Reader to Reader

In response to Christopher Griffin (Saturday Letters, July 14):

Composer John Williams, the man behind the music of Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “E.T.” and most recently “A.I.,” credits the director with the idea to incorporate “When You Wish Upon a Star” in the five-note motif that appears throughout “Close Encounters” (“re mi do do so”).

Williams wrote roughly 350 five-note patterns using the notes from “When You Wish Upon a Star” before he and Spielberg agreed on the now-famous motif.

JAMES NOON

Burbank