A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Cover Design by Howard Fritzson. Photos (C) 1977, 1980, 1983 by Lucasfilm Ltd. (C) 1990 CBS Records Some day I’m going to build a recording studio with a sound as live as if it were inside a cathedral! – George Lucas to composer John Williams after the recording sessions for The Empire Strikes Back score, 1980 Official Sony Classical Video: Star Wars - Main Title In March of 1990, Star Wars creator George Lucas hired 90 San Francisco Bay area classical musicians and created a one-time ensemble which he called The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra. Between March 19 and 20, Lucas, composer-conductor John Williams, and a recording team led by producer Thomas Z. Shepard worked with this unique group of players at the brand-new recording studio in Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch, located in Marin County, California. The result was Sony Classical’s John Williams Conducts John Williams: The Star Wars Trilogy – Star Wars * The Empire Strikes Back * Return of the Jedi, a 13-track compila...

(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 ...