How many decades has the career spanned of the musician who was commissioned to write music for NBC's national news programs
John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including "Jaws", the "Star Wars" series, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", the "Indiana Jones" series, the first two "Home Alone" films, the first two "Jurassic Park" films, "Schindler's List", and the first three "Harry Potter" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films. Other notable works by Williams include theme music for the Olympic Games, "NBC Sunday Night Football", "The Mission" theme used by NBC News, the television series "Lost in Space" and "Land of the Giants", and the incidental music for the first season of "Gilligan's Island". Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. From 1980 to 1993, he served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor, and is now the orchestra's laureate conductor.
Sue Cassidy Clark Sue Cassidy Clark is a music journalist and photographer who specialized in soul, gospel, and rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many of the individuals with whom Clark conducted interviews were musical pioneers, and the period in which the interviews took place was a time when American popular music was evolving rapidly. Over the course of her life, Clark has interviewed many notable musicians, including [[], [[Jerry Butler], [, [Jerry Wexler]], [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], [], [[The Doors]], [[], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[The Grateful Dead]], [[Al Green]], [[], [[Isaac Hayes]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[The Isley Brothers]], [[], [[Etta James]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[B. B. King]], [[Gladys Knight]], [[Patti LaBelle]], [[Little Richard]], [[Curtis Mayfield]], [[The O'Jays]], [[Wilson Pickett]], [[Otis Redding]], [[Martha Reeves]], [[Smokey Robinson]], [[Rolling Stones]], [[Nina Simone]], [[Sly Stone]]Chaka Kahn, David Ruffin, and [[Tina Turner]].