Extended NPR John Williams interview from 1983

[South Thames]

Never heard this before, and definitely one of his more in depth interviews.

It's separated into eight parts but each part autoplays after the last one:

 

[Gingerbread]

Great find! That's a really good interview, and it really gets going into his composition and orchestration methods in the next parts. I wanted to highlight Part 2, since he talks specifically about orchestration.

The whole thing is excellent.

 

[South Thames]

Great find! That's a really good interview, and it really gets going into his composition and orchestration methods in the next parts. I wanted to highlight Part 2, since he talks specifically about orchestration.

The whole thing is excellent.

It was interesting to hear the interviewer suggesting (out of genuine curiosity) that perhaps William writes the notes and someone else fills out the harmonies. It seems obvious to us now, knowing what we know, that this is an absurd suggestion, but so little was known was known about film music at that time, it was quite a widely held belief that people like Williams couldn't possibly write all that music himself.

 

[Oakran]

Thanks for sharing dude I never heard this interview before !

 

[ed buller]

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing

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[gohrev]

Thank you for sharing, great find @South Thames