Music recommendations

[BoSoxGal]

I thought some might appreciate this little piece I just read about John Williams.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/ ... -very-much

[Sue U]

I thought some might appreciate this little piece I just read about John Williams.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/ ... -very-much

It's interesting that the writer describes Williams as dismissive of film music, because I don't think that's what Williams was trying to say. I think he means that film music is simply not the same level of composition as concert music and shouldn't be considered as comparable to the extended and fully realized works of the concert repertoire. Film music is an aid to telling a primarily visual story, while music written for concert performance tells its story all on its own as a standalone work. But there's certainly a lot of great film music that's just as memorable as the movies it augments. Just off the top of my head I would put in that class the scores from Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With The Wind, Chariots of Fire, and certainly all of Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western music (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In The West, Fistful of Dollars, etc.).