A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

"Steven and I began, as we always did. by screening his finished cut of the film. And, at the end, the lights came up, and it was time for us to begin talking about the role of music in the film. But I was so overwhelmed by what I'd just seen, I really couldn't speak. So I excused myself and walked around the building for a few minutes to gather myself, and then came back to resume the meeting. And I said to him quite seriously, 'Steven, you really need a better composer than I am for this film.' And he said, very sweetly, 'I know. But they're all dead.'" - John Williams On December 3, 2018, almost a quarter century after MCA Records released the original 14-track soundtrack from director Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List, Burbank-based La-La Land Records began to ship a limited edition 2-CD reissue titled Schindler's List: 25th Anniversary Soundtrack. Produced, edited, and remastered by Michael "M...

On February 19, 2019, La-La Land Records, in a massive collaborative effort with DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Warner Music Group, unleashed Superman: The Movie - 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Remastered Soundtrack, a 3-CD album that features composer John Williams' complete  Academy Award-nominated score, including previously unreleased cues that were found in Warner Bros. archives many years after Warner Records and Rhino Entertainment dropped the Superman: The Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  2-CD set. According to La-La Land Records, producer Michael Matessino (who, with the late Nick Redman, produced many reconstructions of Maestro Williams' classic scores, including the ones from Superman, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark ), this reissue was made possible by a super-discovery in the studio's vaults: A recent discovery of the score’s original 2-inch, 24-track music masters has led the way to a stellar, high-resolution tr...