Very good interview! John Williams will always be one of my top musicians.

This is the real guitar hero

John Williams said that in the early years he practiced 30 minutes every day. He also said that knowing what you are doing while practicing is vital.

Interesting how my favourite guitarist doesn't apply proper posture in part one, whilst sitting on a chair normally. So glad he's actually human!

This is an awesome upload. Interviews like this are gold.

Very well done, John is one of my favorite guitarist. Thank you for sharing.

Awesome interview! John Williams best ever. Congratulations! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you for these wonderful interviews.So great to hear the intimate details of Mr. Williams development on the guitar. It takes a great guitarist to know what other guitarists want to know about our heroes.

John's Guitar Playing is essential listening for me .. masterful.

Credit to the presenter/s asking relevant and valid questions and allowing JW to answer without interrupting Very useful presentation thank you 🙏

First at all, thanks for posting this interview. It's rare. Mr. Williams is without a doubt one of the best classical guitar player EVER! But l was speechless when Maestro Williams used the fluidity of the pick as an excuse for not being able to improvise. With all due respect, that's a poor excuse. I doubt very much that John Williams has not listened to Wes Montgomery. Wes played with his thumb only, and in my humble opinion Wes had by far the perfect phrasing in jazz guitar ever. Another example is Joe Pass. Even though, Joe Pass used to play with the pick, most of the time he played with two or just one finger! And what about Matteo Mancuso... The list goes on and on

Magnífica entrevista. Esperamos pronto la 2da, 3ra y 4ta parte. ¡Qué orgullo escuchar su encuentro con nuestros grandes maestros Alirio Díaz y Rodrigo Riera, en Siena, durante sus estudios con el gran Andrés Segovia. La crema y nata de la guitarra del siglo XX.

Thanks, John McClellen...this is wonderful!

Great interview. Thanks!

A great interview!

I want to wish the great musician and guitarist good health and long life

John Williams plays La Maja de Goya totally perfectly. So moving.

Nice!

13:24 RIP Alirio Diaz (12 November 1923 - 5 July 2016)

Some great questions and great answers.

Que bom que tem reconhecimento e financiamento do governo federal, parabéns pela iniciativa das entrevistas!

A once in a lifetime opportunity to interview John Williams in depth and they place the camera in such a way that we only ever see the man's profile!

For sure, the best John Williams interview ever done. I am sure his age has something to do with him finally opening up to a greater public with respect to these life experiences, but also I like the style and approach of the Interviewer Marcelo Kayath who is a great player himself and not just some disc jockey acting like he knows the instrument and it's exponents...

Great interview--I can't wait for the next installments. What an intelligent, thoughtful man he is! There is one thing I would append to Williams' critique of right-hand technique technique. The natural, fundamental rhythm that comes from up-and-down movement, the lack of which he regrets, is indeed to be found in the technique of the baroque guitar, with its strummed chords and passage-work played "thumb-under" alternating p and i--and up-and-down movement of the very sort Williams is talking about. The people who are good at it can go like the wind. Check out Paul O'Dette playing Santiago de Murcía, here on YT. (NB Renaissance lute technique was also thumb-under--hence up-and-down--although chords were generally plucked, not strummed.)

Marcelo, fui tb aluno de Jodacil Damaceno, excelente professor, mas meu objetivo sempre foi desenvolver técnica da música erudita para melhorar a destreza e sonoridade na improvisação. Certa vez, num bate papo, perguntei a ele por que os violonistas clássicos, via de regra, não improvisavam bem, não desenvolviam essa aptidão. O Jodacil não gostou nada e disse que eu estava enganado. Vi que nessa entrevista vc perguntou o mesmo ao John Williams e ele reconheceu ser pertinente.

where is the introduction music from? what is the name of the piece?

Guitar God

Colosal John Williams.

Caro tradutor: Shame também quer dizer "pena"... e foi o caso!

Brill!

what is the name of the piece that have been played at the start ?

"You pay your money and you take your chances..."

Funny he retained his Aussie accent.

Minimum movement,control,understanding 👍

Shocked that he says at 22:15 "There is no way you can improvise with fingers with the same fluidity and spontaneity that you can with a pick." Wtf? Has he not seen the many hours of footage of Paco de Lucia playing with John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola, and doing exactly that? I think most would agree Paco got the best of those exchanges, and he's never been within 20 yards of a guitar pick.

Blaming a far distant colonial past on present and individual musical shortcomings or limitations of an individual is quite a stretch. Being in awe of something does not make one necessarily subservient to it or render that which we admire negative per se (15:46).

Whenever you listen to John Williams speak or read his interviews or biography you ask yourself, what does this have to do with music? He tends to waffle about anything and everything from buying snacks at a cricket game to the cinematic representation of Jacqueline du Pré. But you learn absolutely nothing about technique, interpretation, or a philosophy of music. You find yourself wondering, does he have more substantial insights, something to teach us, anything other than received views superficially restated? I remember his arrogant proclamation in the early '90s that anyone who does not play notes inégales in Bach is just plain wrong and "ignorant" -- and that after claiming to be nothing like Segovia as a teacher, and after notes inégales in Bach and similar lingering fallacies from the Thursten Dart era were disproved by musicological minds far more acute than Dart's, or Williams'. That leads us to the way Williams was represented in England as the epitome of guitaristic intellectuality. But listening to these interviews, to the superficial treatment of music or the more mundane topics Williams always seems to prefer to turn to, you have to wonder, where is this great mind we were always told about?

Classical musicians are afraid to make mistakes because what they play is NOT improvisational, unlike flamenco or choro. I'm pretty sure if you get a flamenco guitarist and demand that he play a flamenco piece EXACTLY as another flamenco guitarist, he would have the same problem of how not to make a mistake.

An awesome guitarist. Unfortunately he sometimes wanders off into obscure ethnic composers and does performances with John Etheridge. These are dreadful in the main. Saw them at Snape recently and it was one big jangly noise. Huge disappointment knowing how wonderfully he can play at other times.

I have been play classical guitar many many years. Until i decided to play flamenco guitar. Why?. Because flamenco is more freedom than a classical. Classical guitar dont teach, cultivated and motivated students to created art. All about classical guitar just play songs cover for old composers. and that is why, i left classical guitar to flamenco. Flamenco guitar its more art! More freedom and more powerful than classical. Sad but really true