Dear Basketball, Kobe Bryant’s animated short film directed by Disney animator Glen Keane and scored by John Williams, premiered on April 23 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Recording sessions for the score took place last month at Sony Scoring Stage,…
Williams Conducts at Star Wars 40th Anniversary Event
John Williams conducted the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra during the Star Wars 40th anniversary celebration panel which took place April 13 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The orchestra performed “Princess Leia’s Theme” as a tribute to Carrie…
Williams Talks Spielberg Collaboration Album (Audio Interview)
KUSC’s Jim Svejda talks to composer John Williams about his decades-long collaboration with Steven Spielberg and the new multi-CD set that celebrates their many movies. – Click here to listen to the interview Discuss this topic in our forums
Williams Attends Henry Mancini Tribute
Nearly $1 million was raised for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts during a star-studded tribute to the music composer Henry Mancini Saturday night at the Wallis theater in Beverly Hills. Approximately 450 attended the event, which featured…
Williams to Attend Henry Mancini Gala Event
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…
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…
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Soundtrack Wins Grammy Award
John Williams has won his 23rd the Grammy Award for the original soundtrack album of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Williams’ work for the seventh installment in the Star Wars saga was the winner in the Best Score Soundtrack for…
Star Wars — Film Concert Series to Feature Iconic Scores Performed Live To Film
World Premiere features Composer John Williams’ Complete Scores from A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens Performed Live to Picture by the New York Philharmonic, Conducted by David Newman Series Launches September…
‘John Williams Turns 85’
JOHN WILLIAMS TURNS EIGHTY FIVE By Steve Vertlieb There’s simply no other way to say it. This is one of the greatest single photographs of my seventy one years. The time was late August, 2010. The place was inside the…
HAPPY 85th BIRTHDAY, MR. WILLIAMS!
Today is John Williams’ 85th birthday. Happy birthday, Maestro! PRESS RELEASE: Boston Pops Announce Details of 2017 Season Including Season-Long Tribute to John Williams KEITH LOCKHART AND BOSTON POPS ANNOUNCE 2017 SPRING SEASON, MAY 10-JUNE 17, HIGHLIGHTED BY THE FIRST-EVER…