On 8 May, we returned to Leuven after a year — and chose the music of John Williams for this long-awaited meeting with the city.
The concert The World of John Williams by La Chapelle Sauvage took place in the chapel of Conservatory Lemmensinstituut, a venue where atmosphere does not need to be invented. It is already there: in the arches, in the quiet, in the sense that every sound has somewhere to travel.
John Williams’ music has a rare ability to open a scene before the first image appears. A few notes are enough, and suddenly there is a train to Hogwarts, a galaxy in motion, a dinosaur behind the trees, or a boy left alone at Christmas. In Leuven, these familiar worlds returned not on screen, but through live sound — bright, immediate and full of detail.
For us, this concert was not simply a comeback to the city. It was a return with a full orchestra of memories. After a year away, Leuven welcomed us again with the kind of silence that listens closely — and with music that needed no translation.
