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From: barry@ames-lm.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
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Subject: Re: more on John Williams and stealing
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 20:06:13 EDT
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[Is this food for thought? Or thought for food?]
	I agree that accusing Williams of stealing from Stravinsky or
Holst is silly; there are echoes of these composers in many film scores,
but this hardly counts as stealing.
	However, to keep the pot stirred up: listen to the score from
"The Bride of Frankenstein" (by Franz Waxman? Not sure), and
see if you don't think that the "Obiwan Kenobe" theme from SW isn't a
pretty exact quote from it. I believe it comes in a scene where the Baron
thinks his new bride is dead.
                                                Kenn Barry
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