Music Album Review: 'A Tribute to John Williams: An 80th Birthday Celebration'
(C) 2012 Sony Classical John, Happy birthday to the greatest of all maestros and the greatest of all friends. - Steven Spielberg , writing in the liner notes booklet, A Tribute to John Williams: An 80th Birthday Celebration On February 28, 2012, Sony Classical released A Tribute to John Williams: An 80th Birthday Celebration, a one-CD compilation of music composed and conducted by the dean of film composers and - perhaps - one of America's most beloved composers. The 15-track album contains 14 musical pieces - movie themes, classical works, and even a television network's theme - recorded over the years with several ensembles, including the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, and several studio ensembles hired for various movie scores by Hollywood studios for original motion picture soundtracks. All 14 of these tracks were previously released in earlier albums by Sony ...