Vancouver Symphony Orchestra takes a trip through John Williams’s classic score, screening Raiders of the Lost Ark, March 21 and 22
Conductor Andrew Crust leads the orchestra through the first and best Indiana Jones movie
Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (like you didn’t know)
The Vancouver Symphony Opera presents Raiders of the Lost Ark March 21 and 22 at 7:00 pm
OKAY, HEAR us out: in American cinema, there is no figure who towers higher than composer John Williams.
Still working at 92-years-old and with five Oscars to his name, the man has collaborated with everyone—and we mean everyone—of note in Hollywood, including Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Clint Eastwood, and Brian DePalma, in a career that spans a near century of popular culture, beginning with early credits on Gilligan’s Island and Lost in Space and mentorship under figures he would eventually succeed like Henry Mancini, Bernard Hermann, and Jerry Goldsmith.
Williams’s most widely recognized partnership, of course, is with the Spielberg-Lucas juggernaut, and his soundtrack to Raiders of the Lost Ark is arguably the one we all love the most. Led by conductor Andrew Crust, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra brings a live score to a screening of the 1981 classic at the Orpheum, which will surely still be ringing in our heads days later, with its bravado title theme accompanying such acts of derring-do as a midnight trip to Fresh Slice pizza. 
