This is John Williams playing Cavatina.
John Williams was born in 1941 in Australia. He is one of the most accomplished classical guitarists in the world and is well known for playing in ensembles as well as solo performances. John’s father was from England and his mother was Australian. Her father was an Australian-born Chinese and he was a very well-known lawyer in Melbourne.
John’s father, Len Williams, played jazz and classical guitar and gave John his first guitar when John was four years old. The family returned to England in the early 1950s and Len started up a guitar school. Later on, Len set up a monkey sanctuary in Cornwall and was as well known for that as he was for his music school.
John Williams went to music schools and academies in England and Italy, and studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London - because there was no guitar department. When he graduated from there, he was offered the job of creating the first guitar department at the Royal College of Music in London.
He started playing concerts and had immediate success, being recognised as “a prince of the guitar”. He performed in many countries around the world and recorded many albums of classical music - at a time when most people associated guitarists with pop and rock music.
As well as being known for his classical guitar playing, John Williams has also played in a group called Sky, playing a mix of rock, classical and jazz music. He even played with Pete Townshend of The Who and has composed and arranged music.
He is possibly most well known for playing Cavatina (composed by Stanley Myers), which became the theme for the movie The Deer Hunter (1978).
This is Sky playing an arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. John Williams is playing the acoustic guitar.
This is a video of John Williams at the BBC Proms in 2005 performing with an orchestra.
John Williams was born in 1941 in Australia. He is one of the most accomplished classical guitarists in the world and is well known for playing in ensembles as well as solo performances. John’s father was from England and his mother was Australian. Her father was an Australian-born Chinese and he was a very well-known lawyer in Melbourne.
John’s father, Len Williams, played jazz and classical guitar and gave John his first guitar when John was four years old. The family returned to England in the early 1950s and Len started up a guitar school. Later on, Len set up a monkey sanctuary in Cornwall and was as well known for that as he was for his music school.
John Williams went to music schools and academies in England and Italy, and studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London - because there was no guitar department. When he graduated from there, he was offered the job of creating the first guitar department at the Royal College of Music in London.
He started playing concerts and had immediate success, being recognised as “a prince of the guitar”. He performed in many countries around the world and recorded many albums of classical music - at a time when most people associated guitarists with pop and rock music.
As well as being known for his classical guitar playing, John Williams has also played in a group called Sky, playing a mix of rock, classical and jazz music. He even played with Pete Townshend of The Who and has composed and arranged music.
He is possibly most well known for playing Cavatina (composed by Stanley Myers), which became the theme for the movie The Deer Hunter (1978).
This is Sky playing an arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. John Williams is playing the acoustic guitar.
This is a video of John Williams at the BBC Proms in 2005 performing with an orchestra.
This week's tongue twister:
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| Is this a giant rat or a miniature guitar? |
In this game you can make words by dragging the note names FACE and EGBDF to under each note on the staff.
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| Note names |
Here's a game where you can name notes on a staff. It has 100 notes in each round, so be prepared for a long game. It has a range of very easy (where we are starting) to very advanced. You can adjust the speed too.
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| Speed note reading tutor |
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| Here's this week's unusual use of a guitar. Can you work out what parts are used where? |
Here's a Muppet video about a turtle. The turtle in our poem?
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