John Williams Cancels Any Retirement Plans

In June 2022, legendary film score composer John Williams indicated he was possibly considering retirement after more than six decades and one hundred films under his belt. The master of his craft was finishing up the score for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” which was to serve as his swan song.

Then, just under a year ago, he was out promoting his work on Steven Spielberg’s “The Fablemans,” which marked the latest in their five decades long professional collaboration. At a Q&A, Williams walked back those comments. At the time he said: “I’ll stick around for awhile. I can’t retire from music.

A day without music is a mistake” to which Spielberg happily responded: “I just found out he’s not retiring.” This week, speaking with , the now 91 year old Williams says any retirement talk is firmly in the rearview mirror – he has no plans to stop: “I don’t care much for grand pronunciamentos, statements that are firm and finished and surrounded by closed doors.

If I made one without putting it in context then I withdraw it. If a film came along that I was greatly interested in, with a schedule that I could cope with, then I wouldn’t want to rule anything out. Everything is possible. All is before us. Only our limitations are holding us back. Or, to put it more simply: I like to keep an open mind.” Williams is already set to conduct orchestras in London, Vienna and Berlin in the next few years..