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Sonorous Storytelling

Notion - John Williams Song - John Williams conducts Jurassic Park I can only steal good quotes or a few famous lines about music and its greatness for all there is to be said, asked, argued or praised about it is already in print. And where words have failed to express a view about music, music itself has expressed it expressly. Music, in all its forms, has a hold on me like it does on very many souls and I consider myself truly blessed to be moved by it. But I have a peculiar interest that has seldom and scarcely been shared by other music lovers I know. Background scores. I was the only 10 year old I knew who owned a Titanic cassette in 1997. Of course, my mother assumed it had other songs besides 'My heart will go on' but little did she know that I had the album version of the song on a separate cassette. I wanted the Titanic cassette for the background score tracks. To this day, 'Never an Absolution' is my favorite James Horner compositi...