[crusty old prospector]

He has a gift.

[Disambiguator]

He wrote the theme music to the “Lost in Space” TV series, too.

[yuleeyahoo]

Themes for Checkmate, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and Land of thr Giants. His submission for Gilligan’s Island, a calypso tune; was rejected.

[No name given]

I loved his score for “E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial”! He definitely deserved to win the Academy Award and Golden Globe award for it.

[Sgt_Schultze]

So many big films! Such memorable music. Here is the wiki page showing the tremendous body of this man’s work.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I always feel for his brass section. 😆🤪

Saw the Star Wars tour in Nashville with the London Philharmonic several years ago. Saw many brass dipping out because their lips were being blown out like a tire on a hot road.

[telescope115]

My favorite modern composer. The first film I watched that had music that made me ask “wow, who wrote that” was The Towering Inferno.

Composed by John Williams.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Including individual TV episodes, IMDB shows him with 1000s of credits going back to 1956.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002354/

[xp38]

A short clip of Williams winning the Best Original Score Oscar for Star Wars in 1978. Presenters are Henry Mancini Johnny Green and Olivia Newton-John. The contrast of Award ceremonies of today to this is stark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaJTETd_grg

[telescope115]

Another great was his score for Jurassic Park.

[telescope115]

As silly as it may seem, whenever I’m able to set up my telescope and stargaze by myself, I play the soundtrack from Superman the Movie.

It works….🙂🔭

[broken_clock]

A birthday surprise for John Williams from two young fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64do-iTd4yw

[Cronos]

Williams has often been self-deprecating, sometimes referring to his scores as “just a job” and expressing a preference for the “pure music” of the classical masters over the “economical” requirements of film scoring

I personally consider him a type of mozart of our day - with his popularizing classical music — we mustn’t forget that Mozart was a “pop artist” - his tunes were hummed by the ordinary man on the street.

[Chgogal]

BFL

[minnesota_bound]

John Williams Conducts 50 Years A Salute to Film Composers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EC2fi3SGYI

Conducted and Arranged by John Williams.
Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston, 2002.

00:00 : Speech (John Williams)
00:30 : Warner Bros. Fanfare
00:37 : As Time Goes By (Casablanca) - Max Steiner Adaptation
00:50 : Citizen Kane (Bernard Herrmann)
00:57 : 20th Century Fox Fanfare (Alfred Newman)
01:06 : Star Wars Main Title (John williams)
01:15 : SeaHawk (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
01:34 : Spellbound (Milklos Rozsa)
01:42 : Titanic (James Horner)
01:54 : Psycho (Bernard Hermann)
01:59 : Jaws (John Williams)
02:07 : The Pink Panther (Henry Mancini)
02:16 : Exodus (Ernest Gold)
02:27 : Out of Africa (John Barry)
02:43 : Dr Zhivago (Maurice Jarre)
02:55 : Bridge on the River Kwai (Musical Direction : Malcom Arnold)
03:05 : Patton (Jerry Goldsmith)
03:14 : Rocky Theme (Bill Conti)
03:18 : The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein)
03:34 : The Natural (Randy Newman)
03:39 : Cinema Paradiso Love Theme (Andrea & Ennio Morricone)
04:00 : The Godfather Theme (Nino Rota)
04:11 : E.T The Extra-Terrestral (John Williams)
04:21 : Gone with The Wind (Max Steiner)