Sound Of Cinema - 284. John Williams - The Scores You'd Forgotten

SOUND OF CINEMA - 284. JOHN WILLIAMS - THE SCORES YOU'D FORGOTTEN (320kbs-m4a/134mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 4th July 2020

John Williams is one of the most successful and most identifiable of all Hollywood composers, with the likes of Star Wars, Harry Potter, ET, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List to his credit. But what might the Williams legacy be had Steven Spielberg and George Lucas turned to other composers to write their scores? Matthew looks back over John Williams’ long career and celebrates his associations with the likes of Oliver Stone, Robert Altman, Irwin Allen and Alfred Hitchcock. The programme features music from ‘How To Steal A Million’, Lost In Space’, ‘Land Of The Giants’, ‘The Valley Of The Dolls’, ‘Images’, ‘The Long Goodbye’, ‘The Towering Inferno’, ‘Black Sunday’, ‘Family Plot’, ‘The Fury’, ‘Dracula’, ‘The Witches Of Eastwick’, ‘Home Alone’, ‘Memoirs Of A Geisha’, ‘The Book Thief’ and ‘Jane Eyre’. The Classic Score of the Week draws on music for Oliver Stone’s ‘Born On The Fourth Of July’.

Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn (1958-61) - Theme [Rhino]
John Williams - How To Steal A Million (1966) - Main Title [20th Century Fox]
John Williams - Lost In Space (1965) - Theme [TVT]
John Williams - Land Of The Giants (1968) - Theme [Silva Screen]
André Previn - Valley Of The Dolls (1967) - The Gillian Girl Commercial [Stateside]
John Williams - Images (1972) - In Search Of Unicorns [Prometheus]
John Williams - The Long Goodbye (1973) - Variations On A Theme [Silva Screen]
John Williams - The Towering Inferno (1974) - An Architect's Dream [Varese Sarabande]
John Williams - Black Sunday (1977) - The End [Film Score Monthly]
John Williams - Family Plot (1976) - End Titles [Silva Screen]
John Williams - The Fury (1978) - Theme [Silva Screen]
John Williams - Dracula (1979) - Night Journeys [MCA]
John Williams - The Witches Of Eastwick (1987) - The Dance Of The Witches [Perseverance]
John Williams - Home Alone (1990) - The House [CBS]
John Williams - Born On The 4th Of July (1989) - Cua Viet River, Vietnam 1968 [MCA]
John Williams - Born On The 4th Of July (1989) - Theme [MCA]
John Williams - Memoires Of A Geisha (2005) - Sayuri's Theme [Sony Classical]
John Williams - The Book Thief [Sony Classical]
John Williams - Jane Eyre (1977) - Theme [Silva Screen]