John Williams
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Oct 27, 2026
The Sweetest Sounds
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1:28Rebecca SheirHOST
Ayesha Rascoe currently hosts Weekend Edition Sunday and the Saturday episodes of Up First.
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1:33Rebecca SheirHOST
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.
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1:41Rebecca SheirHOST
You Broadway fans may have heard him perform the music of Wicked.
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1:45Rebecca SheirHOST
So, circle around, everyone, for the sweetest sounds.
16 MINS LATER
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18:07Rebecca SheirHOST
Our featured instrument this week was, yes, the violin, played by our guest artist Christian Habel.
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18:13Rebecca SheirHOST
Along with his lengthy stint in the Broadway musical Wicked, Christian has toured with Sting, Barbra Streisand, and Billy Joel.
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18:19Rebecca SheirHOST
He also performed John Williams' score for the latest Indiana Jones movie, The Dial of Destiny.
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18:24Rebecca SheirHOST
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.
Hunt For Love S204 "The Girl Who Fell Off Her Stool"
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20:40Matt MarrHOST
What a catchy tune.
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20:43Matt MarrHOST
John Williams.
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20:44Matt MarrHOST
I think he's going to
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20:44Jake AnthonyHOST
be something.
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20:46Matt MarrHOST
I tell you, that kid's got something.
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20:48Matt MarrHOST
That John Williams.
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20:50Matt MarrHOST
So she says, you know, we met.
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20:52Matt MarrHOST
I didn't think you were going to be that who you were.
ONE HOT TAKE: Clayface w/ Garth Franklin
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27:20Blake HowardHOST
Yeah,
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27:21Garth FranklinGUEST
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.
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27:28Garth FranklinGUEST
That's fan service done right.
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27:29Blake HowardHOST
Yeah, that three seconds.
191. One Year of DISPATCH! (ft. Game Director Nick Herman & Composer Andrew Arcadi)
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2:24Mike BithellHOST
talking a lot.
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2:25Mike BithellHOST
John fucking Williams.
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2:25Mike BithellHOST
Yeah, I get it.
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2:26Mike BithellHOST
We have to turn the cameras
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2:27Alanah PearceHOST
off.
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2:27Alanah PearceHOST
Yeah, it's John Williams.
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2:29Andrew ArcadiGUEST
It gets a little contentious.
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2:31Alanah PearceHOST
Danny Elfman.
#118 | E.T. (1982) Family Movie Review | Nostalgic Movies
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49:12IsaacHOST
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?
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49:21AnneGUEST
I mean, I'll just say that the John Williams score is so incredible.
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49:25AnneGUEST
Like, it's so incredible.
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49:27AnneGUEST
I mean, I don't even think I need to, like, elaborate.
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50:03AshleyGUEST
so beautiful.
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50:04AnneGUEST
I'll say one more thing about it because it's so iconic, but I saw...
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50:09AnneGUEST
Like a John Williams show at Hollywood Bowl.
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50:11AnneGUEST
This was years ago.
Episode 502 - The Year That Made RETURN OF THE JEDI
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40:00Gabe BottHOST
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.
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40:18Jason GibnerHOST
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...
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40:51Jason GibnerHOST
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.
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41:09Jason GibnerHOST
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.
6 MINS LATER
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47:45Jason GibnerHOST
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.
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47:56Jason GibnerHOST
And what? Still very much unfinished.
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48:00Jason GibnerHOST
No finished John Williams score.
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48:02Jason GibnerHOST
Ben Burtt's audio wizardry not quite there yet.
The Scariest Moments in Gamers when we were Kids! #73
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29:23DanGUEST
And like the Star Wars music in the background,
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29:26TomHOST
John Williams himself.
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29:28DanGUEST
Yeah, honestly.
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29:29DanGUEST
I had to chop it out.
Kruser and Krew 10-23-26
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12:09KruserHOST
At the UK Singletary Center for the Arts, This will be tomorrow night and on Sunday, heroes and villains, symphonic movie music.
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12:19KruserHOST
Some of the most thrilling themes of the film world's most legendary composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, and more.
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12:27KruserHOST
Adults, $35, maybe a little more depending on where you sit.
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12:33KruserHOST
Youth and student with ID, $10.
Ep. 425: "Don't Commute to Compute" – Real Estate Strategy, Workplace Experience, and the Future of Facility Management with Sue Asprey Price of JLL
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4:53Mike PetruskyHOST
I love what they call incidental music, which is like classical used in movies.
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4:57Mike PetruskyHOST
So John Williams, Star Wars.
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4:59Mike PetruskyHOST
I'm a huge Star Wars and movie nerd.
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5:01Mike PetruskyHOST
So every time I hear those themes, they touch me.
Special Roundtable: The Love Hypothesis Movie (Explicit)
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36:01Hannah MeislinHOST
It is actually a little bit more Kylo's theme, a little bit less Imperial March.
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36:04Hannah MeislinHOST
But like, it's still very clearly trying to hint at like, That kind of like John Williams villainous marching galactic sound.
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36:14Hannah MeislinHOST
Loved it.
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36:15Hannah MeislinHOST
They also play one of the scenes when Olive's in the lab.
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