Rupert/Dylan/dancing movies/Blues Brothers

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Andrew MacIan <andrew_macian at y...> 
wrote:
> Rush job, IMO.  After all, he had the music for the
> Olympics to get done -and- the score for Episode II. 
> I only caught on that it was Williams near the end of
> the film, and then only because of the similarity of
> the score to that of Episode IV.
> 
> BTW, does the Olympic theme strike you as being
> terribly familiar?  If so, think about Handel's
> 'Messiah'....
 
If Williams likes Handel, maybe the reason why Williams steals from 
HIMSELF more than anyone else is that Handel did the same.  There 
are bits in Messiah from a fundraiser Handel wrote for a foundling 
hospital in London, as well as several Messiah choruses based on 
Italian-language love duets Handel scored years earlier.  (My 
conductor calls these the "duet choruses" because of this.)  OTOH 
and IMO, Handel was stealing much better material than Williams when 
he stole from himself <snerk>....

--Barb
(wishing John Williams and James Horner would retire from doing 
movie scores to give some fresh young composers a chance!)