{"id":4837,"date":"2012-07-27T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T07:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2014-07-05T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T12:46:19","slug":"williams-interview-on-nbcs-rock-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=4837","title":{"rendered":"Williams Interview on NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Rock Center&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Jaws\u2019 film composer John Williams on why he\u2019s \u2018anti-iPodian\u2019<br \/>\n<\/strong>Legendary composer John Williams counts the &#8220;Olympic Fanfare&#8221; as one of his signature works. Now, as he celebrates his 80th birthday, he has just finished composing the score for Steven Spielberg&#8217;s latest film, <em>Lincoln<\/em>. Brian Williams sat down with the other Williams for a discussion about his music, his 40 year partnership with Spielberg and why he doesn&#8217;t own an iPod.<\/p>\n<p>\u203a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/nightly-news\/48346071\" target=\"_blank\">John Williams plays Brian a special tune<br \/>\n<\/a>\u203a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/rock-center\/48347279\" target=\"_blank\">The Maestro: John Williams on composing Olympic theme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"msnbc5150c2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=48347279&amp;width=500&amp;height=281\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"launch=48347279&amp;width=500&amp;height=281\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><embed id=\"msnbc5150c2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" FlashVars=\"launch=48347279&amp;width=500&amp;height=281\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" flashvars=\"launch=48347279&amp;width=500&amp;height=281\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>An extended version of the interview aired on Thursday, July 26 on NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Rock Center&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=22000&amp;#entry830706\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Jaws\u2019 film composer John Williams on why he\u2019s \u2018anti-iPodian\u2019 Legendary composer John Williams counts the &#8220;Olympic Fanfare&#8221; as one of his signature works. Now, as he celebrates his 80th birthday, he has just finished composing the score for Steven Spielberg&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=4837\">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":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","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=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}