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John Williams, 90, steps away from film, but not music

FILE - Composer John Williams poses at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event "Behind the Score: The Art of the Film Composer" in Los Angeles on July 21, 2014. Williams, 90, is devoting himself to composing concert music, including a piano concerto he’s writing for Emanuel X. This spring, he and cellist Yo-Yo Ma released the album “A Gathering of Friends,” recorded with the New York Philharmonic. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Conductor/composer John Williams appears with film director Steven Spielberg before the New York Philharmonic's Spring Gala in New York on April 26, 2006. Williams, 90, is devoting himself to composing concert music, including a piano concerto he’s writing for Emanuel X. This spring, he and cellist Yo-Yo Ma released the album “A Gathering of Friends,” recorded with the New York Philharmonic. It’s a radiant and soulful collection of cello concertos and new arrangements from the scores of “Schindler’s List,” “Lincoln” and “Munich." (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)

FILE - Composer and conductor John Williams holds three Grammy Awards he won for best original score, best instrumental composition and best pop instrumental recording for his work on the film "Star Wars" in Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 1978. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Boston Pops Conductor John Williams conducting the orchestra in Boston in 1980. Williams, 90, is devoting himself to composing concert music, including a piano concerto he’s writing for Emanuel X. This spring, he and cellist Yo-Yo Ma released the album “A Gathering of Friends,” recorded with the New York Philharmonic. (AP Photo, File)

This 2017 photo released by Lucasfilm Ltd. shows John Williams, a five-time Oscar-winning composer. Williams, 90, is devoting himself to composing concert music, including a piano concerto he’s writing for Emanuel X. This spring, he and cellist Yo-Yo Ma released the album “A Gathering of Friends,” recorded with the New York Philharmonic. (Jamie Trueblood/Lucasfilm Ltd. via AP)

John Williams, 90, steps away from film, but not music