“Composing the way I do is a very labor-intensive thing, because I don’t have synthesizers and computers and so on,” Williams said. “I’m doing it all by hand — which is a medieval practice, to say the least.” Keane refers…
Category: Interviews
Williams Talks Spielberg Collaboration Album (Audio Interview)
KUSC’s Jim Svejda talks to composer John Williams about his decades-long collaboration with Steven Spielberg and the new multi-CD set that celebrates their many movies. – Click here to listen to the interview Discuss this topic in our forums
Full Recording of Marion’s Theme and Behind-the-Scenes Video from ‘Spielberg/Williams Collaboration Part III’ Album
“I was very happy with the fact that when I was music director of Boston Pops, we were able to record a lot of the music that I’d written for Steven’s films,” Williams said in a statement. “So I said…
Williams Starts Recording STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII
UPDATE: According to a tweet from ScoringSessions.com, John Williams began recording music for Star Wars: Episode VIII at Sony on Tuesday, December 13, while “the bulk of scoring will be in the spring.” – JWFan discussion thread According to an…
Mike Matessino Talks ‘The John Williams Jurassic Park Collection’ (Audio Interview)
Album producer Mike Matessino discusses the process of editing, producing and mastering The John Williams Jurassic Park Collection in a not-to-be-missed interview available on the latest episode of the Jurassic Park Podcast. The special limited edition 4-CD set features newly…
Williams Talks ‘The BFG’ (Video)
Williams discusses his work in the film in this recent interview available at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x8z-gspfF8 Discuss this topic in our forums
Williams Confirms Work on Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’, “Expects” to do ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’
In a recent interview published today in Variety, John Williams has confirmed that he will write the score for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, which he plans to begin working on in November, and that he “expects” to do Star…
U.S. Air Force Band Conductor Interviews Williams
John Williams recently sat down for a short interview about his time in the U.S. Air Force with Col. Larry H. Lang, commander and conductor of The U.S. Air Force Band. The interview is now available on YouTube. Discuss this…
New Williams Interview (Audio)
John Williams talks with WCRB‘s Brian McCreath about Star Wars, Film Night at the Pops, and how he decided to succeed Arthur Fiedler as Pops Conductor in 1980. Discuss this topic in our forums
‘Phila. Orchestra celebrates Star Wars, classical composer John Williams’ (New Williams Interview)
“Creative breakthroughs in the face of personal trauma aren’t unusual in the lives of artists. “It makes or breaks people,” Williams said. “I was young and my wife was very young. Had I been 20 years older, I would’ve been…