The MUSIC OF JOHN WILLIAMS: STAR WARS AND BEYOND
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. From 1980 to 1993 he served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor, and is currently the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Williams has won 24 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to Star Wars was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. Williams composed the score for eight of the top twenty highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office (adjusted for inflation).
John Williams has been nominated for 51 Academy Awards, winning 5; 6 Emmy Awards, winning 3; 25 Golden Globe Awards, winning 4; 67 Grammy Awards, winning 23; and has received 7 British Academy Film Awards. With 51 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person, and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history behind Walt Disney's 59. Forty-six of Williams's Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score (Fiddler on the Roof).
In 1980, Williams received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.
Williams has been inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. Williams was honored with the annual Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards, recognizing his contribution to film and television music. In 2004, he received Kennedy Center Honors. He won a Classic Brit Award in 2005 for his soundtrack work of the previous year.
Notably, Williams has won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for his scores for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Angela's Ashes, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and The Book Thief. The competition includes not only composers of film scores, but also composers of instrumental music of any genre, including composers of classical fare such as symphonies and chamber music.
Williams received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Boston College in 1993 and from Harvard University in 2017.
In 2003, the International Olympic Committee accorded Williams its highest individual honor, the Olympic Order.
In 2009, Williams received the National Medal of Arts in the White House in Washington, D.C. for his achievements in symphonic music for films, and "as a pre-eminent composer and conductor [whose] scores have defined and inspired modern movie-going for decades."
Williams was made an honorary brother of Kappa Kappa Psi at Boston University in the late 1980s. In 2013, Williams was presented with the Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award.
公益社団法人大阪フィルハーモニー交響楽団（おおさかフィルハーモニーこうきょうがくだん、Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra）は、大阪市西成区岸里に本拠地をおく、日本を代表するオーケストラの１つ。日本オーケストラ連盟正会員。
年間10回の定期演奏会のほか、レコーディングも活発に行う。西成区岸里に専用練習場「大阪フィルハーモニー会館」を持ち、長年にわたり「大フィル（だいフィル）」の愛称で親しまれている。公式サイトに掲載されている「プロフィール」によれば、「日本で一番多くレコード、CDを発表しているオーケストラ」。
創立者（現・創立名誉指揮者）朝比奈隆の時代に、ブルックナーやベートーヴェンなどの交響曲の演奏で全国的に知られるようになった。1975年10月12日リンツ郊外の聖フローリアン教会でのブルックナーの交響曲第7番や、1994年7月24日サントリーホールでの交響曲第8番などの演奏の多くは、今日でもCDで聴くことができる。
2003年に大植英次が音楽監督に就任し、同年5月9日及び10日のザ・シンフォニーホールでの音楽監督就任披露演奏会でマーラー交響曲第2番「復活」、2005年3月20日サントリーホールでの就任後初の東京定期演奏会でマーラー第6番「悲劇的」を取り上げ、いずれも大成功を収めた。大植の指揮で、定期演奏会では演奏会形式のオペラ（『サムソンとデリラ』（2004年）、『トスカ』（2005年））も披露したほか、近代曲などもとりあげている。
朝比奈隆の時代から、ヨーロッパ（とりわけドイツ、オーストリア）のオーケストラの音に連なるいわゆる「大フィルサウンド」で知られる。なお、朝比奈隆時代の最後はコンサートマスターに岡田英治と梅沢和人、第2ヴァイオリンの首席に藤井允人を擁していた。2004年9月から、梅沢に加え、首席コンサートマスターロバート・ダヴィドヴィチ（Robert Davidovich）、首席客演コンサートマスター長原幸太が就任。2006年4月から、首席コンサートマスター長原、コンサートマスター梅沢の体制になり、加えて2009年11月から崔文洙が入団、客演コンサートマスターに就任。梅沢は2010年2月をもって退団。