John Williams

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John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

He has produced some of the most influential, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history during his career spans six decades. He has been widely regarded as one of the best American film composers of all time.

Williams has received 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Award, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

He is the second most-nominated individual after Walt Disney, with 51 Academy Award nominations.

The American Film Institute selected Williams' score to 1977's Star Wars as the best American film score of all time.

The Library of Congress also entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important."Williams has written for a number of critically acclaimed and popular films, including Star Wars, Schindler's List, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, the first two Jaws films, the first two Jurassic Park films, Hook, and the first three Harry Potter films were among the Extra-Terrestrial's.

Williams has also written numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments.

He served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor from 1980 to 1993, and as the city's laureate conductor.

He has been working with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, recording music for all but five of his feature films.

Among Williams' other works 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, Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island.

Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016.

He has written the score for eight of the top 20 highest-grossing films at the US box office (adjusted for inflation).

Early life and family

John Towner Williams was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City, on February 8, 1932, to Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams, a jazz drummer and percussionist who performed with the Raymond Scott Quintet. Jerry, Joan, and Donald are the oldest of four children and have three younger siblings. "My father was a Maine man," Williams recalled about his lineage: "I was very close." My mother was from Boston. "My father's father owned a Bangor, Maine, and my mother's father was a cabinetmaker."

The Williams family migrated to Los Angeles in 1948, where John attended North Hollywood High School, graduating in 1950. He studied composition privately with Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco later at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then studied composition privately with Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Williams stayed at Los Angeles City College for a semester as the school had a Studio Jazz Band.

Williams played piano and brass, as well as arranging and arranged music for the United States Air Force Band as part of his service in 1951. He recalled being a basic Air Force base in Lackland, Wisconsin, after which he spent three years as a pianist and brass player with secondary duties of making arrangements. As part of his ministry, he took music classes at the University of Arizona.

Williams migrated to New York City and studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne in 1955, following his Air Force service. He had intended to become a concert pianist but after seeing contemporary pianists like John Browning and Van Cliburn perform, he changed to composition. Williams performed as a jazz pianist in the city's numerous jazz clubs during this period.

Personal life

In 1956, Williams married Barbara Ruick, an American actress and singer, and she remained married until her death in 1974. Jennifer (Jenny) Williams Gruska (b.) and her three children: Mark Towner Williams, 1956 (b. ), a teacher from the United States. Joseph Williams (b. 1958), and Joseph Williams (b. 1960 is the first recorded lead singer of Toto, and he is best known as Toto's lead singer. Williams married Samantha Winslow, a photographer, in 1980.

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Early career

Williams returned to Los Angeles, where he began working as an orchestrator at film studios after his studies at Juilliard and the Eastman School of Music. Williams performed with Franz Waxman and Alfred Newman, as well as with his fellow orchestrators Conrad Salinger and Bob Franklyn, among other composers.

Williams performed on film scores by composers including Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Henry Mancini. Peter Gunn's 1959 scores, 1962's Days of Wine and Roses, and 1963's Charade were all recorded by Mancini. Elmer Bernstein appeared on the score of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions' Sweet Smell of Success. In the well-known Mancini Peter Gunn title theme, Williams appears on piano in the guitar-piano ostinato. He collaborated with guitarist Bob Bain, bassist Rolly Bundock, and drummer Jack Sperling, several of whom were also featured on the Mr. Lucky television series. Williams appeared on the soundtrack for Leonard Bernstein's musical, the 1961 West Side Story, and The Apartment, a 1960 film.

During this time, Williams was known as Johnny Williams, and under this name, they released several jazz albums, including World on a String and The John Towner Touch.

Williams has also performed as music arranger and bandleader for a string of hit music albums backed by singers Ray Vasquez and Frankie Laine.

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