More than just movies!
Here are few other musical works done by
John Williams!
Just a note - The first 45 seconds of the Olympic piece known as the Fanfare, is the Bugler's Dream by Leo Arnaud. The Williams' Olympic Theme begins after that.
Click on the Olympic Theme words above to hear it played!
Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Sunday Night Football Theme
Obama Inauguration - Arrangement of Simple Gifts
The Mission, NBC Nightly News Theme
John Williams - More than just Movies!
He is best known for his scores (soundtracks) for movies such as Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, E.T., Indiana Jones, Home Alone, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, and Lincoln. He conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducts for them a few times each year around Christmas time and Tanglewood in the summer
For Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on January 20, 2009, John Williams made a special arrangement of the Shaker tune "Air and Simple Gifts". It was performed by four musicians: the violinist Itzhak Perlman, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the clarinetist Anthony McGill and the pianist Gabriela Montero.
Williams also created the theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, the NBC Nightly News, the Statue of Liberty's rededication, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants.
In July 2018, Williams composed the main musical theme for Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park attraction Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
In June 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Williams as one of hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
Williams is attached to score the fifth Indiana Jones film.