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117-688: In 1970, John Oliver proposed to the management of the Boston Symphony Orchestra that he would create a permanent chorus for the orchestra, which had relied on various area choruses for much of its history. In Oliver's words, "To my utter amazement now--I wasn't amazed then, because I was just a brash young man--they said, 'Go! Form a chorus.'" The TFC's first concert was a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Symphony Hall in April 1970 when Leonard Bernstein substituted for William Steinberg who had fallen ill. Bernstein had been engaged to conduct

234-399: A Himalayan slope to Marion's bar. Kasdan said this was cut because it interrupted the story flow and was "too unbelievable," a complaint leveled by some critics at the finished scene. Lucas, Huyck, and Katz had been developing Radioland Murders (1994) since the early 1970s. The opening music was taken from that script and applied to Temple of Doom . Spielberg reflected, "George's idea

351-773: A Portuguese colony ) was substituted for Shanghai, while cinematographer Douglas Slocombe caught fever from June 24 to July 7 and could not work. Ford returned on August 8. Despite the problems during filming, Spielberg was able to complete Temple of Doom on schedule and on budget, finishing principal photography on August 26. Various pickups took place afterwards. This included Mammoth Mountain , Tuolumne River , American River , Yosemite National Park , San Joaquin Valley , Hamilton Air Force Base (all located in California), Snake River Canyon in Idaho , and Arizona . Producer Marshall directed

468-558: A second unit in Florida in January 1984, using alligators to double as crocodiles . The mine chase was a combination of a roller coaster and scale models with dolls doubling for the actors. Minor stop-motion was also used for the sequence. Visual effects supervisors Dennis Muren , Joe Johnston and a crew at Industrial Light & Magic provided the visual effects work, while Skywalker Sound , headed by Ben Burtt , commissioned

585-546: A 26.9% audience rating , surpassing the 25.3% record previously set by First Blood in 1985. In turn, Temple of Doom was later surpassed by Tsuribaka Nisshi 4 in 1994, but remained NTV's most-watched foreign film up until Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2004. In the United Kingdom, the film's 2005 airing was watched by 5 million viewers on BBC1 , becoming the channel's ninth most-watched film during

702-468: A box set for the series, which had four films at the time. In 2021, a remastered 4K version of the film was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray , produced using scans of the original negatives. It was released as part of a box set for the then four films in the Indiana Jones film series. In Japan, the film was aired on Nippon TV (NTV), on October 16, 1987. It became NTV's most-watched film up until then with

819-597: A choir and vocal soloists for the climax. The vocal forces sing a theme first played instrumentally, and this theme is reminiscent of the corresponding theme in the Ninth Symphony. Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " ("Returned Love") for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795. According to Robert W. Gutman, Mozart 's Offertory in D minor, "Misericordias Domini", K. 222, written in 1775, contains

936-428: A cinematic form of child abuse . Even Harrison Ford is required to slap Quan and abuse Capshaw. There are no heroes connected with the film, only two villains; their names are Steven Spielberg and George Lucas." The Observer described it as "a thin, arch, graceless affair." The Guardian summarized it as "a two-hour series of none too carefully linked chase sequences ... sitting on the edge of your seat gives you

1053-1495: A concerto sonata form with double exposition (with the fugato acting both as a development section and the second tutti of the concerto). The text is largely taken from Friedrich Schiller 's " Ode to Joy ", with a few additional introductory words written specifically by Beethoven (shown in italics). The text, without repeats, is shown below, with a translation into English. The score includes many repeats. O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen, und freudenvollere. Oh friends, not these sounds! Let us instead strike up more pleasing and more joyful ones! Freude! Freude! Joy! Joy! Freude, schöner Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum! Deine Zauber binden wieder Was die Mode streng geteilt; Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Joy, beautiful spark of divinity, Daughter from Elysium , We enter, burning with fervour, heavenly being, your sanctuary! Your magic brings together what custom has sternly divided. All men shall become brothers, wherever your gentle wings hover. Wem der große Wurf gelungen, Eines Freundes Freund zu sein; Wer ein holdes Weib errungen, Mische seinen Jubel ein! Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund! Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle Weinend sich aus diesem Bund! Indiana Jones and

1170-565: A different setting. Lucas wrote a film treatment that included a haunted castle in Scotland, but Spielberg felt it was too similar to Poltergeist ; so the setting transformed into a demonic temple in India. Lucas came up with ideas that involved a religious cult devoted to child slavery , black magic , and ritual human sacrifice . Lawrence Kasdan of Raiders of the Lost Ark was asked to write

1287-412: A different tone, you risk disappointing the other half of the audience who just wanted a carbon copy of the first film with a different girl and a different bad guy. So you win and you lose both ways." Lucas set the film in an earlier year than the first to avoid repeating the use of Nazis as the villains. Spielberg originally wanted to bring Marion Ravenwood back, with Abner Ravenwood considered as

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1404-416: A kind of concerto form (with bars 1–207 and 208–330 together making up a double exposition), or even a conflation of four symphonic movements into one (with bars 331–594 representing a Scherzo, and bars 595–654 a slow movement). The reason these arguments are interminable is that each interpretation contributes something to the understanding of the movement, but does not represent the whole story. Cook gives

1521-458: A massive coda that takes up nearly a quarter of the movement, as in Beethoven's Third and Fifth Symphonies . A performance of the first movement typically lasts about 15 minutes. The second movement is a scherzo and trio . Like the first movement, the scherzo is in D minor, with the introduction bearing a passing resemblance to the opening theme of the first movement, a pattern also found in

1638-601: A melody that foreshadows "Ode to Joy". Although most of Beethoven's major works had been premiered in Vienna, the composer planned to have his latest compositions performed in Berlin as soon as possible, as he believed he had fallen out of favor with the Viennese and the current musical taste was now dominated by Italian operatic composers such as Rossini . When his friends and financiers learned of this, they pleaded with Beethoven to hold

1755-588: A political statement and I was doing nothing for my sisters. I found it odd that it was an action-adventure film and we were meant to be doing message work." When promoting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, Steven Spielberg said "I wasn't happy with Temple of Doom at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered Poltergeist . There's not an ounce of my own personal feeling in Temple of Doom ." He later added during

1872-524: A possible character. In developing the story, Lucas conceived of an opening chase scene with Indiana Jones on a motorcycle on the Great Wall of China , followed by the discovery of a " Lost World pastiche with a hidden valley inhabited by dinosaurs". Another idea was to feature the Monkey King as the plot device . However, Chinese authorities refused permission for them to film in the country, requiring

1989-409: A series of tunnels underneath the palace and explores them with Willie and Short Round. The trio eventually reaches a massive temple where they uncover Thuggee cultists conducting a human sacrifice . The cult, which possesses three Sankara stones, is revealed to have abducted the children of Mayapore, using them as slave labor to find the remaining stones. During an attempt to retrieve the stones, Indy

2106-416: A series of variations on the "Joy" theme. But this is rather a loose formulation, at least by comparison with the way in which many twentieth-century critics have tried to codify the movement's form. Thus there have been interminable arguments as to whether it should be seen as a kind of sonata form (with the "Turkish" music of bar 331, which is in B ♭ major, functioning as a kind of second group), or

2223-800: A sore bum but also a numb brain." Leonard Maltin gave the movie only two out of four stars, saying that the film is "headache inducing" and "never gives us a chance to breathe", and chiding the " 'gross-out' gags." Colin Greenland reviewed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for Imagine magazine, and stated that " Raiders had the wit and lightness of touch not to take itself too seriously. Temple starts well, but promptly loses itself In clamorous self-importance. I couldn't care less if it outgrosses Raiders . It grossed me out." In 2014, Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors, and stunt actors to list their top action films. Indiana Jones and

2340-402: A tiger hunt." They eventually decided on a dinner scene involving eating bugs (which were made of rubber and filled with custard), monkey brains (raspberry flavored custard), and the like. "Steve and George both still react like children, so their idea was to make it as gross as possible," says Katz. Lucas sent Huyck and Katz a 500-page transcript of their taped conversations to help them with

2457-610: A two-hour oxygen supply for the audience." Temple of Doom was released on May 23, 1984, in the United States, accumulating a record-breaking $ 45.7 million in its first week. The film went on to gross $ 333.1 million worldwide, with $ 180 million in North America and $ 153.1 million in other markets. The film had the highest opening weekend of 1984, and was that year's highest-grossing film (third in North America, behind Beverly Hills Cop and Ghostbusters ). It

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2574-424: A valid portrayal of India by many teachers, since a large number of students surveyed complained that teachers referred to the eating of monkey brains." Another heavily criticized aspect was the film's white savior narrative, with Indiana being depicted as a great white hero upon landing in a remote Indian village, with the villagers unable to help themselves. Roshan Seth , who played Chattar Lal, mentioned that

2691-401: A way that, when coupled with the tempo, makes it sound as if it is in quadruple time . While adhering to the standard compound ternary design (three-part structure) of a dance movement (scherzo-trio-scherzo or minuet-trio-minuet), the scherzo section has an elaborate internal structure; it is a complete sonata form. Within this sonata form, the first group of the exposition (the statement of

2808-474: Is an ultimate comedy aspect that's just not quite there as much in the first one." Kate Capshaw 's performance as Willie Scott has often been criticized for its shrillness, with Capshaw calling Willie "not much more than a dumb screaming blonde," further adding that she "was blind-sided" by the reaction to her character. "The thing that surprised me the most was that the critics, women critics in particular, were very critical of Willie Scott, as if we were making

2925-476: Is captured alongside Willie and Short Round. Thuggee high priest Mola Ram forces Indy to drink a potion that places him into a trance-like state, which makes Indy prepare Willie for sacrifice. Short Round is briefly enslaved in the tunnels, but he escapes and intercepts Willie's sacrifice by freeing Indy from his trance, who rescues Willie in turn. The trio defeat multiple cultists, collect the Sankara stones and free

3042-464: Is in four movements . The structure of each movement is as follows: Beethoven changes the usual pattern of Classical symphonies in placing the scherzo movement before the slow movement (in symphonies, slow movements are usually placed before scherzi). This was the first time he did this in a symphony, although he had done so in some previous works, including the String Quartet Op. 18 no. 5 ,

3159-408: Is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme achievements in the history of music. One of the best-known works in common practice music , it stands as one of the most frequently performed symphonies in the world. The Ninth was the first example of a major composer scoring vocal parts in a symphony. The final (4th) movement of

3276-500: The Hammerklavier piano sonata , written a few years earlier. At times during the piece, Beethoven specifies one downbeat every three bars—perhaps because of the fast tempo—with the direction ritmo di tre battute (rhythm of three beats) and one beat every four bars with the direction ritmo di quattro battute (rhythm of four beats). Normally, a scherzo is in triple time . Beethoven wrote this piece in triple time but punctuated it in

3393-631: The "Archduke" piano trio Op. 97 , the Hammerklavier piano sonata Op. 106 . And Haydn , too, had used this arrangement in a number of his own works such as the String Quartet No. 30 in E ♭ major , as did Mozart in three of the Haydn Quartets and the G minor String Quintet . The first movement is in sonata form without an exposition repeat . It begins with open fifths (A and E) played pianissimo by tremolo strings. The opening, with its perfect fifth quietly emerging, resembles

3510-466: The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects . A third film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , followed in 1989. In 1935, American archeologist Indiana Jones survives a murder attempt from Shanghai crime boss Lao Che , who hired him to retrieve the remains of Nurhaci . Indy flees from the city accompanied by his young orphan sidekick Short Round and nightclub singer Willie Scott , unaware that

3627-768: The European Union , as the Anthem of Europe . In 2001, Beethoven's original, hand-written manuscript of the score, held by the Berlin State Library , was added to the Memory of the World Programme Heritage list established by the United Nations , becoming the first musical score so designated. The Philharmonic Society of London originally commissioned the symphony in 1817. Beethoven made preliminary sketches for

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3744-752: The General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, the chorus represented the Americas when Seiji Ozawa led the Winter Olympics Orchestra with six choruses on five continents, all linked by satellite, in the Ode to Joy from Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony to close the Opening Ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olympics . The chorus joined Plácido Domingo , Susan Graham , and Yo-Yo Ma in performing at

3861-451: The Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom documentary, " Temple of Doom is my least favorite of the trilogy. I look back and I say, 'Well the greatest thing that I got out of that was I met Kate Capshaw.' We married years later and that to me was the reason I was fated to make Temple of Doom ." George Lucas , who had been going through a divorce with Marcia Lucas during the making of

3978-525: The Saturn Awards . Temple of Doom was nominated for Best Fantasy Film but lost to Ghostbusters . The depiction of India caused controversy, with the film being not released in cinemas in the country, as the film received a temporary ban in India. The film was later released in the country when it came out on home video. A small protest group of around 30 to 50 people in Seattle , Washington, appeared in

4095-476: The sound design . Burtt recorded roller coasters at Disneyland Park in Anaheim for the mine cart scene. Marshall recalls that filming the bugs was difficult, more so than the snakes in the first film: "The bugs were much harder to work with than the snakes. You can arrange a pile of snakes. That's impossible with bugs. People were also much more scared of the insects. Every once in a while you'd hear this shriek when

4212-422: The tenor and bass / baritone parts, respectively. Although the performance was officially conducted by Michael Umlauf , the theatre's Kapellmeister , Beethoven shared the stage with him. However, two years earlier, Umlauf had watched as the composer's attempt to conduct a dress rehearsal for a revision of his opera Fidelio ended in disaster. So this time, he instructed the singers and musicians to ignore

4329-454: The title character . Kate Capshaw , Amrish Puri , Roshan Seth , Philip Stone , and Ke Huy Quan , in his film debut, star in supporting roles. In the film, after arriving in British India , Indiana Jones is asked by desperate villagers to find a mystical stone and rescue their children from a Thuggee cult practicing child slavery , black magic , and ritual human sacrifice in honor of

4446-667: The BSO announced the launch of a new series of recordings on their own label, BSO Classics. Three of the four initial releases, all recorded live in concert, feature the Tanglewood Festival Chorus: William Bolcom 's 8th Symphony (which the TFC premiered in 2008), Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem , and Ravel's complete Daphnis et Chloé . The 2009 Ravel recording was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Album in

4563-618: The BSO under Bernard Haitink 's direction, the chorus has recorded Ravel 's Daphnis et Chloé and Brahms 's Alto Rhapsody and Nänie . They can also be heard on the RCA Victor disc "A Splash of Pops", as well as on three Christmas albums — "Joy to the World" on Sony Classical and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" on Philips, both with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and "Holiday Pops" on RCA Victor with Keith Lockhart and

4680-473: The Boston Pops Orchestra. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus can also be heard on the soundtracks of four movies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , Close Encounters of the Third Kind ~ Director's Cut , Saving Private Ryan and Mystic River . James Taylor 's wife was a member of the chorus, and her voice can also be heard as part of a "virtual" backing group for his 2007 UK tour. On February 19, 2009,

4797-595: The Breitkopf edition, some of which were "remarkable". David Levy , however, criticized this edition, saying that it could create "quite possibly false" traditions. Breitkopf also published a new edition by Peter Hauschild in 2005. The symphony is scored for the following orchestra. These are by far the largest forces needed for any Beethoven symphony; at the premiere, Beethoven augmented them further by assigning two players to each wind part. Woodwinds Brass Percussion Strings The symphony

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4914-432: The Lost Ark , again nominated for Original Music Score . The visual effects crew won the same category at the 38th British Academy Film Awards . Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe , editor Michael Kahn , Ben Burtt and other sound designers at Skywalker Sound received nominations. Spielberg, the writers, Harrison Ford, Jonathan Ke Quan, Anthony Powell and makeup designer Tom Smith were nominated for their work at

5031-545: The Lost Ark . Filming began on April 18, 1983, in Kandy, and moved to Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire , England on May 5. Marshall recalled, "when filming the bug scenes, crew members would go home and find bugs in their hair, clothes and shoes." Eight out of the nine sound stages at Elstree housed the filming of Temple of Doom . Lucas biographer Marcus Hearn observed, " Douglas Slocombe 's skillful lighting helped disguise

5148-570: The Ninth as the closing concert of the Tanglewood season that summer and expressed a preference to conduct it at Symphony Hall rather than Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which Steinberg had been scheduled to conduct. In December 1994 the chorus joined Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra for tour performances in Hong Kong and Japan, the chorus' first performance overseas. In February 1998, singing from

5265-502: The Temple of Death to adapt into a screenplay. Scenes such as the fight scene in Shanghai, the escape from the airplane, and the mine cart chase came from earlier scripts of Raiders of the Lost Ark . In Raiders, the headpiece for the Staff of Ra was originally conceived to be in two pieces, with the first piece in the museum of General Hok, a Japanese-allied Chinese warlord in Shanghai. Jones

5382-454: The Temple of Doom Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz , based on a story by George Lucas . It is the second installment in the Indiana Jones film series and a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark . The film features Harrison Ford , who reprises his role as

5499-515: The Temple of Doom was listed at 71st place on this list. Director Quentin Tarantino has stated that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is his favorite of the series, as well as Spielberg's second-best film behind Jaws . "[Spielberg] pushes the envelope, he creates PG-13, a movie so badass it created a new level in the MPAA," further adding "there is a comedy aspect as gruesome as the cinema is; there

5616-402: The Temple of Doom was released on May 23, 1984, to financial success, grossing $ 333.1 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1984. Initial critical reviews were mixed, criticism was aimed at its strong violence, as well as some of its darker story elements. However, critical opinion has improved since 1984, citing the film's intensity and imagination. In response to some of

5733-487: The Temple of Doom , it's not just acknowledged, it's gloried in...The whole movie is a shoot-the-chutes, and toward the end, when the heroic trio, having found the sacred stone and freed the stolen children from the maharajah's mines, are trying to escape in a tiny mine car, and a shift in camera angles places us with them on a literal rollercoaster ride, the audience laughs in recognition that that's what we've been on all along...The movie relates to Americans' love of getting in

5850-485: The Vienna Music Society ( Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde ), and a select group of capable amateurs. While no complete list of premiere performers exists, many of Vienna's most elite performers are known to have participated. The soprano and alto parts were sung by two famous young singers of the day, both recruited personally by Beethoven: Henriette Sontag and Caroline Unger . German soprano Henriette Sontag

5967-435: The air, hats, and raised hands, so that Beethoven, who they knew could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovations. The first German edition was printed by B. Schott's Söhne (Mainz) in 1826. The Breitkopf & Härtel edition dating from 1864 has been used widely by orchestras. In 1997, Bärenreiter published an edition by Jonathan Del Mar . According to Del Mar, this edition corrects nearly 3,000 mistakes in

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6084-444: The airport. Spielberg later recalled that when Lucas first approached him for Raiders of the Lost Ark , "George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy. He had three stories in mind. It turned out George did not have three stories in mind and we had to make up subsequent stories." Both men later attributed the film's tone, which was darker than Raiders of the Lost Ark , to their personal moods following

6201-476: The almost completely deaf Beethoven. At the beginning of every part, Beethoven, who sat by the stage, gave the tempos. He was turning the pages of his score and beating time for an orchestra he could not hear. There are a number of anecdotes concerning the premiere of the Ninth. Based on the testimony of some of the participants, there are suggestions that the symphony was under-rehearsed (there were only two complete rehearsals) and somewhat uneven in execution. On

6318-489: The audience's cheers and applause. According to the critic for the Theater-Zeitung , "the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them." The audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times; there were handkerchiefs in

6435-442: The banquet scene was a joke that went wrong, saying, "Steven intended it as a joke, the joke being that Indians were so smart that they knew all Westerners think that Indians eat cockroaches, so they served them what they expected. The joke was too subtle for that film." In his autobiography, Amrish Puri described the whole controversy around the film as "silly". He wrote that "it's based on an ancient cult that existed in India and

6552-467: The boy Maharaja originally had more crucial roles. A dogfight scene was deleted, as were scenes where those who drank the Kali blood turned into zombies with physical superhuman abilities. During pre-production , the Temple of Death title was replaced with Temple of Doom . From March to April 1983, Huyck and Katz simultaneously performed rewrites for a final shooting script . One scene that made it into

6669-502: The breakups of their relationships. In addition, Lucas felt "it had to have been a dark film. The way Empire Strikes Back was the dark second act of the Star Wars trilogy ." Spielberg had said "The danger in making a sequel is that you can never satisfy everyone. If you give people the same movie with different scenes, they say why weren't you more original?" "But if you give them the same character in another fantastic adventure, but with

6786-427: The bugs found their way on to the tap-dance rehearsal stage - a bad place for any bug to be." "After I showed the film to George [Lucas], at an hour and 55 minutes, we looked at each other," Spielberg remembered. "The first thing that we said was, 'Too fast'. We needed to decelerate the action. I did a few more matte shots to slow it down. We made it a little bit slower, by putting breathing room back in so there'd be

6903-418: The car and just taking off—it's a breeze." Dave Kehr stated "The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face." Ralph Novak of People complained "The ads that say 'this film may be too intense for younger children' are fraudulent. No parent should allow a young child to see this traumatizing movie; it would be

7020-467: The children. After escaping an attempt by Mola Ram to drown them, the trio crosses a rope bridge above a river. Mola Ram ambushes them again, leading Indy to cut the bridge in two, causing a number of cultists to fall into the crocodile-infested water below. As Indy, Willie, Short Round, and Mola Ram struggle to climb up the broken bridge, Indy invokes the name of Shiva , prompting the stones to burn through his satchel. One stone burns Mola Ram and he falls to

7137-416: The complete second movement is about 14 minutes when two frequently omitted repeats are played. The third movement is a lyrical, slow movement in B ♭ major —the subdominant of D minor's relative major key, F major . It is in a double variation form , with each pair of variations progressively elaborating the rhythm and melodic ideas. The first variation, like the theme, is in 4 time,

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7254-560: The complete symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich , which included Symphonies 2 , 3 , 12 and 13 . The recording featured the Tanglewood Festival Chorus on Symphonies 2, 3 and 13. Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) The Symphony No. 9 in D minor , Op. 125, is a choral symphony , the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven , composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony

7371-568: The concert in Vienna, in the form of a petition signed by a number of prominent Viennese music patrons and performers. Beethoven, flattered by the adoration of the Viennese, premiered the Ninth Symphony on 7 May 1824 in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna along with the overture The Consecration of the House ( Die Weihe des Hauses ) and three parts (Kyrie, Credo and Angus Dei) of the Missa solemnis . This

7488-478: The cremated ashes of one of his ancestors. David Yip (in his film debut) portrays Wu Han, a friend of Indy, who is killed in Club Obi Wan. Raj Singh portrays Zalim Singh, the adolescent Maharajá of Pankot, and D. R. Nanayakkara portrays the village Shaman, the leader of a small village that recruits Indy to retrieve their stolen sacred Shiva lingam stone. Denawaka Hamine and Iranganie Serasinghe play two of

7605-466: The fact that about 80 percent of the film was shot with sound stages." Danny Daniels choreographed the opening music number " Anything Goes ". Capshaw learned to sing in Mandarin and took tap dance lessons. However the dress was fitted so tightly that Capshaw was not able to dance in it. Made by Barbara Matera out of original 1920s and 1930s beads, the dress was one of a kind. The opening dance number

7722-461: The film by releasing an arcade game . Hasbro released a toy line based on the film in September 2008. The video was released at Christmas 1986 with a retail price of $ 29.95 and sold a record 1.4 million units. A DVD version of the film was released in 2003 together with the two other films in the then Indiana Jones trilogy series. A Blu-ray version for the film was released in 2012 as part of

7839-411: The film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert gave the film a perfect four-star rating, calling it "one of the greatest Bruised Forearm Movies ever made. You know what a Bruised Forearm Movie is. That's the kind of movie where your date is always grabbing your forearm in a viselike grip, as unbearable excitement unfolds on

7956-407: The film was "too shapeless to be the fun that Raiders is, but shape may be beside the point. Old-time, 15-part movie serials didn't have shape. They just went on and on and on, which is what Temple of Doom does with humor and technical invention." Neal Gabler commented that "I think in some ways, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was better than Raiders of the Lost Ark . In some ways it

8073-459: The film, attributed the film's darkness to his relationship problems, but in regard to the film said, "I love the movie, it's just slightly darker in tone and not as fun as the first." Roshan Seth said "Let me tell you - the first 15 minutes of Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom are perhaps the greatest 15 minutes in cinema. They are all about what cinema should be: sitting on the edge of your seat in excitement." Harrison Ford said "I felt it

8190-585: The film. Huyck and Katz spent four days at Skywalker Ranch for story discussions with Lucas and Spielberg in early 1982. They later said the early plot consisted of two notions of Lucas': that Indy would recover something stolen from a village and decide whether to give it back, and that the picture would start in China and work its way to India. Huyck says Lucas was very single-minded about getting through meetings, while "Steve would always stop and think about visual stuff." Lucas's initial idea for Indiana's sidekick

8307-478: The finale is the longest of the four movements. Indeed, it is longer than several entire symphonies composed during the Classical era . Its form has been disputed by musicologists, as Nicholas Cook explains: Beethoven had difficulty describing the finale himself; in letters to publishers, he said that it was like his Choral Fantasy , Op. 80, only on a much grander scale. We might call it a cantata constructed round

8424-532: The first half of 2005. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom received mixed reviews upon its release, but over the years the film's critical reception has improved. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 77% based on 138 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "It may be too 'dark' for some, but Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom remains an ingenious adventure spectacle that showcases one of Hollywood's finest filmmaking teams in vintage form." On Metacritic

8541-426: The first theme (bars 19-20 of the first movement). The fourth subdivision that follows develops bars 1-4 of the second theme (bars 80-83 of the first movement) for three times: first in A minor, then to F major twice. At the outset of the recapitulation (which repeats the main melodic themes) in bar 301, the theme returns, this time played fortissimo and in D major , rather than D minor . The movement ends with

8658-410: The following table describing the form of the movement: In line with Cook's remarks, Charles Rosen characterizes the final movement as a symphony within a symphony, played without interruption. This "inner symphony" follows the same overall pattern as the Ninth Symphony as a whole, with four "movements": Rosen notes that the movement can also be analysed as a set of variations and simultaneously as

8775-492: The funeral service for Senator Edward Kennedy on August 28, 2009. On March 10, 2015, the Boston Symphony Orchestra announced that Oliver would retire as conductor of the TFC at the end of the summer Tanglewood season. The BSO conducted a chorus conductor search, and announced on February 2, 2017 that British conductor James Burton had been appointed as the TFC's second permanent conductor. The full roster includes over 200 singers who volunteer their time and talents. Subsets of

8892-600: The goddess Kali . Not wishing to feature the Nazis as the villains again, executive producer and story writer George Lucas decided to regard this film as a prequel. Three plot devices were rejected before Lucas wrote a film treatment that resembled the final storyline. As Lawrence Kasdan , Lucas's collaborator on Raiders of the Lost Ark , turned down the offer to write the script, Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz , who had previously worked with Lucas on American Graffiti (1973), were hired as his replacements. Indiana Jones and

9009-964: The group are selected by Mr. Burton to meet the needs of the repertoire being performed. Typically a performance will involve 90-120 singers. During the Christmas Pops season, approximately 50 singers take the stage for each show. To meet the needs of the BSO, members of the TFC appear in 9-11 Christmas performances each. The TFC has also collaborated with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on numerous recordings, including Mahler 's Second , Third , and Eighth symphonies , Strauss 's Elektra , Schoenberg 's Gurre-Lieder , and Bartók 's The Miraculous Mandarin , on Philips; Mendelssohn 's complete incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream , Gabriel Fauré 's Pavane , on Deutsche Grammophon; and Berlioz 's Requiem and La damnation de Faust , Fauré's Requiem , and Tchaikovsky 's The Queen of Spades , on RCA Victor Red Seal. Also for Philips, with

9126-441: The instruments and sing all the chorus parts. —The actual direction was in [Louis] Duport's hands; we musicians followed his baton only. Reportedly, the scherzo was completely interrupted at one point by applause. Either at the end of the scherzo or the end of the symphony (testimonies differ), Beethoven was several bars off and still conducting; the contralto Caroline Unger walked over and gently turned Beethoven around to accept

9243-410: The local newspapers when they protested against the film for depicting Indians as either helpless or evil. The depiction of Indian cuisine was heavily criticized, as dishes such as baby snakes, eyeball soup, beetles, and chilled monkey brains are not Indian foods. Professors such as Yvette Rosser have criticized the film for its portrayal of India, with Rosser writing "[it] seems to have been taken as

9360-521: The low strings. Following this, the "Ode to Joy" theme is finally introduced by the cellos and double basses. After three instrumental variations on this theme, the human voice is presented for the first time in the symphony by the baritone soloist, who sings words written by Beethoven himself: '' O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!' Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen, und freudenvollere .'' ("Oh friends, not these sounds! Let us instead strike up more pleasing and more joyful ones!"). At about 25 minutes in length,

9477-458: The main melodic themes) starts out with a fugue in D minor on the subject below. For the second subject, it modulates to the unusual key of C major . The exposition then repeats before a short development section , where Beethoven explores other ideas. The recapitulation (repeating of the melodic themes heard in the opening of the movement) further develops the exposition's themes, also containing timpani solos. A new development section leads to

9594-544: The more violent sequences in the film, and with similar complaints about the Spielberg-produced Gremlins (which released two weeks later), Spielberg suggested that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) alter its rating system , which it did within two months of the film's release, creating a new PG-13 rating. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and won

9711-455: The nominations announced on December 2, 2009, and won the award for Best Orchestral Performance on January 31, 2010. In 2010, BSO Classics released Tanglewood Festival Chorus: 40th Anniversary , a collection of the group's unaccompanied recordings from its Tanglewood Prelude performances between 1998 and 2005. In October 2023, the BSO released the final installment of an eight-year-long cycle of album releases on Deutsche Grammophon featuring

9828-418: The other hand, the premiere was a great success. In any case, Beethoven was not to blame, as violinist Joseph Böhm recalled: Beethoven himself conducted, that is, he stood in front of a conductor's stand and threw himself back and forth like a madman. At one moment he stretched to his full height, at the next he crouched down to the floor, he flailed about with his hands and feet as though he wanted to play all

9945-513: The plane they are traveling on is owned by Che. The plane's pilots dump the fuel and parachute away, but Indy, Willie and Short Round escape using an inflatable raft before the plane crashes. The trio ride down the slopes of the Himalayas and fall into a river before arriving at the Indian village of Mayapore. There, the villagers plead for Indy's aid in retrieving a sacred lingam stone stolen along with

10062-451: The reason for damage, he had no option but to put "dress eaten by elephant". In a 2003 documentary on the making of the film (first released when the original trilogy made its debut on DVD), costume designer Anthony Powell stated that only one evening dress was made for Capshaw due to the limited amount of original 1920s and 1930s beads and sequins (story above). However, there have been more than one of Capshaw's evening dresses on display at

10179-423: The repeat of the recapitulation, and the scherzo concludes with a brief codetta . The contrasting trio section is in D major and in duple time. The trio is the first time the trombones play. Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda. The duration of

10296-453: The river, where he is devoured by the crocodiles. British Indian Army soldiers arrive and defeat the remaining cultists, and Indy, Willie, and Short Round return to Mayapore to hand over their last remaining stone. As the villagers are reunited with their children, Indy and Willie embrace. Additionally, Roy Chiao portrays Lao Che , a Shanghai crime boss who, with his sons Chen (Chua Kah Joo) and Kao Kan ( Ric Young ), hires Indy to recover

10413-437: The role of Mola Ram, the arch-villain, they searched through England and the United States to find someone to play the part, as both Lucas and Spielberg were most anxious that they did not cast the principal Indian roles with Western actors darkened down. They couldn't find anybody amongst the resident Indian actors in the United States, and so they got a permit for Amrish Puri, who was working on 18 films in India simultaneously at

10530-483: The role while Quan tagged along. The producers had noticed that Quan was giving his brother directions behind the camera during the audition, so the casting director had asked Quan to give it a shot, and was cast a few days later. For the various Indian characters in the film, the villagers were played by Sri Lankan actors and actresses, while the characters in Pankot Palace were primarily played by Indian actors. For

10647-839: The same time in different countries during exhibitions – from late 2014, a dress was on display at the Hollywood Costume exhibition in Los Angeles (exhibition ran from October 2, 2014 – March 2, 2015). At the very same time, the traveling "Indiana Jones: Adventure of Archaeology" exhibition was on display in Edmonton in Canada (October 11, 2014 – April 6, 2015) and there featured another of the red and gold dresses. Production designer Norman Reynolds could not return for Temple of Doom because of his commitment to Return to Oz . Elliot Scott ( Labyrinth , Who Framed Roger Rabbit ), Reynolds' mentor,

10764-443: The screen... Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom makes no apologies for being exactly what it is: Exhilarating, manic, wildly imaginative escapism. No apologies are necessary. This is the most cheerfully exciting, bizarre, goofy, romantic adventure movie since Raiders, and it is high praise to say that it's not so much a sequel as an equal... You stagger out with a silly grin -- and a bruised forearm, of course." Vincent Canby felt

10881-529: The script offensive. Producer Frank Marshall explained that "originally the scenes were going to be shot in India at a fantastic palace. They required us to give them a script, so we sent it over and we didn't think it was going to be a problem. But because of the voodoo element with Mola Ram and the Thuggees, the Indian government was a little bit hesitant to give us permission. They wanted us to do things like not use

10998-463: The script, but was dropped during filming, was about a snake coiling around Willie. As Capshaw suffers from fear of snakes , Spielberg noticed how difficult it was for her, and decided to skip it. Huyck and Katz later said Harrison Ford took many of the one liners originally given to Short Round. Harrison Ford reprised his role of Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark . For the role of Willie Scott, more than 1000 actresses auditioned. Among

11115-470: The script. The first draft was written in six weeks, in early August 1982. "Steve was coming off an enormously successful movie [ E.T. ] and George didn't want to lose him," said Katz. "He desperately wanted him to direct ( Temple of Doom ). We were under a lot of pressure to do it really, really fast so we could hold on to Steve." A second draft was finished by September. Captain Blumburtt, Chattar Lal, and

11232-467: The script. "I didn't want to be associated with Temple of Doom ," he reflected. "I just thought it was horrible. It's so mean. There's nothing pleasant about it. I think Temple of Doom represents a chaotic period in both their [Lucas's and Spielberg's] lives, and the movie is very ugly and mean-spirited." Lucas hired Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz to write the script because of their knowledge of Indian culture . Gunga Din served as an influence for

11349-437: The second in 8 . The variations are separated by passages in 4 , the first in D major, the second in G major , the third in E ♭ major , and the fourth in B major . The final variation is twice interrupted by episodes in which loud fanfares from the full orchestra are answered by octaves by the first violins. A prominent French horn solo is assigned to the fourth player. A typical performance of

11466-453: The sound of an orchestra tuning up , steadily building up until the first main theme in D minor at bar 17. Before the development enters, the tremolous introduction returns. The development can be divided into four subdivisions, with adheres strictly to the order of themes. The first and second subdivisions are the development of bars 1-2 of the first theme (bars 17-18 of the first movement) . The third subdivision develops bars 3-4 of

11583-505: The symphony, commonly known as the Ode to Joy , features four vocal soloists and a chorus in the parallel key of D major. The text was adapted from the " An die Freude (Ode to Joy) ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additional text written by Beethoven. In the 20th century, an instrumental arrangement of the chorus was adopted by the Council of Europe , and later

11700-447: The term Maharajah, and they didn't want us to shoot in a particular temple that we had picked. The Indian government wanted changes to the script and final cut privilege ." As a result, location work went to Kandy , Sri Lanka , with matte paintings and scale models applied for the village, temple, and Pankot Palace. Budgetary inflation also caused Temple of Doom to cost $ 28.17 million, $ 8 million more than Raiders of

11817-451: The third movement lasts around 15 minutes. The choral finale is Beethoven's musical representation of universal brotherhood based on the " Ode to Joy " theme and is in theme and variations form. The movement starts with an introduction in which musical material from each of the preceding three movements—though none are literal quotations of previous music —are successively presented and then dismissed by instrumental recitatives played by

11934-559: The time of his casting. Puri had met with Spielberg and initially declined the role, but was convinced after speaking with Richard Attenborough , whom Puri had worked with on a small part in Gandhi . Roshan Seth, who played prime minister Chattar Lal, also appeared in Gandhi alongside Puri. The filmmakers were denied permission to film in North India and Amer Fort , due to the government finding

12051-496: The totally unknown actresses auditioning for the role was Sharon Stone. Finally, Spielberg chose Kate Capshaw after viewing her videotaped test and showing it to Harrison Ford. For the role of Short Round, casting director Mike Fenton arranged open calls for East Asian boys to come in to audition in several major cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Hong Kong, and London. Originally, Ke Huy Quan 's younger brother went to audition for

12168-551: The village women. Professional wrestler Pat Roach plays the Thuggee overseer in the mines whom Indy has a large brawl with; Roach had previously appeared as a German mechanic and a Giant Sherpa who brawls with Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark . Dan Aykroyd appears briefly and with a British accent as Weber, who escorts Jones, Short Round, and Willie from their car to the plane. Spielberg , Lucas , Marshall , and Kennedy have cameos at

12285-508: The village's children by evil forces from the nearby Pankot Palace. Indy agrees to do so, hypothesizing that the stone is one of the five Sankara stones given by the Hindu gods to help humanity fight evil. Traveling to the palace, the trio are warmly welcomed and allowed to stay for the night as guests, attending a banquet hosted by the palace's young maharaja . During the night, Indy is attacked by an assassin, but manages to kill him. He discovers

12402-524: The work later that year with the key set as D minor and vocal participation also forecast. The main composition work was done between autumn, 1822 and the completion of the autograph in February, 1824. The symphony emerged from other pieces by Beethoven that, while completed works in their own right, are also in some sense forerunners of the future symphony. The Choral Fantasy , Op. 80, composed in 1808, basically an extended piano concerto movement, brings in

12519-559: Was 18 years old when Beethoven asked her to perform in the premiere of the Ninth. 20-year-old contralto Caroline Unger, a native of Vienna, had gained critical praise in 1821 appearing in Rossini's Tancredi . After performing in Beethoven's 1824 premiere, Unger then found fame in Italy and Paris. Italian opera composers Bellini and Donizetti were known to have written roles specifically for her voice. Anton Haizinger and Joseph Seipelt sang

12636-530: Was Beethoven's first onstage appearance since 1812 and the hall was packed with an eager and curious audience with a number of noted musicians and figures in Vienna including Franz Schubert , Carl Czerny , and the Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich . The premiere of the Ninth Symphony involved an orchestra nearly twice as large as usual and required the combined efforts of the Kärntnertor house orchestra,

12753-447: Was a virginal young princess, but Huyck, Katz, and Spielberg disliked the idea. Just as Indiana Jones was named after Lucas's Alaskan Malamute , the character of Willie was named after Spielberg's Cocker Spaniel , and Short Round was named after Huyck's dog, whose name was derived from The Steel Helmet . Lucas handed Huyck and Katz a 20-page treatment in May 1982 titled Indiana Jones and

12870-474: Was actually the last scene to be shot, but the dress did feature in some earlier location shots in Sri Lanka, drying on a nearby tree. Unfortunately an elephant had started to eat it, tearing the whole back of the dress. Consequently, some emergency repair work had to be done by Matera with what remained of the original beads, and it was costume designer Anthony Powell who had to fill in the insurance forms. As to

12987-436: Was also the tenth highest-grossing film of all time during its release. It sold an estimated 53,532,800 tickets in the United States. Marvel Comics published a comic book adaptation of the film by writer David Michelinie and artists Jackson Guice , Ian Akin , Brian Garvey , and Bob Camp . It was published as Marvel Super Special No. 30 and as a three-issue limited series . LucasArts and Atari Games promoted

13104-494: Was funny and explored interesting, dark places. That scene where he takes the heart out, that was a new thing, a dark thing. But I enjoyed that about it. It also possesses some of the craziest action, the most energy. I think it is a good film." Dennis Muren and Industrial Light & Magic 's visual effects department won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 57th Academy Awards . Soundtrack composer John Williams was, as he had been for his work on Raiders of

13221-458: Was hired. To build the rope bridge the filmmakers found a group of British engineers from Balfour Beatty working on the nearby Victoria Dam . Harrison Ford suffered a severe spinal disc herniation by performing a somersault while filming the scene with the assassin in Jones's bedroom. A hospital bed was brought on set for Ford to rest between takes . Lucas stated, "He could barely stand up, yet he

13338-558: Was less. In sum total, I'd have to say I enjoyed it more. That doesn't mean it's better necessarily, but I got more enjoyment out of it." Colin Covert of the Star Tribune called the film "sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun." Pauline Kael preferred it to Raiders , writing: "The subject of a movie can be momentum. It has often been the true—even if not fully acknowledged—subject of movies. In Indiana Jones and

13455-555: Was planned to steal that piece, and then use a giant gong as a shield as General Hok fired a submachine gun at him during his escape, much like the final moments in Club Obi-Wan. Kasdan said that was too expensive to produce for the earlier movie. After that, Jones was to fly to Nepal to find Marion and the second piece. In flight, he fell asleep and all of the other passengers on the plane bailed out and parachuted to safety, leaving him to escape alone using an inflatable raft to slide down

13572-410: Was there every day so shooting would not stop. He was in incomprehensible pain, but he was still trying to make it happen." With no alternatives, Lucas shut down production while Ford was flown to Centinela Hospital on June 21 for recovery. Stunt double Vic Armstrong spent five weeks as a stand-in for various shots. Wendy Leech, Armstrong's wife, served as Capshaw's stunt double. Macau (then

13689-478: Was to start the movie with a musical number. He wanted to do a Busby Berkeley dance number. At all our story meetings he would say, 'Hey, Steven, you always said you wanted to shoot musicals.' I thought, 'Yeah, that could be fun. ' " Lucas, Spielberg, Katz, and Huyck were concerned how to keep the audience interest while explaining the Thuggee cult. Huyck and Katz proposed a tiger hunt but Spielberg said, "There's no way I'm going to stay in India long enough to shoot

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