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Williams Receives Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
John Williams was announced as the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal – one of the highest honours in music, recognising outstanding musicianship since 1870 – as part of the 2020 RPS Awards Presentation on 18 November. John…
New WSA Album Includes World Premiere Recordings of Williams’ ‘Tribute to the Film Composer’ and ‘Face of Pan’ Revised Version – JWFan Review
World Soundtrack Awards: Tribute to the Film Composer Release date: October 23 – Pre-order now An album review by Mikko Ojala The World Soundtrack Awards given out at the Film Fest Ghent are one of if not the most prestigious…
Princess of Asturias Award – John Williams’ Acceptance Speech (VIDEO)
John Williams’ accepts the Princess of Asturias Award from his home in Los Angeles. Instagram will load in the frontend. Full transcript: Hello. I’m John Williams, speaking to you from Los Angeles. I’m very sorry I can’t be with you…
Mike Matessino Talks ‘War of the Worlds’ Expanded Edition
Mike Matessino discusses his restoration work on the new expanded and remastered release by Intrada Records of John Williams’s thrilling score for the sci-fi classic directed by Steven Spielberg in 2005, War of the Worlds. Full article and podcast at…
WAR OF THE WORLDS: 2020 Intrada Records 2-CD Edition
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) Music Composed and Conducted by John Williams Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 459 All newly-expanded and remastered 2-CD set to John Williams 2005 sci-fi gem! Steven Spielberg directs, Tom Cruise stars, Dreamworks Pictures and Paramount…
Upcoming Performances Update: Pittsburgh Concert Rescheduled to June 9, 2021 (UPDATE March 2021: CANCELED)
Upcoming John Williams concerts (Updated March, 2021) MILWAUKEE ‘John Williams Conducts’ October 10, 2020 (CANCELED) Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conducted by JOHN WILLIAMS and Ken-David Masur Performance details – Discussion thread PHILADELPHIA (CANCELED) ‘A Night with John Williams and Anne-Sophie Mutter’ January 26, 2021 (POSTPONED)…
John Williams and Sarah Willis’ Horn Challenge (VIDEO)
The Force was with legendary film composer John Williams when he bravely took Sarah´s Horn Challenge in Tanglewood (pre-Corona) during an interview for the new film A World Without Beethoven?. Discuss this topic in our forums
JWFan Reviews ‘John Williams in Vienna’
John Williams in Vienna Review by Mikko Ojala Composer John Williams keeps himself busy. Though his film projects seem to be few and far between these days, the 88-year-old Maestro seems to be working as hard as he ever has.…
New Williams Interview in ‘The Times’ (Excerpts)
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…
‘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…
Ennio Morricone Dies at 91
Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, composer of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Mission and among the most prolific and admired composers in film history, has died. He was 91. Morricone died early Monday in a Rome clinic, where…