TOM'S BEST FILM LIST (1964)

I have a suite of that score somewhere. I'll look it up.







I always though this thread should be sticky since it is updated so regularly!

Aside from the New Members thread I have never seen the need to make any thread a sticky.

Whatever Bregt decides to do is fine with me. I've no problem with it not being a sticky.
Tom

Right now, I can't remember that much beyond the ultra-famous march (the 'whistling' one), but I sampled it a few years ago, and liked quite a few of the tracks.

A great choice Tom, Arnold's score is excellent.

I think that Golden Scores wasn't really advertised enough to gain any momentum with readership.

Golden Age does prove to be a bit of a problem for listeners, because knowing how tastes changed regarding music in general and the awareness of the classical tradition in later generations, there is a lot to be done to promote it. Both classical music and Golden Age film scores.

For someone "in the know", the fact that at least one or two Golden Age composers were students of Mahler is something quite breathtaking to realize. For someone born not so long ago, you'd have to actually explain who Mahler was.

There definitely has to be a bigger-scale website that would promote Golden Age music. It has to be marketed well, too. What we need is more young film score fans that could find something for themselves. There are I think two very important reasons for that.

One is a general awareness of musical tradition. If there was something that would speak more about classical influences of film scores (and Golden Age, as we all know, is a galore of classical influences and itself could be regarded as a downright off-shoot of neo-Romantic classical music).

The second reason, for me, is making listeners aware of how diverse the genre can be, so we don't get posts like destroying John Williams' Superman score, just because it doesn't sound like Hans Zimmer (the youtube fanbase, sadly, after Man of Steel). The awareness of potential diversity may be huge. We know that among film scores there may be many future filmmakers (as shown by the recent influx into A-list directors, people like J. J. Abrams - whether we like their films or not - are proper film music nerds, just like this message board members).

Such site would, I believe, have immense educational role.

I didn't want money for the work on the site Tom. It just cost me 100EUR to run it.

If I had the time ... I'd certainly recreate it. Preferably as a WordPress site.

On Wordpress could I have a messageboard?
Tom

Tom, if you have a hosting server (and with that a domain), you can pick any message board you would like, here the system is called Vanilla, but the most popular one is called PHPBB. So basically once you have a server that features databases, you can have Wordpress for your reviews and, say, the Vanilla database for a message board.

You sit on a throne of lies.

The most important thing is to buy hosting and a domain. This is a yearly rate, I'm afraid. I am not quite into hosting and domain costs at the moment, sadly. When that's set up, the rest is pretty simple, I think.

Installing Wordpress is the easiest thing to do, really It takes literally a couple of seconds.

There is a difference between using Wordpress' hosting (wordpress.com) and getting the wordpress template for a website (from wordpress.org).

THE BIG COUNTRY (1958)/MOROSS This is a no brainer for me as I really like this score a whole whole lot. It could be the best western score of all time!!! I think the followers of this thread will agree with me.
Tom