With such lofty intentions, it was a shame Steven Spielberg's anthology series could rarely see a good idea through to a fully-rounded episode. This two-episodes-for-one deal demonstrates a couple that did work, although since the music was often better than the visuals that hardly matters! John Williams bookends each episode with his catchy title theme (included for completists), and as an often ...
Putting the (quite glorious) excess of The Phantom Menace behind him, for Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes John Williams has created an epic pastoral romance that's more in the tradition of his scores for Born On The Fourth Of July and Seven Years In Tibet. The music has prominent solo roles for oboe, violin, cello and piano, while massed strings carry the burden of the ...