Album Review: 'Lights, Camera...Music! Six Decades of John Williams'
(C) 2017 BSO Classics On June 23, 2017, BSO Classics, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's in-house recording label, released the CD edition of Lights, Camera...Music! Six Decades of John Williams. This 16-track album contains a selection of themes and cues from a mix of minor films ( Heidi ) or lesser-known projects ( Goodbye, Mr. Chips ) that John Williams scored in the late 1960s, as well as music from more prominent movies ( The Towering Inferno, Dracula, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial ) from the apogee of the composer's long, storied career. As many fans of Maestro Williams know, the orchestra featured in Lights, Camera...Music! is the world famous Boston Pops Orchestra, an ensemble comprised by members of the BSO that performs in the Boston area and on tours during the spring and summer months. Williams has a long history with the Pops; he was the orchestra's music director and principal conductor from 1980 till 1994; now that Keith Lockhart leads the Pops