Your favorite Film score/composer
Considering my profession, I have an obvious interest in this topic. What is your favorite score to a movie? Who is your favorite composer for film? Is there a certain movie score that can move...
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"I have been scoring, or trying to rather, a sex scene and the lead in and out of it. I have developed a "love" theme, which is typical in most movies, that is not the hard part. The hard (ha) part is...
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Not to worry. I came up with a doozy of a love theme for them. It is not so much insecurity, as much as it is that the director had some very specific "hit points" in the scene. That is where music...
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Musicluvr87 did you happen to see the special on Johnny Mercer on A&E several months back? I found it very interesting..
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Hey 87, I like your avatar of Copeland. Where did you find that, or is it a pic that you have? In either case, I feel like I should be paying attention.
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Dave- That is my old teacher and mentor Jerry Goldsmith. He is one of the biggest names in film scoring. I studied with him in my Master's at USC. Look him up, he wrote some of the best film scores...
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Wow, was I way off! At first, I thought it might have been a middle-aged Stravinsky, but it didn't quite look like him, so my next and better guess was Aaron Copeland, which I thought was right.Jerry...
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I am completely unhappy to see that Trent Reznor was nominated for best score this year from the Academy. Once again, we are going to see a sub par score win an Academy award just because it was a...
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I know you guys have all seen my studio... just in case, here is a pic from 2 weeks ago. Today, I was doing some work with Hans Zimmer. Before we left his studio, I got permission, and got a pic of...
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My favorite film score is John Addison's for the 1962 Brtish film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. There's a jazz trumpet theme that runs throughout the movie. I've been trying to find out...
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18- Its your lucky day. The trumpet theme in the movie was performed by Fred Muscroft. He was the principal trumpet player for the Scots Guards Orchestra for much of the 50s-60s.
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Cirkeys! Both studios are beautiful... but you are right... Zimmer's has that air of 'comfort and opulence' despite all the technology...
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Do you think one of you guys could come over and show me how to use my VCR ?
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Brassman- Not only is it pretty, but what he is running is scary. I run 2 mac pros with 4T each of memory and the fastest processing to run samples and softwares like LogicPro and Sibelius, etc. This...
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"4G4ME- what the HELL is a vcr... "Sorry it's taken so long to answer your question, ml87...A VCR (capital letters, since it's an acronym) is a device which records both audio and video onto magnetic...
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Dave- Thanks so much for that comprehensive response. I am now informed As for the monitors... They are custom Klipsch monitors that were developed specifically with his own specifications, and I...
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So it is the synthesizer of my dreams!Sadly, Bob Moog left us a few years ago. He was one heck of a dude.Thanks for the reply.
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Thanks, musicluvr87. I can now sleep at night knowing who it is.
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Here is exactly why I love to hate this job sometimes. I am working on a film, replacing an existing composer, which I have done twice before. Her score was rejected by the studio, and I got hired. I...
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Remember, Nelson Riddle came up with 'I've Got You Under My Skin' under similar conditions...
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I finally finished writing the damn thing on Saturday night. I slept for close to 18 hours into Sunday night, too. Now I have a 9am recording session that lasts all day, and recording every day this...
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