According to JoAnn Kane Music Service via their Twitter account, recording sessions for John Williams’ score to The BFG started last week with the attendance of director Steven Spielberg – you can read some Williams and Spielberg quotes from the…
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‘Jurassic Park’ Score to be Performed Live to Picture
Jurassic Park is the latest blockbuster to get the orchestral-concert treatment in what has become a growing form of entertainment: watching a movie while listening to a live performance of its score. The 1993 Steven Spielberg film joins other offerings by…
Sharks and Bandits: A Q&A with Mike Matessino
by Jason LeBlanc 2015 has been a great year to be a John Williams fan. For the 40th anniversary of Jaws, Geffen Records reissued the original LP program on vinyl and digital. For the 25th anniversary of Home Alone, Sony…
Intrada Releases Complete JAWS Score + Original Album Remastered (2CD)
JAWS Composed and Conducted by JOHN WILLIAMS INTRADA INT 7145 Retail Price: $29.99 SHIPPING NOW For track listing and sound samples, please visit: http://store.intrada…it.A/id.9909/.f One of cinema’s most famous soundtracks finally gets the deluxe 2-CD treatment it deserves! John Williams…
‘E.T.’ Screenwriter Melissa Mathison Dead at 65
Melissa Mathison, who was Oscar-nominated for original screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and The BFG, died Wednesday at UCLA Medical Center of neuroendrocrine cancer, her brother Dirk Mathison said. She was 65. – Full article at Variety Discuss…
‘When John Williams Can’t Go, Whom Does Spielberg Call? Thomas Newman’
Up until this year, composer John Williams had scored every single Steven Spielberg movie, save one, since the director’s big-screen debut in 1974. That streak comes to an end this weekend, though, with the release of Spielberg’s new Cold War…
Spielberg on Why Thomas Newman Scored His Latest Film
Following a DGA screening of Bridge of Spies in New York on October 7, Steven Spielberg had a conversation about the making of the film with Director Martin Scorsese, where he commented on the reasons why Williams was replaced with…
Original ‘Close Encounters’ Album to be Released on SACD
On November 27, Audio Fidelity will release the original soundtrack album of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Hybrid Super Audio CD, an HD audio format compatible with most CD players. This limited, numbered edition of the original album…
‘E.T.’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl: Reviews and Videos
‘E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL’ IN CONCERT September 4, 5 & 6, 2015, Hollywood Bowl, CA The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by David Newman Introduced by JOHN WILLIAMS REVIEWS Film Music Society – Williams wrote a new first-act concert ending and…
David Newman Talks John Williams, Hollywood Bowl ‘E.T.’ Concert
This weekend, Angelenos have the unique opportunity to hear Williams’s score performed live by the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Unfortunately, Williams won’t be conducting his score due to a scheduling conflict (though he will introduce the film via…