2013 Best Score Oscar Nominee John Williams For his 48th Oscar Nomination, John Williams has gone presidential in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. He discusses with Jim Svejda the challenges of translating mid-19th century American into the score & the uncanny 4th…
Category: Interviews
John Williams Interview in BBC Radio 3’s “Composer Of The Week”
BBC Radio 3 will be celebrating John Williams’ life and music in a series of five daily programmes from Monday 14th to Friday 18th January as part of the station’s “Composer Of The Week” series. The programmes are based upon an exclusive two-hour interview…
‘John Williams’ Inevitable Themes’
Of course, Steven Spielberg’s latest film “Lincoln” is opening in theaters around the country this weekend. “Lincoln” is also the latest movie score from Mr. Spielberg’s longtime collaborator, John Williams, the composer, who’s celebrated his 80th birthday this year. John…
Spielberg & Williams: Inseparable Tandem
Lincoln marks their 26th film, one of the longest-running director-composer partnerships in modern movie history. Williams calls it “an amazing relationship. We’ve never really had an argument. It’s just something that has, personally and musically, worked well.” – Full article…
Williams Talks ‘Lincoln’
“There probably are about 55 minutes of music in the film, I think. And we recorded 92 minutes of music in Chicago.” Discuss this topic in our forums UPDATE from Randall D. Larson’s facebook: Transcript from comments made by John…
‘Lincoln’ Behind-the-Scenes with John Williams and Steven Spielberg
This week’s edition of CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ included a short behind the scenes segment of John Williams and Steven Spielberg on the score for Lincoln. The Williams/Spielberg portion starts at 3:12 into the video.
Williams Talks ‘E.T.’
“I remember working very hard on that flying theme,” Williams said. “I was concerned about getting just the right, soaring melody, which for me as a musician was a serious challenge. Here were kids flying on bicycles over the moon…
John Williams Classic FM Interview Online
John Williams spoke to Classic FM in a career retrospective interview that was broadcast on Monday August 27th at 8pm. Williams spoke to film music expert Tommy Pearson exclusively about his life and work, from composing the music for E.T. (“It…
‘John Williams Celebrated on UK Radio and TV – Interviewing the Interviewer’
ClassicFM will be devoting two hours of air-time to John Williams’ illustrious career this coming MONDAY 27th AUGUST between 8 and 10pm (BST). The two hours won’t be just a generic tribute show though, quite the opposite. It will include an…
‘John Williams, The Music Master’
Composer John Williams talks about old Hollywood, working with Spielberg and why he never goes to the movies “As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music,” John Williams is telling me,…