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'A John Williams Celebration' concert Blu-ray review

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When the Walt Disney Company opened the doors to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s new home, in the fall of 2014, conductor Gustavo Dudamel dedicated the 2014/2015 season’s opening night concert to five-time Academy Award winning composer/conductor John Williams. Williams, whose most recent work is the score to director J.J. Abrams’  Star Wars: The Force Awakens,  is a legend in both the music and film industries. Since the late 1950s, he has composed and/or arranged music and served as music director for nearly eighty films, including “Saving Private Ryan,” “Amistad,” “Seven Years in Tibet,” “The Lost World,” “Rosewood,” “Schindler's List,” the Indiana Jones series, “Empire of the Sun,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” the Star Wars saga, “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Superman,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Jaws” and “Catch Me if You Can.” In C-Major Entertainment’s “A John Williams Celebration, di