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‘Music by John Williams’ Review: Steven Spielberg and Friends Pay Rapturous Tribute to the Master Composer
Those who know Williams well call him 'Johnny,' gathering together for a curated celebration of the man whose film themes have defined a generation.
From the deep, quickening heartbeat of “Jaws” to the astral opening blast of “Star Wars,” the music of John Williams not only earns its place among the most iconic film scores of all time, but it also proves memorable enough to carry with us out of the cinema. Early on, Williams sits at the piano on which he first played the ominous two-note “ba-dum” that signals the threat of an unseen shark in “Jaws,” and in walks the director to hug his old friend “Johnny” and share how he felt when he first heard that theme. And it touches on a tricky moment in his career, when he resigned from conducting the Boston Pops a decade later — but only for a time, though the incident reminds how film composers (even one as accomplished as Williams) aren’t taken as seriously in the classical music community.
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