John Williams is not only a marvellous composer, he is also one of the world’s best arrangers and what he does with the arrangements is such a turn on, I defy anyone to sit like this and not move a muscle. You can’t help but be excited and get ideas from what he does.
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Musical Magic
The Academy is delighted that it has been given permission to use extracts of music from and inspired by the motion pictures "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", composed by John Williams to accompany the variations.
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Music and Choreography
When Gillian Lynne is choreographing her starting point is the music. Originally exploring composers she enjoys, like Fauré, Poulenc, Massenet and Meyerbeer; it was the conductor of Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang, who gave her the idea of using music that the young dancers would recognise and relate to. And so, she thought of John Williams, miraculously classical and modern at the same time.
About John Williams
For nearly fourty years John Williams music has been the accompaniment to some of the most famous heros, villans, creatures, places and events in popular film. Children of today know his music from the Harry Potter films, while their parents will have grown up with the soundtracks to Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), Superman (1978), ET (1982), Schindler's List (1994) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). He has written the music to over 70 films and a number of conert works and his lates films schores Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Munich (2005) have been nominated for Academy Awards.
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