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broadcast on 18 November featuring performances filmed at London’s Wigmore
Hall.

Accepting the medal via video, Williams said: “To receive this award is beyond any
expectation I could possibly have. For any composer to be able devote his or her
life entirely to the composition of music is very fortunate indeed.”

Director Steven Spielberg presented a special congratulatory message to his long-

time collaborator via video message, saying: “John, you have brought the classical
idiom to young people all over the world through your scores, and through your
classical training and your classical sensibilities. You are in the DNA of the musical
culture of today.”