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Have started early with Hook.
God bless him!
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Here's to the Maestro!
Brought me to filmmusic with JURASSIC PARK!
It was Close Encounters for me. God what a ride it has been.
Celebrate the love.
Judy in Tucson.
Next stop E.T.
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I didn't know who he was yet, but when I was six years old, I remember humming the "Luke Skywalker" theme from "Star Wars" (the movie we'd seen earlier that day) in bed. It was many years later when I learned:
[1] It was called the "Luke Skywalker" theme,
[2] I had the rhythm wrong, and
[3] John Williams wrote it . . .
. . . and "Close Encounters" and "Superman" and "Raiders" and "E.T." and many other favorites over the years.
As we say in Yiddish . . . (okay, my Yiddish is rusty, so in English this time) . . .
"UNTIL A HUNDRED AND TWENTY, JOHNNY!!!"
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I didn't know who he was yet, but when I was six years old, I remember humming the "Luke Skywalker" theme from "Star Wars" (the movie we'd seen earlier that day) in bed. It was many years later when I learned:
[1] It was called the "Luke Skywalker" theme,
[2] I had the rhythm wrong, and
[3] John Williams wrote it . . .
. . . and "Close Encounters" and "Superman" and "Raiders" and "E.T." and many other favorites over the years.
As we say in Yiddish . . . (okay, my Yiddish is rusty, so in English this time) . . .
"UNTIL A HUNDRED AND TWENTY, JOHNNY!!!"
Amen
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You Are The Pan is classic Williams!
Superman started it all for me and i still think this is the greatest score of all time!
Happy 80th birthday Mr Williams! Here is to 80 more!
Happy Birthday to the man who has brought us so many emotions in the last 50 years : elation, awe, fear, terror, bliss, exhilaration, thoughtfulness.....the list goes on and on.
The Spielberg/Williams collaboration is one for the history books !
(I believe people when they say that great composers of the past such as Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner... would surely have teamed up with famous directors, had they lived in our time)
We're lucky to have John Williams, who so inherently understands the link between sight & sound
and made our movie-going experiences timeless memories.
PS : As for 'You are the Pan', i wouldn't call it classic Williams since the scene was so obviously temp-tracked with Delerue's Agnes of God ...maybe Mr Spielberg & Williams wanted to pay homage to the french composer... it's a very effective piece of music nonetheless !!!
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Many Happy Returns Mr Williams....
A GALACTIC MILESTONE...........80!
Thank you for such GREAT Music!
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Anyway, have all day tomorrow to celebrate further born 2/8/32.
Probably CE3K, Patriot and perhaps Tintin plus others.
Then I think the late Jerry Goldsmith's birthday is a few days away.
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Many thanks Judy for this thread. Yesterday we celebrated in France the "souvenir" of François Truffaut - who passed away many years ago. He would have turned 80! I listened to LES DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT.
Tomorrow - well, here in France it's already February 8th! - i still don't know what i will listen to : there are so many compositions i'm fond of! I'll make my mind up!
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