A Pops Finale with Loras John Schissel

Guest Pops conductor Loras John Schissel stopped by SoundPost to talk a little bit about the upcoming concerts he’ll be conducting this weekend at Symphony Hall:

/>Dear Friends of The Phoenix Symphony,

I’m looking forward to being with you folks and working with the great Phoenix Symphony! It’s funny that we’ll be featuring a lot of John Williams’ music on the program as I spent time with him here in Washington this past weekend. John conducted a film music concert with the National Symphony with Spielberg and Scorsese as narrators. In one sequence, they showed a clip from Indiana Jones with no music—-and it just died. Then they showed it with John’s music played live with the NSO. You wouldn’t believe the change. For anyone who loves John Williams’ music (and I certainly do), I think they’ll find this concert with The Phoenix Symphony is going to be a blow-out. I’ve got some surprises on the show that aren’t printed in the program. E.T. phone home. See you soon!

-Loras

The Phoenix Symphony’s “Big Screen Legends Featuring the Music of John Williams” concert is currently sold out, but it never hurts to check with the Box Office at 602-495-1999 to see if anything happens to open up at the last minute.