John Williams Chronology

[Ricard 2,242]

I've been thinking about doing this for a long time, but never found the right moment to work on it. Now I've realized that it's as easy as start a thread and compile as many dates as people may want to add.

You can copy/paste all the events already posted by others and add them to your post, or simply add a bunch of new ones and someone else will make and updated list, which will be added to this main post on a regular basis.

All kinds of events attended by the Maestro, awards/nominations, concerts, recording sessions, even original album releases, are welcome to the list.

Here's a start with some examples:

 

• 1932/02/08 - John Towner Williams is born in Queens, New York
• 1976/03/29 - John Williams wins his 2nd Academy Award for the original score for Steven Spielberg's "Jaws"
• 2020/01/29 - John Williams wins the Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Composition category for his "Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite"
• 2020/01/31 - Jim Svejda interviews John Williams on KUSC Radio
• 2020/02/08 - John Williams saluted at the Society of Composers & Lyricists’ annual Oscar music reception
• 2021/07/24 - John Williams conducts the World Premiere of his "Violin Concerto No. 2" at Tanglewood, with Anne-Sophie Mutter on violin
• 2021/08/14 - John Williams conducts the World Premiere of his new work "Overture to the Oscars" at Tanglewood

Feel free to expand the event descriptions, as long as they're not too long (this isn't a biography but a chronological list).

I'm sure it'll be fun!

 

EDIT - Link to KittBash's spreadsheet:

John Williams Chronology - WORK IN PROGRESS

 

 

[Steve 589]

I'm recently working on a JW conducting/concert history. Will share it later in the year here. The BSO archive lists all concerts of the Pops and BSO, but are missing concerts outside Boston. And of course Johnny was quite active with other orchestras around the US.

[Miguel Andrade 1,260]

1983-11-26 & 27: Williams conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic on his own Flute Concerto with soloist Carol Wincenc plus  Walton's Johannesburg Festival Overture, Tippet's Suite in D and Holst's The Planets.

[KittBash 282]

Very Cool idea

[Jay 37,287]

Yup very cool idea, I had been planning on starting something very similar at some point.  I'll try to contribute what I can when I think of it

[The Lost Folio 183]

This is a really great idea. But I think it would work a lot better as a website, maybe a wikipedia-type page that people can freely edit. I can imagine a JW chronology having at least 1000 dates (100+ score recordings and releases, 100+ concert works premieres and major performances, several hundred concerts, etc.) The project is cool but daunting for a forum!

@Jay, just wondering, would such a page be possible somewhere on jwfan or would there need to be (yet) another JW-dedicated website?

[Jay 37,287]

If I understand Ricard's intentions properly (which I have been known to epicly fail at more than once, but I think I got this one right), he is going to do exactly that: Take all the information people post in this thread, and combine it all together in one place - the main post of this thread. 

 

His main post says the updated list "will be added to this main post on a regular basis"

[Holko 9,499]

8 minutes ago, The Lost Folio said:

But I think it would work a lot better as a website, maybe a wikipedia-type page that people can freely edit.

What would be really cool is to categorise every event and make the list filterable by category!

[Jay 37,287]

That was how I was going to do it, yea.  So you could see just his recording session dates, just his published interviews, just his concert work premieres, etc.

 

It's a lot of work though, which is why I hadn't started yet - got some other projects to launch first.

[KittBash 282]

So this has been in the back of my head ever since @Ricard brought it up almost 2 years ago... 

 

I finally decided to give it a go and started something that I've been working on... it is in no way complete but it's a start. I've been picking away at it here and there but I thought it might get the ball rolling... even if it is 2 years later 

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

 

[Jay 37,287]

     

[QuartalHarmony 542]

That’s a fantastic start, @KittBash!

 

Can we drop dates on this thread for you to add to this? I can post a few recording dates, for example.

[Holko 9,499]

Maybe it could be a group effort with multiple trusted members with well-sourced info having editing access to it?

[Ricard 2,242]

8 hours ago, KittBash said:

So this has been in the back of my head ever since @Ricard brought it up almost 2 years ago... 

 

I finally decided to give it a go and started something that I've been working on... it is in no way complete but it's a start. I've been picking away at it here and there but I thought it might get the ball rolling... even if it is 2 years later 

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

This is wonderful! 

 

Your spreadsheet will be the reference document and will eventually be linked from the main page for quicker access. 

 

I'm sure this may motivate other members (@Miguel Andrade,@Thor...) to contribute valuable information that has not yet been incorporated, if they deem it appropriate.

 

Thank you so much!

[Thor 7,465]

It's a great idea, Kitt, and one I would be glad to contribute to, but the question is if a lot of the information gathering will be considered moot if and when Tim's book comes out next year, or in 2025. I'm sure he's on top of most dates and events at this point.

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

8 hours ago, KittBash said:

So this has been in the back of my head ever since @Ricard brought it up almost 2 years ago... 

 

I finally decided to give it a go and started something that I've been working on... it is in no way complete but it's a start. I've been picking away at it here and there but I thought it might get the ball rolling... even if it is 2 years later 

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

Great work! Would you mind turning it into a biography?

[KittBash 282]

5 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

That’s a fantastic start, @KittBash!

 

Can we drop dates on this thread for you to add to this? I can post a few recording dates, for example.

 

I'm happy for any input!

 

5 hours ago, Holko said:

Maybe it could be a group effort with multiple trusted members with well-sourced info having editing access to it?

 

@Holko I'm certainly game for that... Not sure how we don't step on each others toes but it could work! Really I just wanted to offer up what I've done so far if it helps anyone.

 

To be fair this isn't even my master copy as that is housed in what I've lovingly nicknamed my Williams MEGA Sheet that has records of all the releases (no where near as detailed as Bespin's Discography just a place to keep track of what release has what, sources recording dates etc.) I've also been working on a listing of orchestra members and marking which scores they played on so we can visually see how the makeup of some of these great organizations have changed over the years. It also houses links to all of the digitized liner notes I've been working on that contain both searchable text copies of ever Williams liner note in my collection as well as PDF copies of ones I can source the images for (I haven't gotten brave enough to flatted spines for scanning my own yet) as well as copies of all of the amazing sheets @Jay has been so kind to share with us over the years (linked back to his originals of course ) 

 

3 hours ago, Ricard said:

 

This is wonderful! 

 

Your spreadsheet will be the reference document and will eventually be linked from the main page for quicker access. 

 

I'm sure this may motivate other members (@Miguel Andrade,@Thor...) to contribute valuable information that has not yet been incorporated, if they deem it appropriate.

 

Thank you so much!

 

@Ricard Very kind words! I'm just glad we could get a start on this idea you brought up. 

 

2 hours ago, Thor said:

It's a great idea, Kitt, and one I would be glad to contribute to, but the question is if a lot of the information gathering will be considered moot if and when Tim's book comes out next year, or in 2025. I'm sure he's on top of most dates and events at this point.

 

@Thor I do agree that Tim's book is going to be an excellent resource and will absolutely have a huge plethora of information that will be a joy to dig through. I think the merits here have more to do with being able to see the raw data at a glance and for me it's thrilling to start piecing together each year, which is half the fun, and when you look at it realize just how much Williams does and how all the pieces fit together... awards ceremonies with recording the next day and concerts and interviews the list goes on.
I think Tim's book is going to be something to experience and dive into where it will tell us the stories and anecdotes from the people that were there giving us a sense of the emotion of it all where something like this takes that data and gives us the 50 thousand foot view where we can at a glance an idea of what his life has been like and frankly is still like... Look at 2023! whew that is one busy 91 year old! 

 

That said any info/feedback etc. from you is always appreciated I've always wished I could keep in my head the info that you and @Miguel Andrade have always seemed to have at your fingertips.... that's part of why I even wanted to do this project. 

 

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Great work! Would you mind turning it into a biography?

 

HA HA! Thanks @Jurassic Shark! Yeah I think Tim Greiving both has that covered and is infinitely more qualified then I would ever hope to be   

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

1 minute ago, KittBash said:

HA HA! Thanks @Jurassic Shark! Yeah I think Tim Greiving both has that covered and is infinitely more qualified then I would ever hope to be   

 

That might be, but you have the chance of beating him to the finishing line.

[JTN 2,002]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

That might be, but you have the chance of beating him to the finishing line.

It's not a race.

[KittBash 282]

Ok just pushed a big update Mostly adding a whole bunch more recording sessions dates.... Lots more to come.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

Awesome. This has the potential of becoming a very detailed biography!

[The Lost Folio 183]

Really great idea! I like how you lay out the information. I agree that this raw data is as essential for research as a full biography. 

 

Suggestion: do you think it would be possible to add a column with the source? We might avoid debates later on if every entry says where the information is pulled from (ex: LLL booklet (including page #), newspaper article, Oscars website, etc.). It may be a bit academic, but hey, why are we here anyway? 🧐

 

Good luck! It's a great start already! I'm sure we'd all like to contribute. 

[Holko 9,499]

My suggestion for a bit of legibility: the different colors in the left columns for the different types of events is a good idea, but what if the colors were instead applied to the background of the entire row? Just the faintest least saturated variants, would help a bit maybe with a quicker overlook, "damn he had a lot of concerts this year" etc.

[KittBash 282]

12 hours ago, The Lost Folio said:

Really great idea! I like how you lay out the information. I agree that this raw data is as essential for research as a full biography. 

 

Suggestion: do you think it would be possible to add a column with the source? We might avoid debates later on if every entry says where the information is pulled from (ex: LLL booklet (including page #), newspaper article, Oscars website, etc.). It may be a bit academic, but hey, why are we here anyway? 🧐

 

Good luck! It's a great start already! I'm sure we'd all like to contribute. 

 

@The Lost Folio Let me start off with saying I absolutely agree here... in fact I've started adding these to newer additions. This started just as a "for me" kind of thing just to see the data and was never going to be "academic" but I started wanting more info on pieces and have started adding some links in where I can... NOW the "fun" ie: tedious part would be going back and finding all the sources again

For some items like the recording dates we have things like the liner notes we can source. But for a lot of it we really only have digtal sources at this point and have the complication of the fact that the internet changes all the time. Sources become available and disappear all the time. I'm sure @Ricard @Jay and others run into this where linking back to sources break after awhile, be it Youtube videos, Site redesigns, or content removed sites change. A good example and I think it's been handled well on JWfan is if you look at the expanded releases page on the main site. If you go back in that list to 2011-2012 and before they are all linked to external sources... Now in 2023 some of those links still work and some don't which means we've "lost" some of the data from those sources. After that you will notice every link goes to a JWfan source that archives the content. That's a great solution for a site like this but for a sheet like this project may be problematic and also why the vast majority of my new links are going to JWfan as these guys have already done the work

 

Another hiccup and illustration of the changing internet/first party sources I'm trying to overcome is best served with an example. Sticking with recording dates. The dates for Raiders aren't in a what I would call easy to point to first party source. They aren't in the liner notes for the DCC edition nor the 2008 Concord (if you want to call what was in that version liner notes). Here's the issue, The LSO published all of their recording sessions online several years ago and we were able to get the dates for Raiders and other LSO recordings. That online resource is now gone (from my understanding) and only some back linked sources that are hard to confirm as official from an academic sense remain. Basically yeah I would love to have more sourcing in the document just struggling with how to source some pieces. Another Example, I got all of the Evening at Pops recording dates from the Pops site... How long will that page stay online? 

 

8 hours ago, Holko said:

My suggestion for a bit of legibility: the different colors in the left columns for the different types of events is a good idea, but what if the colors were instead applied to the background of the entire row? Just the faintest least saturated variants, would help a bit maybe with a quicker overlook, "damn he had a lot of concerts this year" etc.

 

@Holko I tried it early on but it didn't seem to bring anything but more formatting time to the table. That said, now that the sheet is getting more "complicated" for lack of a better term, it may be time to revisit... I'll try it on a few years and see what it does. I'm also currently testing some more formatting working with the expanded releases so that may help as well. Thanks!

[Brónach 1,301]

you should keep locally everything from the internet that you care about.

[KittBash 282]

1 hour ago, Brónach said:

you should keep locally everything from the internet that you care about.

 

To borrow a phrase - "Amen to that"!

[Damien F 1,742]

Does anyone know when JW first conducted a concert of only his own music? I presume it was sometime in the 80s after he became the Boston Pops conductor.

[Thor 7,465]

5 minutes ago, Damien F said:

Does anyone know when JW first conducted a concert of only his own music? I presume it was sometime in the 80s after he became the Boston Pops conductor.

 

We've been searching high and low for any 60s PUBLIC concert conducting efforts (in another thread), but I don't remember what came of it. There are several in the 70s, though, right? I think he guest conducted the Boston Pops before he took over in 1980, for example. Although presumably not ONLY his own music. Other people know more about this than I do.

[KittBash 282]

Another Big update pushed... This one I will affectionately call the "Expanded Fruit Loops" Update... Focusing mostly on getting all of the expanded Editions taken care of from the mid 90's to now as well as after @Holko's suggestion that we try some color coding Ive tried just that (hence the Fruit Loops comment) 

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

[QuartalHarmony 542]

A couple of sad dates that just occurred to me:

 

1974/03/03

Barbara Ruick dies in Reno, NV

1985/10/19

Johnny Williams dies in LA

 

And a rather happier one:

 

1960/09/01

Joseph Stanley Williams born in Santa Monica, CA

 

Source for all: Wikipedia (yawn)

[Miguel Andrade 1,260]

Williams did conduct the Boston Pops on tour in LA at the Bowl, around 1978 and/or 79, filling it for an ailing Arthur Fiedler.

During the late 70's he started doing a lot more of public conducting, both in LA and in the UK. He appeared at Filmharmonic a few times.

Before that he surely had done some public performing (in his teens he had a band and during his time in New York he played in clubs with Vic Damone and others, including the prestigious Copacabana), but it was cut down has he become more engaged with the Hollywood studios work. He also did some band directing in Las Vegas, in the late 50's or early 60's.

There was a concert, in the early 60's that featured his music from Checkmate, I think at the Hollywood Bowl, but I can't recall right now if he was one of the conductors.

[QuartalHarmony 542]

From JW’s liner notes to the 1983 Leonard Slatkin recording of the Flute and first Violin Concertos (VSD-5345):

• ’I began composing the [violin] concerto in 1974, finishing it October 19, 1976.’

 

1990s London Symphony Orchestra concert dates, all at the Barbican Concert Hall, London:

• 1996/06/30
• 1998/07/02
• 1998/07/03

Some more recording dates (all taken from the relevant liner notes):

• 1956/10/03 + 18: The John Towner Touch; recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood (the track Hello was recorded on the 18th - the first John Williams composition to be professionally recorded for general release?)
• 1956/11/02: four tracks for Modern Jazz Gallery; recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood
• 1957/05/08: two tracks for Remembering with Marjorie Lee; recorded at Glen Sound, Hollywood
•  1957/10/03, 04 + 14: World on a String; recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood
• 1958/02/24: Son Nice!; recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood
• 1990/03/19 + 20: John Williams conducts John Williams - The Star Wars Trilogy (SK45947); recorded at Skywalker Sound, CA
• 1990/05/18, 19 + 25: The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration (SK45997); recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston
• 1995/05/25, 26 + 29: Williams on Williams - The Classic Spielberg Scores (SK68419); recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston
• 1996/01/06, 10 + 13: Summon the Heroes (SK62622); recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston
• 1996/06/22 + 29: The Five Sacred Trees (SK62729); recorded at Abbey Road Studio No 1, London
• 1996/07/01 + 02: The Hollywood Sound (SK62788); recorded at Abbey Road Studio No 1, London

Great to have a record of just how active he was in London in summer 1996!

[Miguel Andrade 1,260]

The whole album "Remembering with Marjorie Lee" was arranged by Williams, with his quintet performing. The actual CD release only states the year of the recording, being 1957 as mentioned on the post above, though no further info regarding month/day or venue is included.

[QuartalHarmony 542]

Oh, and:

 

Call of the Champions: Tracks 2-12, 14: recorded at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, 1999/12/9 + 10 and 2000/06/19 + 20.

Tracks 1 & 13: recorded 2001/11/27 at Maurice Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City

 

 

6 minutes ago, Miguel Andrade said:

The whole album "Remembering with Marjorie Lee" was arranged by Williams, with his quintet performing. The actual CD release only states the year of the recording, being 1957 as mentioned on the post above, though no further info regarding month/day or venue is included.

From liner notes to the 2006 compilation Jazz Beginnings:

[Miguel Andrade 1,260]

WILLIAMS IN LONDON 1996

 

• Press gathering sometime before June 1996 at Watford Town Hall, with the Pro Arte Orchestra, presenting "Summon the Heroes" (source Classic CD magazine #74, June 1996)
• June 21st, at the Royal Academy of Music with the RAM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Judith LeClaire solo bassoon on the Bassoon Concerto "The Five Sacred Trees" (https://johnwilliams.org/reference/bibliography/1996/harris)
• June 26th, 28th and 30th, at the Barbican, with the London Symphony (source, concert flyer) -- note the dates added, missing from the post by @QuartalHarmony post. The June 30th performance was the one broadcast, hence the one everyone is likely to know about.

[KittBash 282]

Thanks everyone for the input. Loving it! 

 

Another update today... I've added not only the items from @Miguel Andrade and @QuartalHarmony but also added a bunch of concert work / Non Film related releases, premiers etc.
The biggest addition today should help with sorting through the sheer amount of entries. I've added a slicer to the sheet that will let you filter and only see different entry types. It's the red interface in the top right corner and should look like this

 

 

You can click on it and choose your type and it will show you just those items. 

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

[Holko 9,499]

A filter would've been the next suggestion!

[QuartalHarmony 542]

Just great - this is shaping up just the way I was hoping!

 

Some corrections, if I may:

• Rows 261-263: Year should show 1979, not 1978
• Row 608 (June 29) needs moving to just after row 610 (June 28)
• In the 2001 entries, change spelling to ‘Philosopher’s’
• Rows 760-770: change spelling to ‘Chamber’

Just a thought - maybe change Major Event descriptor to ‘Personal’?

[KittBash 282]

5 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Some corrections, if I may:

 

Absolutely! There is a metric ton of info here... there are going to be typos and out of orders

 

5 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Just a thought - maybe change Major Event descriptor to ‘Personal’?

 

Yeah I've been thinking on the categories a bit... this could work as I'm having the same issue. 

[Jay 37,287]

How do you add a filter to a google doc?

[KittBash 282]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

How do you add a filter to a google doc?

 

@Jay There are Filters and there are Slicers. For both options it is a similar setup. Go to the Data menu and choose one of the options (pictured below) It basically has you choose your field ranges / choose a column to use as the filter.

 

Filters and Slicer do very similar things except you cannot have merged cells in the column with filters (hence why the chronology sheet has a slicer). Filters also sit at the top of the column where a Slicer can be placed anywhere on the sheet. Another win for the Slicer is that you can change it to use different columns after it has been created or even just create multiple slicers. 

Their use and function after that is very similar. 

[Jay 37,287]

Amazing, thank you!  I somehow had never discovered this.

[KittBash 282]

Another Update - This time focusing on updating OST's, adding/updating Pops & BSO albums, adding/updating work premiers and a slicer fix

 

• OST's - These looked a little sad after the expanded editions were put in there so it was time for an update. Each has release dates some format info as well as links to their release group on Music Brainz for those wanting to dig deeper. 
• Pops & BSO albums - I added as much info as I could from liner notes and the BSO site
• Compilations - albums going back to the early 2000's were added.
• Work Premiers - were updated and added
• Slicer issue fixed - The slicer no longer disappears when you use it

 

All told, Many upgrades to existing lines and over 240 new lines added

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

 

Next up some missing concert works and hopefully more interviews. 

[Steve 589]

1 hour ago, KittBash said:

Another Update - This time focusing on updating OST's, adding/updating Pops & BSO albums, adding/updating work premiers and a slicer fix

 

• OST's - These looked a little sad after the expanded editions were put in there so it was time for an update. Each has release dates some format info as well as links to their release group on Music Brainz for those wanting to dig deeper. 
• Pops & BSO albums - I added as much info as I could from liner notes and the BSO site
• Compilations - albums going back to the early 2000's were added. Also, many
• Work Premiers - were updated and added
• Slicer issue fixed - The slicer no longer disappears when you use it

 

All told, Many upgrades to existing lines and over 240 new lines added

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

 

Next up some missing concert works and hopefully more interviews. 

Good work. Some suggestions: It would be useful to add the name of the orchestra in the concert category. It would also make sense to differentiate between concerts conducted by other conducters and Williams himself (e.g. concert premiers by Slatkin). I will post many concert additions later today or this week.

[KittBash 282]

16 minutes ago, Steve said:

Good work. Some suggestions: It would be useful to add the name of the orchestra in the concert category.

 

I agree I've noticed some have it and some don't.... It's on the list

 

17 minutes ago, Steve said:

It would also make sense to differentiate between concerts conducted by other conducters and Williams himself (e.g. concert premiers by Slatkin). 

 

Also agree, trying to decide if other conductors should be in the list, I think just the ones where Williams was present at the very least should make the cut.

 

So many things to add... so little time  

[KittBash 282]

A New update to the Chronology project. 

 

We've gone from 932 lines in the first version shared (10 days ago) to now having 2,440+

 

This time adding

• Interviews listed on JWFan. 
• Events listed in news and misc categories on JWFan
• Film and TV Premier dates that contain Williams compositions
• Pulled in and added/updated every Boston Pops concert I could export from the BSO archive (over 600 entries with Williams conducting)

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sgepya2i8LU2TPesQRGltWtQJ7yNXDCOubwqDKqwg4I/edit?usp=sharing

 

Some formatting to come as well as still looking at categorizations and other suggestions I've received. Plus of course still lots to find and add

[Jurassic Shark 12,030]

Great work, but we're missing an overview of all the versions of the They're All Dead anecdote.

[Jay 37,287]

Great work @KittBash, amazing work honestly!

 

All I can offer is humble thoughts on presentation, organization, and consistency.  I used the filter to show only "Major Events" and saw this:

 

 

 

1 - Why does "Major Event" one time have a larger font size?

 

2 - Why is his daugther's birth year listed as 1956, but his son's as "1958/??" in red?  All unknown dates should use identical formatting.

 

3 - Why is the Olympic line in one color, the AFI line in a second color, and the rest in a third color?

 

4 - How are you defining a "Major Event"?  His birth, the years he turned a year ending in 0, his marriages, and the birth of his children make sense.  But why is stuff like him being named conductors of the pops, one of his olympic themes debuting, or receiving an AFI award in the same category?  I would suggest the creation of a "Personal" category, to store all the stuff that isn't directly related to his music work.

 

Again, just my humble thoughts.  You're doing great work!

 

 

[KittBash 282]

43 minutes ago, Jay said:

1 - Why does "Major Event" one time have a larger font size?

 

2 - Why is his daugther's birth year listed as 1956, but his son's as "1958/??" in red?  All unknown dates should use identical formatting.

 

3 - Why is the Olympic line in one color, the AFI line in a second color, and the rest in a third color?

 

4 - How are you defining a "Major Event"?  His birth, the years he turned a year ending in 0, his marriages, and the birth of his children make sense.  But why is stuff like him being named conductors of the pops, one of his olympic themes debuting, or receiving an AFI award in the same category?  I would suggest the creation of a "Personal" category, to store all the stuff that isn't directly related to his music work.

 

Again, just my humble thoughts.  You're doing great work!

 

 

 

AHH @Jay You have found me out! 

 

Yeah, all of these things are true and is something I need to spend some time on. I said in my last post that 

23 hours ago, KittBash said:

Some formatting to come as well as still looking at categorizations and other suggestions I've received. Plus of course still lots to find and add

 

And you found several glaring reason's why I think it needs to happen  ... I've spent so much time cramming as much info in as I can that it's time to do a pass on the presentation and organizational side of things. Another thing that happens is that this is a copy and paste from my master copy where I do all the work and it's not pulling the font weights across as it should... really only the work names should be bold and the rest of the entry is regular font size... I'm looking at a way to import all of this in future updates. 

 

For example in the public copy here's part of 2015

 

Vs my working copy

 

Much easier to scan names visually when everything isn't bold just the names. That and somehow several fonts have crept into the live copy that make it look like a muddied mess as well. 

 

So yeah long way to say You are absolutely right and I'm already on it LOL  I've already implemented the personal event vs other event types in the working copy.

 

 

[Omen II 1,235]

This is such a wonderful idea @KittBash and gives some sense of what a hectic lifestyle Williams has led for most of his ninety-one years.  Thank you for your hard work on this so far!

 

I can see that you have the Filmharmonic '85 concert listed where John Williams conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London in November 1985, however here are the dates of some of his other conducting gigs in the United Kingdom:

• 1976/10/30 - John Williams conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Filmharmonic '76 at the Royal Albert Hall
• 1978/02/16 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in The LSO in Space at the Royal Albert Hall
• 1980/10/18 - John Williams conducts the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Filmharmonic '80 at the Royal Albert Hall
• 1982/02/08 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in the open air sculpture court at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1982/02/09 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in the open air sculpture court at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1985/11/16 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Filmharmonic '85 at the Royal Albert Hall
• 1996/06/26 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1996/06/28 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1996/06/30 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1998/07/01 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1998/07/02 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1998/07/03 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London
• 1998/07/04 - John Williams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London