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高中英语 VOA常速听力2012年08月合辑（文本）Writer-of-Americas-Soundtrack-Turns-80素材 LENOX, Massachusetts — For over 50 years, music John Williams has taken us to galaxies far, far away , on adventures around the world. His scores make us feel giddy with joy and occasionally scare us to death as with the music from Jaws, which foreshadowed the impending appearance of the giant man-eating shark. Starting out Williams might be the most recognized contemporary composer in the world but writing music wasn抰 his focus when he was young. My primary focus was always on piano performance, he says. I had no idea that I抎 ever compose music. Williams grew up in a musical household with a father who was a professional jazz percussionist. Williams himself was such a serious pianist that he studied with a famed teacher at the Juilliard School after a stint in the Air Force Band. I did hear players like John Browning and Van Cliburn around the place, he remembers, and I thought to myself, If that抯 the competition, I think I better be a composer.? Changing course Williams moved to Los Angeles, where he played piano on movie and television soundtracks. He picked up jobs arranging music and then composing it. For seven years, Williams worked at Universal Studios, writing TV scores. We had twelve shows a week at Universal that had to be recorded, which meant there were 12 three-hour sessions with orchestra of some kind on the stage every week, three sessions a day, usually, he says. So, I filled one or two of those as a composer and conducted my own work, also. Americas soundtrack Williams wrote his first film score in 1960 and hasn抰 looked back. Whether he抯 writing for Steven Spielberg, George Lucas or Oliver Stone, Williams process remains the same: he writes music the old-fashioned way, with pencil and paper, and doesn抰 begin composing until he抯 seen a rough cut of the film. John Williams wrote the ominous music from Jaws, which foreshadowed the impending appearance of the killer shark. (Univ