John Williams: What Makes Music Alive?

The power of music can connect and represent the words that cannot be spoken. Music unites people, nature, or even beliefs. Don’t you desire to reach people using the universal language - music? Film music is without a doubt about touching audience’s minds and evoke people in a certain way. It certainly isn’t around the music or the orchestra or the audience, however, it is the interconnection of all these elements that makes music alive. Being a film composer means that you will be the catalyst to trigger the crowd’s sensations.

Film composing requires an abundance of creativity and technicality; it is the composer's job to understand the setting of the scenes in the movie, and translate the atmosphere through music by writing melodies and themes that complement to the film. One online journal called The Journal
In spite of that without the help of his father, Johnny Williams, who is a jazz percussionist and his brother, Jerry, who is also a percussionist John wouldn’t be the John Williams we all know today. In his early age, he studied in North Hollywood High School graduating in 1950. He later went to the University of California, Los Angeles, and concentrated deeply with his music with the Italian arranger Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He, then, met many people when we were working with Steven Spielberg on the recording of Star Wars (King B3). Williams grew in the ambience of music, he certainly had a very fortunate start as a kid, although he has always been passionate about animated films, he hasn’t been fortunate with children-book-like films until The Adventures of Tintin in 2011. “... whether the characters were falling in love or having a knock-down-drag-out fight, was reflected in the music.” (Davis 179) that was his goal to make his music create personality, however it wouldn’t have been possible without his family, instructors, instrumentalist, and his