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Topic: Detroit Dandies Meet JG
Brad Wills
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aawwww....I feel all warm and squishy on the inside.
posted 06-05-2000 02:22 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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I'm trying very hard to resist quoting Harrison Ford from Empire Strikes Back...NP: Essential Jerry - The Blue Max
posted 06-05-2000 03:50 PM PT (US) Howard L
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"Mark Hatfield, although we have never spoken (either online or any other medium), I feel as if we are bonded somehow, through Brad. You see, Brad is one of my dearest friends and one of the most beautiful people I have ever encountered in my life. Being that you and he are friends, I feel compelled to throw my friendship at you."Do it Joe, do it! Let me tell ya something about the "Senator": that man is a veritable WELLSPRING of compassion. Let me cite just 2 of many examples during the weekend, starting with 1) He may not know this but I was far back in the crowd when the lady slipped down the stairs and I watched him go right into action and express the utmost concern for her well-being as he assisted her off the carpet and then STAY to make sure she was okay; and 2) I saw him converse earlier with a nice pair of elderly ladies between acts, telling them all about how we ended up there in Detroit. They ate it up. Later, as the orchestra did the "Dr. Kildare Theme", the one sitting next door elbowed me and happily whispered "I know that one, too!" --in response to my own swooning. Mark, sorry if I'm embarrassing you but I call 'em the way I see 'em. You are the greatest. Do the whole world a favor. Don't change.
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posted 06-05-2000 05:25 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Bid farewell to old Hatfield at Detroit Metro this afternoon. A couple of previous nights after lights-out, we'd go on talking for a few minutes anyway, like giddy grade-school boys still high on watching the latest Creature Feature (perhaps not the most complimentary metaphor for the Goldsmith events, but it really FELT like that). He's dead set on attending the John Williams concert at the Hollywood Bowl, and he's got me halfway convinced I ought to make that one as well ... (and hey, Disneyland!)No sense of direction, James? Hey, we didn't BUILD the damn place! (Much less decline to fit it out with even the SIMPLEST "you-are-here" map!) Seriously, we're glad you had a good time.
I expect to start posting my observations on a separate thread sometime tomorrow.
This was easily the high point of the whole previous year (i.e. the end of my last vacation.)
posted 06-05-2000 06:53 PM PT (US) Jack
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James: Should have used a GPS. Ours got us right to Orchestra Hall. The wonders of modern technology.I still have a few unsigned programs, if anybody wants one. Copies for Chris, Joe and Thor will be sent Saturday. Anybody else?
N.P. The End of Civilisation As We Know It.
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posted 06-05-2000 07:35 PM PT (US) solarwnz
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Thanks Joe! It feels great to be welcomed. Wedge, I'm still waiting for the Goldsmith pics to be developed... Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope they come out okay.
posted 06-05-2000 09:57 PM PT (US) sabbey
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This all sounds great. I wish I could have made it as well. Maybe next time.Either way, I am glad you all had such an incredible experience. Hopefully something similar can happen in the future again. I Definitely would like to met you all at one time or another. Hopefully having a time such as this one.
One question I'd like to ask is, do any of you plan on putting up some photos online? I'd Definitely would love to see some of your "memories".
Live Long and Prosper. And listen to those scores.
Regards,
Sean Robert Abbeyposted 06-06-2000 02:05 AM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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Hey Howard,
Sheez! Finally got to read all of these posts! What's this with 1776? All this brain-racking I've been doing about it has caused me to deduce that you're trying to drive me mad. I don't get the reference! I'm sorry! What are you going to do.....call me a madman? Is that what you plan on doing, fribble?!?Reaching,
Shaun
NP---Breakdown (put this in because Conan is too loud for 3AM; I put in one CD for everybody in Detroit---I'm still on the emotional high, so sue me---a Poledouris for Mark, a Chris Young for Rocco, good ol' Grand Canyon for good ol' Howard, and hey---just shuffled to the In Honor Of Wedge pick, The Phantom Menace, cue title "Back To Naboo")posted 06-07-2000 12:02 AM PT (US) H Rocco
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awwww ... which Chris Young?Hope you got my e-mail about my computer shutting down all of a sudden last night. I was NOT cutting you off.
NP: THE SWARM (suite from "The Rocco Files," coincidentally enough ... thanks again, Shaun)
posted 06-07-2000 12:32 AM PT (US) Mark Hatfield
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Hi, Shaun!Which Poledouris was it? I have to know.
BTW, you're not the only one still on a high over the Detroit Pilgrimmage, man. You are a hell of a nice guy & I will look forward to seeing you again.
I'm hitting the sack. What shall I play in your honor tomorrow, Shaun?
posted 06-07-2000 01:08 AM PT (US) Howard L
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On the plane ride back I dozed off and when I came to, the "Carol Ann's Theme" arrangement from the concert was ringing in my ears. And it keeps coming back at all times of the day, and I can't help but "see" Mr. G at the podium jutting his baton high and wide toward the brass section. Amazing.Shaun, you slay me. I smell Dickinson's influence lurking about. BTW, are you enjoying "Guy's Cinema Paradiso"? Will email you and several others what happened in Canada. And tell Tony I found the hard copy of the "snowy evening/Stepmom effect" thread. Am reading it again with relish. I will never forget Friday night & finally making my way from the "John Wilkes Booth" box to the staircase and bounding down a flight only to be intercepted by you, Shaun, and then escorted through the wilds of Wedgeville in search of The Composer.
Mark, yesterday (Tues.) I went to work & struggled to stay lucid until 5, went home, went to bed at 6:00pm, woke up, looked out the window at what I thought was dawn the next day only to discover it was 8:40pm the same evening. Brother, it was about time I crashed. Thank goodness I have Wednesdays off. Today I plan to clean the place & listen to Goldsmith music all afternoon. And remember. And map out plans for the Williams thing in August. To hell with finances. As Tom Joad/Mr. Fonda said, "I'll be there."
With a stop, perhaps, in Phoenix?
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posted 06-07-2000 09:52 AM PT (US) Valere
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For all of you that went:NP STMP:Opening, For all of the rest of us: Fate is the Hunter: MT.(Trumpet Solo,OST)
Np:The Loner-FSM-*****/*****
posted 06-16-2000 10:33 PM PT (US) JohnnyK
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Lost in workload hell these past months, and about to open the annual rock/pop/bebop crap music festival here next week; having had hopes late last year to be with all these familiar posters in Detroit, I wander back today to see this love feast and now I hurt more.I coulda been with y'all and had the privilege of meeting Mr G and instead I have to work on booking Britney Spears! (www.summerfest.com)
Elsewhere I see Daniel2 is still alive, as well. You should have dragged him along, to sit quietly by himself, and absorb the Genius known as Goldsmith.
The personal views and reports posted here, the evident enthusiasm, the friendships wrapped around the mutual admiration for this musical giant...I am jealous.
Missed you all, more than you know.
posted 06-23-2000 02:44 PM PT (US) Shaun Rutherford
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Ah, the memories..........Shaun
NP---Hollow Man, composed by Jerry Goldsmith, for ME, Shaun Rutherford
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