Chronologically you're listening to something just after the ground-breaking success of Jaws, and right before the milestone of Star Wars. John Williams's Midway has therefore been a source of intrigue stylistically, made desirable by the fact that no recording has ever been available before. Only the "Midway March" has been around to tease us in concert or on compilation ...
When James Cameron's Titanic became the biggest film in this corner of the galaxy, cynical Hollywood observers couldn't help but wonder if it heralded the beginning of yet another cycle of disaster films like the classic one in the '70s. Then, producer Irwin Allen, among others, had gathered increasingly populous all-star casts and attempted to drown them (The Poseidon Adventure), ...