John Williams wins 2 Classic UK awards, including Lifetime Achievment

[indy4 159]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-britain-classicalbre8911bg-20121002,0,136707.story

There was a thread on this earlier but I can't find it. Anyways, the cermemony was tongiht I guess.

[JamieC 13]

There's a photo of JW here accepting his award (via satellite) : http://www.classicbrits.co.uk/gallery/ceremony

[King Mark 3,848]

is that a somewhat prestigious award?

[BloodBoal 7,544]

[Quintus 5,778]

is that a somewhat prestigious award?

A Brit is the British equivalent of a Grammy.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 11,078]

I think britt awards are like the British version of the Grammy Awards, KM.

[mahler3 515]

A friend of mine attended the ceremony last night and here's his summary:

As well as John Williams being awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award, he also won in the catagory of Best Composer for his work on War Horse and TinTin.

There were two musical tributes payed to Williams in last night's ceremony - Nicola Benedetti played the theme from Schindlers List and the London Chamber Orchestra played a medley of William's most famous scores.

It is a shame that despite many efforts by the organisers to encourage Williams to attend the event, he politely declined. However, there were two filmed acceptance speeches that were shown which were probably filmed at his home. A truncated version of the ceremony is being transmitted by ITV on Sunday evening.

[crumbs 15,552]

Well I'm sure travelling overseas isn't exactly the easiest thing at his age. I'm in my 20's and even I hate long flights.

[Jay 43,075]

I don't think he's left the USA since the ROTS recording sessions in 2005

[indy4 159]

A friend of mine attended the ceremony last night and here's his summary:

As well as John Williams being awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award, he also won in the catagory of Best Composer for his work on War Horse and TinTin.

Wow--so he beat out non-film composers with two film scores? That's great that they aren't suffering from the classical vs film music elitism!

[welshslider 2]

will try and record the tribute part on my phone (may not look the best but will give it a try.) Hope it doesn't get taken down by Youtube.

[Luke Skywalker 2,223]

brits have good taste...

[welshslider 2]

all done. Hope its okay. Sorry its a recording off a phone.

[indy4 159]

Awesome, thank you for posting! Can't watch now but I will later.

[Omen II 1,271]

all done. Hope its okay. Sorry its a recording off a phone.

Thanks for posting this, welshslider. I'd gone up the stairs to Bedfordshire long before Williams received his lifetime achievement award. There is a nice clip on YouTube of Nicola Benedetti playing the theme from Schindler's List earlier in the evening, just before Williams received the award for best composer (for the record, he was up against Ennio Morricone and Paul Mealor). Unfortunately the video stops before the award 'presentation', but it's worth watching anyway.

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By the way, the whole programme is available to view on ITV Player at http://www.itv.com/i.../?Filter=326279, but I am not sure if viewers outside the British Empire will be able to view it.

[indy4 159]

Darn, it's not availble in the US. Hopefully somebody'll put it on YouTube.

[Luke Skywalker 2,223]

beautiful perfonamce, thanks omen II

[welshslider 2]

Great find Omen II. Also now ITV player is on sky we can rerun from our planner.

[Melange 448]

It is a shame that despite many efforts by the organisers to encourage Williams to attend the event, he politely declined.

Impliment Operation Willy, I say, the extradtion order of Mr John Williams from the U.S to the UK for questioning in relation to music.