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	Filmtracks John Williams Tribute
		John Williams is the master of the long-term Hollywood relationship.
		John Towner Williams was born in the Flushing section of Queens, in New York City, on February 8, 1932, the oldest of Esther and Johnny Williams.
		Williams began conducting orchestras for the soundtrack recordings of all of his own works (with the exeption of a few early scores), and over the years he has also undertaken assignments for conducting light classical music with the symphony orchestras of such cities as Atlanta, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles.
	www.filmtracks.com /composers/williams.shtml (2170 words)

	The John Towner Williams Homepage: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Williams was born in New York (2/8/32) but soon moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948.
		Williams has written many concert pieces including two symphonies, a bassoon concerto premiered by the New York Philharmonic in 1995, a cello concerto premiered by Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1994, concertos for flute and violin recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, and concertos for clarinet and tuba.
		Williams has composed the well-known NBC News Theme "The Mission", "Liberty Fanfare," composed for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, "We're Lookin' Good!" composed for the Special Olympics in celebration of the 1987 International Summer Games, and the themes for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games (Summon The Heroes).
	jtw.jw-music.net /bio.htm (333 words)

	scorereviews.com - film music composers - John Williams
		John Towner Williams was born in Long Island, New York on February 8, 1932, being the son of jazz musician Johnny Williams, among other things a drummer in the Raymond Scott Quintet.
		Williams number of scoring projects, for television and big screen, rise up around two hundred (about eighty of them being films), but that is not all Williams has done.
		Williams has also made a name of himself as a skilled conductor; he was chief conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra between 1980 and 1993 and he has lead a number of the greatest orchestras in the world both in concert and on recordings of both own works and works by other composers.
	www.scorereviews.com /composers/composer.asp?id=48 (1038 words)

	Composer Soundtracks ... John Williams ... Vienna Online Ezine
		John Williams is one of the most well known composers of the 20th century.
		John Towner Williams was born in New York City on February 8, 1932, the oldest son of Esther and Johnny Williams.
		John Williams latest scores for "Star Wars - Episode I", "AI" and "Harry Potter" have generated worldwide appeal and success which only goes to show that although composers such as James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith have been commercially threatening Williams' dominance atop the world of film music, he continues to produce exceptional scores.
	www.viennaonline-ezine.com /soundtracks/st0102.html (567 words)

	Williams, John biography - 8notes.com
		John Towner Williams (born in New York, February 8, 1932) is one of the most widely recognized composers of film scores.
		In 1948, John Williams and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended UCLA (the University of California in Los Angeles).
		From 1980 to 1993, Williams was the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/john_williams.asp (903 words)

	John Williams page
		John Towner Williams was born in Queens, New York City on February 8, 1932, being the oldest of the family.
		John Williams also maintained to score deeper and darker and performed music for other equally impressive features, including the immense list are Born on the Fourth of July, Far and Away, Nixon, Sleepers, Seven Years in Tibet and Angela's Ashes.
		John Williams maintains to bring stylish and impressive efforts and he stands today as a 5 time Oscar winning composer, 3 time Golden Globe winner and an impressive list that includes 37 Oscar nominations and 17 Golden Globe nominations (not containing song nominations).
	users.telenet.be /soundtrack-fm/Reviews/John_Williams/John_Williams.htm (776 words)

	John Williams (composer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932 in New York City) is one of the most widely recognized composers of film scores.
		In 1948, John Williams and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
		Williams, being the most prominent composer in North America, has also composed the official theme for all four Olympic Games held on the continent in the last 26 years.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/John-Williams-(composer).htm (942 words)

	John Williams, Music Composer, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
		John Williams is undoubtedly one of best-known and one of the giants among movie soundtrack composers.
		Williams was married to Barbara for 18 years, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1974.
		Williams recorded the soundtrack in mid 2001 with an orchestra of studio musicians at the famed Abbey Road Studios and AIR Lyndhurst Studios in London.
	www.angelfire.com /mi3/cookarama/williams.html (1924 words)

	Williams, John Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Towner Williams Homepage - A listing of film music recordings, audio clips, and biography by John Williams.
		John Williams - film composer - This is the mfiles page for John Williams with career overview, filmography and soundtrack reviews.
		That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Williams, John The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_W_Williams,_John.html (1781 words)

	Orchestra Seattle \| Seattle Chamber Singers
		John Towner Williams was born February 8, 1932 in New York.
		Yet, as Williams is quick to point out, more people will hear his music to the latest blockbuster film on opening day than will ever hear any of his more abstract music for the concert hall.
		The son of a jazz drummer, John Williams was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948, when his father took a job as a percussionist at Columbia Studios.
	www.osscs.org /notes/williams_potter.html (1099 words)

	CBS.com
		John Towner Williams moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948.
		Williams cut his teeth as a jazz pianist in Manhattan before returning to Los Angeles, where he began working in films and television.
		John Williams, joyfully, is carrying that celebration into the 21st Century.
	www.cbs.com /specials/2004_kennedy_center_honors/bios/bio_williams02.shtml (155 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		John Towner Williams was born in Floral Park, N.Y., on February 8, 1932.
		Williams was soon invited to orchestrate cues for such composers as Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, and Bernard Herrmann.
		Williams has also composed numerous concert pieces: two symphonies and a variety of concertos such as the celebrated Cello Concerto, which was premiered at Tanglewood by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with soloist Yo-Yo Ma in 1994.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles286.html (759 words)

	JOHN WILLIAMS - MUSIC COMPOSER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Born in Long Island, New York on February 8, 1932, John Towner Williams discovered music almost immediately, due in no small measure to being the son of a percussionist for CBS Radio and the Raymond Scott Quintet.
		Williams found work with the Hollywood studios as a piano player, eventually accompanying such fare such as the TV series "Peter Gunn" (1958), South Pacific (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), as well as forming a surprising friendship with Bernard Herrmann.
		John & Barbara had three children; their daughter is now a doctor, and their two sons, Joseph and Mark, are rock musicians.
	www.uncleodiescollectibles.com /html_lib/irwin/00010.html (1125 words)

	musical genius > the John Williams fanlisting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As one of the best known, awarded, and financially successful composers in US history, John Williams is as easy to recall as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein, illustrating why he is "America's composer" time again.
		Williams found work with the Hollywood studios as a piano player, eventually accompanying such fare such as the TV series "Peter Gunn", South Pacific, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, and To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as forming a surprising friendship with Bernard Herrmann.
		John and Barbara had three children; their daughter is now a doctor, and their two sons, Joseph and Mark, are rock musicians.
	fan.space-oddity.org /williams/bio.htm (1051 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for John Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beyond the silver screen, Williams has brought his genius and generosity to the concert stage, as principal conductor and now laureate conductor of the world's most populist symphony, the Boston Pops Orchestra.
		John Towner Williams was born in Long Island and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948.
		John Williams, joyfully, is carrying that celebration into the 21 st Century.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=9271&source_type=A (830 words)

	John Williams's Biography
		John Towner Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Queens, New York, to Johnny and Esther Williams.
		As the 1990s began, rumors began to circulate that Williams was contemplating retirement, perhaps partly due to his resentment toward the Academy that he had not won an Oscar for more than a decade despite being nominated 10 times during that period.
		Because of Williams, film music has begun to finally be appreciated as the art form it truly is. And, because of John Williams, films that could have failed have become treasures of cinema and the world.
	www.heidelberg.edu /~dbramel/jwbio.html (872 words)

	JOHN WILLIAMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One of the most popular and successful American orchestral composers of the modern age, John Williams is the winner of five Academy Awards, 17 Grammys, three Golden Globes, two Emmys and five BAFTA Awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
		Best known for his film scores and ceremonial music, Williams is also a noted composer of concert works and a renowned conductor.
		Williams’ scores for such films as Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, as well as the Indiana Jones series, have won him multiple awards and produced best-selling recordings, and his scores for the original Star Wars trilogy transformed the landscape of Hollywood film music and became icons of American culture.
	www.markraats.com /WilliamsMedium.htm (135 words)

	'W' ENTRIES - Page 10 on the COMPOSERS - LYRICISTS DATABASE
		Williams has one of the greatest director/composer relationsips of all times with director Steven Spielberg, scoring all but one of his feature films.
		Williams has composed the well-known NBC News Theme "The Mission", "Liberty Fanfare," composed for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty.
		Patrick Williams, a versatile and highly respected composer/arranger, has composed hundreds of scores for feature films (where he has been active for 3 decades), as well as for television, records and concert works.
	nfo.net /cal/tw10.html (2626 words)

	ScoreTrack.Net - Music for The Movies: John Williams
		In 1956, John Williams was hired by Twentieth Century Fox as a pianist in their studio orchestra, and he was soon also writing the music for TV shows such as Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space, Wagon Train and Land of the Giants and for low budget movies.
		John Williams’ themes for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman, and ET have great appeal for the general public and his movie score albums are top sellers.
		John Williams most recent concert work is Seven for Luck for soprano and orchestra, a seven-piece song cycle based on the texts of former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove.
	www.scoretrack.net /jwilliams.html (1245 words)

	Amazon.com: War of the Worlds [SOUNDTRACK]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Williams continues his longtime collaboration with Steven Spielberg in this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel of the same name (previously filmed in 1953).
		Williams' music is partially a throwback to his epic score for Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," minus its lyrical passages.Indeed, there is not much of what might be called melodic music save for somber tones that bring the film to a typical Spielberg ending.
		Williams has produced a tense, taut, and very effective score that is also representative of, and a tribute to, the film scores of those B-Sci.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009A3ZZI?v=glance (1711 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: W: Williams, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Williams (1932-), born in Queens, NY, is an American composer with a long list of works.
		John Williams - film composer · cached · This is the mfiles page for John Williams with career overview, filmography and soundtrack reviews.
		IMDb: John Williams (I) · iweb · cached · Actor and composer filmography.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=192603 (248 words)

	the futon critic - the web's best primetime television resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Not one to be contained by musical or any other borders, John also has made his mark as a persuasive AIDS warrior and a fearless champion of free speech.
		She later trained formally with John and Aida Dickens, made her concert debut as the tragic heroine of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” in 1947, won Australia’s Sun Aria Competition in 1950 and, in 1951, sang the world premiere of Eugene Goossens’ “Judith” at the Sydney Conservatorium.
		John Williams was born on Feb. 8, 1932, in Long Island, New York.
	www.thefutoncritic.com /cgi/listings.cgi?id=20041115cbs04 (3908 words)

	THE PATRIOT \| John Williams @ Cinemusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The orchestra that he uses is the standard John Williams orchestra with a large brass section, a few rare woodwind instruments, and a lively percussion section- notably containing a few marching snare drums.
		John Williams is the most capable composer (save Goldsmith, Elfman, and Arnold) of really knocking your socks off with bombastic orchestral action material.
		But, if you're an avid John Williams fan like I am and expect to hear something as fun, fresh, or moving as STAR WARS, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, or SAVING SAVING RYAN, I'm afraid that that John Williams didn't show up for this war.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/patriot.html (774 words)

	Film Composers
		During his career, John Williams scores for both television and film have ranged the gamut from jazz-rock to western adventure to fantasy/science-fiction to more cerebral.
		Williams has scored most of Steven Spielberg's commercial films during the past 18 years, and has become associated so tightly with Spielberg's family blockbuster genre, that some people want to stereotype Williams scores as only capable of writing in the Korngold-inspired "symphonic adventure/fantasy" style.
		Williams has composed a number of serious musical works, including two symphonies, several concertos and a song cycle for soloist and orchestra.
	www.classicthemes.com /filmComposers.html (9392 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Performance Details
		The 70th birthday of John Towner Williams (b.
		In a remarkable career that has spanned nearly half a century, Williams has gone from a brilliant jazz and studio pianist to music director of the famed Boston Pops Orchestra, and composer of Academy Award-winning film scores, overtures, concertos, and other orchestral works.
		This composer — who virtually re-invented the Romantic orchestral film score — is interpreted here by his friend Yo-Yo Ma, a master of that quintessential voice of the Romantic era, the cello.
	wdch.laphil.com /tix/performance_detail.cfm?id=939 (170 words)

	John Williams Music, News, Concerts, and More from SonicBreakdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The music is legendary for its slow, ominous Shark Motif (arguably the single most recognised theme in film music history), and earned Williams his second Academy Award (he had won his first for his 1971 adaptation of the music for the film version of Fiddler on the Roof).
		He is now the Laureate Conductor of the Pops and still has ties to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), which have much overlap and both perform out of Boston's Symphony Hall.
		Williams has written various concert works, including concerti for bassoon, clarinet, flute, violin, horn, trumpet, cello, and tuba.
	www.sonicbreakdown.com /Z/artistDetails/selectedArtistId_65/newsId_60849.html (1110 words)

	Biography for John Williams (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Son of jazz musician Johnny Williams, who was best known as the drummer in The Raymond Scott Quintette.
		Recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, along with Elton John, Joan Sutherland, Warren Beatty, and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
		As "Johnny" Williams, he composed the memorable theme songs and musical backgrounds for "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Lost in Space," among other 1960s TV shows.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0002354/bio (1921 words)

	John Williams Web Page At MyStarLinks.com
		The son of a guitarist, John Williams -- not to be confused with the film composer of the same name...
		I had never heard of John Williams or his work when I met him on the eve of The Bread Loaf Writers Conference in...
		WILLIAMS, John, (brother of Lewis Williams and Robert Williams, father of Joseph Lanier Williams, and cousin of Marmaduke Williams), a...
	www.mystarlinks.com /stars/johnwilliams.php (1514 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cinema Serenade: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cinema Serenade, featuring acclaimed violinist Itzhak Perlman, John Williams and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, is a beautiful 13-track collection of movie themes by such famous composers as Elmer Bernstein, Michel Legrand, John Barry, Andrea Morricone, Luis Bonfa, Andre Previn and, of course, Williams.
		Because the featured solo instrument is a violin, producer John Frost, Williams and Perlman chose themes that, with the exception of the Gardel tango "Por Una Cabeza" (heard in Scent of a Woman) and Williams' Irish-styled "Theme from Far and Away," are sentimental, stately and even melancholic.
		Williams conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with his usual golden touch, and although some of the arrangements in this CD have been tweaked to highlight Perlman's violin, the effect is not at all detrimental.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000267KU (917 words)

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