John Williams — Where to Listen on the Radio

John Williams is a soundtrack, classical and composer artist from Flushing, United States, active since 1932. ArtisFind has detected 2 plays of John Williams on 1 radio station in Switzerland, most recently on 1.FM - Movie Soundtracks Hits Radio 3d ago. The song heard most often on air is “ADVENTURES OF EARTH (E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ET O EXTRATERRESTRE)”.

John Towner Williams (born

February 8, 1932) is an American composer and conductor. Over his seven-decade career, he has composed many of the best-known scores in film history. His style blends romanticism and impressionism with complex orchestration. Best known for his collaborations with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, he has received numerous accolades, including 27 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With a total of 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most-nominated person in the award's history, after Walt Disney. He is also the oldest Academy Award nominee in any category, receiving a nomination at 91 years old.

Williams's early work as a film composer includes None but the Brave (1965), Valley of the Dolls (1967), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Images (1972), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974). His work with Spielberg began on The Sugarland Express (1974), and he has composed music for all but five of his feature films. He received Academy Awards for Fiddler on the Roof (1971; arrangement of the original score by Jerry Bock), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Schindler's List (1993). Other memorable collaborations with Spielberg include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Jurassic Park (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Lincoln (2012) and The Fabelmans (2022). He also…