[Graham Watt]

I see, Thor, that you mention North’s THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY as fitting the bill. I would also include Goldsmith’s prologue piece to that, “The Artist Who Did Not Want To Paint”. If Michelangelo got Divine Inspiration for works, it sounds to me that Goldsmith (and North of course) found a way to express that. It doesn’t even have to have a directly religious inspiration, especially when it comes second hand, but I detect a sense of great humanity in the Goldsmith, as if he’s addressing what Man can achieve through Art. It can reach “the heavens”.

Again I see that although you mention INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, and INDY AND THE LAST CRUSADE, there’s nothing on “The Map Room” from the first film. Is that a different kind of thing? In this case I’m not sure how permeable the parameters are. If we push them a bit, I can think of many instances of music that expresses the awe and wonder of science for example.