[Why is it so hard for John Williams to collaborate with new directors?]

Honestly, I like pretty much how John Williams handled his career. 

Looking at his IMDB.. all the movies he did since the 70 are almost all great pieces of arts. (ok, SW1-2-3 are not so great... but it is star wars nevertheless)

Why want more collaborations with directors when you have Steven Spielberg?

 

If you look at Alexandre Desplat  or any other "i'm doing 8 movies a year" composer, frankly you can throw half of the movies, they wont stand

the time. Half of the movies are so-so.

 

What's the point of making 6 movies a year if you are only doing 1 great score every 3 years?

Quality VS Quantity.

I have the feeling these over-busy film composers have to do so many movies because either budgets are shrinking, or also because they feel they HAVE to maintain relationships with directors. But I can understand John Williams. It's nearly impossible to maintain a true and deep relationship with more than 2 directors   while still making scores the way JW does scores.

 

JW scores are high-level gastronomy or painting that would be exposed in great museums. They are not fast-food soundtracks.

 

I remember reading somewhere, but cant remember where now, that John Williams writes 1 minute of score everyday. Only one minute.

Because his music is so refined, detailed. 
And he writes every cues. That takes a lot of time.

 

Another possibiliy is also the movie industry changing. Movies are not the same anymore, and don't necessary need the same kind of scores.

It saddens me, but it's a true fact.

 

Also, supporting a john williams score as a director must be frightening. 

Also, discovering how the score sounds only the first day of a recording session, like (I believe) John Williams do, is something that can't be done anymore.  

Ok, nowadays they may do some virtual mockups of John Williams scores to show to the director, but i'm not even sure they do mockups of JW. 

 

To finish, recording an orchestra with Williams must be so expensive. I've read that Star Wars or Harry Potter in abbey road took more than 12 days to record whereas your usual 2020 hollywood score is recorded in 1 or 2 days.

 

[John Williams & the Vienna Philharmonic: January 18/19 2020]

The after concert "patch session" video is amazing 

Look at John, how vivid he is after 2 days of 3 hours concert.

 

He seems to have a lot of fun with the vienna philharmonic. I'm secretly hoping he's going to conduct more this

orchestra in the future for concert works for instance...

 

ps : Also , I wish I'm half as in a good shape at 88 yold as John Williams is now...

[John Williams & the Vienna Philharmonic: January 18/19 2020]

That was an amazing concert.

I went to the 18th one.

I'm generally picky with european orchestra when it comes to performance of John Williams's music, but the VSO surpassed all the other orchestras in the world.

As soon as the brass came in, I was literally shocked. What a powerful sound the french horns had 

 

I honestly never heard JW's music as greatly performed as it was yesterday.  

 

Lets hope for another decade of amazing John Williams's scores