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Legacy Conversations: Steven C. Smith and William Stromberg

Author Steven C. Smith and composer & conductor William Stromberg discuss the lineage that connects John Williams and the great composers of the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Bernard Herrmann and Max Steiner

Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto

Steven C. Smith (Photo © Mark A. Vieira)

Steven C. Smith (Photo © Mark A. Vieira)

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Maurizio Caschetto Legacy Conversations, People, Podcast, Scholars and Historians June 10, 2021June 11, 2021 17 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Kevin Puts

Acclaimed contemporary classical composer talks his career and his cinematic music for the concert hall, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night, his approach to composition and how much John Williams’ music touched him since childhood and inspired him to become a composer

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Maurizio Caschetto Composers, Legacy Conversations, People, Podcast March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 6 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Ann Hobson Pilot

Legendary harpist talks her distinguished career as former Principal Harp for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops, including the many collaborations with John Williams and the premiere of the Harp Concerto On Willows and Birches, composed for her by the Maestro in 2009

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Maurizio Caschetto Legacy Conversations, Musicians, People, Podcast February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 9 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Tim Morrison

Legendary trumpeteer talks his illustrious career as former Associate Principal Trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra / Principal Trumpet of the Boston Pops and his subsequent life as studio musician in Los Angeles, including his many collaborations with John Williams as soloist on such scores as Born On The Fourth of July, JFK, Nixon and Saving Private Ryan

Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto and Tim Burden

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Maurizio Caschetto Legacy Conversations, Musicians, People, Podcast November 27, 2020June 25, 2021 10 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Ben Palmer

The esteemed British conductor talks on his work as a specialist of Live to Picture concerts and his love and admiration for the music of John Williams

Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto

Photo © Andy Staples Photography

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Maurizio Caschetto Conductors, Legacy Conversations, Live Performance, Podcast June 24, 2020November 23, 2020 4 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Marcus Paus

The acclaimed Norwegian composer talks about his artistic journey, his approach to composition and why John Williams’s music has been a continuous source of inspiration

Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto

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Maurizio Caschetto Composers, Legacy Conversations, Podcast June 9, 2020July 27, 2020 3 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Sandy DeCrescent

The legendary Music Contractor talks about her 50+ years career in Hollywood’s film music industry and her long and fruitful collaboration with composer John Williams

Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto

sandy-decrescent_portrait — Sandy DeCrescent

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Maurizio Caschetto Legacy Conversations, Musicians, Orchestras, Podcast 1 Comment December 17, 2019July 27, 2020 4 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Frank Lehman

Music Theorist and Film Musicologist from Tufts University talks about how John Williams’s film scores shaped his interest in music and his path to academia, with a spotlight on his catalogue of the themes and motifs from the Star Wars saga

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14919c5b645584cb9a57bd2660e21d78 — Frank Lehman, Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University (Photo: Alison Bruzek/WBUR)

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Maurizio Caschetto Legacy Conversations, Podcast, Scholars and Historians November 14, 2019July 27, 2020 3 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: John Mauceri

The esteemed American conductor talks about the history and the aesthetic of music written in Hollywood during the Golden Age era and how it led to the rise of John Williams.

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John Mauceri @ Detroit Symphony Orchestra January '07 — John Mauceri with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (January 2007)

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Maurizio Caschetto Conductors, Legacy Conversations, Podcast September 9, 2019July 27, 2020 6 Minutes

Legacy Conversations: Brett Mitchell

Talented American conductor and Music Director of the Colorado Symphony talks about John Williams and how the music of the Maestro inspired him throughout his artistic and personal life

Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto

CLO_Mitchell_31990 — Conductor Brett Mitchell (Portrait by Roger Mastroianni)

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Maurizio Caschetto Conductors, Legacy Conversations, Podcast August 29, 2019July 27, 2020 3 Minutes

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From Anne-Sophie Mutter, here's a few pics from the rehearsals of John Williams' Violin Concerto No.2, which will premiere at the @tanglewoodmusicfestival tomorrow, July 24, with the Maestro himself conducting the @bostonsymphony Orchestra and the renowned violinist.

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We mourn legendary director Richard Donner, who passed away at age 91 on July 5, 2021.

"I first began studying music, if I can call it that, in the 1930s as a piano student. I’ve always had good teachers…who were colleagues of my father… [I] worked seriously at the piano through my teenage years and studied with Rosina Lhévinne at Juilliard briefly in the early middle ’50s, both in New York at the Juilliard School and later out here at the old Los Angeles Conservatory on Figueroa Street, where she used to come give master classes in the summer. But I also played the trombone, and picked up trumpets and various instruments, even scrubbed on a cello occasionally. I had an orchestration teacher, Robert Van Eps, who was always explaining to me that in order to understand the orchestra, you need to play one member of each group of the orchestra – a wind, a string, a percussion, a brass, well enough to sit in a school rehearsal… Those were among the greatest lessons that I’ve had in my life…"

📣 NEW PODCAST EPISODE! 🎙

📣 THE FILM MUSIC OF JOHN WILLIAMS is the revised and updated edition of Emilio Audissino's groundbreaking best-selling book from 2014 where he discusses John Williams' unique approach to film composition by examining his neoclassical style in context, demonstrating how he revived and revised classical Hollywood music. In this new edition, Audissino expands and further illuminates on the Maestro's creative process and achievements in film music, including the most recent Star Wars sequels. The book also presents an in-depth analysis of Williams' iconic score for the 1979 film version of DRACULA directed by John Badham.

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