John Williams on Guitar

This is nifty… a guy named John Huldt has arranged several of John Williams’ best-known movie themes for acoustic guitar and recorded a medley of them. I’ve heard music from the Star Wars movies performed in a number of idioms — I even own a CD of Star Wars “lounge” music — but this minimalist approach yields some pretty interesting results, in particular the Superman theme, which takes on a subtly Mexican sound, and the theme from Jurassic Park, which I’ve always thought was one of Williams’ greatest pieces, a simple little melody that at various points in the movie conveys grandeur, wonder, adventure, and deep melancholy. In Huldt’s hands, it’s simply lovely… I wouldn’t mind an entire album of this stuff!

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