Interview: John Williams at 89, the man behind the best (and most hummable) film scores The composer tells Richard Morrison about his decades-long career — including the time he helped out a struggling LSO with ‘some sci‑fi film’ He left…
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‘The New Yorker’ Interviews John Williams
Williams is a courtly, soft-voiced, inveterately self-effacing man of eighty-eight. He is well aware of the extraordinary worldwide impact of his Star Wars music—not to mention his scores for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., the Indiana Jones…
Announcing “At Home with Gustavo Dudamel and John Williams” – UPDATE: Rescheduled to June 30, 6PM PT/9PM ET (Radio Interview)
From Classical KUSC Radio: Our At Home with… the series comes full circle with the conductor who started it all, Gustavo Dudamel, in conversation with the one and only John Williams. The artists, each broadcasting from their respective homes, speak…
Conrad Pope Interviews John Williams (AUDIO)
John Williams discusses the work of composer/arranger/orchestrator Conrad Salinger in a recent audio interview conducted by composer and orchestrator Conrad Pope. Listen to the interview at the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers website. Discuss this topic in our…
Mike Matessino Talks ‘The River’ and ‘Far and Away’ Expanded Editions (Audio Interview)
Soundtrack producer Mike Matessino talks in-depth about his work on the expanded editions of John Williams’s scores for Far and Away and The River, released respectively by La-La Land Records and Intrada. Matessino joins The Legacy of John Williams editor…
John Williams Interview on KUSC Radio
On January 31st, John Williams was interviewed by Jim Svejda as part of a series of conversations with the five Academy Award Nominees for Best Original Score, which aired this week on KUSC at the Movies. The 23-minute interview, in…
Williams Wrote ‘More Than 3 Hours’ of Music for ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ (Variety Article)
“Forty years ago, if you said to me, ‘Here’s a project, John, and I want you to write 25 hours of music,’ I would have dropped my pencil case and said, ‘It’s impossible. No one can do that,’” the composer…
Williams Talks ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ (Video Interview) + Recording Sessions Footage (UPDATED with New Pictures from the Recording Sessions)
John Williams discusses his work on the last episode of the Star Wars saga, in his first promotional interview for The Rise of Skywalker. You can watch over one minute of footage of the recording sessions from 6:33 of this…
John Williams on Spielberg, ‘Star Wars,’ and the Power of Music (CBS Interview)
In a new interview for CBS Sunday Morning conducted at Tanglewood, John Williams talks about his partnership with director Steven Spielberg, discusses the all-consuming nature of writing music; working on Star Wars; and why he doesn’t watch his films once…
Anne-Sophie Mutter Discusses John Williams Collaboration (Audio)
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Ron and Laird from The IndyCast discuss her new collaboration album with John Williams Across the Stars. Ms. Mutter discusses her John Williams fandom and how this amazing album came into existence. (AUDIO INTERVIEW) Click here…