Mr. Sigman's last big hit, "Where Do I Begin?," the theme for the 1970 movie "Love Story," illustrated his conviction that the best songs reflected natural conversational language.
ALOE BLACC The most pleasant part of the HBO series "How to Make It in America" is routinely over before the show even begins: the theme song, "I Need A Dollar" by the singer-rapper Aloe Blacc.
When the show begins, the theme tune from the classic US soap opera Dallas blasts out of the loudspeakers.
As Mr. Entremont began the main theme of the first movement, some fudged passages and blurry pedaling seemed worrisome signs.
Former defense secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta -- Obama and Clinton's partner in taking out Bin Laden -- began the ongoing theme of compare and contrast.
The music began — the haunting main theme, played by solo trumpet, but in a tempo not quite as slow as that on the movie track itself.
After all, his music pervades American society: the fearful two-note motif from "Jaws," the five-note intergalactic message from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the fanfares from the themes for "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the slightly off-kilter melody beginning the "Harry Potter" theme.
The second touch began with the theme from "Indiana Jones".
Elated, the crowd began singing the theme song to a Soviet-era spy film, "Shield and Sword".
When Obama praised Jones as "my political godfather," Jones began using the theme music from "The Godfather" as his cell-phone ringtone.
At one point the overhead lights dimmed, the orchestra began playing the theme of the film "Star Wars," and a spotlight focused on an opening in the stage curtain through which Gammonoid was supposed to propel itself onto the stage.
