{"id":5098,"date":"2012-10-03T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2014-07-05T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T12:45:43","slug":"williams-wins-composer-of-the-year-at-the-classic-brit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=5098","title":{"rendered":"Williams Wins Composer of the Year at the Classic BRIT Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/15V9BHrNpB0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>John Williams picked up two Classic BRIT Awards in London on Tuesday, adding a best composer honour to the lifetime achievement prize which had been previously announced.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAmong the highlights of the ceremony was a medley of Williams&#8217; film scores performed by the London Chamber Orchestra, including passages from <em>Star Wars<\/em>, <em>Harry Potter<\/em>, <em>Jaws<\/em>, <em>E.T.<\/em> and <em>Indiana Jones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams won the composer award for his work on <em>War Horse<\/em> and <em>The Adventures of Tintin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Balsom was on hand to present the award in Williams&#8217; absence. In a video message, Williams commented: &#8220;It&#8217;s especially gratifying to receive this award from the country of its [War Horse&#8217;s] origin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Sources: Reuters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicfm.com\/composers\/williams\/news\/john-williams-wins-classic-brits-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">ClassicFM<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=22221\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Williams picked up two Classic BRIT Awards in London on Tuesday, adding a best composer honour to the lifetime achievement prize which had been previously announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=5098\">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":[32,10,12,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-tintin","category-videos","category-war-horse","category-williamsspielberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098","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=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6941,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/6941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}