John Williams Records Great Performances Theme Song | Great Performances on PBS
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- Watch John Williams conduct and record the theme song he wrote for Great Performances.
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Watch the great composer John Williams at work at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA, recording the theme song he wrote for Great Performances. The theme won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music and has been heard on Great Performances broadcasts since its debut on King Lear, starring Ian McKellen, March 27, 2009.
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The only continuing primetime performance showcase on American television, Great Performances presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries. With its programs garnering 65 Emmy Awards and four George Foster Peabody Awards, the series has received every major television honor.
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Anything and everything he writes is pure genius. His compositions have his very particular imprints, chords which are very recognizable. I am a huge fan of Mr. Williams and I love his music.
Its amazing how softly he speaks.
Damn, I love how enthusiastic John Williams is for making themes like this. We need more people like him.
Need this on a CD!
I love watching masters at work.
I love how his themes are always extravagantly heroic, the building up and innate richness of the orchestra is mind boggling.
Happy birthday, John Williams! You are my hero!
John Williams used the term "legato-ify"
Amazing!! Hahaha
Guido Anselmi First I ever heard of it, but if John Williams uses it, I certainly will from now on!
3:09 just always makes me smile. Love John Williams so much. Always a pleasure to see him working
Mike K Do I detect a flicker of self-consciousness when he says “Not bad. Not bad.”?
My fave movie score composers of all time - John Williams, Maurice Jarre, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith and Patrick Doyle.
John Williams is our modern day Beethoven. I love his work, and work of Thomas Newman and Alexandre Desplat.
I'm a huge admirer of Williams, but his genius and fame are, for the most part, confined to one genre: brilliant film scores. It's unfair to compare him to a composer who wrote symphonies, string quartets, piano concertos, chamber works, and piano sonatas which rank him among the greatest composers who have ever lived.
John Williams is no Beethoven - the same way Beethoven is no John Williams.
@@TheStockwell Williams has also wrote Symphonies, concertos, other orchestral pieces.
@@TheStockwelllmao what? His genius extends to his concert works also.
The timpanist is John's younger brother Don.
Oh cool--thank you for pointing that out!
I adore him!
The timpanist is actually John Williams's younger brother Don Williams.
His ears are absolutely incredible. He is giving intricate technique notes to individual instrumentalists to slightly change the quality of the sound. Just...wow.
The Jedi master of music 🎵Mr Williams 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
No better composition for Great Performances could have been composed. Expresses excitement and truly captures the allure and beauty of the content of this programme.
John Williams MUST live FOREVER!! To make something so trivial as an opening theme and make it into an spectacular thing just proves that John Williams is GOD!
Actually God is God, but John is a good composer.
I respect YOUR beliefs. Mine are just that, mine. The World is huge and varied, that's whats makes it interesting.
I think that you hire JW when you believe that no opening theme is trivial. One of my all-time favorites is the NBC News theme that is also known as The Mission. There is a nobility to that John Williams theme that makes you want to tune in to NBC just to hear it.
And then, of course, there are the Olympic themes he’s written which are unbeatable for that grand spectacle. Really great writing!
@@brucekuehn4031 Totally agree. As marches go JW is just the absolute master with no one daring to imitate him... which would be heresy.
John Williams is the genius of our time.
MAGNÍFICO, MAGNÍFICO ❗️
Abraço aqui do Brasil 🇧🇷
Typical John Williams sound. So great to see a legendary composer of our time at work👏
Thanks for uploading, PBS!
John Williams can do absolutely NO wrong, in my book! He could take something as trivial as "Happy Birthday ", and turn it into a royal masterpiece! I LOVE YOU, MR. WILLIAMS!
William Burke Check out his “For New York,” a piece he did for Leonard Bernstein’s birthday, in which he does exactly that - at least, as much of Happy Birthday as he can use without breaking copyright law. Very cheeky, and a fantastic tribute to Bernstein.
Also “Happy Birthday Variations” for Seiji Ozawa. He did exactly what you’re saying here lol
Every John's theme is announcing that something great is begining...I think he always include every instrument in his score...Great man,great maestro..Genius..I agree..He must live forever..
I ❤😄
MY WORD!!!
Happy Birthday Maestro!
how can one download/purchase a copy of the great performances theme song?
10 ans déjà. Ten years !!!
It's hard to believe this tune is composed by the legendary John Williams, famous for composing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and Steven Spielberg films music. Is there a certain kind of ballet dance to this masterpiece?
In America, he also composed the theme to NBC Nightly News, NBC Sunday Night Football Theme, Meet the Press,in addition to other and his well known film scores.
Excelente.
“legato-ify the trumpets”
Did John base on one of some of the best performances in history upon composing this theme like what he used doing in composing scores for the movies?
Based Williams
+The Bear from The Revenant What is "based"?
Joseph Carl Breil internet term for maestro
I didn't know he composed the theme for the show! I thought he only did Evening at Pops.
John Williams sounds like me in school 0:34
Efectos 3.31
Picard at 2:07
Yes, haha!
For some reason it sounds like Alan Menken. I like how it sounds like that in beginning.
You mean for some reason Alan Menken sounds like John Williams. Not the other way round.
Too bad the awkward visuals to the GP opening kind of negate the quality
4:15 is that james morrison?
It certainly looks like him! I think it might be!
4:23 Uncle Vernon? Is that you?
Nope, just John Williams’s younger brother Don Williams.
Damn, Shawn Murphy's missing an arm.
For Years....Has Not Stopped Shawn..Working with ...Jerry Also..!
Everything he does has an ET root theme to it. hahah. That's OK!
He doesn't know what he wants, and the orchestra must be patient with him.