On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Drafted in 1952, Williams was assigned to the United States Air Force, and as a part of his tour of duty he conducted and arranged music for service bands. After his discharge in 1954, he spent a year at the Julliard School of Music as a piano student of Rosina Lhevinne.
I had no idea he was so old! I thought he was of our generation--largely because I never heard of him prior to _Star Wars_.
Andrew Stiller
The first movies I had seen of his were The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) (but I was too young to appreciate the music.) The first one where I REALLY noticed the music was Jaws (1975), and I still think it is a fantastic movie, with a terrific relationship with the music, comparable to films like Psycho. The music is almost the complete character of the shark for the entire first two-thirds of the movie. My brother-in-law, who is a filmmaker, includes this film in his university film course.
His first film scores (which I have never seen or heard) were reportedly in a swinging, jazzy idiom. Maybe some listers who are older than I am would have seen How To Steal A Million, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, or A Guide For The Married Man, which are among the first films listed in his bio, from the 60's. I seem to remember the Gidget movies, too, which would have been when he was a young man.
Christopher
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