John Williams 80th Birthday Concert

Instead of my usual article regarding a certain topic on my mind, this week I’d simply like to share my experience of a concert I attended last night: John Williams 80th Birthday celebration at the Royal Albert Hall. To commemorate John Williams 80th birthday, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by the great Robert Ziegler) played a fantastic programme featuring some of Williams’ greatest works. As you are all hopefully aware, John Williams has been scoring films for the past 50 years with scores to films such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter and many, many more. His influence and legacy are unparalleled, with Star Wars changing the face of film scores forever with the idea of symphonic film score and the leit-motif. We are truly blessed with an absolute genius, who has given us as an audience so much. I’ll leave this post with a few videos of the concert. Here’s to John Williams and hope that there’s still many years and a few fantastic scores to come! Happy Birthday John! (For February… ha!)