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Rachel Ehrenberg wrote:
>John Williams gives plagiarism a whole new meaning.
So what? I agree, one can't listen to any of his scores without hearing
bits of Stravinsky, Holst, Strauss, etc. coming to mind, but film music
isn't always about originality. It's about making a sound that fits the
film. Besides, I am a big proponent that all modern music is in a sense
just arrangements of something already written. Music has been around for
centuries - surely somewhere, sometime every chord progression, melody,
etc, has already been written, even if not well known.
John Williams is one of the most influential composers/conductors of our
times, like it or not. He's also a very talented guitarist and an emmisary
of sorts to the musically uneducated. Besides, the man knows how to write
a good horn part. ;-)
Alan Lynn
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