I’m truly stunned by the still-spreading wildfire ignited online by a recent article in The Guardian that ran under the headline “ John Williams : ‘I Never Really Liked Film Music Much.’” The more responsible papers and websites to pick this up have also included the contextual quotes within that article, which I participated in as a subject but did not write, but all of the headlines are some variation of “John Williams Admits He Doesn’t Like Film Music,” or a rephrasing even more provocative.

It’s unfair to the great man. It makes him sound glib or ungrateful or bitterly resentful — and he is none of those things.

I’m truly stunned by the still-spreading wildfire ignited online by a recent article in The Guardian that ran under the headline “ John Williams : ‘I Never Really

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