[Nick Zwar]

I don’t remember any music that I enjoyed that I then some point later didn’t enjoy anymore. As I said, there was a lot of music that I discovered along the way or learned to like, but never the other way around, I never stopped liking something I once liked.
If I think back, some of the earliest pieces of music that I loved as a child, were Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, Mozart’s Magic Flute (parts of it), Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Smetanas The Moldau, Ravel’s Bolero, the Pink Panther theme, and TV themes such as PETROCELLI, THE WALTONS, THE MAGICIAN, THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
When I was in second grade, I used to watch the short lived TV series THE COWBOYS, which was based on the John Wayne movie with the same title, and I loved and whistled the main theme for that show. The show used John Williams’ theme from movie (of course, I did not know that back then), so this may have been my earliest encounter with the music of John Williams.
So I already enjoyed John Williams, Lalo Schifrin, and Jerry Goldsmith long before I ever knew their names, or knew one day I would collect their music on LPs and CDs. But I never stopped liking these earliest of favorites. 🙂