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“What would happen if I tried to do what Dan did.” Alternative name: Not everyone's life can be a fanfic

In 2010, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra played The Imperial March at the Sommernachtskonzert in the garden of the Schönbrunn Palace in front of 100.000 people. (Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn). In 2020, they played it again in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Wien. This time directed by John Williams himself. "And I have to tell you, it was honestly the best presentation of that march that I ever heard." Source: John Williams

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"I read once in an interview with John Williams that on the first day of rehearsal he didn‘t want them to play the Imperial March because they already rehearsed a lot that day and it‘s a quite taxing piece for the brass section so he wanted to give them a break - until the musicians themselves came up to him and said „we really want to play it, though“"

"‘At the intermission of one of the rehearsals, the players came and said to me “Maestro, can we play The Imperial March (from Star Wars)?” And I said, “well certainly we can; if you have the music, I’d be happy to conduct it.” “Oh we have the music,” they said, “we know it!” I told them I thought I’d already given them too much work for a two-hour concert, and they said “well you have, but we want to play The Imperial March for you; it’s the new Radetzky!” I’ve never heard it played so brilliantly, I must say. All the brilliant orchestras I’ve played it with have never been quite like this; it had a kind of force and power that was an expression of their own spirit and history. It was really quite thrilling.’

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