John Williams Interview

John Williams interview about the Boston Pops (early 80s).

[@davidabarnes1993]

Williams is calm, cool, collected - thinks before he speaks - what a guy. Over the previous year he'd gotten married to Samantha Winslow, and scored Empire and Raiders, and would conduct the Pops for another 12 years after this! (And shortly score E.T....) What a genius, hope he lives to be 100!

[@Metalpazallteway]

200 yrs. There won't be another one like him unfortunately

[@rolandh4947]

I thougt the same of Jerry Goldsmith...His compositions are so incredible ...

[@juliancochran]

>.. thinks before he speaks He definitely thought for a while before speaking at 13:30.

[@themamachannel9047]

@@Metalpazalltewaydon’t be a downer. There will always be people like Williams. Williams is a true, iconic, one in a million but there are people out there that are just as creative, inventive and masterful: they just haven’t come into full light yet:)

[@Metalpazallteway]

@@themamachannel9047 I won't say that there aren't skillful musicians but his Musical color is innate and can be reproduced and incorporated today but yet it's learned. I must say though in his time there were and still are fantastic composers right under Williams is Horner, Goldsmith, Arnold, and even Christopher Young, just as much as are some of his compositions to be highly controversial for mimicking other previous post classically trained composers before Williams era. Orchestral cinematic composers are rare and even the ones we have in today's era very few can scrape the ones previously mentioned.

[@lewisedmundscomposer]

He is such an eloquent and thoughtful man. ❤️

[@trevorjensen2706]

Thank you so much for uploading this. John Williams is such a great composer, but he is so wise that one could talk to him about far more than music.

[@colleencupido5125]

A lovely interview- the best I've seen of John Williams. This is 2021 and I just saw online his 2016 acceptance speech for the AFI awards- still sharp, wise and witty in his 80s. Calling attention to his remark of how popular music has changed from what it was in the 1920s 30s and 40s- This year I will be 55- my Dad was 14 when Pearl Harbor was announced and 18 when he fought for the last year of the War in the Navy. Both my Dad's parents were born in 1888. So my father gave me a thorough grounding in the music he grew up with: the 20s, 30s and 40s. Other postings have called him cool and calm. What I can't get over is his sharp, Intelligent eyes. There had to be Something behind the creator of all that gorgeous music. On a more personal level- if he reads youtube postings about him that usually mention gifted movie composers like Danny Elfman or Jerry Goldsmith- but it must sadden him that rarely mentioned are Steiner, Waxman, Korngold, Tiomkin, Rosza and Hermann. What was it- Isaac Newton saying I have attained so much because I stood on the shoulders of giants? What really slices into me are all those postings saying John Williams is a God and Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert & company are garbage in comparison. And those saying that think they are complimenting him! When Mr.Williams real reaction is unspoken nausea that if these postings have no comprehension of the last 500 years of musical Geniuses why do they think they are complimenting him? They are advertising in neon their lack of reference points. As a 10 year old listen to the LPs of Star Wars and his other scores, they taught me to appreciate music without words and prepared me for the Great Composers of Symphonies and Opera a few years later. What I would give to see an interview like this with Beethoven, Tchaikovsky or Puccini. But John Williams is still alive and well, and beyond his mind-boggling popularity and reach all over the world, Mr. Williams is a composer of skill, brilliance and genius, with a depth of learning that obviously goes beyond music. If Dante's Inferno can start in limbo with Homer, Socrates, Aristotle, Ovid, etc. inviting visiting Dante to come, be one of them- then I think the composer featured in the above interview would also be told "come, be one of us" by all those great composers of hundreds years past he obviously cherished when with the BPO and continues to do so now

[@123rockfan]

I’ve been a fan of his music for most of my life but I can’t believe this is the first full interview I’ve ever seen from him. His personality is different than I expected. Extremely introspective and well spoken

[@theempire00]

So rare!

[@bobbyrizzo3002]

So cool, calm and collective ❤

[@batman-robin-soundtrack]

Wow he's been bald a long time But seriously, it's crazy that he's still able to do so much in his 90s, he's a lot smarter than a lot of people in their 70s. It reminds me of an old lady who practically holds my church together even though she's in her 90s. It's funny how people who live to their 90s sometimes seem much younger

[@johnnyc2093]

Sound cuts off at 13:30 then comes back in at 19:17

[@hugosanchez7599]

What a legend

[@MrRbjunior83]

Total genius! Absolute master!

[@eb.1]

1981? He sounded like he was referring to the present as the second season of his Pops tenure.

[@paulcristo]

Thanks for uploading. I'm curious how you found this interview.

[@Captain-Cosmo]

Williams understand the economics of orchetras. As a professional orchestral musician, I understand the difference between getting, say, six or eight rehearsals for a Benjamin Britten War Requiem and just a single rehearsal for a "pops" concert.

[@elementsofphysicalreality]

Gary Burton, Kieth Emerson, George Benson and Bruce Springsteen.

[@zoogpedalboard582]

what is the bso?

[@GGbreizh]

Boston symphony orchestra

[@shhtha]

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