John Williams - Schindler's ListAn emotive Oscar-winning score from cinema's maestro of movie music. The most successful movie composer ever, John Williams has penned some of the most emotional orchestral music of the past 40 years. The great violinistItzhak Perlman was brought in to play the heartbreaking main theme. He was amazed at the authenticity of John Williams's sound, evoking the traditional Jewish music of central Europe. In the scene where the ghetto is being liquidated by the Nazis, the folk song Oyfn Pripetshik ('On the Cooking Stove') is sung by a children's choir. The song was often sung by Spielberg's grandmother to her grandchildren.The clarinet solos heard in the film were recorded by Klezmer virtuoso Giora Feidman. Williams won a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Original Score for the film, his fifth Oscar. |