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Work: Film music from Star Wars

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ComposerWilliams, John (b. 1932)
PeriodContemporary
Work typeStage and film
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StrasbourgMélodies du cinéma

Strasbourg Philharmonic
Huppertz, Jarre, Legrand, Rota, Williams, Schifrin
Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg; Aziz Shokhakimov

LiverpoolThe Golden Age of Film Music

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Barry, Bernstein, Chaplin, Herrmann, Morricone, Silvestri, Steiner, Williams
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Anthony Gabriele

TokyoMarc Minkowski / Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Herrmann, Williams, Bernstein, Ravel
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; Marc Minkowski
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Prom 65: Wars on the ground and in space at the Film Music Prom

Hot on the heels of this year’s Hollywood Rhapsody Prom came its less glamorous, perhaps geekier sibling, the Film Music Prom. There was less of the fanfare and opulence here; this was about the silver screen (and by that, I don’t mean the sort that is coming back into use for 3D films) and sci-fi.
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John Williams and his early aesthetic

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A brief examination of the partly forgotten musical seeds that led to Williams’ distinctive cinematic soundworld