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Music Album Review: "Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores - John Williams & the Boston Pops Orchestra'

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(C) 1995, 2017 Sony Classical/Sony Masterworks On November 14, 1995, four years after the release of The Spielberg-Williams Collaboration, Sony Classical dropped a sequel to that album by John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Titled Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores – John Williams & the Boston Pops Orchestra, this one-disc recording presented 15 themes composed and conducted by the Academy Award-winning maestro for director Steven Spielberg.   Official Sony Classical Video: The Basket Game from Raiders of the Lost Ark The Spielberg-Williams collaboration began in the early 1970s when the then 27-year-old director asked John Williams if he would score his first feature film, The Sugarland Express (1974). Spielberg loved Williams’ score for the 1969 film The Reivers and wanted the music for his set-in-Texas comedy-drama to have that same contemporary Western sensibility. The two men got along well, and since 1973, Williams has composed th