In an interview with BMI, composer John Williams calls the opportunity to score all seven films in the Star Wars franchise “probably unique in the history of film.” Williams, one of the most popular and successful American orchestral composers in the history of film, has scored almost 80 films, including Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Superman, Jaws and the Indiana Jones films. For his work, he has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and 22 GRAMMYs.
Of the Star Wars films, he says:
I’m just lucky. To be able to work for nearly 40 years, off and on, on the same subject and to be able to add themes and musical material to the glossary of themes that went before and try, as I have tried in the new film, to keep it organically related, is not only a unique challenge but tremendous fun. And I feel very privileged to have that very special, unique opportunity after 40 years, and to have the energy to do it. I feel nothing but great good fortune.
Read the entire interview here.