Lights, camera, music!

Some of the most indelible, memorable and emotionally resonant moments in cinema are closely associated with music: There’s something about the perfect marriage between image and song that burns into our collective consciousness.

Think of Judy Garland’s doe-eyed rendition of “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz,” or Humphrey Bogart meeting Ingrid Bergman’s gaze after hearing “As Time Goes By” in “Casablanca,” or a love-struck Gene Kelly gleefully splashing through puddles to the title tune in “Singin’ in the Rain.” The visuals are inextricably linked with the music.

This weekend, the Spokane Symphony will be paying tribute to the magic of movie music with its ongoing SuperPops series, which will feature some of the most acclaimed and recognized scores in recent film history. John Williams, perhaps the most well-known film composer, is heavily represented in the symphony’s program – you’ll hear his work from “Schindler’s List” and the “Harry Potter” and “Star Wars” series – as are the Oscar-winning likes of James Horner, Howard Shore and Henry Mancini.

Also appearing on the program is music from the James Bond franchise, which, since its inception in 1962, has produced one popular title tune after another. Everyone from Paul McCartney (“Live and Let Die”) to Duran Duran (“A View to a Kill”) to Madonna (“Die Another Day”) have performed tracks for “007” credit sequences, and seven of the 23 tunes have been Top 10 hits on the Billboard charts.

Local jazz vocalist Abbey Crawford will be accompanying the symphony in a rendition of “Skyfall,” the most recent “Bond” theme, and it’s the kind of performance she relishes.

“It’s not like anything you ever experience as a singer,” she said. “You have this group of people behind you, and they’re all so kind and excited to have you there. It’s like a little girl’s dream come true. It’s like, ‘Here, Abbey, go ahead and be on this big, beautiful stage with this big, beautiful symphony, and please, would you sing this fantastic song?’ It’s the best thing you could ever imagine as a singer.”

Recorded and co-written by Adele in 2012, “Skyfall” is the only “Bond” theme to ever win either an Oscar or Golden Globe for best original song, and it’s already become one of the singer’s signature tunes.

“When you perform a song that’s so well-known coming from a franchise that’s legendary, there’s always the hope that I do it justice,” Crawford said. “I won’t sing it just like Adele does, because I’m not her. … I’m more of a belter, and she’s got a really low, silky, smoky voice. I’m not going to stand up there and be Adele; I’m going to be my own version of a Bond girl.”

Along with “Skyfall,” the program features snippets of scores from “Gone With the Wind,” “Titanic,” “Back to the Future” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” as well as pieces from the “Indiana Jones,” “The Lord of the Rings” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. They’re all rousing pieces, and you will no doubt be conjuring images of the accompanying films in your head as the symphony performs.

“The rest of the program is spectacular,” Crawford said. “I’m very excited to be a part of it because I love movie music. I’m a huge fan of ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ – they’ve got all of the music they could possibly fit into the same program. The fact that I get to be a part of it is a huge honor.”