{"id":8884,"date":"2016-04-29T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T14:32:43","slug":"phila-orchestra-celebrates-star-wars-classical-composer-john-williams-new-williams-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=8884","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Phila. Orchestra celebrates Star Wars, classical composer John Williams&#8217; (New Williams Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Creative breakthroughs in the face of personal trauma aren&#8217;t unusual in the lives of artists. &#8220;It makes or breaks people,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;I was young and my wife was very young. Had I been 20 years older, I would&#8217;ve been less able to restart my life. Immediately thereafter, I did feel differently about working, especially with music. I can&#8217;t quantify or describe what it did. But we do change. All life experience does that. We have accidents. We have happy things. Having three teenage children at the time required a lot of focus and strength, being a single parent. . . . We could talk for a week about this.&#8221; &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/columnists\/david_patrick_stearns\/20160426_Phila__Orchestra_to_celebrate_John_Williams_-_movie_and_classical_composer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full article at Philly.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/25050-john-williams-conducts-the-philly-orchestra-542016\/&amp;do=findComment&amp;comment=1242804\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Creative breakthroughs in the face of personal trauma aren&#8217;t unusual in the lives of artists. &#8220;It makes or breaks people,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;I was young and my wife was very young. Had I been 20 years older, I would&#8217;ve been&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=8884\">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":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","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=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}