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Composer John Williams has been showered with numerous Oscar nominations thanks to contributions to film productions from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It is less known that he has also written a number of concertos for prominent classical musicians. John Williams wrote the atmospheric TreeSong concert for violinist Gil Shaham. The music grew out of Williams' fascination with a particular type… of giant pine, a specimen of which was in the Boston Public Garden. This Mesozoic tree species was considered extinct until live specimens were found in China in the 1940s. Thanks to the efforts of a Harvard University botanist, a number of seedlings of this living fossil ended up in the United States. TreeSong is also the title of a CD on which Gil Shaham plays works by John Williams. The 1974 Violin Concerto can be heard on this CD in a revised 1998 version. Williams dedicated the work to his late wife, the actress and singer Barbara Ruick Williams. The CD ends with three parts from Schindler's List. (HJ) _more
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