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1) John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. He has a very distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism and atonal music with complex orchestration. The classical music critic Marcus Paus argues that Williams' "satisfying way of embodying complex dissonances and avant-garde techniques within a larger tonal framework" makes him "one of the great composers of any century".
Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor from 1980 to 1993, and is currently the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, Williams 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 soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).
John Towner Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York, to Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams, a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quintet. Williams has said of his lineage, "My father was a Maine man—we were very close. My mother was from Boston. My father's parents ran a department store in Bangor, Maine, and my mother's father was a cabinetmaker. [...] People with those roots are not inclined to be lazy."
Williams married Barbara Ruick, an American actress and singer, in 1956. Together they had three children: Jennifer (b. 1956), Mark Towner Williams (b. 1958), and Joseph (b. 1960), who is the lead singer of Toto. The two remained married until her death in 1974. In 1980, Williams married Samantha Winslow, a photographer.
2) John Christopher Williams is a classical guitar player.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, on 24 April 1941, to an English father (Len Williams) and an Australian-Chinese mother, Williams was taught initially by his father. At the age of twelve he went to Italy to study under "The Maestro," Andrés Segovia. Later, he attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying piano because the school did not have a guitar department at the time. Upon graduation, he was offered the opportunity to create such a department. He seized the opportunity and ran it for the first two years. Williams has maintained links with the College (and with the Northern College in Manchester) ever since.
Williams is best known as a classical guitarist, but has explored many different musical traditions. He has collaborated with Julian Bream and Paco Peña and was a member of the fusion group Sky. He is also a composer and arranger.
Williams has commissioned guitar concertos from composers such as Stephen Dodgson, André Previn, Patrick Gowers, Richard Harvey, and Steve Gray. He has also worked with composers from his native Australia, including Phillip Houghton, Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards (composer), and Nigel Westlake, to produce guitar works that capture the spirit of his homeland.
He enjoyed a worldwide hit single with his recording of Cavatina by Stanley Myers, used as the theme tune to the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1979). The piece had originally been written for piano, for another film ten years earlier, The Walking Stick (1970) but re-written for guitar and expanded by Myers at Williams' invitation. In 1973, Cleo Laine wrote lyrics and recorded the song "He Was Beautiful" accompanied by John Williams. A year later, it was a top-five UK hit single for Iris Williams (no relation).
At the invitation of producer Martin Lewis he created a highly acclaimed classical-rock fusion duet with celebrated rock guitarist Pete Townshend of Townshend's anthemic "Won't Get Fooled Again" for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman's Ball. The duet was featured on the resulting album and the film version of the show – bringing Williams to the broader attention of the rock audience.
The relationship with Lewis led to Williams' classical-rock fusion band Sky being invited to give the first-ever rock concert to be held at Westminster Abbey – a benefit concert for Amnesty that Lewis produced in February 1981.
He is visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Williams and his artist wife Kathy Panama reside in London and Australia.
3) John Williams
John Williams is internationally regarded as one of the foremost players of Irish music today. With five All-Ireland titles to his credit, John is the only American-born competitor ever to win first place in the "senior concertina" category. His additional talents on flute, button accordion, bodhran, and piano distinguish him as a much sought after multi-instrumentalist in the acoustic scene around the world.
Born and raised on the Southwest Side of Chicago, John spent his summers during college on the Southwest coast of Ireland in his father’s village of Doolin, Co. Clare. Like Chicago, Doolin became a major musical crossroads for John and countless other local and international musicians to meet and exchange music. Gigging every night in the pubs of Doolin and Lisdoonvarna soon led to performances in Galway, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Paris, Britanny, Zurich, and New York City (bio http://www.johnwilliamsmusic.com/bio.htm).
3) John Williams
A blues/jazz guitarist in Seattle, Washington, whose music is available at Magnatune.com (bio http://magnatune.com/artists/john_williams).
3) John Knowles Williams
An experimental/indie musician. Music is available at sweetnuthin.letsneverdie.net/Music/My_Recordings/ or www.myspace.com/JohnKWilliams.
He Was Beautiful
John Williams Lyrics
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From the moment I saw him sun filled the skies.
He was so, so beautiful, beautiful just to hold,
In my dreams he was springtime, winter was cold.
How could I tell him what I so clearly could see?
Though I longed for him, another trusted me completely so I never could be free.
I will always remember times that we shared.
Now it's all over still the feelings linger on,
For my dream keeps returning now that he's gone.
For it was beautiful, beautiful, beautiful to be loved.
The song He Was Beautiful, composed by John Williams, depicts the story of a woman who falls in love with a man instantly. She views him as a masterpiece, and her world was illuminated as soon as she saw him. The intimate and brimming song illustrates the persona's desire to hold the man and having him as the personification of springtime in her life. She desires to vocalize what she feels about him, but she is unable to express herself since she is already in a relationship with someone else, who trusts her entirely. Consequently, she believes she can never be available to someone as elegantly beautiful as the man she speaks of.
The chorus of the song extols the pleasant moments she shared with the man, even though they are no longer together. She cherishes their encounters, and the memory of their time together dictates her life now that he's desisted. The persona then cherishes the fact that she was loved by a man as beautiful as the one she reminisces about. The song is a display of how the author could not articulate what she felt for a man as beautiful as he was, how their time together was an unforgettable moment, and how she was grateful for being loved by him.
Line by Line Meaning
He was beautiful, beautiful to my eyes,
I found him incredibly attractive and captivating as soon as I laid eyes on him.
From the moment I saw him sun filled the skies.
Seeing him brightened up my day and made everything seem better.
He was so, so beautiful, beautiful just to hold,
Not only was he beautiful to look at, but holding him also brought me immense joy and comfort.
In my dreams he was springtime, winter was cold.
In my fantasies, he represented a beautiful and warm season of the year, while everything else felt cold and bleak without him.
How could I tell him what I so clearly could see?
I struggled with expressing to him how much I was taken with him and how much he meant to me.
Though I longed for him, another trusted me completely so I never could be free.
Despite my deep desire for him, I was already committed to someone else who had complete trust in me, preventing me from acting on my feelings and being free with him.
Aah but it was beautiful, knowing now that he cared,
Getting to know that he had feelings for me as well became a beautiful and meaningful thing for me, even though it didn't lead to anything more.
I will always remember times that we shared.
I hold dear the memories of the moments that we spent together.
Now it's all over still the feelings linger on,
Despite our story being over, the emotions I felt for him continue to persist.
For my dream keeps returning now that he's gone.
I still dream about him even though he's no longer a part of my life, and he remains a symbol of my deepest desires and fantasies.
For it was beautiful, beautiful, beautiful to be loved.
Despite the challenges and limitations that came with our relationship, feeling loved by him was a beautiful experience that I will cherish forever.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: CLEO LAINE, STANLEY MYERS
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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It's one of those songs that seeps deep into your soul - sad, beautiful and inspiring all at the same time.
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