...John Williams composed the music and the mounting tension it conveys for the soundtrack of the movie "Jaws."Tuba player Tommy Johnson lifted those relentlessly accelerating notes off the page, giving voice to the shark while bringing terror to the movie audience.
A "first call" studio musician who played tuba on thousands of film scores over nearly 50 years, Johnson died Oct. 16 from complications of cancer and kidney failure...
...He received a bachelor's degree in music from USC in 1956 and a year later married Patricia Lehman, a fellow music student...
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