08-02-2020, 10:57
Born on this day in 1932, in Floral Park, New York, composer, conductor and pianist John Towner Williams.
I think it's safe to say that he's best known for his many film scores, the list of which is exhaustive and goes right back to 1958. Numbered among them are Jaws, Star Wars (none of which I've ever watched - possibly the only person on earth not to have, lol!), Goodbye Mr Chips, Superman, Indiana Jones, JFK, Memoirs of Geisha and my personal favourites, Seven Years in Tibet and Schindler's List. A hard worker, Mr Williams - no sitting around on his many laurels!
From Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams "Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 52 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005 the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The Library of Congress also entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant""
The gorgeousness that is the cello of Yo-Yo Ma ...
I think it's safe to say that he's best known for his many film scores, the list of which is exhaustive and goes right back to 1958. Numbered among them are Jaws, Star Wars (none of which I've ever watched - possibly the only person on earth not to have, lol!), Goodbye Mr Chips, Superman, Indiana Jones, JFK, Memoirs of Geisha and my personal favourites, Seven Years in Tibet and Schindler's List. A hard worker, Mr Williams - no sitting around on his many laurels!
From Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams "Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 52 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005 the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The Library of Congress also entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant""
The gorgeousness that is the cello of Yo-Yo Ma ...
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