The 44th President of the United States of America was sworn in today moments after a classical quartet played a new piece composed by none other than John Williams.Air & Simple Gifts is an original composition written especially for Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington D.C.
John Williams is the man who has composed arguably the most recognisable film scores in existence - Star Wars, Jaws, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, and Superman... plus my iPod's Christmas playlist staples from Home Alone.
Williams also scored presidential biopics JFK, Nixon and Steven Spielberg's Amistad - a film based on a real-life mutiny on board a ship carrying captured Africans to a life of slavery.Welcome to a new era, with new ideas...
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