21.   Yet film composers appear to remain hopeful about the future.

22.   Yet he resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, complaining that film composers were insufficiently recognized.

23.   Famed film composer John Williams provides a heroic theme to open the Summer Olympics.

24.   He took movie courses in college and considered becoming a film composer but found his niche when he began accompanying friends in recitals.

25.   Smedvig, an executive with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was given away by John Williams, the Hollywood film composer and Boston Pops conductor laureate.