Wind Symphony celebrates composer John Williams

The Southeastern Wind Symphony paid tribute to film composer John Williams with an afternoon concert at Pottle Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 17 and was conducted by Dr. Glen J. Hemberger, professor of music and director of bands. The Wind Symphony played some of the most recognizable music in the history of motion pictures. John Williams was born in 1932 and after attending the University of California-Los Angeles in the 1950s, he started writing music for television, eventually moving on to feature films in the early 1970s. He met his most constant collaborator, director Steven Spielberg, and wrote his first famous score in 1975, “Jaws.” He would gain even more acclaim after scoring George Lucas’ “Star Wars” and Spielberg’s “E.T.: The