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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: John Williams (1932-)

Composer of the Week: John Williams (1932-): Episode 3: America's Composer

John Williams (1932-)

Episode 3

Episode 3: America's Composer

America's Composer

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, John Williams (1932-), America's Composer

John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about his score for Spielberg's Schindler's List.

John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about his score for Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, and working with a very different director: Alfred Hitchcock.

John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about working with Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust drama, Schindler's List - and how he approached the enormous challenge of writing music to complement such a tragic and harrowing story. We'll hear excerpts from his Oscar-winning score, infused with the inflections of Jewish traditional music.
Before this, a very different - and much loved - Spielberg score: Williams's music to the "Indiana Jones" series of films, and the composer's Olympic Fanfare, written for the Los Angeles Summer Games of 1984, and reprised every games since.
We end with a real rarity, and probably a real surprise to many: John Williams's score to Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot. Williams is one of the very few people in history to have worked closely with both Hitchcock and Spielberg - and he tells us how these two directorial giants compare.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod is joined by John Williams for an exploration of his life and music

To mark the composer's 80th birthday year, Donald Macleod is joined by John Williams for an exploration of his life and music

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