[HPforGrownups] Dayton's Harry Potter Show - Part one

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 5327

Peg Kerr wrote:

> The other thing was the music.  It was not so loud so as to be
> obtrusive, but it also added pleasantly to the experience.  It was
> something stirring, exciting, something that would make a terrific
> accompaniment to a really good quidditch game.  Although I had never
> heard the melody before, I could swear it was John Williams--it had that
> brass-and-strings Boston Pops sound.  I believe that he is going to be
> doing the soundtrack to the movie--perhaps he has already composed some
> of it and they used it here?  I know that this show was done in
> conjunction with Warner Brother's input.

Wow, I wish I could find that chart my dad had done, where he took each of
John Williams' scores and showed the classical works they were based on. And
he used "based on" in the most generous sense possible. Oh, well, if
Williams does the score it'll be drawn from a quality sample, eh?

--Amanda