John Williams takes Sarah's Horn Challenge

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The Force was with legendary film composer John Williams when he bravely took Sarah´s Horn Challenge in Tanglewood in August 2019 (pre-Corona) during an interview for the new film "A World Without Beethoven?". Did he play Beethoven or Star Wars - what do YOU think?
Watch the whole movie here: • A World Without Beetho...
John is a hero.
More Horn Challenges here: sarah-willis.com/horn-challenge/

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  • @LukeFaulkner
    @LukeFaulkner3 жыл бұрын

    Toot... toot... That *WAS* Star Wars! If John Williams says it's Star Wars, it is Star Wars.

  • @davidklemencz

    @davidklemencz

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes!

  • @MM-111

    @MM-111

    3 жыл бұрын

    Luke, what a surprise! 🙂 Do you like Horn sound?

  • @LukeFaulkner

    @LukeFaulkner

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MM-111 Love it! Great to see you here :)

  • @MM-111

    @MM-111

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LukeFaulkner The pleasure is on my side. You are great. 🙂

  • @vaebz

    @vaebz

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @patrickvalentino600
    @patrickvalentino6003 жыл бұрын

    Sarah: "The worse you are the more they'll love you" JW: "Ok, let me grab that tuning slide real good"

  • @ryanharris4938
    @ryanharris49383 жыл бұрын

    He’s one of the best, if not the best, film score composers. I have so much respect for this man.

  • @johns.8220
    @johns.82203 жыл бұрын

    Clicked to watch Sarah Willis shove a French horn onto the face of the greatest living composer, was not disappointed

  • @chickenflavor9880

    @chickenflavor9880

    3 жыл бұрын

    Joe hisaishi is pretty good.

  • @somebody9033

    @somebody9033

    Жыл бұрын

    the "greatest living composer"? Have you ever heard Kalevi Aho? Have you ever heard Saariaho? Glass? Reich? Sorabji? To name a few. Careful before you make such sweeping statements about a copycat.

  • @texanempire414

    @texanempire414

    9 ай бұрын

    @@somebody9033He created some of the most played pieces of art that the modern world has heard. Don’t downplay one of the greatest living composers.

  • @ericbana191

    @ericbana191

    9 ай бұрын

    Definitely one of the, if not THE.

  • @alejandrovillegas177
    @alejandrovillegas1773 жыл бұрын

    She has John Williams DNA, do you know what this means!!!! She can grow her own John Williams!!!!

  • @TheodoreBrown314

    @TheodoreBrown314

    3 жыл бұрын

    Alejandro Villegas Hehehe. TBBT reference?

  • @bowwing333

    @bowwing333

    3 жыл бұрын

    Somewhere, on some island.... "Welcome, to John Williams Park"

  • @alejandrovillegas177

    @alejandrovillegas177

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bowwing333 ta da da da daaaa ta da da da daaaa ta da daa daa daa daa daaaaa daa

  • @alejandrovillegas177

    @alejandrovillegas177

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheodoreBrown314 bazinga!!!

  • @maxalaintwo3578

    @maxalaintwo3578

    3 жыл бұрын

    Secret government John Williams project

  • @blasi1800
    @blasi18003 жыл бұрын

    Now she can sell it to Pawn Stars with evidence showing it was played by the greatest of all composers John Williams!

  • @Shayman94

    @Shayman94

    3 жыл бұрын

    And then get paid 50 dollars for it lol

  • @blasi1800

    @blasi1800

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shay This horn is now worth much more money than ever before. Just the fact that John Williams played it makes it special. 😁

  • @yalz302

    @yalz302

    3 жыл бұрын

    Take it easy with the word 'greatest'.

  • @blasi1800

    @blasi1800

    3 жыл бұрын

    Y Alz Your right! He’s damm good!

  • @ThePeaterBeater

    @ThePeaterBeater

    3 жыл бұрын

    you say that as if “played by sarah willis” wouldn’t make the horn community shell out

  • @JonatasMonte
    @JonatasMonte3 жыл бұрын

    The first time I've seen a Horn and associated it's sound was watching the recording of Battle of Heroes for Episode III in the extras DVD. Thank you John Williams.

  • @doodlemoth
    @doodlemoth2 жыл бұрын

    My uncle used to play in the Boston Symphony when he was conducting, gosh wish I got to meet him, he would teach me so much

  • @mckiezi
    @mckiezi3 жыл бұрын

    Who could not like this guy he's just- 😣🥺

  • @OURBOURFLYNN
    @OURBOURFLYNN3 жыл бұрын

    There are so many channels on You Tube and yet you have managed to carve out something entirely apart from everything else. Been following for a while and you've done it... John Williams! Amazing! Well done, Sarah.

  • @PMS1950
    @PMS19503 жыл бұрын

    Apart from the novelist George Eliot (alias - Mary Anne Evans) and a few others, my list of female heroines is shamefully small, but I'm more than delighted to add Sarah Willis. A truly great artist, musician and a communicator of enormous warmth, humour and charisma. Long may she thrive as a horn player and you tuber. I'm also a great fan of the wonderfully modest John Williams.

  • @KM-om8ch
    @KM-om8ch3 жыл бұрын

    Can you play Star Wars? That was Star Wars I played. Most awkward chat ever in music history

  • @crispfabric3504

    @crispfabric3504

    3 жыл бұрын

    And how she made up? I thought that was Beethoven. Greatest recovery in music history

  • @megagiga1442

    @megagiga1442

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @user-lu4ce3eu2n

    @user-lu4ce3eu2n

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahahaha

  • @jkvhcjshcsjacbjsabjhasihfz9037

    @jkvhcjshcsjacbjsabjhasihfz9037

    3 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know if there is a similar tune in any symphony to the one he played PLEASE? I couldn't find a Beethoven symphony that has it, and it sounds kind of shostakovich to me...

  • @KM-om8ch

    @KM-om8ch

    3 жыл бұрын

    jkvhcjshcsja cbjsabjhasihfzc Please. The very beginning of fifth symphony of his. Other than that opening of Mahler’s fifth, the first movement of Brahms’ first, you name it

  • @nevertheless123
    @nevertheless1233 жыл бұрын

    LOVED IT!, wish it was longer

  • @Berley_1234
    @Berley_12346 ай бұрын

    he conducted the Superman theme when i was at the univ of SoCarolina in the orchestra.

  • @seigasuki
    @seigasuki3 жыл бұрын

    Nice! How much I love John Williams music. 😍

  • @BismarcksOtto
    @BismarcksOtto3 жыл бұрын

    I've been waiting for this ever since I watched the first Horn Challenge. Love, love LOVE that man. Thanks for sharing this with us!

  • @IsaacW.
    @IsaacW.3 жыл бұрын

    "How bout some star wars?" *Sings his own piece as if he doesn't know how it goes*

  • @bipbong2906

    @bipbong2906

    3 жыл бұрын

    Calm down brotendo

  • @IsaacW.

    @IsaacW.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bipbong2906 lol it's just a joke

  • @bipbong2906

    @bipbong2906

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@IsaacW. calm down brotendo

  • @IsaacW.

    @IsaacW.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bipbong2906 lol it's just a joke

  • @Garminrules
    @Garminrules3 жыл бұрын

    So cool! Thanks Sarah!

  • @SamuelLeTonqueze
    @SamuelLeTonqueze3 жыл бұрын

    It's still Star Wars from that Great Man. THANK you John.

  • @leslieackerman4189
    @leslieackerman41893 жыл бұрын

    That was great Ms Willis!

  • @malkolmlind8598
    @malkolmlind85983 жыл бұрын

    HAHA! John Williams is so lovely! He brings so much joy to my life. :)

  • @williardpienus8014
    @williardpienus80143 жыл бұрын

    John Williams is the sweetest man!

  • @williamholke3325
    @williamholke33253 жыл бұрын

    I love John Williams, what a humble man

  • @riffraftmusic8669
    @riffraftmusic86692 жыл бұрын

    He did better with no warm-up than I did with months of practice! Lovely, giving him the absolute hardest brass instrument to play.

  • @stefanoripari1816
    @stefanoripari18163 жыл бұрын

    JOHN WILLIAMS GENIUS THANK YOU JOHN THE BEST

  • @alextirrellRI
    @alextirrellRI3 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of when I was taking brass methods class in college and we were doing a section on horn with the principal horn player of the BSO, and he chose me to try and get a sound out of his horn. I couldn't do it!

  • @DennisJohnsonDrummer

    @DennisJohnsonDrummer

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can relate. Our brass methods class required that we learn trumpet, trombone and French Horn. I really stunk at French Horn and even after directing bands for 35 years I still stunk at French Horn. Guess I really didn't practice the horn. That would have helped! The most difficult instrument in the band by far.

  • @mertz7305
    @mertz73053 жыл бұрын

    That riff is now cannon. Guess I have to add that snippet to my SW playlist...

  • @Sshooter444
    @Sshooter4443 жыл бұрын

    I want to hear more about John Williams' approach to composing for the horn!

  • @estudiomonteverdi
    @estudiomonteverdi3 жыл бұрын

    great!

  • @03Venture
    @03Venture3 жыл бұрын

    That’s lovely! 🥰

  • @quentinramecourt6628
    @quentinramecourt66283 жыл бұрын

    bow to the legend.

  • @xxamazingjayxx
    @xxamazingjayxx3 жыл бұрын

    my dream come true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @algoy001
    @algoy0013 жыл бұрын

    I love those two. Is there more of this interview with Mr. Williams? hey, some time ago I saw you on the channel of the Berliner Philharmoniker, explaining the Organ to children with Cameron Carpenter and the Knöpfe ;-)

  • @lukeskywalker6809
    @lukeskywalker68093 жыл бұрын

    Lovely

  • @gwhorn007
    @gwhorn0073 жыл бұрын

    Finally! Now he knows how hard the damned thing is to play - especially the stuff he writes for us!

  • @truefilm6991

    @truefilm6991

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well I think he always knew. Just check some of his scores you can find online for free. It's very demanding stuff, but it's written with deep knowledge about range, dynamics and timbre, breathing, not wearing the musicians out.... Check what he writes for strings and woodwinds - often long and ridiculously busy lines, often in voices. Lose one single note and you will throw the other section players off.

  • @CarolJarvisMusic
    @CarolJarvisMusic3 жыл бұрын

    Sarah, you're such a star!!!

  • @SarahWillisHorn

    @SarahWillisHorn

    3 жыл бұрын

    YOU are, dear Carol!

  • @ivanmedina4707

    @ivanmedina4707

    3 жыл бұрын

    :O two "brass goddesses" here! You are both awesome!

  • @oceanmachine1906
    @oceanmachine19063 жыл бұрын

    John the Baptist playing star wars on the horn is the best, thanks Sarah

  • @calculusfan1
    @calculusfan13 жыл бұрын

    I love John Williams! I'm thinking of pulling out my horn after 10 years. I'm sure I won't sound much better than that. Any advice?

  • @Shred_The_Weapon
    @Shred_The_Weapon3 жыл бұрын

    Too cute!

  • @RobertSaxy
    @RobertSaxy3 жыл бұрын

    Is there more of this interview?!!!!!?

  • @imuawarriors
    @imuawarriors3 жыл бұрын

    wow.

  • @grishsach
    @grishsach3 жыл бұрын

    Damnn.. is that it ? where is the rest of the video ??

  • @tejasnair3399
    @tejasnair33993 жыл бұрын

    Where’s the rest of the interview??

  • @patrickjdrahman
    @patrickjdrahman3 жыл бұрын

    Why did I get a notification for this

  • @dgridolfi9505
    @dgridolfi95053 жыл бұрын

    Splendid, thanks for sharing

  • @Briguy1027
    @Briguy10273 жыл бұрын

    So I have problems with the last 6 Star Wars movies, plot-wise, etc. But the music, well, that has been stellar throughout the entire 9 movies.

  • @HamzaBaqoushi
    @HamzaBaqoushi3 жыл бұрын

    This legend is a very humble and suave gentleman. Respect and Greetings from Morocco!

  • @thomasburke7995
    @thomasburke79953 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me Charles emerson Winchester III from MASH

  • @ADara-er1qb
    @ADara-er1qb3 жыл бұрын

    What we needed at this moment: John Williams: *Toot toot* 😳 Sarah: Could you play Star Wars? John Williams: That was... 😯 😭💖Words cannot describe how much I love this man! 🥺🌏🎼🎬

  • @5gonza541
    @5gonza5413 жыл бұрын

    I knew it was star wars instantly lol

  • @jeffl8549
    @jeffl85493 жыл бұрын

    Love it!

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese33003 жыл бұрын

    That dude's music created generations of horn players!

  • @musicality8425
    @musicality84253 жыл бұрын

    This interaction was cute

  • @m1ke1981
    @m1ke19812 жыл бұрын

    Now that particular horn is worth 50 billion dollars 😁

  • @nonamenck
    @nonamenck3 жыл бұрын

    Horn superiority 📯

  • @themanamana81
    @themanamana813 жыл бұрын

    Mam...you are crazy! :-)))

  • @SplittingProductions
    @SplittingProductions3 жыл бұрын

    Sounded more like Gustav Holst to me if you know what I mean :p

  • @lukeskywalker6809

    @lukeskywalker6809

    3 жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @soupdrinker

    @soupdrinker

    3 жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @FreakieFan

    @FreakieFan

    3 жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @RockStarOscarStern634
    @RockStarOscarStern6343 жыл бұрын

    Good Job Mr Williams with the Horn & getting some notes out.

  • @burnere633
    @burnere6333 жыл бұрын

    Totally unrelated: was this filmed somewhere in rural Switzerland?

  • @markyochoa
    @markyochoa3 жыл бұрын

    GIRL DON'T KILL HIM

  • @brotendo
    @brotendo3 жыл бұрын

    Quietest video on KZread ever

  • @michaelsublet3283
    @michaelsublet3283Ай бұрын

    I played French Horn and Trumpet in school. You'd be surprised how much your mouth position and fingering is a like.

  • @quiptown8976
    @quiptown8976Ай бұрын

    Now tell her to compose a movie score

  • @shadowjuan2
    @shadowjuan23 жыл бұрын

    Now can someone please compose a StarWars soundtrack out out of that little motive he played right there?

  • @Jerome616
    @Jerome6163 жыл бұрын

    As a kid who foolishly chose to play French Horn in high school I know how hard that embouchure technique is.

  • @bynightfall_4516

    @bynightfall_4516

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a 7 year player of french horn who had a natural talent for brass and most instruments. It is a difficult instrument no question about it!

  • @golbzrtmontzgn7927
    @golbzrtmontzgn79273 жыл бұрын

    In the next episode Sarah will try to take John Willams 's horn... I am so sorry for this...

  • @bcarp

    @bcarp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Go stand in the corner

  • @JewelBlueIbanez
    @JewelBlueIbanez3 жыл бұрын

    I don’t understand the difficulty here. I played trumpet and my brother played French horn. I used to play his French horn all the ti e without issue.

  • @leif1075
    @leif10753 жыл бұрын

    Why didnt he actually play? Is the horn that hard?

  • @Me-wk7dz

    @Me-wk7dz

    3 жыл бұрын

    I feel like he should've been able to do more, I think there's some carry over from trumpet to french horn (both small brass mouthpieces), he was probably just off guard and not focusing, plus idk if old age makes it harder to hold an embouchure

  • @Shibshankar_Roy
    @Shibshankar_Roy27 күн бұрын

    0:18 Minecraft villager

  • @misterkas3708
    @misterkas37083 жыл бұрын

    Why so few?)

  • @a0z9
    @a0z93 жыл бұрын

    Menos mal que no ha sido un soplagaitas

  • @howardchey892
    @howardchey8923 жыл бұрын

    You can never clean that horn again!

  • @toi6158
    @toi61583 жыл бұрын

    Sarah: Here give it a go. John: It's a no for me Dog

  • @diegoguereca1199
    @diegoguereca11993 жыл бұрын

    Ok but... Where's the playing??

  • @danielmanahan692
    @danielmanahan6923 жыл бұрын

    okay that was pretty uneventful he was like an annoyed cat you put a leash on wondering why

  • @xavitrompeta
    @xavitrompeta3 жыл бұрын

    Covid must be taken seriously Sarah..

  • @SarahWillisHorn

    @SarahWillisHorn

    3 жыл бұрын

    As it say in the description, this video was filmed pre-Covid in August 2019.

  • @Sshooter444

    @Sshooter444

    3 жыл бұрын

    relax, snowflake

  • @chroniclesofbap6170
    @chroniclesofbap61703 жыл бұрын

    The title of this video sounds filthy

  • @ocayaro
    @ocayaro3 жыл бұрын

    She should have talked less

  • @colalightyear7859
    @colalightyear78593 жыл бұрын

    How old is this footage? She is killing Williams there by infecting him with covid lul why do they sit so close together? He has to produce more kino music

  • @lorainecr
    @lorainecr3 жыл бұрын

    Letter to Sarah Willis I am an amateur horn player, a fan of great horn players like you, I appreciated the informative and pedagogical work you do with the horn and I greatly admire your interpretive ability. As for the challenge of distributing your horn among the interviewees, it seems anti-hygienic and not only because of a pandemic, since I understand that this challenge with the teacher John Willians was before the Sarscov2 epidemic. I live in Colombia and I got to know the horn in a foundation where we had to share the instrument with 5 people, the smell that came from the instrument's lead was disgusting and taking a breath to play was a punishment, it may be a common practice but this should not validate its safety. In my opinion, these things are not shared either in a pandemic or without it. Would you share the toothbrush? Well, it is like similar ... It is not only the current virus, but the amount of microbial life, Viruses other than coronavirus, prions and DNA fragments that even science does not know precisely their function and which could be transmitting from musician to musician whenever musical instruments are shared. I suggest a horn adapted just for the challenge, which should be disinfected before and after being used by a person. I also do not support the idea of ​​playing all the instruments in a music store to see which one is best suited to the player before buying it, there should be other methods to test the horns or that the manufacturers guarantee the total disinfection of the instruments once tested, which it would be affecting the materials for which I do not see it probable. I would love for you to do a weekly challenge sharing some technical exercise which does not serve to improve our quality as instrumentalists. Thank you for your charisma and passion for the horn and for taking it to so many places ... many greetings, it is still beautiful. Carta a Sarah Willis Soy cornista aficcionado, fan de grandes cornistas como tu, apreció la labor divulgativa y pedagogica que haces del corno y admiro enormemente tu capacidad interpretativa. En cuanto al reto de andar repartiendo tu corno entre los entrevistados me parece anti-higuienico y no solo por andar en pandemia, ya que entiendo que este reto con el maestro John Willians fue antes de la epidemia del Sarscov2. Vivo en Colombia y conocí el corno en una fundación en la que debíamos compartir el instrumento entre 5 personas, el olor que salía de tudel del instrumento era asqueroso y tomar aire para tocar era un castigo, puede que sea una practica común pero esto no debe validar su inocuidad. En mi opinión estas cosas no se comparten ni en pandemia ni sin ella ¿Compartirías el cepillo de dientes? pues es como parecido... No solo es el actual virus, sino la cantidad de vida microbiana, Virus diferentes al coronavirus, priones y Fragmentos de ADN que aun las ciencias no conocen con precisión su función y los cuales podrían estar transmitiendo de músico a músico cada vez que se comparten los instrumentos musicales. Te sugiero un corno adaptado solo para el reto, el cual debe ser desinfectado antes y después de ser usado por una persona. Tampoco apoyo la idea de tocar todos los instrumentos de una tienda musical para ver cual se adapta mejor al interprete antes de comprarlo, deberían existir otros metodos para probar los cornos o que los fabricantes garanticen la total desinfección de los instrumentos una vez probados, lo cual iría afectando los materiales por lo cual no lo veo probable. Me encataría que hicieras un reto semanal compartiendo algún ejercicio técnico el cual no sirva para mejorar nuestra calidad como instrumentistas. Gracias por tu carísma y pasión por el corno y por llevarlo a tantas partes... muchos saludos, sigue siendo bella.

  • @missjohnnyhayes

    @missjohnnyhayes

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lord, help us all! 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @MM-111

    @MM-111

    3 жыл бұрын

    What? Sarah Willis said: " I have a freshly sterilized mouthpiece here". She know exactly all about the Horn. As you can read in the video, Sarah Willis is "Horn Player Berliner Philharmoniker ". And John Williams push just once very short in the Horn. As you say: "I am an amateur horn player". And you start writing a letter for Sarah Willis where you write all kind of nonsense about corona, bacteria, DNA and other stupidities.

  • @Tempusverum

    @Tempusverum

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not only a reprimand, but a reprimand to a musician from a musician in two languages for the uncultivated mono-linguistic rubes. This comment puts humble-bragging new level. Non seulement une réprimande, mais une réprimande à un musicien d'un musicien en deux langues pour les rubes mono-linguistiques incultes. Ce commentaire met un nouveau niveau humble vantant. See, I can do it too.

  • @brianblanchard9617

    @brianblanchard9617

    3 жыл бұрын

    Almost every school band program puts the same instrument in a different person's hands every year. Clean it between users and it's sanitary.

  • @musical_lolu4811

    @musical_lolu4811

    3 жыл бұрын

    Idiota.