Music from the hearts of space9/4/2023 ![]() I don’t know what anybody else was doing in the 1970s, but John Williams basically owned the big movies. In the early ’70s, he scored the three big disaster movies: The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and The Towering Inferno.Īmong the five big mid-70s blockbusters - Jaws, King Kong, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Superman - Williams wrote the score for four of them, and the one that he skipped, King Kong, wasn’t very good, so there. Chips in 1969, and won for Fiddler on the Roof in 1971. He was nominated for Valley of the Dolls in 1967 and Goodbye, Mr. By this point, Williams was getting multiple Academy Awards nominations per year. The music in Superman: The Movie is by John Williams, who had recently scored, both literally and figuratively, with a little movie called Star Wars, released the previous year. I’ve got the booklet and there’s a music-only audio track on the Special Edition DVD, and I ought to be able to make something out of this. My issue, obviously, is that I don’t know what scherzo means I even went and read the Wikipedia article on scherzo, and I still don’t know what scherzo means.īut what the hell, let’s give it a shot. A swirling woodwind line suggests the speed at which the spacecraft is traveling while high-register violins sing a lofty melody exclusive to this cue statements of the Fanfare are overlaid skillfully.” “Scherzo for the starship’s three-year journey. I mean, I have this booklet that came with the Superman: The Music box set, and here’s what it says about the score during the “space capsule flying across the galaxy” sequence: At some point, I have to write about John Williams’ orchestral score, because it’s an important part of the movie and people who like movie scores are entirely obsessed with it, but I don’t know much about music and I am utterly hopeless on the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() All right, here’s the situation: we are currently three weeks in on this new format that I’ve invented for myself, where I try to comment on every element of Superman: The Movie that I can think of, and today is one of those “face the music” posts, both literally and figuratively. ![]()
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