John Williams is scoring "Memoirs of a Geisha"

[@drinkallthesunshine]

Anybody else start tearing up when you hear certain notes or combinations of notes in music? I don't get how they don't start crying as they play these notes! So beautiful

[@convanjo]

I teared up. I thought who the fxxx wrote the music. And...well..John Williams.

[@Alagueesia]

For me it's "The chairman's waltz". It's so beautiful.

[@birdlover7776]

Yes absolutely

[@justaskmepeople]

to have John Williams, Itzak Perlman, and Yo Yo Ma working together is the greatest thing you can get for a movie!

[@pattys8048]

Three gods under one roof. RIP ~ Williams and Perlman.

[@tetianafilyarchuk2838]

13 years ago was posted this comment and I’m crying of listening this melody 🎶

[@Rajnoir]

@@tetianafilyarchuk2838 and this soundtrack still stands as one of my favorites! I was 19 when this movie came out 😍😍

[@tctyt]

@@pattys8048 John Williams and Perlman are Still Alive.

[@deepaknayakmanel8581]

John Williams is a genius and look no further than the OST of this movie. It's exemplary and intimate. Still mint fresh to this day.

[@leloupdessteppes3228]

To me it is John Williams greatest masterpiece. It's most unique and special one. How can a human being be filled with so much love and pure and tangible emotions?

[@CarmenRivera-h2x]

The classic movie and soundtrack are magnificent and still fantastic after all these years.❤❤😊😊

[@veryval]

The music is simply one of the most beautiful scores ever ! John Williams is a genius !!!!!

[@idealistmoon]

one of my favorite soundtracks of all time easily I never skip tracks and it's on repeat always

[@tetianafilyarchuk2838]

Same to me

[@rawritssami]

someone finally recognizes the cello. serisouly, I love it so much and it sounds so amazing here. john williams is truely a hero.

[@ichhabra]

My favorite John Williams score.. and that's saying something!

[@MeganWoodard1984]

The music from this movie is GORGEOUS!!!!!

[@lynb2039]

This IS FANTASTIC! MESMERIZED. HOW HE CAPTURED THE ESSENCE OF CLASSICAL JAPANESE MUSIC IS BEYOND ME.

[@cool_lioness]

The amount of talent that went into it and how beautiful this soundtrack is, just spectacular.

[@anyaz77]

I'd consider this score at least half of the movie's beauty. In certain scenes you can almost feel the silk brushing against the floor when the geisha dance. John is one of very few people who can feel the music through, like red wine through the water.

[@Bengaligirl2013]

yea it shouldve won an academy award it was one of the most brilliant movies and books ive ever read

[@angelabby2379]

2006 oscar was really tight. it seems oscar just give each movies at least 3 win. memoirs of a geisha 3 win brokeback mountain 4 win king kong 3 win pride and prejudice 0 win ;( honestly we know memoirs of a geisha should have had 6 win

[@HitomiRulz]

I belive its his best yet. It is very emotional and he kept to the strings more gently more than I ever saw him do.

[@denisejones14]

he captures the film so well and with such beauty. His music speaks the story, its like they are one, they ARE one. he is so brilliant at this. I could just keep going on. I cannot truly speak what my heart feels about the music for this movie, the soundtrack, and the book. they are all SO brilliant and BEAUTIFUL. I wish I could have been a part of any part of this story and its production

[@speareshaker]

By all means, John Williams's work with this soundtrack makes it one of the all-time crown jewels of movie music.

[@Supablonde1]

The music is beyond all meanings of divine.....breathtakingly exquisite.....

[@fkhang9223]

Itzhak Perklman + Yo-yo Ma + John Williams = Brilliant feel for music!!!

[@phemyda94]

this is the most wonderful sountrack - you can totally feel the characters in the music

[@larrydavis4019]

I enjoyed seeing my 2 favorite string players working together. Mr. Pearlman & Yo-Yo Ma. 👍😁👍😁👍😁

[@TheTroubleWithSteven]

John Williams rocks! he totally out did himself on this score. Its fantastic

[@siiiiiuu7]

this whole movie, score, everything gives me chills :) so beautiful

[@theempire00]

The score was better than the movie to be honest

[@clpandol60]

Excellent piece to describe the film's music! Williams, Yo-Yo Ma and Perlman made an outstanding job in this clip!

[@ssla8723]

Forever will love this score. Magical.

[@annamiller4114]

Can't thank him enough for asking to do the scores for this film. So beautiful.

[@Ms.Janell6669]

Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant! Masters of art and music composition. ❤️

[@LVader20]

I dare say that John Williams is the best living composer in the world. today. Scores are meant to fit the screen but JW goes well beyond that.

[@theempire00]

💯

[@Ferruccio_Guicciardi]

"She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes like deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for Geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances. She sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows. The rest is secret."

[@ilovethutoo]

It is amazing that the music was written after the movie was recorded. Especially those dancing scenes!

[@BdLsH]

this movies music is just so great. I can't stop listening and plus the movie is great.

[@michellebaitelmakeup]

I get goose bumps each time i hear the music of this song i love it

[@viniciuskps]

What is even more incredible is how he composes such a beatiful main theme using only the white keys of the piano!

[@BelovedCaptain]

I love this soundtrack so much. Truly amazing: John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma AND Itzahk Perlman all performing in ONE score!!! *faint*

[@swatch71]

Williams' best score in over 20 years for a film not directed by Steven Spielberg, and one of his 15 best overall.

[@danielsalazar2368]

It's a whole different ball game. When you have alot of directors going to John Williams for him to make the music even for Star wars The thinks about But everything changes when John Williams actually wants to score your film. This is the only movie I've heard Williams say he actually wanted to do

[@cinemascore-along]

Daniel Salazar he asked to do the film adaptation of The Book Thief as well

[@angelabby2379]

@@cinemascore-along he loved his book

[@radioban]

WIlliam's best score so far. His other tunes are great of course but the ones in Memoirs of a Geisha are just absolutely beautiful. Made him one of my favorite composers.

[@Thanos1919]

YOU AIN'T NEVER LIED!!!! He's the most famous and successful movie score composer of all time, and that's a statistical fact. He is my favorite composer...period.

[@dukeofdeath276]

love watching and hearing how masters like mr williams work their magic. thanks for throwing this up on utube.

[@PiccoloRudolf]

I would faint if I was in the same room as John Williams.

[@carachristine3]

Gave me chills! Cello!!! and that violin! I absolutely love this

[@JBarron2005]

The director Rob Marshall is probably one of the smartest directors in the industry in that he acknowledges John is a master of his craft. "If John wants to score, I will let him". Now hopefully Abrams does this with Star Wars.

[@RaithEndar]

"i get goosebumps every time i hear sayuries theme" .... mee too.

[@idealistmoon]

oh the music is so beautiful in the film in fact I have the soundtrack in my mp3 its just every time I listen to it it gives me so much inspiration its like a story being told to the music I love the chairmans music the best its so wonderful man I cant stop gushing about lol its just splendid john williams did a terrific job and everyone on that staff as well

[@RainbowStar94]

This score transformed the movie. Music makes it visceral and so real. If it was anyone else who did this score, it just wouldnt feel the same

[@Leifang12]

I love this peace of music... I always get goosebums... Love

[@KittyEatNoobs]

This music is so beautiful, and ofcourse, I loved the movie, I watched it so many times and it's still intresting me! Great movie!

[@LITTLEooMISSooNONAME]

The most beautiful music ever... Breathtaking. It makes my heart beat faster.

[@TheTahoe1982]

john, perlman and yo-yo works together.... three music genius

[@efini808]

there's always something amazing and inspirational about watching genius (or geniuses) at work.

[@hautedonatien]

I love the book, music and movie. It has to be one of my favorite scores of all time!

[@smallwoods9700]

This movie is so underrated

[@celesteminty]

John just is the most amazing person in the whole world

[@JoelGoffin]

Such a gorgeous score.. I remember when it got the OST, that it was in my cd player in my car on loop over a week. And I drive alot! Excellent Excellent

[@orbsandtea]

John Williams is the most versatile composer ever! He composes with a japanese feeling so authentic that I have to check his wardrobe for katanas... And when Itzahk Perlman, über-violinist, and Yo-Yo Ma, über-cellist, joins him... There are no words, my friends... no words... I've gotto see the movie!

[@Kalousx]

the whole album is great, very touching and beautiful one of the best scores i've ever heard.

[@pattys8048]

Thank you for sharing your video. 🌷🌿🌷

[@nino0057]

wow this is amazing. That violin solo was just beautiful.

[@ИринаВолошина-е8е]

Очень прекрасная музыка ,с любовью к вашему творчеству,из Белоруссии!!!

[@John1212168]

GREAT MUSIC! GREETINGS FROM GREECE!!!

[@tetianafilyarchuk2838]

This is something incredibly beautiful ❤️

[@phillipecook3227]

A few thoughts about this: very few of us get to watch a movie without any of its music which is what film composers do routinely. Can't imagine what this must be like (tho eating a cake with only half its ingredients springs to mind). The gift of JW - and all other great composers of film music - is to magically encapsulate the essence of a movie within seconds without the audience being consciously aware of it. It follows that for me Memoirs of a Geisha and AI are 2 of JW's greatest scores. I'd also like to mention Oliver Stone's JFK where, again, right from the very outset JW's music manages somehow to inform the audience about the very dark and murky nature of the film they're about to watch. (John Barrie's Midnight Cowboy and Nino Rota's Godfather do the same thing).

[@knaliprice97]

6:00 - 6:30 OMG GORGEOUS!!!

[@laka101]

John Williams, PLEASE, PLEASE compose the music for the last harry potter movie, PLEASE. Your music is half the reason why i lve harry potter films !

[@elskerikke]

I love this video! And the music is faburlous!

[@Lubian-Ferrer]

Increíble gracias por compartir ♡

[@TheFifthBeatle06]

This could be his best album. that pretty much says how good it is.

[@martini215]

oh, I'd love to go for his concert, it's my dream:) but i live in Poland, so you know.. he's genius. congrats for "memories of a geisha" and "Shindler's list". it's amazing

[@hoser193]

All the biggest movies of our time, Star Wars Saga, Superman, ET, The Cowboys, The Indiana Jones series etc, Not to mention the music for the last 3 Olympics in the US were scored by this man. And he never won an Oscar

[@wroget]

Usually orchestral players are actually contracted individually, though composers generally like to work with the same group of people again and again. In Williams' case he often gets players from the LSO when he isn't recording in LA

[@deoxyribonucleic777]

i want john williams to compose my life

[@omarish5]

what an effin legend...he knows it

[@musiccat]

omg, these men are geniuses.

[@kyereCat]

Wow!!! Magnificent

[@wroget]

Very firmly agreed about the Oscars. The fact that Santaolalla won AGAIN the next year has completely destroyed my faith in that organization.

[@tlondonable]

Beautiful

[@marcelof7645]

excelente...obra maestra ¡¡

[@annpatmh7141]

Una obra de arte

[@micos77]

Just a genius...amazing

[@perfectajo]

whatever people may think of rob marshall and his abilities as a director, it cannot be denied that he certainly knows how to get the best out of his actors and creative collaborators. i mean, his three musketeers (colleen atwood, dion beebe, and john myhre) all own their combined 5 oscars and 2 emmys to rob. under rob's guidence, john wrote one of his best scores in recent years with this film. he's directed 5 actors to oscar nominated performances (4 on his first feature film alone)

[@EmilyShepherd]

yo yo ma rules. itzhak perlman is amazing with yo yo ma, the chairman's waltz is the best. this is one of my fave movies/scores.

[@shannonjackson876]

Amazing 👌🙌

[@emperor1992]

incredible!

[@jack42011]

Gives me Goose Bumps

[@misakisanaa9830]

wow what great song great performer

[@PotterFan411]

was that cellist YoYo Ma? anywoo I love this song..we are playing this in my orchestra now..it is so beautiful! I love John Williams!

[@IndraAziz]

I love it! thank u

[@tbonesfa]

I wouldn't sweat it... the man has 5 oscars under his belt. Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Jaws (1975) Star Wars (1977) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Schindler's List (1993)

[@SombraDeLaMosca]

a masterpiece!! very interesting video, thank you =)

[@LacrimosaElodia]

Goth damned, I love John Williams! And I love Itzhak Perlman! And they are together once again for the Geisha... Great...

[@astrea5977]

I do believe Danny Elfman is a great composer and I love his melodies A LOT! But John Williams is superior in that he does his own orchestrations and conducting. As a composer, I wouldn't want it any other way unless time retrained that leisure. I couldn't chose between the 2 though.

[@aleksavesovic8562]

And still no recording sessions album, or the complete score...

[@tereesha]

gosh, i really want to sit and play in there. so sad i'm not good

[@kuvhlubkojibleegxwbo]

Omg.......love it!

[@trombonelytrombonist]

who cares? all his music is great and if there are similarities from one score to another, it's alright because i have yet to hear bad material come from John Williams. John Williams is the man..

[@whatthehellidid]

i love this, john williams is so great and Perlman did an absolutely beautiful job. yo-yo ma is really really great too, but is it just me or but did the poor guy look almost scared. well love him anyway.

[@bertxo]

Williams is a living Genius and a living legend. The best with Herrmann and Korngold. But I like another living composers (and dead too) like Poledouris, Newman and Newton Howard. Sountracks are the future of "classical music".

[@h5g43579]

👏 😁 PERFECTOO! PERO NO LLEGAN A LA CALIDAD DE COMPOSICIÓN DE LOS COMPOSITORES RUSOS 🤗 ! SIENTO HACER ÉSTE COMENTARIO

[@monkfishmusic]

It is very difficult to compare music by different composers. Sometimes music doesn´t need to be complex to express complex feelings and Santaolalla does simple things very well. Sometimes a movie requires that. SImplicity. Music should help the story to be told, which is very difficult to achieve, and both scores get to the point. But that said, Williams is a true master. Maybe all-time´s best and should have won the Oscar. I also love Goldsmith.