John Williams - The Olympic Spirit

[crimsoninterceptor]

Best fanfare I've ever heard! John Williams is a legend..

[Brucewang76]

This guy wrote soundtracks for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ET, Jaws, Superman, Schindler's List, 7 years in Tibet, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Hook, Saving Private Ryan.....and several Olympic themes, he is truely more than a legend!!!!

[masterninja2000]

@Purplegreen45 me 2!

[Purplegreen45]

getting evaluated with this song and rule Britannia :D

[Desymusica96]

*__* Amazing! <3

[ZeldaFan3211]

5 dislikes. DINKELBERG!!!!! :D Awesome song goosebumps

[MrLoullers]

I think this should play at every World Cup-final for all eternity! :D

[Bondesq007]

What a masterpiece! :)

[NichtsMehrWissen]

i love it when a song is giving me goosebumps.

and this melody certainly does! :D

[SlyGwenofficial]

5 people don't have the olympic spirit =)

[mldklsu]

I love John Williams (no homo)!!!!!!

[Mslauriie42]

I love it!!!!

Especially when I "shake" my hand like the queen ;)

[BONEFRIGHT]

ele musicou o espirito olimpico

[iSamYee]

harry is a faggot

[noahperkins96]

My school is playing this in our Full Symphony Orchestra... And it sounds absolutely wonderful! It captures the spirit of the olympics so perfectly

[TheTubaplayer20]

Awesome Dynamics



[JustAnotherSonicFan]

Inspiring.

[SkyBlueImages]

I feel like going for a run right after I go get an extra value meal with a diet coke!!!

[yoniviner]

Dislikes? For a world anthem? There are four aliens.

[stormspotterbob]

@yoniviner Agreed

[pcl2003pi]

It is impossible not to be moved this song marked a wonderful time

[pcl2003pi]

It is impossible not to be moved this song marked a wonderful time

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[InflatiblePalmTree]

My middle school band played a stupid arrangement of this. Sure, it sounded good, but that arrangement was nothing compared to the original :D

[DblC3]

@InflatiblePalmTree Well, you can't expect middle school students to compare to a professional symphony orchestra. I'm sure you did the best you could, though.

[Stitches003]

I want the band and orchestra at our school to join and play some of his compositions. I haven't seen that happen in high school yet

[yapgirl88]

epic amazingness...

[xXheadmanXx]

John Williams is a beast

[JojoBoy38]

who is the arranger of this version?

i want exactly this arrengment! it's awesome, great, fabulous...it's simply the best!!!!

[Daveverne]

IS USED IN THE SHORT FILM OF DAVID HERNANDEZ; LAWRENCE JONES AND KING SOLOMONS TABLE. :)

[fantasynreality]

i myself feel dat this quality is high enough

[aznbgirl06]

Our high school band played this. Clarinet pride! <3 :D

[sailorct0123]

@aznbgirl06 ----trumpets are the shit. i bet no 1 heard u. u fuckin make out w/ wood every day! LOOSER!!!! TRUMPETS ARE THE INSTRUMENT OF GODS!!!!!

[aznbgirl06]

@sailorct0123 Oh sorry, but I usually don't use my clarinet everyday. :) Oh, and did I ever mention anything about which instrument was better? You misspelled "loser" by the way.

[Lazonya777]

@aznbgirl06 i like the rusty trombone personally

[kataca11]

Amazing, Jonathan Llewelyn-williams is amazing!!

[xbcg9489x]

this is probably my favorite work my john williams

[IGbullshark]

this is good but i prefer "Summon The Heroes"

[happy543210]

He kinda goes off on a tangent in the middle, but then he takes it right back to that wonderful starting sequence.

[Mintwee]

This is fucking AMAZING!!

[SenatorSparkman]

It's jamming at a conciderable pace

[MExJUDITH]

Amazing!

[mrdrodrigues]

Magestic! Wonderful! It does have the epic feeling of the Olympic Games.

[Nipponkoku]

In the final fanfare, starting at 3:48, it the timpani ascending those three notes sounds so poignant. Really striking... love this masterpiece.

[cojeba]

That was one hell of a song. We played this for our concert. Baritone first chair and leader of the low brass section.

[Baritocity]

@cojeba BARITONES! I played the Jay Bocook arrangement of this a few years back; it was awesome.

[tehluigiman]

Good thing I play the trumpet ;P

[Ferrariman601]

John Williams is just brilliant! Probably in the top 3 greatest composers in the last 100 years.

[cupich82]

@Ferrariman601 YES HE IS THE BEST :D

[SenatorSparkman]

The bass drum at 0:10 is in time, then crash rushes

[skillfrombrazil]

i love the moving line at the very end during the long chord

[43018nat]

this is my band concert song! my concert is tommorow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am sooooooooooooooo excited! i play the clarinet!

subscribe me if ur a band dork like me!

[cocobear369]

John Williams: The almighty god of Orchestra lol our school is doin this song xD

[jdong570]

@cocobear369 Which school?

[cocobear369]

@jdong570 MRHS

[MalleSR]

this is such a cool number to play! I've played marchdrum in a girl-marchingband for many years... This number really gives you a rush while you are playing!!

[pappag12]

John Williams is the greatest composer ever. And The Olympic Spirit is so amazing. It gives you a so incredible heavenly feeling. I love it

[mathebissig]

einfach nur genial interpretiert.

[masterchief416]

i saw this being performed on a live school trip. IT WAS EPIC!!! JOHN WILLIAM RULEZZZ!! THE STAR WARS AND JURRASIC PARK COMPOSER!!!!

[vequense]

@masterchief416 not to mention like the other 15+ movies he composed in :)

[warriorkittycat]

I really like this. my middle school band is doing this but a lot shorter and easier!

[aznpopqueen]

<3 this song!!! :)

[natesquared]

BOOM CRASH! hehe band choke for when we went to china :)

[raventribble]

John Williams amazes me

[shepdog213]

USA! USA! USA!

[Trombworks]

This is such an amzing song, especially for graduation! I always played it in band for graduation and then when I graduated i got to hear it. It made graduation twice as good.

[gtmnm2007]

we r playin this in my 7 th grade band class

[benickzacluv3]

Ok so were playin this in band! Go saxophone:) well ya its winter olympics 2010 in vancouver!!! gooo USA!!! lol

[TheMrVogue]

@benickzacluv3 I played this in my 8th grade honor band =D, an excellent piece ^^

[grapesofwraith1066]

Thanks for sharing, this has been stuck in my head for months, and I had no idea what it was!!!

[joebradio]

NBC should use this one more --but they caved and bought the rights to the ABC theme which everybody assumed was the "official theme" when in fact it was commissioned for the alphabet network

[PSKEMan]

John Williams did it again it with this one. Excellent stuff!

[robotdude14]

We are actually gonna play this piece plus more of the great John Williams. GO JOHN!

[robotdude14]

I mean our Marching Band is gonna play this.

[theITALIANreporter]

GO GO GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!

[bassoondude101]

John Williams's Olympic themes are amazing. If some would be interested in arranging it for marching band, please do.

[DandyT1990]

There is a marching band arrangement as I have played it in a massed band once, just can't remember who the arrangement was by.

[hopedreamer13]

John Williams is amazing. CANADA FINALLY GOT GOLD IN HOME SOIL (Im canadian :D) WE DID IT! go canada!

[ninie920]

I like this song, it's very beautiful =D GO FRANCE GO!!!!!! <3

[kotetsu131]

John Williams makes me thank God I'm a trumpet player, I love playing his pieces!

[blkjock81]

Yeah of all the big film composers he uses a lot of brass, which is why I do like his movie scores

[Gutezr1]

I love this song! GO USA

[goldeneve]

and away we go

[Citydogz45]

we played this in marching band this past year very challenging piece

[woshibancun]

funny part: i heard this piece on Weather Channel, and fell in love with it!

[pcc18977]

É uma das melhores musicas de sempre. Muitos parabéns ao maestro John Williams.

[eseleste]

excellent song by Mr. John Williams

[raventribble]

I think of him as a hero :D

[hoegi7]

awesome, there is so much feeling in this fanfare

[youtub369]

well it is by John Williams

[2468MMM]

Seriously guys?! It's a fanfare :P

[jepcorp]

John Williams and his music should be celebrated more frequently than every 2 years for an Olympics event. We know he writes for Hollywood movies, BUT, his music is known worldwide and carries a very powerful message in its melodies---especially those for the Olympics---that of peace, brotherhood, and triumph.

[firkopersson]

ossim

[Schwiiiiiizer]

yeah, it sounds williams like xD

[schatzmaster]

This sounds more like a military anthem to me than an Olympic spirit theme.

[lamaljasper]

have you ever heard a decent military march?

[schatzmaster]

Yes. What composer are you thinking of in particular? I have performed Sousa's "El Capitan," "The Invincible Eagle March," "Stars and Stripes Forever" as well as John Klohr's "The Billboard March" and Henry Fillmore's "American's We." I have heard most of these live, or through audio/video, but if you're talking about the common march cut-time or 6/4 tempi, I would disagree that it sounds like a "march" as you stated. I believe it sounds more like a military/film theme.

[mdmnmdllr]

Just goes to show, YMMV. I won't disagree that there is an OST feel to it, John Williams being who he is - but I think it definitely has Olympic feeling as well.

When I listen to this in sequence with Summon the Heroes (another Williams Olympic-inspired comoposition) and the actual Olympic theme song (Buglers' Fanfare, I believe), it is absolutely kindred to me. And, too, there is that which is martial about the Olympics, when you consider them in honesty.

[mystshaka]

Fantastic!!. Epic!!!, awesome!!!!. John Williams is the Master!

[wipered]

Outstanding stirring anthem. For many years you would hear this on the BBC coverage of the Grand National in the segment leading up to the big race itself.

[m0vi3man2]

1.17 sounds like christmas (=

[HaloKirbyX]

I don't here it...

[SunDevlFan4Life]

The whole song reminds me of Christmas. I love it : )

[joncmaxwell]

when was this composed?

[llc88]

This was for the 1988 Olympic Games.

[JPPT1974]

For the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics!

[998457]

=)))))

[MsHornisse]

i like this but pur trompets not xD

[XxMelodyofHeavenxX]

i have to play this in band now.. we just got back from summer, and i had no time to practice, now i suck! i have a butt load of high notes too! my band teacher is trying to kill me

[ymerej2100]

reminds me a lot of Copelands symph 3.john is Great.

[Denshoukiro]

I love the Horn parts at the beggining. I played it with the Symphonic Orchestra, in a special event they made, I played the Tympani. The original is a little bit faster that the tempo we played, but it was good enough though. it´s an awesome job by an awesome composer.

[dgm01994]

this is my schools signature song we play it everywhere we go

[manicka1]

KRÁSA

[42Lou]

I'm soon to be principal trumpet in my orchestra and would love to play this! :-D we tend to play very string-heavy pieces and it would be good to see the trumpets centre stage, haha ;-)

[Zinto1991]

bellissima!!!....

[PeepoICSS]

Maestoso!

[LagoonUTVideos]

I really wish that my band would play this song. it is the most beautiful song ever composed. I give props to john williams! thumbs up on this comment if you agree!!!

[JPPT1974]

Beautiful! John Williams rocks!

[TrevorTheBest]

im playing this with my concert band and im trumpet part (its great)

[catmani2]

We just got this piece at the beginning of the week for my brass ensamble and have performed it a couple of times already and it is amazing. I do agree with the two before me, trumpets rock. I do have respect for the other instruments too. I mean, somebody has to support us!

[solt87]

Full of modesty... =P

[grizzleybear12]

my band in skool just played this in our concert last night xD trumpets all the wayy

[redsors]

We are playing a little tidbit of this song in my HS symphonic band...the whole piece is called "John Williams In Concert" it has a select few of JW's music (ET theme, Mission theme, Imperial march, cantina band, olympic spirit, jaws) and i find the whole thing very fun to play, although by the end i am real tired and can hardly play the last note...idk why, b/c we have played a higher lvl music than that and i am not tired afterwards..but yeah it is still fun and i enjoy every note of it :D

[redsors]

Go Trumpets!!!

[mkz4321]

very superb

[fluboonchika]

I just played this yesterday with the Delta Symphony and I just love this song. I think it was my favorite from the entire concert!

[jOj0xpyq]

I love it

we play it in our orchestra

[mobius1992]

we play this every year for graduation... it's an awesome piece! this will be my last year playing it the band though...

[Mewmew1801]

I'm a Tenor Sax in my beginning band and were playing this for a Concert and we sound almost as good as this.

[CaptainTox1]

if you do, you must be good.

[CaptainTox1]

John Williams,

you really are the man

[cubfan1818]

im playing this song for my schools symphonic band, and it is one hell of a good song!

[nevadacowgirl]

I'm currently playing this in band for some exchange concert. The band will never sound this good though.

[Dandara301]

good  music

classic

[thejakemanrox125]

im doing a concert in beggining band and its a good sond nice choice

[ManOfAmerica2009]

We're playing this in our beginning band concert! I'm so excited! I'm clicking favorites right now!

[radicalbunny]

If I ever do anything properly heroic, the only reward I'd want is a John Williams theme tune :)

[AlanStienen]

doet me denken aan de jacht = 3

[HourOfRevenge]

wir spielen dieses stück am 14. märz zu "josephi" :).. schönes stück.

[stbhs71]

A Masterpiece

[SoulsCrasher]

senza parole...semplicemente spettacolare!!!!! john williams the best

[konradwysog]

piękne wykonanie:)

[wouterhardy]

The best song ever!

[henby123]

det er dritt bra

[shiny92star]

John Williams - ein Gott... =)

[legendofthelol]

ja er ist ein super SUPER MUSIKALISH GOTT

[kiim1223]

LOVE IT!!!

[schwobamaedle]

tolles lied :)

hört sich einfach geil an!!

[happymauz]

das ist so gail wir spielen das auch mann das ist einfach..!! gail...

[supershrav]

wish there was a live John Williams vid of this on youtube. outstanding. up there with JW's best

[snare171]

beautifull!!!!!!

[wouterhardy]

My favorite song!! Damn

[trompetista90]

excelent!!!!!!

[DarthPlagueis1990]

john williams is one of all times best composers

[Calidus14]

Kann isamec einfach nur Recht geben. Endlich mal eine gute Version von Olympic Spirit!

Das Lied ist einfach nur Klasse

[isamec]

Mensch vielen Dank! - Es gab mal auf YouTube ein Anime-Film dazu und wurde gelöscht :( Das ist endlich mal wieder eine einwandfreie Aufnahme von John Williams' The Olympic Spirit.