Movie Score(s) A Day

When The Boston Pops speaks, Movie Score(s) A Day listens! This just came into our Inbox:

The Boston Pops put together a fun “What’s your John Williams’ Theme?” page for the legendary film composer’s 80th birthday today. Check out the page here: www.bostonpops.org/happybirthdayjohn We’d love for you to share the page with your readers or share your own theme on Facebook. Feel free to embed any of the SoundCloud links on your own blog!

Let’s show both John Williams and The Boston Pops some love — click through and find out what YOUR John Williams Theme is!!!

(Also — I swear, I’ve been a HUGE John Williams fan since FOREVER so I’m literally on the verge of a FANBOY FAINT right about now.)

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John WILLIAMS
“Sail Barge Assault”
Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (1983)

Happy 80th birthday, maestro!

inothernews:

Hadn’t seen this piece of awesome until tonight.

And the AT-AT? Perfect.

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John WILLIAMS
“The Reunion”
War Horse (2011)

(for treebeards)

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John WILLIAMS
“Ewok Celebration / Finale”
Star Wars, Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi (1983)

I never experienced anything like a block. For me if I’m ever blocked or I feel like I don’t quite know where to go at the next turn, the best thing for me is to keep writing, to write something. It could be absolute nonsense, but it will project me into the next phase of thinking. And I think if we ourselves as writers get out of the way and let the flow happen and not get uptight about it, so to speak, the muses will carry us along.

The wonderful thing about music is it never seems to be exhausted. Every little idea germinates another one. Things are constantly transforming themselves in musical terms. So that the few notes we have, seven eight or 12 notes, can be morphed into endless variations, and it’s never quite over, so I think the idea of a block is something we need to work through.

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—	Famed film score composer and Boston Symphony artist-in-residence JOHN WILLIAMS, on how he avoids (music) writer’s block. *(via the New York Times)*

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Leaving Hogwarts by John Williams

When we think of Harry Potter music, we think of the very famous “Hedwig’s Theme,” but then there comes that tune that signals the ending.

I was just watching the first Potter film the night before seeing Deathly Hallows, Part 2, and seeing it finish to this song, I didn’t see it as an ending, but to the start of a new beginning. That’s what it’s like for me now, and that’s what it was probably like for me when I was at the young age of six, sitting in the theater, watching with an audience, anticipating for the many years of film to come.

Now, at sixteen, I’m watching the true finale to a triumphant series. I’m getting to see the characters I followed for a smashing ten years grow old with me, bringing their own children on the ride of a lifetime they got to experience. The final minutes of Deathly Hallows, Part 2 is nothing but a faithful and emotional homage to the beginning of Harry’s journey, and you think it can’t get more nostalgic than that.

Then they bring this musical piece back, and the tears just come falling. It’s been a beautiful cinematic decade with you, Harry, but this is not a goodbye. As you’ve taken your love for magic with you until adulthood, I shall, too. Starting with this.

#goodbye #i’m done #can’t deal #i hate my life

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John Williams - Duel of The Fates

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John Williams
“Battle Of The Heroes”
Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith (2005)

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John Williams
“E.T. Phone Home”
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)