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Randall D. Larson
(Liner Notes Autor)
01. What are your thoughts, when you hear his name or listen to his music?
My first thought is that he captures the legacy of the Golden Age of film music, recalling the traditional symphonic style of the 30s and 40s, which had largely gone out of vogue until Williams’ pretty much single-handedly brought it back into fashion with STAR WARS; but JW is much more than that – his music brings an immediate sense of graceful scope and exciting adventure due to the films he is associated with. A John Williams score will add a significant production value to any film, enhancing the romantic adventure and musical sweep of the story, whether it’s a huge Spielberg adventure fantasy or an intimate historical drama in Asia. He has also inspired so many composers who are now scoring films, just as his work inspired many listeners and enthusiasts of the film music aesthetic.
02. What is your favorite score? Or are your favorite scores (Top 5)?
Tough question! I have no top favorite, as I like all of them for different reasons, but these are the top five that have moved me the most, in no particular order:
Dracula, The Empire Strikes Back, The Poseidon Adventure, Hook, Witches of Eastwicke.
03. What are your favorite movies with his music?
While I cheer along with his operatic adventure music for the STAR WARS, INDIANA JONES, and HARRY POTTER movies, I am also very fond of 1941 with its martial enthusiasm and swing, but the films that have moved me the most with his music, as movies, are those which resonate with profound emotion, like SCHINDLER’S LIST, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, MUNICH, and moments of JFK. I also appreciate his far less melodic and more modernistic music for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND.
04. Have you ever met him?
No, I have not had that rare pleasure.
05. If you think about all the pictures scored by John Williams... which scene with music by John stayed with you long after you left the movie theater?
Two moments: the first one is in the many uses of the shark ostinato in JAWS – which despite having become a cliché these days, had such an immensely powerful effect in the film, instantly creating a sense of awful anticipation and growing unease. The other is Luke’s Theme in STAR WARS, the beautiful crescendo when Luke gazes at the twin sunset outside his home on Tattoine; and its counterpart moments in REVENGE OF THE SITH when, baby Luke having been delivered to Owen and Baru for keepingoing and the same music plays as the gaze at the same sunset, years earlier.
06. Do you know the music from the time when he was still called "Johnny" Williams?
Yes, I got into JW in the mid 1970s with POSEIDON ADV and immediately began to collect his work, finding and enjoying his early pop-tinged scores for HOW TO STEAL A MILLION, CHECKMATE, DIAMOND HEAD, which struck me at the time and which I still very much enjoy.
07. This year is the 40th anniversary of the collaboration between Steven Spielberg and John Williams, too.
A collaboration between a director and a composer that lasts already 40 years, is very unique in fast moving Hollywood. Please tell us your thoughts about this un-exampled friendship within the movie world.
I think this speaks to the artistic partnership, trust, and loyalty that are shared between Spielberg and Williams. In a day when such collaborations are broken for various reasons, it’s a credit that Spielberg and Williams haven’t gotten “artistically divorced.” Williams music is so intrinsic to the kind of movies that Spielberg makes, his music touches the emotional psychology of those films in a way that is quite remarkable and effecting. Also, Spielberg clearly trusts him to do what is right and gives him much less interference that most other directors seem to do with their composers. Bringing his composer in early in the process rather than at the very last minute, as is usually the case in Hollywood, allows the music to breathe, and to really merge with the visual storytelling style so that both become inseparable.
08. What would you wish him for birthday?
I would thank him for what he has done to enhance cinematic storytelling and reaffirm the quality of music for motion pictures as a singular artform, for many hours of breathtaking listening in the theaters and on my home stereos, and I would wish him satisfaction in his accomplishments and many more years of continued brilliance in making music.
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Daniel Schweiger
(Liner Notes Autor)
01. What are your thoughts, when you hear his name or listen to his music?
That I'm going to get something very lush, melodic and thematic. That the music will encompass me in almost a dream-like way.
02. Does he inspire you in your own work?
I got into film scoring because of its ability to conjure "create" scenes and scenarious in my own head. He and Goldsmith probably have the greatest effect on me to that end
03. What is your favorite score? Or are your favorite scores (Top 5)?
Almost impossible, but I'd say Superman, Empire Strikes Back, A.I., Black Sunday, Raiders of the Lost Ark
04. What are your favorite movies with his music?
The above!
05. Have you ever met him?
No, but I interviewed him for one of the first liner notes I ever did, a compilation of Ron Howard scores called "Passions and Achievements."
06. If you think about all the pictures scored by John Williams... which scene with music by John stayed with you long after you left the movie theater?
I'd say the three cues that almost instantaneously make me cry have to do with family separation- the scene of Clark and Ma Kent parting at sunrise in Superman, the "perfect day" between mom and robot in A.I. and the parting of Oskar Schindler from the people he saved
07. Do you know the music from the time when he was still called "Johnny" Williams?
Yeah. They were fun, comedy, jazzy stuff. I love his score for "Valley of the Dolls" and "Lost in Space" the most
08. This year is the 40th anniversary of the collaboration between Steven Spielberg and John Williams, too.
A collaboration between a director and a composer that lasts already 40 years, is very unique in fast moving Hollywood. Please tell us your thoughts about this un-exampled friendship within the movie world.
Well, aside from the disaster of "The Color Purple" (and we all know what happened there), it just shows a complete trust between director and composer to let ideas and melodies flow through. It shows the confidence of a filmmaker to let the composer put big emotion into music that's heard loud and clear- War Horse score critics be darned. It's definitely the most popular, and accessable director / composer in collaboration that will be remembered for millenia to come. Williams is our age's Mozart, pure and simple- but with a far happier story in his own time!
09. What would you wish him for birthday?
Many more years and scores to come with Spielberg and the budding, music-appreciating filmmakers their work has inspired
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Csongor
(Soundtrack Board User)
Als ich im Teenageralter „Jurassic Park“ im Kino gesehen habe, war ich von der Musik fasziniert. Es war das erste Mal, dass mir orchestrale Musik die für einen Film komponiert worden ist aufgefallen ist. Später habe ich im Radio die Themen von Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Schindler's List, E. T. und Superman gehört und war schlicht von diesen grandiosen Musikstücken begeistert. Wenig später habe ich erfahren, dass all diese Werke eines gemeinsam haben ... sie stammen alle aus der Feder von John Williams. Ich wollte mehr von diesem Komponisten hören und besorgte mir im laufe der Jahre fast alle seine Soundtracks und bin auch heute noch jedes Mal von der Vielfältigkeit seiner Musik angetan. Steven Spielberg meint, dass kein anderer Komponist seine Filme so gut vertonen könne wie John Williams, und der Mann hat Recht, denn dieser bescheidener Komponist hat uns in den 50 Jahren, in denen er uns mit seinen wunderbaren Filmscores verwöhnt, noch kein einziges Mal enttäuscht. Vielen Dank für die wunderbaren Momente Maestro!
"Mein Komponist ist besser als deiner" ;)
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