Composer and Hollywood legend John Williams has just added to an already incredibly long list of achievements by making his conducting debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker to perform iconic themes from “Jurassic Park”, “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter”, among other cinematic landmarks. The concert held at Vienna’s Musikverein in January 2020 – which was also the first performance Williams had ever conducted in continental Europe
Williams received his first Oscar nomination in 1969 for the score to Valley of the Dolls, and since then, with more than 40 other Oscar animations for his original film scores and orchestrations, he has become the most widely recognised film composer in history, charming cinema audience with music rooted in symphony idioms that easily expresses the emotion and action of a film’s story.