JOHN WILLIAMS & STEVEN SPIELBERG THE SPIELBERG / WILLIAMS COLLABORATION

Personnel includes: John Williams (conductor); The Boston Pops Orchestra, American Boychoir, Tanglewood Festival Chorus.Recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachussetts on May 18-25, 1990.Composer John Williams and director Steven Spielberg have long had one of the most symbiotic relationships in Hollywood. They've helped each other become the best known, most successful, and most powerful men in their respective fields. Spielberg has hired Williams to score nearly every movie he's ever made. Meanwhile, at the end of the 20th century, Williams had earned three of his five Academy Awards and ten of his staggering 38 Oscar nominations for Spielberg films. The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration was a 1991 attempt to encapsulate the fruits of their alliance. It contains some of the best work ever done by Williams and his Boston Pops Orchestra. Particularly noteworthy are his famous themes for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.