The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts celebrates the musical legacy of Henry Mancini, one of the world’s greatest composers, conductors and arrangers, on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Julie Andrews will co-host a star studded tribute on the Bram…
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Spanish Doctoral Thesis on the Music of ‘Star Wars’
UNITY OF NARRATIVE AND MUSIC MAKES ‘STAR WARS’ A WORK OF ART, ACCORDING TO A THESIS READ AT UNIVERSIDAD PÚBLICA DE NAVARRA For musicologist and pianist Juan Urdániz Escolano, both interact in the first six films of the saga to…
John Williams’ ‘Dear Basketball’ Score Recorded (UPDATED)
UPDATE: The film is 6 minutes long and will premiere April 22 at Tribeca. John Williams has finished recording the score for Dear Basketball, an animated short film based on former NBA star Kobe Bryant’s 2015 poem, about which we…
JWFan Reviews ‘The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration Part III’
Album details The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration Part III A review by Mikko Ojala The legendary, over 40 years spanning collaboration between the director Steven Spielberg and the composer John Williams has yielded indelible cinematic classics where sight and sound combine in…
Varese Announces ‘Stanley & Iris’ Deluxe Edition Paired with ‘Pete ‘N’ Tillie’ (World Premiere)
Stanley & Iris is one of John Williams’ most delicate and beautiful film scores. Piano, flute and strings show the maestro at his very best here, with gentle and loving melodies for the film’s characters played by Robert DeNiro and…
Williams to Conduct the Nashville Symphony in September
On September 9, 2017. John Williams will conduct the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in a program that will include a selection of his most popular scores. The program opens with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting Williams’ concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (The Five…
Sony Classical Releases Third ‘Spielberg/Williams Collaboration’ CD
On March 17, Sony Classical will release John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection, a 4-disc set featuring the two previous albums of re-recordings of themes and suites from the Spielberg films (The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration (1991) and Williams on…
John Williams to Conduct Seattle Symphony – Sept. 27, 2017
On September 27, 2017, John Williams will conduct the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for a one-night-only concert featuring the music from many of his film scores including Star Wars, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List and more. Subscribers will get…
‘Filmharmonic Brass Plays John Williams’ (New Release)
‘The legendary Hollywood film composer John Williams gets the Filmharmonic Brass treatment in this brand new CD featuring the all-star New York based Brass Ensemble. Consisting of three trumpets (Dominic Derasse, Hugo Moreno, & Charles Porter), two trombones (Joel Vaisse…
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…
John Williams’ Compositional Techniques Blog
The John Willliams Compositional Techniques is the title of a new book that film composer Leandro Gardini expects to publish in the near future. Until the book is out, the author has decided to share some excerpts in the form…
Hollywood Bowl Concerts Announced
On September 1, 2 & 3, John Williams and David Newman will conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the annual ‘Maestro of the Movies’ concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. Williams and Newman already shared the podium last year in…