Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

While Steven Spielberg was filming Jaws, he met with composer John Williams to discuss

the score.

Williams offered to play for him the theme he had come up with and Spielberg couldn't

wait to hear it.

The director had expected to hear something melodic and otherworldly, the kind of song

meant to symbolize the majestic terror of a great white shark.

Instead, Spielberg heard only two notes played on the piano, two notes that started out

slow, before increasing in tempo.

You can probably hear those notes now in your mind.

You can picture a dorsal fin breaking the surface of the water as it glides toward

its next victim.

And if you're listening to this near a large body of water, your heart rate probably

just spiked.

John Williams described it as, that combination of sound and image forming a memory.

Music has that effect on us.

We can remember where we were when he first heard a life-changing song, or how we felt

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