And with Jurassic Park, Williams would create what might be his most romantic and mythical theme since 1978’s Superman: The Movie.
If you’re in Toronto and are an ardent Williams fan, you cannot afford to miss the second show tonight.
Despite the cultural and franchise import of the 1993 original film, Jurassic Park is an important piece of the Spielberg/Williams puzzle in that at the dawn of the ’90s, it seemed as if Spielberg was down and out.
And from the first moments of the movie, with the Motion Picture Symphony Orchestra dragging their bows across strings, plucking harps and pushing air through reeds, the dread and wonder of Jurassic Park was palpable.