John Williams:The Mission, Video directed by Frank Radice 

Travis of Bickley yes. When I was in the US I always watched NBC Nightly News-partly or largely because of the stirring theme music in the intro and at the conclusion.

More of an 'American' theme, and not just defined by or as New York.

Not Brooklyn, but Queens!

armstronglance

The music just drips of Americana: bold, lush melodic lines punctuated with Williams' signature brass motifs with the obligatory horn fanfares. It would thrill me to hear this music when overseas in other countries and am grateful that I am a citizen of the greatest country on the planet.

as to with tim morrison

Sumptuous! I love the softer iteration of it with the harp at 7:57. Yummy!

legend

Full version available on the call to champion record

It was available on CD. I purchased the CD specifically for The Mission. The guy in the music store thought I was nuts, when I asked for the The Mission, and when I clarified it was the NBC news theme, he was like "I don't know where you'd get that", to which I responded "Show me your John Williams collection".

Piece is also available since late 80's on the infamous album.."John Williams: By request". Boston Symphony Orchestra plays here In the 80's so I bought the cassette. The "Call to Champions" version is played by the Utah Symphony Orchestra. CD was timed to be available for the 2002 Winter Olympics, where Williams conducted in a live outdoor performance. It happened to be his 70th birthday that day. NBC was owned by the Parent company GEC =General Electric Corporation, the three notes played inverted are the recognizable "Call notes" to the network itself. These call notes were preceeded John Williams' score for "The Mission", but you CAN hear a somewhat altered version of the three call notes in Williams' version. Love the ostinato in the brass (ala Fourth Movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's, "Sheherezade"). This ostinato, played throughout The Mission, first on violins as piece opens, imitates old-school typewriters chattering away in a busy newsroom. Go to your piano, if you can, and played G3,E4 and C4 in succession and you have the original NBC theme. Sounds like the original, simple orchestration of it employed Vibraphone, Harp, Accoustic Electric Guitar and one clarinet to all fullness..all superimposed on the exact same notes. Have a wonderful day, from Wisconsin!

Simiam Ghana

Yes, I wonder why there are far too many audio dropouts. Hopefully the uploader could rectify the problem.

It was not.

@@fjradice1 well, bother. Thx.

There are two or three parts of "The Mission" the one that we mostly hear is the NBC Nightly News intro. There are other pieces that are played for the intro and ending of Meet The Press

kinda resembles the cbs evening news theme from 2006

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I believe it is a movement in “The Mission”

Tim Morrison. He's an amazing player, fabulous tone

Probably on Spotify

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I know what you mean. I was there at the theater in the 70s watching "The Towering Inferno" at a sneak preview and was similarly blown away by his score to that....which has some similar moments in it. People asked me about the film and I just spoke about the score. The opening title sequence of that film is all score, and is breathtaking.

What age demographic are you referring?

don't understand the question....I wasn't referring to any age demographic

You wrote "my generation". Are you referring to Millennials?

Thanks for catching that, I should have said "I wish more of THIS generation...".....which didn't grow up on scores like those of William's and Goldsmith.