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  1. Jun 18, 2015 · With 49 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. Below is Williams’ personal philosophy with regard to music as human expression: “There ...

  2. Feb 2, 2024 · John Williams: I remember very clearly going to my father’s radio broadcast of Your Hit Parade. Every Sunday night, an orchestra directed by a man named Mark Warnow did the American hit songs. My father was a member of the CBS Radio Orchestra, and when I was ten years old, in 1942, he took me to a rehearsal at the Hammerstein Theater in New York.

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  4. Jul 21, 2020 · Williams went on, “One day, Steven called me and said, ‘Do you know George Lucas?’ I said, ‘No, I have no idea who he is.’ ‘Well, he’s got this thing called “Star Wars,” and he ...

  5. Feb 8, 2022 · As pianist and Williams interpreter Simone Pedroni said in several occasions, John Williams has always been in touch with what he calls the “spiritual childhood”, i.e. a profound sense of grace and innocence that he’s able to channel into his own compositions.

    • John Williams was drafted into the air force in 1952 where he arranged, played, and led several military bands throughout his service.
    • After his studies at Julliard, Williams relocated to Los Angeles and got a job as a movie studio pianist. He can be heard performing in the soundtracks to films like West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
    • Before meeting Steven Spielberg in 1972 (leading to dozens of film collaborations) Williams also composed for the small screen, writing for such television shows as Gilligan’s Island and Lost in Space.
    • After their initial meeting over a lunch, Williams would go on to compose music for all but three of Spielberg’s films.
  6. Jun 30, 2022 · “Without being religious, which I’m not especially, there is a spiritual life, an artistic life, a realm that’s above the mundanities of everyday realities. Music can raise one’s thinking to the...

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