John Williams: Hymn to the Fallen

WILLIAMS: Hymn to the Fallen
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Boston Symphony
John Williams

[@PanzerChicken69]

Modern music is dead but gladly classical music is still alive and kicking!

[@anabellapiedrasanta6253]

John Williams, thank you for giving us your music that brings us in touch with our soul. I feel your music right to my core.

[@stevemiller8079]

That brass choir at 1:40 gets me every time. I don't know how JW holds it together we he conducts his own music.

[@rr7firefly]

One of Williams' most moving compositions. I wonder sometimes how less spectacular Spielberg's movies would be without the magnificent soundtracks that John Williams has written. He is the "ne plus ultra" -- the "nonpareil" -- the "sine qua non."

[@adams7839]

take it easy

[@NashmanNash]

Hans Zimmer is atleast on par,especially in the movies that go deeper....The thin red line is a prime example

[@eb.1]

Nashman Nash that guy is nowhere near JW

[@starwarsjunkie7776]

Nashman Nash Oh God no. Not even close. No fucking way.

[@starwarsjunkie7776]

Nashman Nash Go fuck yourself for saying that blasphemy! Zimmer is Williams’ little bitch!!!

[@smoothjazzrob8061]

Straight from the master himself!

[@zoltan902]

This is absolutely unreal. Thanks so much for uploading! Seeing and listening to so many renditions of this piece, you get to appreciate that only JW himself can ever elicit such perfection.

[@markthomas8018]

Tear and goosebumps every time. No other song has this effect on me. Any that come close are by this great genius.

[@浅野亮-u6p]

BS2の頃に放送してたのか😮 貴重な指揮映像ありがとう😢

[@passtheparcel2007]

A classic, if ever there was there was one. It will be remembered an played in years to come...

[@ChanTaiMan526]

An absolute genius, thank you John Williams for giving us so much moving and touching piece of film score.

[@peteball6612]

John Williams - just the greatest!

[@sammessiha]

A Master composer and a genius. His music is very unique.

[@FlightProgramAborted]

Love this piece, the Basson player is probably the best I’ve ever heard. You can tell at the end, he makes it sounds like a gently played horn with a bit of vibrato. REALLY hard to do. Masssive Qudos… note time frame 4:58.. and im a trumpet player

[@NonPremiumID]

Hymns are holy. A soothing song, in a violent world.

[@ralphrife9235]

A BEAUTIFUL piece Sir!

[@etshinn]

2:05 - John Williams gives the okay

[@星野正規]

The composer himself conducts his own music.

[@G6304]

Absolutely brilliant, one of the best cues for any film I’ve seen, this is a masterpiece of composition.

[@txmoney]

Brings a tear to my eye and a swell in my throat...every single time.

[@mariannebowman6114]

Amen

[@PianoSoundtrack12]

This performance is so amazing! Dose anyone know when and where it took place?

[@williamcutter3346]

Tanglewood...the summer home of the Boston Symphony

[@MR-vj8dn]

Thank you for sharing. What a precise performance. I love it! =) Again, I don't care for the way you cut off the applause after this and other performances though. It's like watching a top movie to be robbed of the end credits.

[@vox3677]

Great john Williams, the best. Absolutely

[@Trumpulator]

Some of those people died from covid.

[@michaelb878]

this song, as special as it is, is even more mesmerizing when conducts.

[@adamh951]

Was this for Saving Private Ryan?

[@NonPremiumID]

Yes

[@hbilha]

Its in the end credits. I remember seeing the movie in the theatre and when this came in the end, I couldnt leave the seat because it was so good. I stayed the whole 6 mins watching the credits, as other people were leaving, just to listen to this music. When I finally left, I noticed a lot of people had stayed too.

[@Ives831]

Looks like this could have been at Tanglewood. I tried to use the BSO database to get a date but they did not have a listing of Williams conducting this work with the Symphony. It definitely is the Symphony proper as opposed to the Pops due to the presence of several of the BSO's principal players.

[@GGbreizh]

This was probably the Tanglewood on Parade Concert. Since both the Pops and the Symphony play at that concert, they probably did not change the first chair players. The orchestra was probably presented as the Pops in the programm even if it is in fact the same as the BSO. The concert took place in 1998. I have the same video with a slightly better audio and video that I will upload soon.

[@Ives831]

That makes sense. It is funny seeing Schlueter and Chapman playing the solos with Rolfs just sitting there, even though he was one of the guys playing them on the actual soundtrack!

[@AugustAngst50]

August 4th, 1998. Tanglewood on Parade. I sang in that performance! And also on the soundtrack! Great to see it here...Thanks!

[@DaneBryantFrazier]

@@GGbreizh Waiting for the upload if still possible! 👍

[@DaneBryantFrazier]

@@AugustAngst50 How great is that!

[@connorkitchen5450]

Lest we forget.

[@bonningilles]

c’est pour ça que j’aime la musique

[@paulcook3878]

Its not the music as much as it is about those who it’s meant to honor.

[@wdbearfan]

please someone upscale remaster this

[@warrenwilson4818]

I guess by now I have watched this hymn a gazillion times. I think that the "original" video featuring all of the cemeteries with tallies of the fallen is my default favorite. I once thought that his "Olympic Fanfare" had long legs, but Hymn, though not lengthy, is so good. FYI, early in his career he scored some b/w movies and went by "Johnny Williams."

[@miggs2230]

This is so beautiful 🥺😭

[@MrRbjunior83]

Total genius!!!

[@kjcunningham297]

Echoes of Copland.

[@Matheus_SrPresidente]

Amazing as always 🎉

[@rober27475]

This song must be the hymn of the actual pandemic Covid-19

[@jessemoog5310]

no

[@whitey83a]

A hymn to fallen soldiers in the battlefield. Let’s not erase that with COVID shit. That’s a whole different deal.