Info:
Duration: 49’ 00”
Narrated by: Christopher Nupen
Year of production: 1971
John Williams is almost certainly the most accomplished performer on the Spanish classical guitar that the world has ever seen. Guitar technique was considerably developed and extended in the early years of this century by Andrés Segovia, but he was self-taught and did not begin to develop the technique until he was about sixteen years of age. He also extended the repertoire and established the Spanish guitar on the concert platform of the world.
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John Williams has done a great deal to try and break down the barriers that exist between classical and other types of music. For this reason, he chose Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, which is the première jazz club in Europe and appeared there nightly for two weeks with a mixed repertoire. In so doing, he succeeded very well in bringing the classical and jazz audiences together.
The film is centered on one evening in Ronnie Scott’s Club in which John Williams plays music by Villa-Llobos, Stanley Myers, Michael Praetorius, Domenico Scarlatti, Fernando Sor, J S Bach, Isaac Albeniz, Manuel Ponce and Julio Sagreras.
The scope of the film is also extended by sequences which show John Williams working with two contemporary composers, Stephen Dodgson and Patrick Gowers, on new works for guitar and orchestra.
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