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Although the new JOHN WILLIAMS biography isn’t formally released until early next month, I finished reading my copy a few days ago in a thoroughly, thoroughly enriching experience. In the acknowledgments chapter Thor’s name is mentioned, so I presume you have also read the book, Thor?

Concerning other books related to film music, I have just purchased the autobiography of Robert Russell Bennett – the unbelievably brilliant Broadway orchestrator and composer – who’s music I only recently discovered having spent some of my summer re-watching movie musicals from the 50s and 60s. It is striking how little information there is to be found online about a man whose art and craft surely belongs among the better musical minds of the previous century.