John Williams - "Parade of the Charioteers" from Ben-Hur

by Rózsa

John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl - September 2, 2005 w/ Los Angeles Philharmonic

video shake cause i was cold

Category:

Music

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• john
• williams
• hollywood
• bowl
• live
• ben-hur
• parade
• of
• the
• charioteers
• Los
• Angeles
• Philharmonic

[rightroad9]

The Ben-Hur music is one of the best movie-music of all time.

John Williams and Miklos Rózsa are both great composers.

[ROH4ever]

The crown jewel of the Embassy

Jiiiiiiiiiiimmy RAAAAAAAAAAVE

[pbrucpaul]

@jslasher1 Yeah I agree. This number needs a faster upbeat, and authoritative sound to be really impressive.

[tmc359]

sometimes, when someone reveres and truly loves a piece of music, he/she will conduct it somewhat slower to get that extra "meaning" /substance out of it. another reason may be to make a different statement... its been done exactly the same way for the umpteenth time, why not try something different? But this is too slow! lol

[tmc359]

exactly to the point below, this is too slow, can we drag the "parade" some any more? The Charioteers are walking in quicksand.

[aaronjg682]

@jslasher Having watched the movie for the umpteenth time recently, I can say John Williams' vision for The Parade is spot on.

[Mullahgrrl]

@futuramark He wasn't king.

[jslasher1]

I am sorry to give this the thumbs down. The problem is the tempi, which are simply just t--o--o s----l----o----w.

[RavingRendal]

beautiful

[tripsadelica]

@maxpower789z

Yes...the CPO have done a much better job. Of course, the original recordings by Dr. Rozsa are the best. I find it strange that Williams would slow the tempo down so much. He was a great admirer of Dr. Rozsa and often claims he was one of his inspirations to go into film and tv composing. Slowing the tempo here so much turns the whole march into a bit of a dirge.

[maxpower789z]

@tripsadelica Agreed...the version the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra do is probably the best I've heard

[WizardOfHumor1989]

I think James Newton-Howard should be the next composer to conduct / record PARADE OF THE CHARIOTEERS. His aspiring music to scores to films such as WATERWORLD, WYATT EARP, HIDALGO, THE FUGITIVE, ATLANTIS THE LOST EMPIRE have thrilling scores like Williams and Rozsa.