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Thank you so much!

Guten Tag - Ladies and gentlemen -
meine Damen und Herren.

Ich spreche nicht Deutsch.

Sie erlauben mir, in English fortzufahren?

I will be very happy to tell you then
how happy I am and honoured

to be here in your fabulous city

and in this what is called, deservingly,
a temple of art,

and to stand before your
very great orchestra,

whose invitation to me is certainly
one of the greatest honours of my life.

Any musician...

Any musician accorded the privilege

of standing in front of this group of
musicians is one greatly honoured.

And I treasure this moment.

Also joining us today is Anne-Sophie Mutter,
who you all know.

You certainly know that Anne-Sophie Mutter
is many things.

She's one of the world's
greatest violinists,

she is a wonderful mother,

she brings honour to her country

And in going to Australia and to Asia,
South America, North America, Europe,

she's indeed a very great world citizen.

And it's again an honour also
and a privilege

to welcome to the stage
Anne-Sophie Mutter.

So thank you very much.

What is coming now is the end of
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" -

many of you will remember the film.

It was directed by Steven Spielberg.

He and I have been working together for,
I think, 44 years, something like that.

And it has been like
a very good marriage.

We haven't had any arguments.

We don't have to talk
to each other every day.

So far it's working
very, very well, I hope!

This end of "E.T.",
you'll hear the music,

it begins very quickly,
in an agitated way,

when the little earth children are on their
bicycles. They're trying to get E.T. back

to the spaceship
so he can go back to his home.

And they are pursued by the police
and they go quickly on their bicycles,

faster, faster, faster, achieving what we
can imagine is "escape-gravity" velocity!

Maybe a physicist here will tell us,

35-miles-an-hour - something like that -
escape?

And they've escaped the gravity speed
and fly over the moon -

and we accept it perfectly!
It seems very natural.

They land very gracefully on the ground,
you remember, and set E.T. down.

And then there's some sentimental music
coming at the end,

which accompanied the dialogue between
E.T. and his little earthling friends

as E.T. departs.

And then at the end of the music,

there's a fanfare and flourishes from
the orchestra that complete the film.

What I love about
these kinds of concerts is that

you can hear the orchestra

and you can hear the contribution that
all of our orchestras make to these films.

We go to the theatre and
we don't notice the virtuosity

that's been put into the soundtrack.

And now we have one of the greatest
orchestras in the world doing it for us.

You can imagine a composer's
delicate vanity, being able and satisfied

by having the orchestra play it
without the distraction of the film!

All the notes aren't covered up
by spaceships,

or horses' hooves,
or dialogue or whatever -

the enemies of music!
I shouldn't put it that way, but...

This is the end of, the orchestra's
contribution to the end of the film "E.T.".

Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
A word or two about "Star Wars",

all nine of them.

When we first began this project in 1977,

the writer, director, producer George Lucas,
who you're probably familiar with,

gave us no indication at the time
that there was to be a second film.

So, I watched the film,

and I saw Luke and Leia, and I thought
they were two attractive young people.

And they were doing their comedy scenes
and their action scenes.

So I made the assumption that
at the end of the film and in their future,

they looked to me like
they might become lovers

and be parents,
and have a life together.

And two years later, the second film,
George Lucas says to me,

"No, no, no, they're not lovers,
they're brother and sister"!

So I was off by a little bit,
but nevertheless we play the love theme.

This is one of the themes from the
second film, "The Empire Strikes Back",

that will be included
in this little triptych that we'll do.

And then finally the "March"
from the very first episode.

We've just completed the ninth one
- I think it's in the theatres here now -

so we've put a bow on it,
which I think,

at least from my own personal
point of view and contribution,

that will be a nice tidy number - nine.

So here are three little pieces
from "Star Wars". Thank you.

Thank you.

This little piece is from a film,
"Cinderella Liberty",

by Mark Rydell some years ago,

played by Marsha Mason,
who's a fantastic actress.

And it was the story of a girl,
a very simple, straight line in her life,

and she made a few wrong choices
and another few wrong choices

and her life became unravelled. It was
very sadly sweet and very beautiful also.

This is the theme from
"Cinderella Liberty".

This little piece is from "Tintin"
and it's a sword fight.

I don't know how you say it
in Deutsch? Sword fight.

In the cartoon they tease the feathers
with the tip of their swords,

never cutting.

And you will hear these little feather
twists in this little piece, "The Duel".