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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.
The Song Is You
John Williams Lyrics
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A beautiful theme of every
Dream I ever knew.
Down deep in my heart I hear it play.
I feel it start, then melt away.
I hear music when I touch your hand,
A beautiful melody
Down deep in my heart, I hear it say,
Is this the day?
I alone have heard this lovely strain,
I alone have heard this glad refrain,
Must it be forever inside of me,
Why can't I let it go,
Why can't I let you know,
Why can't I let you know the song
My heart would sing?
That beautiful rhapsody
Of love and youth and spring,
The music is sweet,
The words are true
The song is you.
The Song Is You is a love song written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and it was originally recorded for the musical "Music in the Air" in 1932. John Williams's rendition of this classic song is characterized by its soft, slow tempo that enhances the romance of the lyrics. In the first verse, the singer speaks about how music plays in their head every time they see their lover: "I hear music when I look at you / A beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew." The singer is struck by the beauty of their partner, and it is as if the music they hear is the culmination of all their hopes and dreams.
In the second verse, the singer talks about how the music plays within them when they touch their love interest: "I hear music when I touch your hand / A beautiful melody from some enchanted land." The music feels magical, almost like it's from a fairy tale. The singer is filled with desire and curiosity about whether this could be the day when their love is finally realized. The final verse of the song is more melancholy as the singer acknowledges that they are the only one who experiences this beautiful music. They wonder why they can't let their lover know the song that their heart sings: "Why can't I let you know the song my heart would sing?" The song concludes with the beautiful sentiment that "the music is sweet, the words are true / the song is you."
Line by Line Meaning
I hear music when I look at you,
My love for you is so strong that your very presence makes me feel as if beautiful music is playing.
A beautiful theme of every
Dream I ever knew.
You are the main focus of my every dream, as this love I have for you is central to all of my desires.
Down deep in my heart I hear it play.
I feel it start, then melt away.
My love for you is so powerful that I can feel it deep in my heart, yet it is also fleeting, as it comes and goes in moments.
I hear music when I touch your hand,
A beautiful melody
From some enchanted land.
The feeling I get from touching you is so magical that it inspires beautiful music that seems to come from another world.
Down deep in my heart, I hear it say,
Is this the day?
In the depth of my heart, I always hope that this day will be the one where I can share my love with you and make it known.
I alone have heard this lovely strain,
I alone have heard this glad refrain,
Only I have experienced this incredible emotion that comes with being in love with you, and only I have heard the happiness that comes with it.
Must it be forever inside of me,
Why can't I let it go,
Why can't I let you know,
Why can't I let you know the song
My heart would sing?
Sometimes I wonder if I should keep my feelings for you locked away forever, but I also want to share them with you, to tell you the words my heart has been singing all along.
That beautiful rhapsody
Of love and youth and spring,
The music is sweet,
The words are true
The song is you.
The love I have for you is like a beautiful song, full of youthful energy and happiness. The melody is sweet, and the words are true, and it is all because of you.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Jerome Kern, Oscar II Hammerstein
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@perhapsduncan4614
Obi-Wan - These are your final steps Rey, rise and take them
Anakin - Rey
Ahsoka - Rey
Kanan - Rey
Anakin - Bring back the balance Rey, as I did.
Luminara - Be the light, find the light, Rey
Mace Windu - You are not alone, Rey
Yoda - Alone, never have you been
Qui-Gon - Every Jedi who ever lived, lives in you
Anakin - The force surrounds you Rey
Aayla Secura - Let it guide you.
Ahsoka - As it guided us
Mace Windu - Feel the force flowing through you, Rey
Anakin - Let it lift you
Adi Gallia - Rise Rey
Qui-Gon - We stand behind you Rey
Old Ben - Rey
Yoda - Rise in the force
Kanan - In the heart of a Jedi lies her strength
Obi-Wan - Rise
Qui-Gon - Rise
Luke - Rey, the force will be with you, always
@drewdenneny
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listen closer to Rey’s Theme. First 3 notes mimic Palpatine’s theme but then turn heroic.
JJ Abrams most likely planned for her to be a Palpatine from the beginning and definitely told Williams from day one. The only reason it doesn’t feel that way is because Rian Johnson took a hard detour from that direction in The Last Jedi.
But even then, Palpatine’s theme even plays in Snoke’s throne room. In 2017 it felt like an homage but now it’s clear that Williams most likely knew Snoke was just an extension of Palpatine and channeled that cue because of it.
@drewdenneny
DeMat not a complete outline from the beginning but he had ideas for the plot threads he opened up. like a “if JJ did the next 2 movies, what direction would it go?” just due to john williams alone i firmly believe that JJ intended for rey to be a palpatine and for snoke to be an extension of palpatine. plus, JJ went on record saying palpatine was the plan from the beginning. it just feels really rushed because rian didn’t develop it in the last jedi.
the same way in season 1 of lost, if you had asked JJ “what’s the smoke monster?” or “what’s the deal with the polar bears?” he probably had an idea for what HE would have them be, but due to his mystery box writing and producing style, he doesn’t hold future writers and directors accountable to seeing his personal vision through. he lets them take what they see and do their version.
for example: the hard detour that was the last jedi.
don’t get me wrong, while i have enjoyed all 5 of the new movies to at least some degree, i absolutely fault JJ and the lucasfilm story group for not sitting down at the very beginning and outlining the entire trilogy.
people wonder why endgame worked so well, and it’s literally because endgame had been structured the exact same way since they started conceptualizing the MCU back in 2008. kevin feige has 30 something more films outlined and knows where he wants everything to end up at key points in the MCU, and he makes sure all of his writers and directors are on the same page.
star wars SHOULD have that through the lucasfilm story group, but for some reason, they didn’t with this new trilogy. and the effects show. it’s absolutely going to be a case study when building franchises in the future.
TLDR, JJ knew that HE wanted rey to be a palpatine, but had no power to enforce that the next writer continued that vision. but while working with williams, JJ had to have told williams his intentions, just due to the similarities of their themes.
@sonicxrich0789
The Skywalker saga:
◾ The Age of Republic: (32 BBY–19 BBY)
01. The Phantom Menace
02. Attack of the Clones
03. The Clone Wars
04. Revenge of the Sith
◾ The Age of Rebellion: (Between 19 BBY and 18 BBY–4 ABY)
05. Untitled Obi-Wan Kenobi
06. Solo
07. Rebels
08. Untitled Cassian Andor
09. Rogue one
10. A New Hope
11. The Empire Strikes Back
12. Return of the Jedi
◾ The Age of Resistance (9 ABY–35 ABY)
13. The Mandalorian
14. Resistance
15. The Force Awakens
16. The Last Jedi
17. The Rise of Skywalker
@markmdws6729
Even the people who don't like this movie have to agree this scene and this piece of music is amazing
@moneybaglifts1944
I enjoyed the movie, loved this scene. Could there have been ghosts? Yes, but this scene was so powerful anyway😭
@ivanic5246
I HATE this movie but I can’t lie I loved this scene and the music
@grandemango
Miniklin Is my lord and savior just curious what didn’t you like about it? i thought it was great. and yes it was quite predictable and i wish there was a unexpected twist but still, very moving movie.
@ivanic5246
Savage_OA_Productions your such a dumb ass. Jk I mean this movie is cool but for ME I didn’t like the new characters the only ones I cared about were leia and MABE lando but that’s it. I get why people like this movie tho. It’s very whatchable but it’s not something I have a emotional investment in it, but still FOR ME it’s a decent movie
@ivanic5246
Savage_OA_Productions your such a dumb ass. Jk I mean this movie is cool but for ME I didn’t like the new characters the only ones I cared about were leia and MABE lando but that’s it. I get why people like this movie tho. It’s very whatchable but it’s not something I have a emotional investment in it, but still FOR ME it’s a decent movie
@Michaelis221
The Order 66 theme at the beginning that morphs into Rey's scavenger theme, which slowly morphs into Palpatine's theme...John Williams's work will never cease to amaze me.
@qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890
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@immortalgram
Brilliance!
@azureangel8217
GASP ITS ANAKINS BETRAYAL AND FADES TO REYS THEME