{"id":4953,"date":"2014-04-28T07:43:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2013-12-11T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T04:01:04","slug":"concert-flashback-star-wars-in-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/concert-flashback-star-wars-in-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Flashback: Star Wars In Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/09starwars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5007\" alt=\"09starwars\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/09starwars.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/09starwars.jpg 616w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/09starwars-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a>In 2009, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra went on tour performing the music from John Williams&#8217; <em>Star Wars<\/em> scores, featuring edited footage from all 6 films and narration from Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO. \u00a0Given the early December date of the Chicago performance, I planned on getting Danny tickets for his birthday. \u00a0In a twist of fate, there were plans afoot to get me tickets for my birthday as well. \u00a0So, we got a set of 4 and split them up, 2 for me and 2 for Danny.<\/p>\n<p>As the date of the approached, an interesting conundrum popped up. \u00a0I was offered a trip to Belfast for work, but would need to leave the day before the show, on December 5th. \u00a0Initially, I turned down the trip, but was eventually able to finagle my way into a Sunday afternoon flight, which meant heading straight to O&#8217;Hare from the United Center and arriving in Belfast Monday morning, heading straight to the office.<\/p>\n<p>The concert itself was a faithful recreation of the score from the favorite films of my childhood (plus the later 3 abortions). \u00a0The mixture of the film clips worked well given they were the original source of the music, and Anthony Daniels led the proceedings with the familiar voice we had all come to know and love. \u00a0This was my first, and so far only, concert at the UC. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t seem to be the best venue for it, but it got the job done.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that George Lucas himself was at this show, only the second time he had seen it in person and the first time in this country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra went on tour performing the music from John Williams&#8217; Star Wars scores, featuring edited footage from all 6 films and narration from Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO. \u00a0Given the early December date of the Chicago performance, I planned on getting Danny tickets for his birthday. \u00a0In a twist of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[4183,2462,1516,682,4182,671,1526],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-anthony-daniels","tag-belfast","tag-george-lucas","tag-john-williams","tag-royal-philharmonic-orchestra","tag-star-wars","tag-united-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}