{"id":406,"date":"2022-08-03T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:56:22","slug":"john-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/?page_id=406","title":{"rendered":"John Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John_Williams_tux.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-407 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John_Williams_tux-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John_Williams_tux-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John_Williams_tux.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet John Williams (1932-Present) American Composer, Conductor, and Pianist<\/p>\n<p>As his father was a professional jazz percussionist, John developed a liking for music and symphonies at an early age. By the time he was 15, he had his own jazz band and he played and experimented with various musical instruments. He created his first original composition, a piano sonata, when he was 19.<\/p>\n<p>As a kid, John learned to play the <a href=\"https:\/\/makingmusicfun.net\/htm\/f_mmf_music_library\/music_dictionary_p.php#piano\">piano<\/a>, cello, trumpet, trombone &#8211; and even formed a band with his friends.<\/p>\n<p>His career has spanned several decades and in the process he has given iconic film scores in over a 100 films including the \u2018Star Wars\u2019 series, \u2018Jaws\u2019, \u2018Jurassic Park\u2019, \u2018Indiana Jones\u2019 series, and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet John Williams (1932-Present) American Composer, Conductor, and Pianist As his father was a professional jazz percussionist, John developed a liking for music and symphonies at an early age. By the time he was 15, he had his own jazz band and he played and experimented with various musical instruments. He created his first original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-406","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406\/revisions\/408"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitarfusion.com\/classroom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}