Composer John Williams Walks Back His Own Retirement Talk At 91: “If An Interesting Film Came Along…”
deadline.comRevered composer John Williams has walked back his retirement talk, saying of previous reports that he’d put down his baton for the final time, “I don’t care much for grand pronunciamentos, statements that are firm and finished and surrounded by closed doors.
If I made one without putting it in context then I withdraw it.” Williams, 91, told The Times newspaper: “If a film came along that I was greatly interested in, with a schedule that I could cope with, then I wouldn’t want to rule anything out.
Everything is possible. All is before us. Only our limitations are holding us back. Or, to put it more simply: I like to keep an open mind.” If Williams is planning to score movies a little less, and compose his own material a little more, his diary is already full for 2024.
He will conduct his own Second Violin Concerto with London’s Philharmonic Orchestra in January, and also conduct in Vienna. And he already has a conducting booking in Berlin for 2025.
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