Click below to watch the world premiere performance of John Williams’ Quartet La Jolla, which took place last August at the SummerFest. You can also watch the video on the YouTube page (available in HD 720p). (WILLIAMS’ ‘QUARTET LA JOLLA’ PREMIERE…
Category: Concert Works
Williams Concert Works to be Performed Live this Month
The Naples Concert Band will perform John Williams’ “America, the Dream Goes On” as part of their November 13 concert to take place in Naples, Florida. Two weeks later (November 26), Williams’ “Olympic Fanfare and Theme” will be performed by…
Lynn Harrell performs “A Young Person’s Guide to the Cello”
The HEARTbeats Foundation was honored to participate in the 2011 Daniel Pearl World Music Days Event on October 30th, 2011. Founders Helen Nightengale and Lynn Harrell were joined by board member Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels and friend Bob Packham for three…
Innocuous as a Film Score: Williams’ Sinfonietta for Winds and Percussion
By Frank Lehman On October 25th, roughly two months before the movie is released in American theaters, John Williams’ soundtrack for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin will hit European shelves–thus ending a three year score drought from the 79 year old…
Oboe Concerto to be Performed this Month
On October 28, the Longy Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Julian Pellicano will perform John Williams’ Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra, featuring oboist Keisuke Wakao. The concert will take place at the First Church of Cambridge (Massachusetts). More details at the conductor’s website (pdf…
John Williams’ ‘On Willows And Birches’ (Concerto for Harp and Orchestra) Released Digitally
John Williams: On Willows and Birches, Concerto for Harp and Orchestra A previously unreleased live recording of On Willows and Birches, Concerto for Harp and Orchestra written by Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams for former BSO Principal Harpist Ann…
San Diego, August 19, 2011 (‘Quartet La Jolla’ Premiere)
“John Williams has summoned heroes for the movies, victors for the Olympics and whatever the cat brings in for the nightly news. But he also makes news. He wrote “Air and Simple Gifts” — a quartet for clarinet, piano, violin…
John Williams to Premiere Work at SummerFest
The genesis of “Quartet La Jolla” was a request by SummerFest music director Cho-Liang “Jimmy” Lin, who encountered Williams while performing at Tanglewood, that Williams write a piece for Lin’s California festival.
‘On Willows and Birches’, ‘Olympic Fanfare’ to be Performed Live
On November 12 & 13, John Williams’ On Willows and Birches will be performed by the Westchester Philharmonic with harpist Ann Hobson Pilot, for whom it was written by Williams in 2009. Another Williams concert piece, 1984’s Olympic Fanfare and Theme, will be part…
Williams Writes ‘Comical’ Cello Piece
John Williams recently composed a ‘comical’ piece for cellist Lynn Harrell. A video of Harrell’s performance can be watched below.