John Williams - "Home Alone Theme"
As every Holiday Season, this month I’ll be choosing only Holiday Songs from as many holidays as I can.
Today’s choice is filled with nostalgia, and indeed is written around the theme that somewhere in your memories you can relieve all your happiest holidays, and bring back to life those you’ve lost. It’s sometimes an uphill battle to bring out the Christmas cheer, to balance all the tasks that need doing, to hold on to the joy as you frantically purchase things you can barely afford. But if you just keep believing, you’ll make it through. You have a 100% success rate for making it through tough times.
Regarded by many as one of the greatest film composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career that has spanned over six decades. Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 52 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest film score of all time. The Library of Congress also entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Williams has composed for many critically acclaimed and popular movies, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Home Alone, the Indiana Jones films, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor. He has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but five of his feature films. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. He has composed the score for eight of the top 25 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation). His work has influenced other film composers and contemporary classical and popular music
So today, floating through misty colored memories, I chose John Williams’ " Home Alone Theme" as my, remember the good, shine the bright light, savor the sweetness, song for a, remember when, once again, in a dream, Tuesday.