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The king of American orchestral music arrived at Carnegie Hall, accompanied by his own Imperial March.

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Its hard to grasp that some of those passages didnt exist before they popped out of his brain.

Williams long ago reached an age where he could have spent his time smiling benevolently through tribute events.

Or that a film composer of his gifts needs a cinematic stimulus to do his best work.

Now, Williams has given it a fresh coat of varnish and a new orchestration for violin and orchestra.

Those few minutes made me wish someone would make a new movie to accompany that old score.