Teacher. John Williams has 52 nominations for the Hollywood Academy Award. He works on the score for “Indiana Jones 5”. Photographic archive
“Without John Williamsbikes don’t really fly, ” he said. Steven Spielberg when in 2016 the American Film Institute (AFI) distinguished the composer from ET the alienone of the 30 collaborations between the two.
It’s been six years and it’s still true. That was exactly four decades ago, when et premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and it’s time Williams hinted at the music he’s writing for indiana jones 5 it could be the last one he composed for the cinema.
Williams, who blew out 90 candles on February 8, gave it in an interview with the AP agency, from his home in Los Angeles. And he was tall.
Together with Spielberg. In 50! years they worked together on 30 projects. AFP photo
“I’m currently working on it indiana jones 5, in which Harrison Ford, who is a little younger than me, I believe has announced that it will be his last film. So I thought, if Harrison can do it, then maybe I can too. “
Harrison Ford has never made such a determination public – although his next two projects are television series … -, and Williams no longer feels like working with his pencil and sheet music.
For the music of “ET El extraterrestre” he won his second Oscar. Clarin photographic archive
It is that, he represented graphically after recalling that this year he composed the characteristic theme of Obi-Wan Kenobithe Disney + series, working on a film like those of the saga of Star Wars It takes a long time, about six months. “At this point in life, (it’s) a long commitment for me … I don’t want to be seen as a categorical elimination of any activity. I can’t play tennis, but I like being able to believe that maybe one day I will. ”
At the piano and with his pencil
Be that as it may, the five-time Oscar winner and 52 Academy Award nominations intends to stick with the music. How do you create? In the old fashioned way, spending several hours a day sitting at his Steinway piano, pencil in hand.
Williams still composes sitting at his piano and with a pencil today. Clarin photographic archive
Of those thirty collaborations with Spielberg, more than one is memorable. Furthermore etwho can forget the five notes with which the earthlings tried to communicate with the spaceship in Close encounters of the third kind? and the music of Raiders of the Lost Arkwave of Schindler’s List…
For the music of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” he was also nominated for an Oscar. Clarin photographic archive
He just recently released the album A meeting of friends (A Gathering of Friends), in collaboration with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, which includes a new theme arrangement of that Academy Award-winning film, recorded with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
That soundtrack was the one that allowed him to win his fifth and final statuette, in 1994. The previous ones had been, in order, of The violinist on the roof, Shark, Star Wars Y et.
Honor. John Williams, in June 2016, when he was honored by the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. photo EFE
It was a young Spielberg who approached the teacher and invited him to lunch. It was 1972, 50 years ago, and Williams would have contented himself with Spielberg’s nonsense food or words, and would end up composing music for crazy escapethe drama with Goldie Hawn and Ben Johnson.
In addition to the new (and latest?) Indy, Williams must have already given him the sheet music for The FabelmansSpielberg’s autobiographical film, due out towards the end of the year.
“Whatever our connection, whether it’s music, working with him or just being with him, I think we will always be together,” the songwriter said in that rare interview. Harry PotterY SupermanY Star Wars, Y… -. We are great friends who have shared many years together. It’s the kind of relationship where neither of you would say no to the other. ”
Hence, hope is the last thing to lose.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin