Did anyone else see the Hans Zimmer and John Williams show last night at the Philharmonie?

ngl i was more focused on how good the philharmonie sounded than the setlist lol. the first piece def had that big hollywood brass thing going on, could've sworn it was something from the indiana jones score but they mixed it in with a more modern zimmer track. if u check the program booklet they hand out at the door, it lists all the pieces in order, might still have mine somewhere

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I was in the balcony, great view of the organ pipes. That opening piece was definitely "Time" from Inception, but they did a medley that blended into "The Dark Knight" theme without a pause, which is why it felt like one long piece. If you're near the Philharmonie again, the ticket booth at the back of the building sells leftover same-day seats for 15 euros, way cheaper than the main counter.

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The piece that opened the show was "The Last Samurai." Zimmer's done a few orchestral suites from that score over the years but that specific arrangement was unique to this tour. If you want to dig deeper, the Philharmonie's own podcast did an episode on the programming choices for that concert, it's still up on their site.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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