1. 'Olympic Fanfare and Theme' (Los Angeles, 1984) The U.S. Olympic Committee commissioned Williams to compose the official theme for the 23rd Summer Games, held in Los Angeles in 1984.

In the storied career of John Williams, ... and numerous other movie scores.But the composer has also helped evoked visions of gold medals ever since composing the Olympic fanfare and theme, ...

Olympic coverage really wouldn’t be the same without the distinctive music from John Williams, whose stirring Olympic Fanfare and Theme will float continually through NBC’s Rio coverage as an ...

You’ve heard it every day during the 2016 Rio Olympics and if you’ve watched NBC’s Olympic coverage in the past, you’ve heard it constantly in 1996, 2000. 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 ...

The Olympic theme song has been a staple of the Summer and Winter Games, but where did the tune come from? Here's a look at the origins of the song.

NBC, which had used Williams’ The Olympic Spirit song on its 1988 Summer Olympic coverage and again on its 1992 Barcelona Summer Games, began using Fanfare on its coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Summer – ...

John Williams has been the go-to composer for inspiring Olympic music for more than three decades. John Williams' Olympic themes, ranked by greatness | Sporting News Canada Skip to main content ...

In 1963, the theme song was solely Arnaud's "Bugler's Dream", which he composed in 1958. It wasn't until the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles that Williams' "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" became ...

Olympic coverage really wouldn’t be the same without the distinctive music from John Williams, whose stirring Olympic Fanfare and Theme will float continually through NBC’s Rio coverage as an ...