theme there.

[@goodcatfilms4276]

When I was a kid this movie moved the shit outta me I’m born in 1992 so I think I had this in vhs in 1996 I recently bought this on steelboook blu ray for 200$ lol I’m an idiot

[@Martyprod2]

why an idiot ? this is one of the best john williams soundtrack and a very underated spielberg movie. Could't see it in theater and saw later inVhs (I'm 18 years older than you) and it still in one of my top 5 spielberg movie ! Unless the steelbook edition is useless enjoy the bluray, Nice release :) !

[@goodcatfilms4276]

@@Martyprod2 haha toatalky but 200$ was insane but I was drunk

[@Martyprod2]

@@goodcatfilms4276 I agree lol. but if you're a dvd/bluray movie collector, i know your illness lol. not sure it's related to being drunk ! (i healed from it, I didn't bought any since 10 years lol)

[@meabu1935]

3:45

[@jsb818]

Harry Potter playing violin at 0:37

[@morbidlyobeserobocop3038]

You can fight. You can fly. But can you crow?

[@mitchellcontente]

Anybody else hear Harry Potter and star wars in this?

[@yuricornelius6648]

Shit i was looking just for this comment hahaha

[@RobertCoulter]

1:20. wham.

[@MyFriendOfMisery13]

Or as we JWFan forums users like to say, “boom-tzz”: Williams’ trademark bass drum hit followed by a crash cymbal.

[@RobertCoulter]

@@MyFriendOfMisery13 wham is for the omnipotent C sounded by Chester Schmitz, tuba

[@mdrapkin]

Nice playing. Too bad the video is out of sync with the audio.

[@Martyprod2]

Hi, thanks for telling it to me !! Nobody told it before, and that with 121 000 views :( i couldn't guess it, why ? this video has been uploaded at a time where i couldn't listen to music (still can't but i can listen a bit to it sometimes (weird hearing disorder), so i never could listen to 90% of the videos i uploaded on this account, and for some of them, it can have some issues. usually it's checked by a friend of mine, but he maybe didn't noticed it at this time. this is something very easy to fix, i'm planning with time and depending of my healt to upscale in Full HD (Alrready did it for some videos), so when i'll do it for this one, i'll fix the sync issue, i'll put a noticed on the project folder. thanks for reporting the issue !

[@mdrapkin]

@@Martyprod2 Thanks, Marty. I'm performing his work this weekend with my orchestra, and I was checking one of the tempos in order to practice a section, and I found that I couldn't watch the video because it was off by a beat. Not a problem...sound was good! - his final tempo was quarter = 168 and then he slowed to 160

[@Martyprod2]

@@mdrapkin Ho great that you figured it out. one of my close friend is a great french horn player, i can ask him if needed ! unfortunately not sure i can listen to it and fix that before this weekend, in a better situation i would have fixed it for you in private. which instrument do you play in your orchestra for this piece ? (checking your account), bass clarinet or Clarinet ?

[@mdrapkin]

@@Martyprod2 My part doubles clarinet and bass clarinet. Very nice if you to offer but I just needed to check the tempo in a difficult section I was practicing and your video provided it. Thank you!

[@Martyprod2]

@@mdrapkin You're welcome, glad it could help. i'm checking your carreer (Selmer page, your website..) it's very impressive. one of my family member was a clarinet and bass clarinetist, played in full orchestra etc.. since 60's, he maybe heard about you certainly.

[@flavioalmeida3443]

HAHAAHA RTP 2 PORTUGAL 👍👍

[@Martyprod2]

This is not my own source !! Someone from portugal kindly gave it to me with some other recordings and allowed me to post them here :) ! Some other ones are from my own source; 2 show come from PBS channel (recorded live back then on a DVD recorder) by a friend in N.C (i'm French) and my own recording are from a german channel called Onyx !

[@flavioalmeida3443]

@@Martyprod2 ok cool i recognized the rtp2 channel because i'm from Portugal, but the channel's logo is different now, that's an old one in the vid.

[@Martyprod2]

@@flavioalmeida3443 yes, i think the video has been recorded certainly around 1993/1994 when the show has been recorded in boston . all the best !

[@henryhoward7146]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 you’ve inspired me so much in an hour! 0:53 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇🔥

[@RealQuietOne]

This does my heart good ❤️😀 Hook is really a fun movie, with so many celebrity cameos. I actually made a video about this film on my channel. Wonderful music 🎶 🥺🤗😍🥲