John Williams is best known for his film soundtrack compositions but thinks some movie scores are ‘ephemeral, fragmentary’ - Lawrence K. Ho/via Getty Images He is arguably cinema’s greatest composer ...

The legendary composer behind 'Star Wars,' 'Superman,' and 'Indiana Jones' holds traditional music in a higher regard than his seminal works. reading time 3 minutes John Williams is a composer who ...

The most celebrated composer of film music in history has some surprising thoughts about the art form. "Film music, however good it can be — and it usually isn't, other than maybe an eight-minute ...

According to Kevin McCarthyTV, Thomas Newman will compose the score for Star Wars: Starfighter instead of John Williams. Interestingly enough, it has been reported that the iconic Star Wars theme, ...

What do Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T., Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and three Harry Potter films all have in common? The music of John ...

“John Williams Reimagined” and “Interstellar in Concert” are among the concerts and films taking place at the inaugural Soundtrax Film Music Festival and conference from Oct. 16-18. The Eastman School ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

LENOX — No composer-conductor who has graced the Tanglewood stage since Leonard Bernstein's death in 1990 is as universally revered as John Williams, the brother-in-music of our era's most celebrated ...

Da-dun. Da-dun. Dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun! A two-note theme composed by John Williams terrified audiences who saw Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” on June 20, 1975 — and 50 years later, its effect ...

As a boy, Alexandre Desplat gravitated toward the movie soundtracks in his parents’ record collection, never dreaming that one day making film music would become his career. “If I really go very, very ...

In the fall of 1972, John Williams—40 years old, the father of three teenagers, a serious, old-soul musician with nearly 20 years in the business—found himself seated across from an excitable, nerdy ...