Lalo Schifrin, "Jaws"

RIP, JGB

"boring conversation anyway - Dimitri, we're going to have company!"

JoDru's post made me think about how it's no surprise that John Williams is very much the "big-orchestra jock." I'm sure I'm not the only person to hear Strauss, Mahler, and Stravinsky's Rite in the music of John Williams.

So much so, in fact, that sometimes I swear I remember Debussy's nymphs or Stravinsky's ballet dancers making an appearance in one of the earlier versions of Lucas's redos of the original trillogy.

I'm pretty sure Cocteau convinced Lucas to CG in some shots of Vaslav Nijinsky bickering with one of the Jawas. I saw it in one of the rereleased dvds.

Anyway, the recent post made glaringly obvious to me Williams's ode to Shostakovich. It is so natural now, especially in regard to the Eisenstein connections.

According to the director's commentary on this same dvd, the name of the big Star Destroyer command ship that Vader rode on was "Potemkin."

Shotakovich - Symphony for Strings, Op. 110a-Allegro Molto (attacca)
Shostakovich - Symphony for Strings op 110a Largo






jodru:
Boy, does that ever beggar a post! But first, the movie...