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TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings There isn’t much Christmas music I feel would be appropriate to listen to in, say, June, but John Williams’ score for Home Alone may be the one exception (and to a much smaller degree, the sequel). Obviously happy to write Christmas music, Mr. Williams sets out [...]

Review by Amer Zahid One of the great scores to come from composer John Williams from his golden writing marathon is from the late 1970′s to mid 1980s’ during which he rendered such classics as The Star Wars films, Close Encounters, Superman, Raiders and E.T. In between he scored a “small” film called Heartbeeps during 1981 for Universal, which unfortunately, sank and stank [...]

TRACK LISTING Review by Jeff Commings Anyone who has seen Oliver Stone’s requiem to President Kennedy knows that this film is not one that would require a normal composer to just write a simple theme for strings and develop it throughout the film. Because of Stone’s use of blurry cinematography and quick editing cuts (both [...]

TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings It is surprising how little time and effort John Williams seems to waste in composing a film score. If you think about his most popular scores, you imagine him slaving away for months trying to find a theme. But somehow he manages to get them done [...]

TRACK LISTING Review by Jeff Commings I would love to be a fly on the wall when John Williams and Steven Spielberg get together and discuss scoring options for their films. I have wondered how they came up with the theme for Jaws, as well as the score for E.T. If I could hear this discussion I could [...]

TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings I’m sure after John Williams saw SpaceCamp, he knew it wasn’t going to be like his former space scores, which made him a household name. Instead, SpaceCamp appears to be geared for the younger set, and like the chameleon he is, Williams wrote a score that would [...]

TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings Anyone who says that Schindler’s List is not John Williams’ most touching composition to date has not really felt the full scope of this score. It deserved an Oscar not only for its association with the best film of 1993, but for the way it touches our souls [...]

TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings You don’t have to read the liner notes in the Saving Private Ryan CD to realize that this project marks a change in thinking for both Steven Spielberg and John Williams. Though it is probably the shortest score ever written by Williams, the music has just the same [...]

TRACK LISTING & SOUND CLIPS Review by Jeff Commings Imagine my surprise to see John Williiams’ name in the opening credits for the film Rosewood. Not to say that I don’t think Mr. Williams can score a film covering such a topic as race relations (Schindler’s List comes to mind), but it wasn’t billed as the type [...]