Just two notes, to encapsulate a film’s title character – John Williams’ famous ‘da, duh’ theme to Jaws (1975) earned the composer his second Oscar and has become one of the most memorable themes in film history. But when he first composed it, director Steven Spielberg thought he was having him on. In an exclusive interview for Classic FM in his 90th birthday year, Williams explained: “Initially...I did a score for Robert Altman called Images, which was all about Japanese sounds and shakuhachi and percussion and so on, and that’s the music that Steven [Spielberg] thought he should have...for Jaws. Something with that complexity and all of that dissonance and so on”.

Source: Classic FM