‘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 drama, Bridge of Spies. “I was briefly ill in the early part of the year, just at the time Steven’s schedule needed to be filled in with the music of this,” Williams says. – Interview with Thomas Newman and John Williams at NPR.org

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