Dude, what????!!!!! “Greatest living composer” - WHAT????!!!!
Yeah, he changed symphonic musick into background squiggles highlighting the scripted sayings of posing, self-important freaks.
How is it different from writing incidental music for a play? This was also technically “movie music”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_m1om82o4
I still like Korngold, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Hermann Alfred Newman and Miklos Rozsa.
Their music was so good it was often used other movies.
Yeah, I am old School.