ANALYSIS: From Jaws to Star Wars to Harry Potter: John Williams, 90 today, is our greatest living composer
This is how the most popular culture of the 20th century gained its meaning: through evocation, reworking and memory.
In looking to the music of the past, Williams was not having a lend of us. He was asking us to think more deeply about what we were seeing and hearing.Today, these complaints have little momentum. Go to any symphony orchestra and you will find at least a few players who picked up their instruments for the first time in order to puzzle out a tune from Star Wars or Indiana Jones.like a celebrity at a sports game.
At 90, John Williams is not just one of our most acclaimed living composers. With the power of the movies, and their unparalleled reach, it's likely Williams is also now one of the most-heard composers to have ever lived. Dan Golding is an Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. This piece first appeared on
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