I saw John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl last night. And it was epic. Mainly because I’ve been obsessed with his scores for the past…10 years and I was getting to see them performed live in front of me. Granted, there were about a million people separating me from him, but it didn’t matter.
At this point in the show, he talked us through how he goes about composing a song for a movie by using the opening sequence from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and then they played the song live with the film rolling on the screen for us. I thought it was possibly the coolest thing I’d ever seen. And then my camera ran out of memory, so I couldn’t catch the end. But it was the whole him explaining it to us that I thought was the coolest part.