Donald Satz writes: >Could someone please explain to me the appeal that the John Williams film >scores for those "larger than life" movies possesses? I hear nothing in >them but the usual swashbuckling scores of yesteryear. I had enough of >that when I was growing up. I think that is *precisely* the appeal. He writes mostly--or, at least is *known* mostly--for "swashbuckling" films (the Star Wars series). Williams is very much the heir of Korngold and Rocza (sp.?); if I were doing a remake of Ben Hur or Quo Vadis, who else would one call on for the music? "Bruce Alan Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>