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Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen,
for being with us tonight here in this magnificent hall,
which is like a house of magic.
And, erm...
..I want to tell you what a privilege it is for me
to be here with you in this hall standing in front of perhaps
the world's greatest orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic.
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To be standing in front of this orchestra for any musician,
however humble or great,
to be here with you for these few moments is truly a great honour
and a privilege, and I'm so grateful for this invitation to be with you.
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Thank you.
I...
I have never been to Berlin before
and I've always wanted to visit the city.
And it is incredibly beautiful.
And I'll just give you a couple of impressions.
The weather has been gorgeous,
these early autumn days when we've had sun,
and driving around the city, we see people on bicycles
and actually walking.
In Los Angeles, you don't walk. LAUGHTER
There are freeways and cars - that's all we have.
And, erm, it is...
The city is so alive in its present
and you have the great history of the area
and these magnificent buildings and monuments
and I walk in the Tiergarten and I see all the little children
with gorgeous faces and I think, well, the future of this place
is going to be fantastic and bright if we all do our jobs very well.
It's a fantastic place
and I'm very happy and also honoured just to be here in your midst.
To the music...
..here's a little suite from Far And Away,
which was a film some years ago with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
So you'll hear in this little suite an atmospheric theme
that describes the County Galway in the time of 1892,
when the film was staged,
and then there's some action music which begins as a kind of a dance,
which the village fiddler will lead us
and the orchestra will join in all of this a little bit later.
Then, of course, a love theme for the two young people,
played by Tom and Nicole.
And then finally, the donnybrook,
and the donnybrook is the comedy fight.
And when you hear the cellos and basses rumble over here
with all their notes and strength,
that's the beginning of the donnybrook,
and here is Far And Away.
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Harry Potter, I'm happy to find that it was as popular
in Germany as elsewhere.
These amazing books and movies have been said to have been
the greatest British export since The Beatles, which could be true.
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Thank you so very much.
Here are three pieces from Indiana Jones.
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We have... We have already made four Indiana Jones films
and, as we speak, in London,
Harrison Ford is now shooting the fifth one.
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So, I think that's good news,
because, when I leave Berlin, I will go back to Los Angeles
in a few days and begin to write the score for the fifth Indiana Jones.
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So...
Thank you.
So, we have no resting.
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The first of the three pieces is Scherzo For Motorcycle and Orchestra
but you will not see a motorcycle on the stage.
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But the title is the poor composer's feeling. I'll explain to you.
This is a scene in the movie with Sean Connery and Harrison Ford
and they're on a motorcycle
and they're being chased by the bad guys,
and the piece you're about to hear
is the piece that I wrote for the choreography of that chase.
And then a few months later I went into the movie theatre
to watch the film and this motorcycle chase came along
and all I heard were motorcycles, I didn't hear the orchestra at all.
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You can imagine the composer's bruised vanity.
So it's a treat for me to play it for you with this orchestra
without the distraction of the film...
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..and the noise of the motorcycle.
And that's followed by Marion's Theme.
Karen Allen, do you remember, in the first film,
who was so great in the action sequences, as well as comedy.
And then finally Raiders March.
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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Next is a piece called Elegy
and it will feature our cellist, or your cellist, Bruno Delepelaire.
And I am delighted to have him do this piece for me.
I wrote it a number of years ago for two lost children.
An elegy, as you know, is a...
Well, it can be a wish or a prayer
for condolences and the like
to assuage the grief of people who have lost.
But it can be other things.
It can be a wish and a prayer for wholeness...
..and forgiveness.
These emotions, of all the instruments we have,
are often best expressed by the cello, I think.
I love the instrument and I've written for it
every time I've had an opportunity to do it
because I love the instrument so very much
and I hope you'll enjoy it.
Elegy.
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Here are three pieces from the Star Wars collection.
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The first one is an Adventures of Han scene.
A very active piece for the orchestra.
The second piece is Yoda's Theme, which goes way back.
And thirdly, the processional and Finale of the first film.
We have the processional in the Throne Room, which you may remember,
and then the end credits of Star Wars.
So, here's Adventures of Han, Yoda's Theme,
and the Finale to the first Star Wars film.
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