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Personal highlight, surprisingly, was Avatar. Which is a score I really like but I wasn't expecting them to play "War". BUT THEY DID.
It was an unforgettable evening in the true sense of the word. I can't stop thinking about it.
Ditto. Avatar has probably become my favourite film score of the last decade and it was wonderful hearing it live like that. But... there were so many highlights. It will live a very long time in my memory.
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Oct 9, 2013 - 2:50 PM
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spacekim
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Well, it´s been a few days since the concert and the impressions are starting to settle.
First of all WOW!! The concert was fantastic! I knew I probably was going to like the concert, based on the parts of the programme that had been published online, but I certainly wasn´t expecting it to be this good!
First things first: Thanks to Thor for the get-together before the concert. I´ve been a lurker on these boards for a while and have posted a couple of posts. However, I thought this would be a good opportunity to meet some fellow film music fans (there aren´t that many I know of from Norway), so I sent Thor a message and asked if he had any seats remaining. No problem, he said.
I really enjoyed meeting you all. Unfortunately I didn´t get to talk to everyone, but nevertheless got some new friends that evening.
Then, the concert:
Personal highlights were the medley and the Avatar suite. The suite mainly for including a very nice rendition of The Launch from Apollo 13. That movie has a very special meaning to me, as it was one of the key factors that influenced me into going for a career in the aerospace industry. I first saw it when I was 15, and now 7 years later I´m in my last year on a bachelor´s degree in Electronics and Computer Technology (basically Electrical Engineering at the University of Oslo). Sitting just three rows in front of the man who wrote that fantastic cue, while it was being played so perfectly, was really special.
The Avatar suite was also a big surprise for me. I was hoping they would include Jake´s First Flight (which they did), and was also very surprised about the inclusion of the parts from the War-cue. The final three minutes of the suite was just a pure orchestral adrenaline rush that lasted for hours.
I´m not sure what some people mean when they say they didn´t like David Newman´s conducting and how he managed the dynamics of the orchestra. From where I was seated, the orchestra sounded very well balanced and Newman, to me, really nailed the entire thing (the only thing missing when having a sort of sci-fi concert with him as conductor, was a piece from Galaxy Quest).
All in all, it was a fantastic evening and it truly was Horner´s night. He almost seemed moved to tears at one point after picking up the award.
A friend of mine, who is a very good photographer, was with me at the concert, and managed to get a couple of pictures of Horner and Newman before the concert.
Thanks again to Thor for setting up the get-together! And thanks to all the musicians of the ORF orchestra, David Newman, Sandra Tomek and the team behind Hollywood in Vienna and of course James Horner for writing so many great scores!
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And not for the first time during the event. The symposium came first. 
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