My parents were big John Wayne fans and took me to see this film. This musical piece has left me a lasting impression til this day. The young male actors riding like real cowboys, soo cute!!!
Half of the boys were actors learning how to be cowboys and the other half were authentic cowboys learning how to be actors. Each half teaching the other one how to do the other skill. 😎 You can tell that the little boy with the giant horse pistol is one of those that was a natural cowboy.
The Cowboys movie is an unsung American Classic! The Score in this movie is just incredible, and to top it off, there is a scene where they play Vivaldi on acoustic guitar! So many John Wayne fans I run into don't know this movie and I believe it is his best acting performance. So many times I am "corrected", that John Wayne has never died in any of his films and I must be confused with some one else. Lol Rise and shine, we're burnin daylight!
i saw this movie at 13 with my brother and 2 friends in a movie theater that head 700 we were the only ones there, it was great , still my greatest time at the moives
This is a good one. Another you may enjoy by John Williams is the Olympic Fanfare and Theme, 1984. I listen to this almost daily. Makes me feel so happy, like anything is possible!
At the time I saw this fil in the late 80's on video. I hadn't caught who did the score on the credits. When I heard the music though, I thought "is that John Williams"? Then I looked at the credits and thought "wow". This is one of the best scores ever for a western and it reminds me of some of the great music guys like Dimitri Tiomkin did for John Ford a Generation earlier. Perfect score for one of the last great films of the legendary John Wayne. Wayne and Williams both broke the mold.
I agree, whenever I hear the overture of the Cowboys, I immediately think of John Williams they go hand-in-hand. When I first saw the Cowboys, when it first came out, I was 12 years old, and when I heard the first time the overture I was captured I never heard such and I love the way the music had its up and down and changing tempo. And for every change of tempo you remember the temple that went along for the scene of the movie especially when it came to Bruce Dern’s part. You knew right then and there that the scene was changing and so is the mood in the atmosphere. Only John Williams can do that.
i don't know of any other composer that will ever be able to take the place of john williams.....my father was a huge john wayne fan and i can never hear this music without thinking of him and the fabulous movie, the cowboys......
@@davidanthony4845 No, the Classical period ended around 1800, gradually replaced by the Romantic period, that lasted as long as Rachmaninov lived, well into the 20th Century.
This movie was directed by Mark Rydell of "The Rose" and "On Golden Pond" fame. He loved it so much when he agreed to do the movie "The River" with Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek he wanted Williams to do the score. It is also just awesome.
Master of melody. Master of pacing. Master of counterpoint. Master of orchestration. Master of improving mediocre movies. What else could one want? Saddle up, pilgrim.
Wonderful, derivative of Aaron Copland but typical Williams energy and passion. This guy is a true genius, not only for the music itself but his ability to dramatically enhance any film he composes for. This is the best music written for a Duke Wayne movie, and captures his cinematic spirit with near perfection! Love this music!
Tom Greenough Percussionists love fun parts like that! Much better than tacet. It’s also two mallets, which is cake compared to the four mallet concertos they all practiced in college and used to audition into the orchestra.
A great score for a great film. How do you beat John Wayne teaching kids, a Bruce Dern evil bad guy, A great Roscoe Lee Brown performance, and a Williams score? Also had Slim Pickens and other familiars.
Is it just me, or did JW adapt one of the themes (End of the Drive?) into the first Superman soundtrack six years later? There's crazy similarity between them. Even if not, I love both pieces.
I don't have a better recording than this, but feel free to find one and post it. (it's not youtube compression, the source is like this). I know that someone posted a better recording of this concert on youtube, just search better. I'll try with time to upscal all of williams video but the sound can't be upcaled.
That was a little harsh. The production crew didn't know the score. You have to know who is playing what to have the camera on whoever is doing the solo work. In other words, you don't show violas doing their little off beat accompaniment during other instruments' solos. It just makes for a lot of missed opportunities. They did better on some other videos where they followed the soloists around the orchestra. They did a much better job on Summon The heroes conducted by John Williams.
the concert in vienna of john williams at the end of the year will be filmed and broacasted on Tv ! the first one since... since the boston pops i'm afraid. i hope they'll do a better job ! we'll see, as it's certainly a unique opportunity !
If you watch any of the Hollywood in Vienna programs you will see they are well prepared. The cameras are sequenced right with the score. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3xsP3u-CVO4.html
I spend the whole piece worrying about that high trill at the end, LOL. What a dirty trick!...but also a gift in terms of great opportunities for bragging rights.
Also, One2onepoint618, you were on that 8D. Don't forget the smaller bore horn you tried from Balu and just screamed out those high parts like they were nothing. Thanks also for just ripping into that opening lick any time you got bored in rehearsal--no matter what piece we were rehearsing, haha.
