Reply To: John Williams: A Composer’s Life (Tim Greiving)
Cool that you supplied some aid to Greiving! Are there facts/tidbits in the book that Greiving got from you, or was it mostly putting him on the right track in some of his research? Nice to see you mentioned in the acknowledgements, anyway!
Yes, that was nice of him. I can no longer remember what we talked about, but there were many e-mails back and forth about Williams’ early days. I probably have them stored somewhere.
Hmm, my impression was that it’s pretty much chronological. But yes, he does jump a bit back and forth here and there, when it’s thematically relevant.
Yes, it is chronological, but there are “jumps” signalled by the “***” throughout the chapters. An alternative would have been to go through each year, talking about things that happened or things he worked on as they occured in “real time”. But that would perhaps have been even more scatterbrained. I’m not really sure how I would have organized it otherwise. I’d have to think about that.
