Steven Spielberg said it best. "Without John Williams, bikes don't fly, nor do brooms in Quidditch matches, nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder, we do not weep, we do not believe."
This movie was on the cinema when my father dies. I was four years old and my mother takes me to watch this film to try to make me forget the bad moments... My mother pass aways a month ago and here I am fullfiled on tears. Miss my beloved ones. Thank you for this music
This theme has always been my favorite. The movement, the feeling, the magic. John Williams you dear soul, thank you for bringing this to us. Pure magic.
I was 5. 5! When I first watched ET with my entire preschool and our parents. The music was so powerful that when it crescendoed I started to cry. 5 years old. I’ll never forget that.
*All you 80’s kids like me,* how lucky were we to grow up with John William’s music?!!! He brought so much MAGIC!!!!! ✨🌟💫🌟⭐️✨💫✨ I’m FOREVER thankful!!!!!! ✨🌟💫🌟⭐️✨💫✨
@@Martyprod2 Aww!! Too fun!! My sister says ET was the first movie she went to see. I think I was too young to remember, but I definitely remember watching it at home a lot! 🥰🌝🚴 And yeah, gotta love all of Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and so many more!! 🙌🏻🎉
Williams brought the audio magic; George Lucas/Stephen Spielberg brought the visual magic. So many unforgettable movies and their unforgettable soundtracks; we were the luckiest generation.
@@autumninthewoods4522 Yes!! We truly were-my sister and I say this all the time. It was soooo awesome being a kid in the 80s!! I’m making sure my niece and nephew are exposed to these awesome movies too. My niece says I was lucky to grow up in the 80s. 😢 At least she’s getting to somewhat experience it through movies. Life was better without social media though. Things have changed so much!
I played this in the car for my kids and asked them how did it make them feel just listening to it. I have not shown them E.T. and I can guarantee they have never heard this music before. They said it sounds like a fun adventure flying.
That’s the Lydian mode in action in this music. Any orchestral piece that has the Lydian mode will feel like flying. Any music written in a light or bright toned diatonic scale will feel like flying if it’s specifically composed to feel that way. You can hear it in the Rocketeer theme, in the music for the flying theme to Superman, and in other orchestral flying motifs.
Me ha hecho llorar este relato. No cabe duda que la información en el éter es universal; John Williams materializó en este mundo para gozo de todos los que está en todos nuestros corazones. Saludos cordiales!
The fact that your kids said that makes it almost accurate to the actual film. A fun adventure flying. Goes to show how powerful Williams' music can be.
I can not think of another score on earth that has this effect on me.... A little girl with mummy brother and grandma about 4 years old... I sobbed and sobbed.. One of my most wonderful memories... We went to see it at a ABC cinema in Leicester
There are the Lucas Star Wars movies of course, the Harry Potter series and 4 great scores for Mark Rydell - The Reivers, The Cowboys, Cinderella Liberty, and The River.
John Williams is a living legend of film composers. If he had lived in the 17th/18th century he would be in the same category as Bach, Vivaldi etc. Dear John, thank you for the wonderful magic in my youth by composing this beautiful music!
Be strong? For what? Music, especially great music like this, is supposed to stir emotions. For many people this piece brings nostalgic memories back. You're no less a man for weeping. If your wife has an issue with you tearing up at a concert, that's a her problem, not a you problem.
Everytime John Williams plays Flying Theme from ET, there will be a huge round of applause. To this day, it is his signature piece of Movie Magic. Splendid! Kenneth A Huang 8/26/22
You can't really say John Williams has one single signature piece of movie magic... He has made far to many to call a single one out... There Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, a whole Star Wars suite of music, E.T. and my personal favorite.... Superman. I mean, just the beginning brass horns is enough for me to get misty eyed 😀😀
How many of us can say that John Williams wrote the soundtrack to our youth? From this, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the music for the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984.
All of John Williams music is amazing. Superman, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Star Wars and of course ET. But ET is my favourite. Nothing evokes so much emotion and nostalgia for me. I just close my eyes when I hear it and I’m a 9 year old child again. Mixed emotions. So happy to hear it but so sad that it was so long ago…
Hans Zimmer is 30 years younger than John. Michael Giachinno is I think in his 50's now. Between those 3, that's 90% of all memorable film scores since the 80's lol. Ludwig Göransson is pretty young and he's very promising. Alexandre Desplat also did a lot back in his day, but he hasn't worked very much in the last decade.The rest are in a similar position, i.e. Joblonksy, Newman, etc. @Tan-r2l
I play violin for community orchestras and one hot, humid weekend in Sudbury, MAss, celebrating their tri? centennial the whole town was in the field at the local town booths. We, the orchestra were in the high school and on our program was an assortment of compositions, including a folk singer. Our last piece was John William's ET. Well, it started to rain, so the whole town came in the auditorium, SRO. We are finishing up with ET, the strings tremolo on high E, drums...boom boom boom progressively louder (I'm getting goosebumps!) and the last note. Well, I play for the audience and one of the ways I gauge the impact is to count the seconds before applause. I'm counting....nothing? And then it happened. This piece is dynamic and so powerful. I watched this video, it all came back and I cried.
Thanks for your story Jaqueline ! yes, it's sometimes, happen, people are in a special taste, knocked by the performance and the tune itself. it happens, sometimes, you can hear this silence before the applaude on the Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert as well. Must be something very special to play live ! Congrats !
Awww how I loved been at the cinema with my mam to see E.T. Wonderful music and memories that take me right back there. Thank you mam and everyone who made E.T. come to life. Pure love.
Maestro John Williams, thank you for the great themes so many classics of our parents time and crossed to our generation and many to come. Genious. I want to thank him before he dies.
this has to be up there with the best film music ever written. its so evocative. those of us who saw the film in the cinema will never forget the ending with ET getting onto the spaceship and the bikes taking off.
Fantastic piece of music. I bought the 7 inch vinyl of this theme on picture disc and it has ET on the A Side. Wonderful score just Wonderful. Robert Bridgend 🏴
If one were to ask me what piece of John Williams’s work did I think best represents everything he’s done, and what he can do, I will always go to this piece/the entire ending piece of E.T. It really touches on everything he does and is able to use and do. I will always say John Williams is the composer to many of our childhoods.
I absolutely love the E.T. soundtrack, I have listened to "Adventures on Earth" probably a hundred times. Funny, in 2002, I was finishing my master's degree at New England Conservatory, so I was physically on the same city block as this concert but missing it. At the moment of this concert, I was probably practicing badly in a practice room or stuffing my gob at Boston Shawarma and either way, missing this concert.
Dear John You are part of my life , thanks to you I discovered in my childhood the powerful sound of a orchestra and with your music discover new feelings, I cried , laughed and got excited with your huge themes. One of the reason of my love for the cinema are you and your eternal friend and partner Steven Spielberg. Thank you for everything and the most important thing, always will be in our hearts your music is eternal P.D waiting the new score for Indy and meet me again with my childhood
❤ JW looks so youthful. I think that comes from doing what you love for a lifetime.. he does not look his age at all. and he’s still relevant even today. I love him and hope one day to attend his concerts.
It’s amazing the similarities many of Williams’ pieces share, this theme would not seem out of place in Harry Potter, nor would some of the Jurassic World pieces seem out of place in Star Wars, it’s almost like all of them are part of John Williams’ own universe!
Oh god,that last minute at the end sent shivers down my spine, and seeing Elliot staring at the spaceship lifting off sent tears down my eyes,one of the greatest endings ever in a film.😊
I often wonder if John Williams realized the emotion and feeling he creates with the music. I think ET was the first for me as a real feeling-creator, but certainly not the last. But if it had not been for the music, the movie would have likely failed. Behind every successful film needs to be an emotionally present sound score. These types of movie scores will no doubt live on in the annals of time immemorial.
This is the most beautiful music i've ever heard. I heard it first time during Coldplay show in Budapest month ago. I litteraly can't stop thinking about the melodies and the flashbacks and feelings it gaves me when I listen to it.
I may be listening to this video for a music class but having already been familiar with John Williams music before taking the class this did not feel like I was doing an assignment but rather it felt like I was listening to a Legend in film music as John Williams is a beast with his scores and this piece was absolutely incredible!
❤Me ha hecho llorar esta obra. No cabe duda que la información en el campo del éter es universal; John Williams lo materializó en este mundo para gozo de todos lo que está en todos nuestros corazones. Saludos cordiales!
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Steven Spielberg said it best. "Without John Williams, bikes don't fly, nor do brooms in Quidditch matches, nor do men in red capes. There is no Force. Dinosaurs do not walk the earth. We do not wonder, we do not weep, we do not believe."
So true!
I love this, and it’s so true!! ❤️⭐️✨💫
How many times hear this melody , tears come to my eyes , remembering my childhood
Me too...best regrads from Santiago, Chile
I'm sat here in tears 😢
Great childhood memories
This movie was on the cinema when my father dies. I was four years old and my mother takes me to watch this film to try to make me forget the bad moments... My mother pass aways a month ago and here I am fullfiled on tears. Miss my beloved ones. Thank you for this music
@@BXS1001 sorry for your loss , hope this movie make you happy for a fell hours
This theme has always been my favorite. The movement, the feeling, the magic. John Williams you dear soul, thank you for bringing this to us. Pure magic.
I love John ❤️ very much too.
I was 5. 5! When I first watched ET with my entire preschool and our parents. The music was so powerful that when it crescendoed I started to cry. 5 years old. I’ll never forget that.
I always will believe John Williams was gift from God
His music brings frequencies of Happiness up and out to the Universe
Yes! Agree!
The truth bro ❤
I have just orded the 20 cd s book boxset the legend of John Williams
It's not a gift from God. John's good, full stop. Praise him for his glorious music.
I just want to cry when I hear this masterpiece. John Williams, you are the best composer ever.
This composer will be remembered hundreds of years from today.
What an amazing composer/ conductor and orchestra. Timeless!
Some (most) of John Williams' movie pieces are so sublime that it is hard to appreciate that they were composed by man at all.
If there was ever a man directly inspired by God, it's the legendary John Williams.
I’ve been a fan of him since Harry Potter
John Williams is Amadeus Mozart of our time ❤
The reincarnation, almost. Spielberg and Williams are movie magic.
It’s pretty obvious the similarities between John Williams music.
*All you 80’s kids like me,* how lucky were we to grow up with John William’s music?!!! He brought so much MAGIC!!!!! ✨🌟💫🌟⭐️✨💫✨
I’m FOREVER thankful!!!!!! ✨🌟💫🌟⭐️✨💫✨
Yep i saw E.T in theater in 1982 !, temple of doom too. ;).
@@Martyprod2
Aww!! Too fun!! My sister says ET was the first movie she went to see. I think I was too young to remember, but I definitely remember watching it at home a lot! 🥰🌝🚴
And yeah, gotta love all of Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and so many more!! 🙌🏻🎉
Williams brought the audio magic; George Lucas/Stephen Spielberg brought the visual magic. So many unforgettable movies and their unforgettable soundtracks; we were the luckiest generation.
@@autumninthewoods4522
Yes!! We truly were-my sister and I say this all the time. It was soooo awesome being a kid in the 80s!! I’m making sure my niece and nephew are exposed to these awesome movies too. My niece says I was lucky to grow up in the 80s. 😢 At least she’s getting to somewhat experience it through movies. Life was better without social media though. Things have changed so much!
I was a 90s kid, I got to see it all on VHS haha
92 years old today! The greatest!
Back in the day when I was a kid and the world still looked so magical
I’m 30 but I wish I was born sooner
it still is. you must keep the faith
The world WAS magical in the 1980s. Best decade ever, especially to be a child/teen/young adult.
This is my favorite John Williams theme.
explains why your names Dennis then
@@aldoringo439 ok, that one went way over my head, so I'm just going to smile and nod...
@@DennisCaunce maybe having to do with Dennis Brain, one of the most famous French Horn players if all time. This piece absolutely features the horns.
Brought tears to my eyes
I played this in the car for my kids and asked them how did it make them feel just listening to it. I have not shown them E.T. and I can guarantee they have never heard this music before.
They said it sounds like a fun adventure flying.
Yassss!!! So true! Classical music especially in movies just sounds so amazing!
That’s the Lydian mode in action in this music. Any orchestral piece that has the Lydian mode will feel like flying. Any music written in a light or bright toned diatonic scale will feel like flying if it’s specifically composed to feel that way. You can hear it in the Rocketeer theme, in the music for the flying theme to Superman, and in other orchestral flying motifs.
Me ha hecho llorar este relato. No cabe duda que la información en el éter es universal; John Williams materializó en este mundo para gozo de todos los que está en todos nuestros corazones. Saludos cordiales!
The fact that your kids said that makes it almost accurate to the actual film. A fun adventure flying. Goes to show how powerful Williams' music can be.
I have a special connection to this film. I was born 3 months after the uk release and twelve years later my brother was born. His name? Elliot!
I can not think of another score on earth that has this effect on me.... A little girl with mummy brother and grandma about 4 years old... I sobbed and sobbed.. One of my most wonderful memories... We went to see it at a ABC cinema in Leicester
To have lived during John Williams scores and Steven Spielberg's movies has truly been a blessed life! We were all so fortunate.
And the Fabelmans proves they can still make some magic
There are the Lucas Star Wars movies of course, the Harry Potter series and 4 great scores for Mark Rydell - The Reivers, The Cowboys, Cinderella Liberty, and The River.
John Williams is a living legend of film composers. If he had lived in the 17th/18th century he would be in the same category as Bach, Vivaldi etc. Dear John, thank you for the wonderful magic in my youth by composing this beautiful music!
I tried to be strong when I saw a John Williams performance with my wife at Heinz Hall in 2023. I hope she didn't see the tears filling up my eyes. 😭
Be strong? For what? Music, especially great music like this, is supposed to stir emotions. For many people this piece brings nostalgic memories back. You're no less a man for weeping. If your wife has an issue with you tearing up at a concert, that's a her problem, not a you problem.
@@Daniel-xg3ul It was just a lighthearted comment but thanks for taking it to therapy session extremes.
ET's my favorite movie of all time, this music brings me to tears every single time. John Williams is THE MAN!
Everytime John Williams plays Flying Theme from ET, there will be a huge round of applause.
To this day, it is his signature piece of Movie Magic. Splendid!
Kenneth A Huang 8/26/22
I mean I would argue the title of movie MAGIC belongs to Hedwigs Theme but i agree ❤
You can't really say John Williams has one single signature piece of movie magic... He has made far to many to call a single one out...
There Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, a whole Star Wars suite of music, E.T. and my personal favorite.... Superman. I mean, just the beginning brass horns is enough for me to get misty eyed 😀😀
How many of us can say that John Williams wrote the soundtrack to our youth? From this, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the music for the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984.
Don't forget Jaws, Jurassic Park, Superman, Star Wars...yeah, this list could go on a while. The man writes magic!
All of John Williams music is amazing. Superman, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Star Wars and of course ET. But ET is my favourite. Nothing evokes so much emotion and nostalgia for me. I just close my eyes when I hear it and I’m a 9 year old child again. Mixed emotions. So happy to hear it but so sad that it was so long ago…
Us film composers have a big responsibility to not let this genre and stylism die
And I don’t see many taking up his place. Jerry goldsmith,James Horner were there but they passed away.
Hans Zimmer is 30 years younger than John. Michael Giachinno is I think in his 50's now. Between those 3, that's 90% of all memorable film scores since the 80's lol. Ludwig Göransson is pretty young and he's very promising. Alexandre Desplat also did a lot back in his day, but he hasn't worked very much in the last decade.The rest are in a similar position, i.e. Joblonksy, Newman, etc. @Tan-r2l
John Williams has written every memory I have from growing up.
I play violin for community orchestras and one hot, humid weekend in Sudbury, MAss, celebrating their tri? centennial the whole town was in the field at the local town booths. We, the orchestra were in the high school and on our program was an assortment of compositions, including a folk singer. Our last piece was John William's ET. Well, it started to rain, so the whole town came in the auditorium, SRO. We are finishing up with ET, the strings tremolo on high E, drums...boom boom boom progressively louder (I'm getting goosebumps!) and the last note. Well, I play for the audience and one of the ways I gauge the impact is to count the seconds before applause. I'm counting....nothing? And then it happened. This piece is dynamic and so powerful. I watched this video, it all came back and I cried.
Thanks for your story Jaqueline ! yes, it's sometimes, happen, people are in a special taste, knocked by the performance and the tune itself. it happens, sometimes, you can hear this silence before the applaude on the Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert as well.
Must be something very special to play live ! Congrats !
Doesn't matter how many times I hear it, I never get tired of listening to it.
Awww how I loved been at the cinema with my mam to see E.T.
Wonderful music and memories that take me right back there. Thank you mam and everyone who made E.T. come to life. Pure love.
The greatest film composer
1:48 French Horn owns the whole scene.
Maestro John Williams, thank you for the great themes so many classics of our parents time and crossed to our generation and many to come. Genious.
I want to thank him before he dies.
Love watching him direct.
It’s “conduct”. I think “direct” is more German?
KH: THE FLYING THEME FROM “ ET. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL “.
JOHN WILLIAMS CONDUCTED THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA.
Kenneth Huang 10/9/23.
whoow I love it
every time that I'm listen to that theme tears come to my eyes
This brings me to tears.
This brings me back to being a kid back in the 80s. Life was so.much easier. Mom and Dad were in their prime and still alive.
this has to be up there with the best film music ever written. its so evocative. those of us who saw the film in the cinema will never forget the ending with ET getting onto the spaceship and the bikes taking off.
God bless you John William. Welcome to you.
This always makes me 😭
From deep of heart I love this music
Fantastic piece of music. I bought the 7 inch vinyl of this theme on picture disc and it has ET on the A Side. Wonderful score just Wonderful. Robert Bridgend 🏴
Beautiful
Beautiful memories! Soulful wonderful music!!
I just love that you have all these snippets from different points in John Williams' career!
And again, nice clean sound!
Many of his themes are comprised of a mere handful of notes, but Williams was a master at putting those notes in the right order.
Most beautiful ,Amazing theme song i ever heard.
I forst saw the film when i was 22 and God!!! Tears.......
Elliot: He's a man from outer space. We're taking him to get back to his space ship.
Greg: Can't he just 'Beam up?'
Elliot: This is reality Greg.
Still gets me. ❤❤❤
If one were to ask me what piece of John Williams’s work did I think best represents everything he’s done, and what he can do, I will always go to this piece/the entire ending piece of E.T. It really touches on everything he does and is able to use and do.
I will always say John Williams is the composer to many of our childhoods.
To me it's the Superman theme. That piece of music is just 🤩😍🤩😍🤩
For me nothing tops his music for Superman!
How lucky were/are we?? 🤩😍
I’m 30 and been a fan since Harry Potter
Dreams live forever..... memories never fade
One of the many great compositions o John Williams.
Masterpiece!! So many childhood memories 👏👌
OMG JOHN WILLIAMS IS A GENIUS
My Childhood movie i used to play my bmx bike then
My all-time favorite movie soundtrack!!! John Williams, musical genius! My hero!
John Williams talent is nothing short of God given talent!
It takes me to another world when i hear this theme
This is the song I’m useing for my figure skating program
Hola buenas noches ❤
Ah, the incomparable John Williams! His music will live on forever!
I absolutely love the E.T. soundtrack, I have listened to "Adventures on Earth" probably a hundred times. Funny, in 2002, I was finishing my master's degree at New England Conservatory, so I was physically on the same city block as this concert but missing it. At the moment of this concert, I was probably practicing badly in a practice room or stuffing my gob at Boston Shawarma and either way, missing this concert.
😊
Nakatanggap ba ng musical scoring ang pelikula na ito. Ang husay.
''i'll be right here !!!" crying all the time. E.T. is a masterpiece movie and John Williams is the magic.
Dear John
You are part of my life , thanks to you I discovered in my childhood the powerful sound of a orchestra and with your music discover new feelings, I cried , laughed and got excited with your huge themes. One of the reason of my love for the cinema are you and your eternal friend and partner Steven Spielberg. Thank you for everything and the most important thing, always will be in our hearts your music is eternal
P.D waiting the new score for Indy and meet me again with my childhood
Just magic
❤ JW looks so youthful. I think that comes from doing what you love for a lifetime.. he does not look his age at all. and he’s still relevant even today. I love him and hope one day to attend his concerts.
The French horns are amazing in this 0:59
French Horns always evoke a feeling of adventure.
Yeah, HORNS! Also, I love a good dramatic timpani ending!
It’s amazing the similarities many of Williams’ pieces share, this theme would not seem out of place in Harry Potter, nor would some of the Jurassic World pieces seem out of place in Star Wars, it’s almost like all of them are part of John Williams’ own universe!
E.T. was such a great movie to grow up with. NOT SO HIGH! E.T. NOT SO HIGH!!!
Absolutely thrilling!
Oh god,that last minute at the end sent shivers down my spine, and seeing Elliot staring at the spaceship lifting off sent tears down my eyes,one of the greatest endings ever in a film.😊
This score will make a grown man tear up. Masterpiece.
All music composed this great man, John Williams is other worldly. Long live and prosper John
I often wonder if John Williams realized the emotion and feeling he creates with the music. I think ET was the first for me as a real feeling-creator, but certainly not the last. But if it had not been for the music, the movie would have likely failed. Behind every successful film needs to be an emotionally present sound score. These types of movie scores will no doubt live on in the annals of time immemorial.
Of course he did, that is his genius!
He brings back classic charm way into the 20th century and 21st century, when people still believe magic is possible.
A local movie theater is showing E.T. for one night only this Friday, and I'm listening to this in preparation of seeing it.
I used to live near filming locations from E.T. while living in the valley. My friends Ian and Peggy also met working as background on this film.
I have gone......All emotions at fever pitch... Tears..Love..Sadness...Joy...All at once...... MAGIC!!!!!!
John Williams is a complete genius!!! ❤
This is the most beautiful music i've ever heard. I heard it first time during Coldplay show in Budapest month ago. I litteraly can't stop thinking about the melodies and the flashbacks and feelings it gaves me when I listen to it.
If you’re a millennial and the tail end of gen x, John williams raised and shaped all of us! ❤️❤️🫡
MY TEARS!!
UTTERLY, AWESOME AND IMPRESSIVE BEYOND EMOTIONS.
Ah,...The master at work!
Immortality
Absolutely beautiful
Such a nice show, I haven't heard this since it came out
Isso faz qualquer homem chorar
They played that at the San Francisco Symphony when I went last year in August 2021!!
Simplesmente genial, John Williams e também Ennio Morricone são insubstituíveis.
Even if this wasn't in ET, I would stil consider it one of the greatest and most emotional pieces of music I've ever heard.
Nice remaster! Bravo 😍
One of the most iconic and amazing films scores ever!!
Simply stunning ❤❤❤❤❤
I may be listening to this video for a music class but having already been familiar with John Williams music before taking the class this did not feel like I was doing an assignment but rather it felt like I was listening to a Legend in film music as John Williams is a beast with his scores and this piece was absolutely incredible!
Childhood memories 😢😢😢😢
❤Me ha hecho llorar esta obra. No cabe duda que la información en el campo del éter es universal; John Williams lo materializó en este mundo para gozo de todos lo que está en todos nuestros corazones. Saludos cordiales!
Lembro da minha infância e sempre choro 😢