JOHN WILLIAMS

• Born February 8th, 1932
• Born in Queens, New York
• Studied piano at The Juilliard School
• American composer, conductor, and pianist

MUSICAL BACKGROUND

• Father was a jazz percussionist
• Took private lessons for composition
• After being drafted into the U.S. Air Force
• he conducted and arranged music for the U.S. Air Force Band
• Studied piano at The Juilliard School in New York

COMPOSER

CONDUCTOR

• A person who directs an orchestra or chorus
• Communicates to the performers by motions of a baton
• or the hands his or her interpretation of the music
• Also called a director

MAJOR WORKS

• Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, Indiana Jones
• E.T the Extra-Terrestrial, Harry Potter (1-3)
• NBC Sunday Night Football
• TV Shows: Lost in Space and Land of the Giants

AWARDS

• Won 5 Academy Awards, 4 Golden Globes,
• 7 British Academy Film awards, and 21 Grammys
• 48 Oscar nominations
• record for most nominations by a living person
• 2nd most nominations after Walt Disney - 59

TIME SIGNATURE

• Defines the amount and type of notes each measure
• contains
• Top number tells how many beats are in the measure
• Bottom number tells what type of note gets the beat
• Also called meter

CONDUCTING PATTERN

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