Then he added with a laugh: “If Hollywood had been around in the 19th century I think Tchaikovsky probably would have been hired (by film studios).”Īs Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart readies his musicians for a season that celebrates the 90th birthday of Williams, Santora is working with the Boston Ballet Orchestra on what some consider to be Tchaikovsky’s true triumph - Boston Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen’s “Swan Lake” runs May 26 – June 5 at the Citizens Bank Opera House. “John Williams is one of the people that borrowed very heavily from Tchaikovsky’s orchestration techniques,” Boston Ballet music director Mischa Santora told the Herald. In this three-minute excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s second most popular ballet, it seems John Williams alone drew inspiration for his work on “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the Harry Potter films.
14 Scene, and you can hear the composer’s influence on a hundred years of Hollywood scores. Focus in on a small sliver of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake,” say Act II, No.
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