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Radio 3,30 Dec 2023,21 mins

Spielberg and Williams

Sound of Cinema

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Matthew Sweet celebrates 50 years of one of cinema's greatest collaborations - that of director Steven Spielberg and his composer of choice, John Williams. With music from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Schindler's List and Jurassic Park. Matthew gives us a close encounter with the music for Close Encounters of the Third Kind as he analyses the scene of humanity's first contact with the alien mothership.

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