Williams talks The Last Jedi with Jim Svejda on Classical KUSC (tonight at 9pm PST)

[TownerFan 3031]

I guess this will also be available on demand as usual, but for anyone who wants to hear it live, there it is.

[Jay 18395]

Fantastic, the last one was a treat!

 

https://www.kusc.org/radio/programs/evening-program-movies/

 

https://www.kusc.org/radio/programs/the-evening-program/

 

https://www.kusc.org/series/kusc-interviews/

[Lewya 360]

What timezone is this?

 

Edit: Never mind, I missed it. PST.

[Nick Parker 2885]

That's awesome! I seem to remember the last one having a lot of great insights on his thought process, confirming and/or addressing things people were speculating about. I bet he'll open up on some aspects of the score that have been dividing JWFan.

[crumbs 8398]

Can someone please record this somehow? I'm at work!

[Miguel Andrade 766]

The previous interviews (Burwell, Desplat and Zimmer) are already available on-demand: https://www.kusc.org/series/kusc-interviews/

[artguy360 1059]

Ugh why did Jim feed JW the same boring line about writing with pencil and paper? JW's spoken on this subject so many times already.

Edit: JW pretty much confirmed that he wants Ep 9 to be his last SW score. He said "9 will be quite enough for me, and Disney will probably want to take it further." And JW doesn't believe what Kylo Ren said about Rey's parents. He hopes Ep 9 will reveal who her parents really are. 

[TheUlyssesian 1616]

When is it available on demand?

[Miguel Andrade 766]

Probably shortly after the end of the broadcast.

[pete 384]

40 minutes in. 5 minutes of talking and 35 of music. Is the program one hour or two??

[artguy360 1059]

Jim is not digging into the music at all. They have barely discussed the score. It's always good to hear JW do an interview, but this one has revealed nothing about the music so far. 

[TheUlyssesian 1616]

9 minutes ago, pete said:

40 minutes in. 5 minutes of talking and 35 of music. Is the program one hour or two??

 

I know. He's asking such inane questions.

 

They discussed Walt Disney for 5 minutes.

[Nick Parker 2885]

On "Chrome Dome", and yeah, it's basically been a listening party. This is shaping to be as disappointing as the score itself, and my third marriage.

[artguy360 1059]

Yeah this is not an interview or even conversation about The Last Jedi. 

[Mcbain 2]

How do I listen to this?

[bollemanneke 1756]

Use the Force!

[Bespin 4283]

11 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

Use the Force!

 

[gkgyver 1560]

I can totally see Rey being Ren's sister.

[Jay 18395]

4 hours ago, Mcbain said:

How do I listen to this?

 

It will be here in a couple days

 

https://www.kusc.org/series/kusc-interviews/

[Mcbain 2]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

 

It will be here in a couple days

 

https://www.kusc.org/series/kusc-interviews/

Thank you, Jay. I'll keep checking the page. 

 

[Chewy 1034]

While waiting for the podcast to become available, listen to the Desplat interview that can also be found here. Great compliments on John Williams at 6:00!

[TownerFan 3031]

Interview is now online:

https://www.kusc.org/series/kusc-interviews/

 

Direct link to file:

https://www.kusc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-02-15-williams-the-post.mp3

[bollemanneke 1756]

My goodness, the interviewer speaks slowly...

[Chen G. 1986]

For anyone who's too lazy to listen to the whole thing, I think its a good idea to summarize it: There isn't too much musical substance about the score, themes, etcetra to be found here, but the disucssion is an interesting one, nonetheless. Williams sounds great, and he's really funny in this! They mostly talk about this score as a point in John's career more than in and of itself; mention his number of award nominations, his work on the whole series and its impact on symphonic film scoring, etcetra. They talked a bit about Carrie Fisher, not in terms of writing music for her appearances, but more in terms of Williams' recollections of her, and his impression of her scenes in the film.

 

That kind of stuff.

[Miguel Andrade 766]

Can't check it right now, but I assume that, as usual, this is last week's program sans the music excerpts.

[TownerFan 3031]

Yes, it is. Another interesting tidbit is that JW confirmed again he will do Episode 9 next year and that will be "quite enough" for him, despite Disney wanting to continue the series.

[Chen G. 1986]

51 minutes ago, TownerFan said:

that will be "quite enough" for him.

 

Oh, yes, that was an important thing he said.

 

But than, I never expected him to score films that are outside of the main stories, anyway.

 

Although he could continue writing an occasional theme for some of the spinoffs.

[Ricard 1549]

4 hours ago, TownerFan said:

Interview is now online:

https://www.kusc.org/series/kusc-interviews/

 

Direct link to file:

https://www.kusc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-02-15-williams-the-post.mp3

 

I find it funny that the website redirects you to the itunes store forcing you to download the KUSC app to listen to the interview...

 

Thanks Maurizio for posting the direct link to the MP3 file

[crumbs 8398]

Fun interview. Would've liked more discussion about TLJ itself (the score is scarcely discussed at all) but Williams sounds in good spirits. I take it that the mystery composer at the end was probably Desplat? Williams seemed to know.

[Jay 18395]

I won't be able to listen to this for a little while.  What are you talking about in regards to a mystery composer?

[bollemanneke 1756]

I especially liked the part where he praises today's atmospheric non-thematic scores. I'd be even more interested to hear what such an infinitely superior composer really thinks about the scores being written today, though. For me, this atmospheric quality is exactly what makes them utterly useless.

[pete 384]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

I won't be able to listen to this for a little while.  What are you talking about in regards to a mystery composer?

 

One of the composers he interviewed earlier in the week (Desplat and Zimmer were two of them) said something nice about Williams - I can't recall exactly what it was. The interviewer just said something like "a composer I recently spoke to said...." Williams laughed and said "I think I know who said that." I think it was near the end of the interview if memory serves. Zimmer came to my mind for no particular reason really. 

[Miguel Andrade 766]

3 hours ago, Ricard said:

 

I find it funny that the website redirects you to the itunes store forcing you to download the KUSC app to listen to the interview...

 

Thanks Maurizio for posting the direct link to the MP3 file

 

I know others have experienced that, but for me, I was able to get what I wanted from the KUSC site without any App downloading. 

[Amer 1146]

It's always great hearing him. 

[Mcbain 2]

4 hours ago, pete said:

 

One of the composers he interviewed earlier in the week (Desplat and Zimmer were two of them) said something nice about Williams - I can't recall exactly what it was. The interviewer just said something like "a composer I recently spoke to said...." Williams laughed and said "I think I know who said that." I think it was near the end of the interview if memory serves. Zimmer came to my mind for no particular reason really. 

 

Yes, I would like to know who that was too. I've listened to the other interviews and the only composer I remember discussing Williams was Desplat, so perhaps it was him. But as you mention, it sounds like something Zimmer would say. 

[Loert 2009]

Has Jim Svejda spoken with Brian Eno recently?

[leeallen01 1528]

 Williams said he has never conducted in Europe. Perhaps he doesn't class the UK as Europe. 

[Jurassic Shark 6317]

He considers it his colony.

[leeallen01 1528]

Sounds like Europe is the 'Han Solo and the Princess' of places to Williams.

[Jurassic Shark 6317]

You mean it needs to be re-arranged? Well, I guess you're doing that already with your brexit.

[DrTenma 83]

One question, are the KUSC interviews podcast available outside US? I could listen Williams interview using the direct link that is provided in this webpage but I'm not able to download any episode from iTunes.