About This Song
About "Flying from "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"" by John Williams
Williams's flying theme soars on a wave of wonder, strings and horns capturing the sheer glee of bicycle wheels leaving earth. The orchestration is buoyant, almost giddy, yet tinged with the ache of farewell. It's cinema's purest expression of flight—weightless, hopeful, and impossibly vast.
