Introduction
John Williams is a legend of movie music, with 49 Oscar nominations.
This Saturday, Wolf Trap is hosting a tribute with Emil de Cou conducting the National Symphony Orchestra.
“You can just hear the music, and you not only remember the film, but you feel how you felt when you saw the film for the first time,” De Cou tells WTOP. “Everybody knows all of this music so well that you can just whistle it from start to end. … When you see a movie that really grabs you, it becomes personal … it becomes something that you keep in your imagination and keep there, and keep in your heart.”
Listen below for the full interview, then click through the gallery for Saturday’s entire playlist, including Emil’s take on each selected piece.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS/Matt Sayles)
Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.
