I'm a film student working out of Jacksonville Florida, and I'm working on a short film over the summer. I have a composer doing my music for me, and we just wrapped on production. He has already written the score and I've listened to it and it is amazing. So I'd like to pay him but I thought it'd be much more creative if I got him a film score instead. A score for a score. If you have any suggestions. To my knowledge he's fairly new to the genre. He does know and like John Williams though. So Any outstanding Williams work would be helpful... Something that is classic Williams.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

My suggestion is that you get a score from the man whose style Williams admired as a beginning composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Warner Bros. Years
This is a real nifty two CD set with many samples of his work with long selections from Adventures of Robin Hood (Probably his best known work) and The Sea Hawk. (These are the original tracks so they may not be as sonically as pleasing as you might like)

Adventures of Robin Hood A re-recording of possibly the greatest adventure score of all time. A real winner and sonically easy on the ear.

Sea Hawk – Another re-recording of a classic film featuring much the same crea as Adventures of Robin Hood, right down to the same orchestra doing the honors.

I own all these CD’s and can tell you that as a fan of John Williams you can’t afford not to expose yourself to his inspiration.

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