{"id":4504,"date":"1983-06-04T21:18:40","date_gmt":"1983-06-04T21:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?page_id=4504"},"modified":"2018-10-28T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T16:16:01","slug":"williams-answers-spielbergs-call-for-music-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=4504","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Williams Answers Spielberg&#8217;s Call For Music&#8217; (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WILLIAMS ANSWERS SPIELBERG&#8217;S CALL FOR MUSIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By George McKinnon, Globe Staff &#8211; 05\/13\/1983\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It looked like Pops Goes To Africa in Symphony Hall yesterday afternoon what with exotic African instruments crowding the stage and the members of the Tanglewood chorus chanting in a strange tongue.<\/p>\n<p>The reason was that Pops conductor\u00a0<em><strong>John<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>Williams<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0received a call earlier this week from Steven Spielberg, who&#8217;s directing the film,\u00a0<strong>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/strong>\u00a0(sequel to\u00a0<strong>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/strong>) in England and needed at once five minutes of music for the soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who will do the score when the film is completed, immediately set about composing the music for what Spielberg called the &#8220;sacrifice scene.&#8221; Williams called the work &#8220;Sanskrit Sacrifice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon 10 members of the Pops percussion and tympani section and 30 members of the Tanglewood chorus gathered on stage for the recording, and a courier waited in the wings to rush the tape to Logan and a flight to London. Spielberg said it was essential that he receive this bit of music posthaste because he needed it to film the sequence.<\/p>\n<p>The movie director had hired a London Sanskrit scholar to write the chant and the Sanskrit lyrics were flown to Boston. Obviously none of the chorus knew Sanskrit, so the chanting was done phonetically.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make the music as authentic as possible, Williams got in touch with Joe Galeoto, a teacher at Berklee College of Music, who has an extensive collection of African musical instruments. The Pops members drummed away on such instruments as an African log drum, a prempensua, bolia and dondos, all drums; and a jyle, a sort of xylophone.<\/p>\n<p>And last night when the Pops audience filed in, the &#8220;Sanskrit Sacrifice&#8221; was high over the Atlantic bound for London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILLIAMS ANSWERS SPIELBERG&#8217;S CALL FOR MUSIC By George McKinnon, Globe Staff &#8211; 05\/13\/1983\u00a0 It looked like Pops Goes To Africa in Symphony Hall yesterday afternoon what with exotic African instruments crowding the stage and the members of the Tanglewood chorus&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=4504\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11540,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/11540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}