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John Williams

American composer and conductorWikipedia

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Oct 27, 2026

Rebecca SheirHOST
1:28
Ayesha Rascoe currently hosts Weekend Edition Sunday and the Saturday episodes of Up First.
Rebecca SheirHOST
1:33
Christian Habel has toured with Sting, Barbra Streisand, and Billy Joel, and most recently performed John Williams' score for Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
Rebecca SheirHOST
1:41
You Broadway fans may have heard him perform the music of Wicked.
Rebecca SheirHOST
1:45
So, circle around, everyone, for the sweetest sounds.

16 MINS LATER

Rebecca SheirHOST
18:07
Our featured instrument this week was, yes, the violin, played by our guest artist Christian Habel.
Rebecca SheirHOST
18:13
Along with his lengthy stint in the Broadway musical Wicked, Christian has toured with Sting, Barbra Streisand, and Billy Joel.
Rebecca SheirHOST
18:19
He also performed John Williams' score for the latest Indiana Jones movie, The Dial of Destiny.
Rebecca SheirHOST
18:24
To learn more about the violin and to see a picture of Christian Habel, visit our website, wbur.org. Grownups, if you enjoy Circle Round, please leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast app.
Matt MarrHOST
20:40
What a catchy tune.
Matt MarrHOST
20:43
John Williams.
Matt MarrHOST
20:44
I think he's going to
Jake AnthonyHOST
20:44
be something.
Matt MarrHOST
20:46
I tell you, that kid's got something.
Matt MarrHOST
20:48
That John Williams.
Matt MarrHOST
20:50
So she says, you know, we met.
Matt MarrHOST
20:52
I didn't think you were going to be that who you were.
Blake HowardHOST
27:20
Yeah,
Garth FranklinGUEST
27:21
but the reason that works is you also play that little bit of the John Williams greatest theme with it, and it's like, oh, this is so good.
Garth FranklinGUEST
27:28
That's fan service done right.
Blake HowardHOST
27:29
Yeah, that three seconds.
Mike BithellHOST
2:24
talking a lot.
Mike BithellHOST
2:25
John fucking Williams.
Mike BithellHOST
2:25
Yeah, I get it.
Mike BithellHOST
2:26
We have to turn the cameras
Alanah PearceHOST
2:27
off.
Alanah PearceHOST
2:27
Yeah, it's John Williams.
Andrew ArcadiGUEST
2:29
It gets a little contentious.
Alanah PearceHOST
2:31
Danny Elfman.
IsaacHOST
49:12
But yeah, anything else that you guys want to touch on or throw in there? I'm sure there's a lot, but anything that you just want to throw in the mix?
AnneGUEST
49:21
I mean, I'll just say that the John Williams score is so incredible.
AnneGUEST
49:25
Like, it's so incredible.
AnneGUEST
49:27
I mean, I don't even think I need to, like, elaborate.
AshleyGUEST
50:03
so beautiful.
AnneGUEST
50:04
I'll say one more thing about it because it's so iconic, but I saw...
AnneGUEST
50:09
Like a John Williams show at Hollywood Bowl.
AnneGUEST
50:11
This was years ago.
Gabe BottHOST
40:00
And that was so cool because it carried into the prequel films of there being the sound effect moment, the scene that the sound effects got to be the star of the show, starting with the speeder bike in Return of the Jedi.
Jason GibnerHOST
40:18
so good and i would even say too that that first kind of uh got a taste we talked about this during the uh marion's bar shootout in rares of the lost ark where all of a sudden the music completely drops out and it's just a symphony of gunshots and punches and fire and yeah so cool Four days later, Lucas locks two reels of Revenge of the Jedi, which are then handed over to John Williams, and...
Jason GibnerHOST
40:51
Two days after that, Sid Gannis, vice president, sends a memo to Lucas and Kazanjian that they already had $16 million in ticket guarantees so far with 125 theaters committed to book the movie that summer.
Jason GibnerHOST
41:09
And the goal was to get Return of the Jedi or Revenge of the Jedi at that time into 900 theaters, which at that time was massive.

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Jason GibnerHOST
47:45
And on December 4th, Lucas and a very small private group watched the very unfinished Return of the Jedi at the Marina Theater in San Francisco.
Jason GibnerHOST
47:56
And what? Still very much unfinished.
Jason GibnerHOST
48:00
No finished John Williams score.
Jason GibnerHOST
48:02
Ben Burtt's audio wizardry not quite there yet.
DanGUEST
29:23
And like the Star Wars music in the background,
TomHOST
29:26
John Williams himself.
DanGUEST
29:28
Yeah, honestly.
DanGUEST
29:29
I had to chop it out.
KruserHOST
12:09
At the UK Singletary Center for the Arts, This will be tomorrow night and on Sunday, heroes and villains, symphonic movie music.
KruserHOST
12:19
Some of the most thrilling themes of the film world's most legendary composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, and more.
KruserHOST
12:27
Adults, $35, maybe a little more depending on where you sit.
KruserHOST
12:33
Youth and student with ID, $10.
Mike PetruskyHOST
4:53
I love what they call incidental music, which is like classical used in movies.
Mike PetruskyHOST
4:57
So John Williams, Star Wars.
Mike PetruskyHOST
4:59
I'm a huge Star Wars and movie nerd.
Mike PetruskyHOST
5:01
So every time I hear those themes, they touch me.
Hannah MeislinHOST
36:01
It is actually a little bit more Kylo's theme, a little bit less Imperial March.
Hannah MeislinHOST
36:04
But like, it's still very clearly trying to hint at like, That kind of like John Williams villainous marching galactic sound.
Hannah MeislinHOST
36:14
Loved it.
Hannah MeislinHOST
36:15
They also play one of the scenes when Olive's in the lab.

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