John Williams is, without question, one of the most gifted and distinguished American composers of the late 20th century. His output, interestingly, is not focused on the vehicle of popular song, per se, but on an equally popular facet of the musical mainstream, that of movie music. Movies and their music, whose death knell was sounded loud and clear in the early days of the emerging television vehicle, have simply grown through the years.
The Academy Awards presentations had created a veritable frenzy of public interest and an attendant new record of TV viewers of the big doings in LA's Shrine Auditorium. The soundtracks for the most popular motion pictures now consistently make the top of the best-selling charts.
John Williams is a major contributor to the movie success story, having composed the music for more than 75 films, including Jaws, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Amistad and Superman. His movie theme and soundtrack material reads like a "best of " list of American motion picture classics of the last couple of generations.
His name is to be found prominently in the credits for Seven Years in Tibet, The Lost World, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, ET (The Extraterrestrial), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Born on the Fourth of July, Empire of the Sun, Nixon, Sabrina - Teen Witch, Saving Private Ryan and most notably, the Star Wars epics.
John Williams' labors in music have resulted in 36 Academy Award nominations. He has amassed a living room full of five Oscars, nearly 20 Grammy awards and several gold and platinum records as well. His soundtrack album for Star Wars has sold over four…
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STAR WARS
John Williams
Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Co./Bantha Music
JAWS
John Williams
Universal Duchess Music Corp.
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