John Williams
John Williams
John Towner Williamsis an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for the majority of his feature films. Other notable works by Williams...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth8 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.
Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.
Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?
I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.
A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.
There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
These are people who don't want to spend their weekends mowing their lawns. They want to have more free time.
This has certainly had a direct psychological impact on Hilton Head Middle School. If there's any positive, it's brought to light some shortcomings in communication.
All I knew is we had to get it (the shot) up. We couldn't stand to foul and I just had to put it in. I missed those free throws and I had to do something to make it up for the team. I'm glad it worked out that way.
The damaged blood vessel now needs to be given time to heal before Gareth can resume training and eventually playing. We are expecting him to make a full recovery and it is envisaged that he will be able to resume training after 10 to 12 weeks.
The market isn't so sure things are slowing down, which is why these reports will be important. I do think it's inevitable the Fed is eventually going to have to raise rates to slow things down a bit.
If we asked the various families to buy computers, this would only have widened the digital divide. So the school superintendent and the supervisors insisted that this be a grass-roots effort. We wanted to ensure that all the children in the sixth grade would have the opportunity to be a part of this.