That's the truth. A couple of examples for me. And there are a lot of more.
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Posted on 02/08/2022 7:04:40 AM PST by Borges
John Williams, the man who changed the way we hear the movies, turns 90 today.
As the key Hollywood composer during the blockbuster era of the 1970s and 1980s, Williams had an astronomical career alongside the likes of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
With his music for their movies, Williams revived the romantic orchestral sound of Hollywood's Golden Age — the sound pioneered by composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner at the dawn of the talkies — and reinvented it for a new era.
“John Williams has been the single most significant contributor to my success as a filmmaker,” Spielberg said in 2012.
On the numbers alone, Williams has had a career like no other. If you were going to the movies between 1970 and 1990, every second year would have had a number one box office hit with music by Williams.
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I like Zimmer’s music better as well.
I found a genre of music on YouTube and Spotify: Epic Music. Zimmer features prominently in this kind of music and it is perfect for background instrumental.
Well, I guess it all boils down to a matter of personal taste.
There are lots of great western scores. My favorite is The Big Country by Jerome Moross. Elmer Bernstein, who did The Magnificent 7 also did The Comancheros and The Sons of Katy Elder, which were great scores. Ennio Morricone's "spaghetti western" scores are also great.
“Henry Mancini”
and James Horner RIP.
That's the truth. A couple of examples for me. And there are a lot of more.
Bernstein’s scores seem to borrow quite a bit from Aaron Copeland (compare El Salon Mexico to Bernstein’s Magnificent Seven theme), and John Williams’ Star Wars music betrays the influence of Gustav Holst (The Planets - Mars).
An example of a great Bernstein theme for an utterly forgettable movie - Hallelujah Trail..
Agreed! The Star Wars theme seems like a copy of the theme music from Lawrence of Arabia. They are remarkably similar.
Lawrence....Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish....Beep! Beep!
Don't forget...
Some call him Florence of Arabia due to his proclivities. :-)
Music is pretty much subjective to a certain point, not a popularity contest at all; that said, Philip Glass and Steve Reich (Along with many other gifted composers) are not dead yet. Of course not their B-day... but JW the GOATL, not at all, again subjective response/taste concerning the arts.
John Rutter. Andrew Lloyd Weber. I never use hyperbole!
TOS had a great soundtrack compared to later Treks
Bergersen? Terrific! But we’ll know better after 350 years...
;)
Stumbled on his music from the film, “The Gates of Vienna”, and “Winged Hussars” saving Western Civilization/Christianity...
That whole album is excellent
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