Nearly 40 years later at age 83, Williams was raring to go for the seventh installment, which debuted this past December. Williams was just 45 years old when he composed the music for the 1977 film Star Wars, for which he received his second Oscar Award. Guest violinist Benny Kim joins the Grand Rapids Pops as soloist in music including the main theme from Schindler’s List, one of the five films that earned Williams the Oscar for Best Original Film Score. Highlights from films including Superman, Saving Private Ryan and Amistad are among the different films on the program along with “Sayuri’s Theme” from Memoirs of a Geisha and “Flight to Neverland” from Hook. “It’s going to be fun from start to finish, and you know the music is going to be brilliant,” said GRS Principal Pops Conductor Bob Bernhardt, who will lead three concerts, Friday through Sunday, May 6-8, in DeVos Performance Hall. The Grand Rapids Symphony closes its 2015-16 Fox Motors Pops Series with Star Wars & More: The Music of John Williams, with just a small sampling of the composer’s output.īut with music from the Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the latest film in the Star Wars franchise, plus music from another dozen films, it’s going to be epic nonetheless. The Extra-Terrestrial, likely has an entire trophy room for his awards, which include five Oscars and 17 Grammy Awards.Ī total of 50 Academy Award nominations in all has helped make the composer that Los Angeles Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel dubbed “the Mozart of our day” the best-known, best-loved film composer of the past four decades. The composer for the Star Wars, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as for films such as Jaws and E.T. John Williams is the most successful film composer in the history of cinema.
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