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a special tribute to John Towner Williams

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Born February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York, USA


John Williams is the most popular and successful American composer of film scores.
He has received 18 Grammys, two Emmys, and seven BAFTA Awards from the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He has also received 45 Academy Award
nominations, of which he has won five (for Jaws, Star Wars (now known as Episode IV:
A New Hope), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, and for arrangements in
Fiddler on the Roof). On January 16, 2006, Williams won a Golden Globe, his fourth,
for his score in Memoirs of a Geisha.

He began his career composing scores for television series, including Lost in Space
(1965-1968) and The Time Tunnel (1966-1967).

In the early 1970s, he established himself as a composer for big-budget disaster films
with scores for The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, and The Poseidon Adventure. His
richly thematic and highly popular 1977 score to the first Stars Wars film was selected
in 2005 by the American Film Institute as the greatest American movie score of all time.

In January 1980, Williams was named the nineteenth Conductor of the Boston Pops
Orchestra since its founding in 1885, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler. He assumed
the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor, following his retirement in December 1993.

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