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- Comment [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - First Knight[/big][/i][/b] The complete score. No biggie, just a missing recurring theme. Goldsmith reportedly was offered to release the complete score, but he decided against it because of choral re-use fees. It's a brilliant adventure score. Among his very best in ...
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- Comment [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - The Final Conflict[/big][/i][/b] I think I got the CD in a giveaway from Volker or someone else from here. In my most recent Jerry series I could not get back to this brilliant score series. I've only seen the first film and it's one I do intend to return to as it was ...
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- Added May 18th 2021
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- discussion topic Meet the composer
- Comment I can confirm he's a great guy. He comes to Kraków every other year and I always manage to pull off a chat with him.
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- Added May 17th 2021
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- Comment [b][i][big]Howard Skempton - Lento[/big][/i][/b] Great piece, very mystical in a Vaughan-Williams/The Thin Red Line kind of way.
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- Comment Yeah, I mean, I think that the "soul" of a piece is very intertwined with the "soul" (if we consider that to exist) of the creator, because it comes from his emotions, mind and whatever idiosyncratic we take into account.
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- Added May 9th 2021
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- Comment [quote][b]Thor wrote[/b] I believe in the autonomy of the text. If JNH was super-inspired by THE LAST AIRBENDER, that may be so. I don't know, you'd have to ask him. But if I can't find much to latch on as a listener (can't find the score's 'soul', so to speak), that is my call to make. By the way, ...
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- Comment To me, still, calling a score "soulless" is tantamount to "uninspired" rather than uninspiring (which is fine). It's the use of words that matters for me here as I'm pretty adamant about drawing a line between the man and their work which I'm quite obsessed with since I learnt ...
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- Added May 8th 2021
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- Comment It's the "without soul" bit that I take issues with. I have had my fair share of "uninspireds" in my score reviews myself, but I have to say that I have started questioning the idea of being able to actually read into a composer's mindset based on the music itself and not taking ...
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- Comment [quote][b]Thor wrote[/b] [b]NP: THE LAST AIRBENDER (James Newton Howard)[/b] I mean, it has some good moments, but I'm not into big bombastic orchestral scores from the last two decades. A lot of it is bombast without soul.[/quote] Calling an epic score he wrote for M. Night Shyamalan ...
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- Comment [quote][b]Thor wrote[/b] [quote][b]FalkirkBairn wrote[/b] 5000 character? I've not seen length defined by this. It's usually by number of words.[/quote] Character is a fairly normal measurement to use within journalism and academia.[/quote] And this is a journalistic piece. [quote][b]Edmund ...
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- Added May 5th 2021
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- discussion topic The current state of film music
- Comment Tell that to the directors, though. I think composers are very well aware of that and would rather be allowed to get creative with this kind of material, some, as I said, would even actually embrace it.
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- Comment [b][i][big]Vangelis - Blade Runner[/big][/i][/b] Revisiting and old friend. Writing a 5000-character essay on how the music is responsible for co-creating the film's world. This is going to be fun :)
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- Comment It's great, indeed. And yes, in the expanded form especially. [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - The Challenge[/big][/i][/b] Long time no hear...
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- Added May 5th 2021
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- discussion topic What's your favourite vegetable?
- Comment Boiled carrot, broccoli and cauliflower are brilliant too
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- Written by PawelStroinski
- Added May 4th 2021
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- discussion topic The current state of film music
- Comment It's directorial demands, methinks. They can't afford an orchestra, but want something that sounds like it. Usually people praise good limitations as they force you to be creative (cf. True Romance and Psycho. Having originally balked at the lower budget, eventually Herrmann praised the ...
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- Comment Still on my roll: [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - Fierce Creatures[/big][/i][/b] First listen. One cute little score :)
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- discussion topic The current state of film music
- Comment Directorial demands are a good excuse, though.
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- Added May 1st 2021
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- discussion topic Mother Goose - a new contemporary music label
- Comment Shore and Powell have their own labels. I don't remember who released Davis' opera.
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- Comment His earlier scores (like Lo) are reportedly better. [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - Total Recall[/big][/i][/b] A masterpiece. 'Nuff said.
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- Comment [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - Raggedy Man[/big][/i][/b] First listen. Great theme, if a bit reminiscent of Carol Anne's Theme in a setting... a bit closer to Lonely Are the Brave. Good dissonant material, too
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- Comment Scott "I Studied At Juilliard, Why Don't I Get More Assignments" Glasgow? I know he's beloved by reviewers but his often assholish attitude (like, in a now deleted post, accusing Harry Gregson-Williams of ripping off a John Williams cue in The Martian even if the guy who was a long-time ...
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- Comment Executive Decision IS a good film, though mostly because it manages to avoid being an action film most of the time (it's more of a thriller, because nobody knows who is where for quite a bit of the time and the final setpiece is short and sweet, incidentally, not unlike how a real special operation ...
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- Comment [quote][b]Thor wrote[/b] Me too. In addition to LEGEND, there's also K2 (Zimmer/Jankel). Several others, I'm sure.[/quote] Harrison's Flowers, in Europe scored by Bruno Coulais, the US score was done by Cliff Eidelman.
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- Added Apr 24th 2021
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- Comment [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - Executive Decision (deluxe)[/big][/i][/b] Not one of his best scores, by miles, not one of these, but after having two days to write an article about a new classical album which I first heard, well, yesterday and I literally sent it over an hour ago I need something to ...
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- Added Apr 23rd 2021
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- discussion topic MainTitles VIDEO GET-TOGETHER XX: [TO BE ANNOUNCED]
- Comment Accompanied by a Miklós Rozsa fanfare/prelude ;)
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- Comment Whether he knows Goldsmith's reasoning here.
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- Comment I actually like it quite a lot for its very impressionistic sound, but I asked an expert.
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- Comment [b][i][big]Jerry Goldsmith - Islands in the Stream[/big][/i][/b] Reportedly among his personal favorites if not THE favorite score of his. I haven't heard it for a very long time and I'm on a bit of a Goldsmith roll recently, mostly listening to the expansions of his mid-90s action scores (some of ...
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- Added Apr 21st 2021
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- Comment [b][i][big]Hans Zimmer - Drop Zone[/big][/i][/b] The expansion which actually improved my opinion on the score for a couple of reasons I will explain shortly: 1. There is more filler material, which makes the score less relentless than it is. Some of it is quite cool even (Finding Swoop, for ...
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- Written by PawelStroinski
- Added Apr 19th 2021
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- discussion topic Most active film score forums?
- Comment Definitely there's that. My website has a rather active message board (and, actually, a Facebook group, though they don't really intertwine when it comes to membership). It's mostly the loyalty that makes it work so well. I think there are 10-15 members participating regularly and even some lurk ...
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- Added Apr 19th 2021