Andre Previn interview with John Williams

[artguy360 2,190]

I know this conversation between Previn and Williams has been talked about on JWfan before, but I thought it could benefit from fresh exposure. Here, with JW being interviewed by a friend, he seems much more relaxed and much more forthcoming with his remarks. It's refreshing.

 

https://youtu.be/mosNhmn_9ho?si=j3dGGu_SPp03EBQI

 

Also, JW conducting Flash Dance will always amuse me. He looks like he's having so much fun and grooving out.

[Sylvan 29]

Would love to see the uncut version of this interview. I’m sure there are some wonderful moments and insights that didn’t make the final broadcast.

[BB-8 6,118]

What a suave fella Preview was!

[Tom 6,677]

I am not trying to be flippant, just genuinely curious.  Why does this video (and many other analogous videos) get labeled "rare"? If a video is available to billions of people, it can't be rare in that way.  Does it just mean that Previn interviewed Williams only once?  

[Jurassic Shark 16,373]

Rare = previously not available on YouTube. 

[Holko 12,021]

9 hours ago, Tom said:

I am not trying to be flippant, just genuinely curious.  Why does this video (and many other analogous videos) get labeled "rare"? If a video is available to billions of people, it can't be rare in that way.  Does it just mean that Previn interviewed Williams only once?  

It means only a limited amount of views are available, just a couple more people watching it now and it'll self-destruct. Thanks, artguy, thanks a lot.

[Maurizio 6,913]

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[Marian Schedenig 11,611]

16 hours ago, Tom said:

I am not trying to be flippant, just genuinely curious.  Why does this video (and many other analogous videos) get labeled "rare"? If a video is available to billions of people, it can't be rare in that way.  Does it just mean that Previn interviewed Williams only once?  

 

Just wrap it in an NFT and it'll be so rare you can charge lots of moneys for it!

[Mr. Hooper 8,686]

I guess he's a tad less reticent than usual here. It helps that Previn has a no-nonsense interviewing style and wants to cut through that reticence and modesty to get to the heart of things.

 

Anyway, I can't be the only one who noticed that the music in the ESB clip is different when it transitions from Dagobah to the Star Destroyer. Anyone know why?

[Holko 12,021]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Anyway, I can't be the only one who noticed that the music in the ESB clip is different when it transitions from Dagobah to the Star Destroyer. Anyone know why?

That's just the stupid theatrical edit, for some reason they replaced most of the end-of-cue Imp March cutaways with badly fitting other versions. This was changed back for the SE and kept since, I think. One of the few very good and necessary changes.

[mrbellamy 8,082]

All of the above on the "rare" thing, and also that the source is rare. If it gets posted on YouTube for everyone, then yes that increases the chances exponentially that it'll never become lost media because now a digital copy has been distributed publicly, but it would be hard to track down otherwise. 

 

It used to be that someone would label something "rare" because they were trying to advertise it for a sale or trade. Now I think YouTube accounts will point out they've uploaded something historically difficult to find to attract traffic to their channel and I suppose place it in a context so people can better appreciate what they're watching or hearing.

 

Of course occasionally I will see people label a video "rare" that was never rare to begin with, like behind-the-scenes footage from a DVD lol. 

[Thor 9,347]

I, too, have this interview on a CD-R or DVD-R that I got in the early 2000s. Of course, most of those Williams-related videos, which were rare at the time, are that no more after the advent of YouTube. Everything is on there now. Good for the public, bad for the collector and his or her "exclusivity".

[BB-8 6,118]

This provides further evidence that the media are (re)selling the interview as a novelty...or have we missed something since?

 

https://slippedisc.com/2024/12/so-john-williams-what-made-you-interested-in-composing-for-film/

[Mr. Hooper 8,686]

4 hours ago, Thor said:

Good for the public, bad for the collector and his or her "exclusivity".

Ohh I hate that collector's hoarding mentality. Which I used to have. lol

[Thor 9,347]

Yeah, same here.

[mahler3 548]

On 01/01/2025 at 7:58 AM, BB-8 said:

This provides further evidence that the media are (re)selling the interview as a novelty...or have we missed something since?

 

https://slippedisc.com/2024/12/so-john-williams-what-made-you-interested-in-composing-for-film/

Click bait sentence a go go:

 

“Williams takes over, leaving Andre struggling to control the conversation…”

 

Nonsense, as Previn is the one that correctly reminds Williams that Jaws has symphonic merit ahead of Star Wars.

[Mr. Hooper 8,686]

Yeah, Previn was a pit bull. I didn't see any "struggling."

[Maurizio 6,913]

Norman Lebrecht is a JW hater and he doesn't waste a single opportunity to crap on him.

[BB-8 6,118]

I don't think NL hates JW per se, it's possibly the success of the Vienna Philharmonic in combination with JW that makes the bile of the music critic boil.

 

We review John Williams's no-star wars - Slippedisc

 

LEBRECHT LISTENS | John Williams’ No-Star Wars

[Jurassic Shark 16,373]

Perhaps it's the sloppy playing that gets to him.

[BB-8 6,118]

19 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Perhaps it's the sloppy playing that gets to him.

...with flubs and timing issues.

[Jurassic Shark 16,373]

2 minutes ago, BB-8 said:

...with flubs and timing issues.

 

If you say so.

[Maurizio 6,913]

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[Mr. Hooper 8,686]

I think there'll always be snobs, but what's changed over the years—with Williams leading the charge to change public opinion—is that it's become unpopular to be openly dismissive of film music.

 

Such people are now left to grumble quietly to themselves or leave anonymous comments about it online. There's at least one, I've noticed, in every comments section.