{"id":11064,"date":"2018-07-19T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=11064"},"modified":"2018-07-19T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:25:08","slug":"l-a-times-article-on-john-williams-early-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=11064","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Times Article on John Williams&#8217; Early Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">This summer marks the 40th anniversary of Williams bringing his repertoire to the Hollywood Bowl. Before he takes the podium Aug. 31, there will also be live-to-picture performances of his beloved scores for <\/span><em style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Star Wars<\/em><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">, <\/span><em style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">The Empire Strikes Back<\/em><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\"> and \u2014 this weekend \u2014 <\/span><em style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Jaws<\/em><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">. (David Newman will conduct those performances.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But his Hollywood story didn\u2019t begin with Steven Spielberg\u2019s 1975 shark thriller, or even his early years scoring TV series like \u201cLost in Space.\u201d It started seven decades ago, about six miles up the 101 Freeway from the Bowl, when Williams was still a curly-haired teenager at North Hollywood High School and had, according to a 1949 Time magazine article, \u201cthe hottest band in Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/28704-la-times-john-williams-early-life-article-by-tim-greiving\/&amp;do=findComment&amp;comment=1506443\">Full article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/28704-la-times-john-williams-early-life-article-by-tim-greiving\/\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer marks the 40th anniversary of Williams bringing his repertoire to the Hollywood Bowl. Before he takes the podium Aug. 31, there will also be live-to-picture performances of his beloved scores for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=11064\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}