While Steven Spielberg's sci-fi detective thriller Minority Report revolves around the intriguing premise of future cops arresting criminals before their crimes, beneath its hi-tech veneer it begs a simple but infinitely powerful question: do we have the power to alter our own destiny? Coming on the heels of the director's posthumous collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, A.I., ...
Anchored by his Mormon Tabernacle-charged "Call of Champions" (theme of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games) and the sweeping, emotionally rich six-part title suite (originally written for Washington, DC's millennium celebrations and appearing here for the first time as a complete concert piece), this rousing, unabashedly patriotic collection from John Williams seems doubly timely, given America's ...
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 ...