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Back to the music...
Anyone else hear "The Menu" in there?
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Sep 8, 2006 - 5:22 PM
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crimedog
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http://www.latimes.com/sports/columnists/la-sp-adande7sep07,1,5428294.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
Pairing Williams With the NFL Is Sure to Be a Hit
Truth is, there's no better choice to score America's Sport than America's Composer. For the last 30 years Williams has provided the background music for our lives. If you haven't heard his notes it means you don't own a television and last went to the movies to catch opening night of "Lawrence of Arabia."
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Williams, a New York native who as a teenager moved to Los Angeles with his family in the 1940s and went to UCLA, said he used to take his sons to Dodger Stadium — "I think it was about the hot dog more than the baseball," Williams said — and when he conducted the Boston Pops orchestra for 12 years he used to head over to Fenway Park with the brass section to watch the Red Sox. But he never managed to pull himself away from work to catch a football game
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"Football is a different kind of musical portrait," said Williams, who described his Olympic scores as celebrating the gathering of nations. "It's a tough test. It's a rugged, gladiatorial contest.
"The thing about football is it has all that but it's got a distinctly American character…. Football is about up-front linemen banging each other. It's rough. The music is rhythmically taught and strong and tough. It's brassy. It's not something you do with a lot of violins, which you might do if you're doing swimming.
"Brass goes with football."
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Seems super unlikely, but I'd love a CD of John Williams' music for NBC News/NBC Sports.
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OBVIOUSLY worse.
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