In praise of John Williams

I greatly enjoyed speaking with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and host of the New Yorker Radio Hour, about the monumental film-scoring achievements of John Williams. I interviewed the composer in 2020, and visited him again a few months back. As I recount in my chat with David, Williams showed me the original score of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, possibly his finest Hollywood achievement and certainly one of the most potent film scores ever written.