There are directors and there are composers, and then there are pairings so fused that it becomes hard to imagine one without the other. Hitchcock had Herrmann, at least for a while. Burton has Elfman, most of the time. But no director-composer relationship in film history has lasted longer, produced more, or shaped the sound … Continue reading Two Notes, Five Notes, and Fifty Years: How John Williams Became the Sound of Steven Spielberg