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Six Things We Learned Watching ‘Music by John Williams,’ The Glowing Documentary on the Beloved Composer
Six facts we learned by watching 'Music By John Williams,' the glowing new documentary on the beloved film composer.
Music by John Williams, the documentary that is now airing on Disney+ after premiering at AFI Fest in October, is a love letter to the world’s famous living composer. The multiple Oscar winner and probably the only film composer that most people can name has scored dozens of movies, many of whose themes are embedded in our collective consciousness, whether it be the two-note refrain to Jaws that instantly causes heart-pounding anxiety, the five-note theme to Close Encounters of the Third Kind that conjures images of alien life — or, of course, the bombastic opening fanfare to Star Wars that ushered fans into the kind of movie-going experience they had never witnessed before. Similarly, outgoing Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel has a likeminded feel about Jurassic Park: He says the main theme made him want to be a musician, and he saw the movie growing up in Venezuela at least 10 times.
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