Lecture 9 - MUSIC246 Lecture 10 - MUSIC246
John Williams
Professor Wood’s favourite composer.
- Born in 1932, New York, to musical parents.
- Trained as a concert pianist at Julliard, but pursues career in film.
- Starts television in (late 1950s).
- Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Gilligan’s Island
- Film work in the late 1960’s - comedies and disaster films
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
- Mix of orchestral music and modernism.
- The Sugarland Express (1974)
- First time collaboration between John Williams and Steven Spielberg
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
- Make concious decision to write music for telelvision just like Jerry Goldsmith.