Hey everybody this is Tom Hooten principal trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

and you're listening to the Indy cast. Oh, The The The Oh, The The Oh, The Oh, The The The And the Hello there and happy holidays John Williams fans Indie cast listeners I'm Laird Malamid and we are here with our annual John Williams Holiday Special

where we look at the amazing things, the news, the reviews, everything about John Williams our favorite

composer as always here on the special it's number 54 I am here with Ron

Longo hey l, how you doing?

First off, happy Thanksgiving.

We are recording the day after Thanksgiving.

So I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

I had a great Thanksgiving.

I hope you did too.

This is an excellent way to spend what's known here as Black Friday.

This will probably come out a couple weeks afterwards.

So it's going to be long.

In the news it will be preparing for Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanza, New Year's and everything that follows and Chinese New Year and all that sort of stuff.

But still a good time to celebrate. John Williams is an island in a year of lost concert dates and everything

else that's gone on in 2020,

there's, you know, nothing like the gift of music from John Williams

and certainly, you know, an amazing amount of it

and amazing news and, you know, we've even heard from from him even though he hasn't been on the

concert circuit so we wanted to just capture all that and you know maybe help you guys

figure out the little bit of holiday shopping I'm gonna I'm gonna see what Ron thinks about that in a moment but yeah

This is our young and this is an odd holidays for us because we don't have a new Star Wars score to talk about but there is Star Wars news. Yeah absolutely and boy you hit the

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