Music Album Review: 'John Williams Conducts Music from the Star Wars Saga'
(C) 1999 Philips Music John Williams Conducts Music from the Star Wars Saga - John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra Although John Williams has been working as a performer, composer, and conductor since the 1950s, most film score fans believe that the Golden Era of his illustrious career is marked by the eight-year period that started with the premiere of Steven Spielberg's 1975 chiller Jaws and concluded with the 1983 release of the conclusion of the Classic Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi Not only did the spiritual heir to Hollywood's Studio Era galaxy of composers as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Bernard Herrmann write the 14 compositions featured in this 1999 Philips collection of music from the Star Wars saga, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman: The Movie, and E.T., but Maestro Williams composed film scores for Dracula, The Fury, Jaws 2, 1941, Black Sunday, Monsignor, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, just to name a h