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Aug 7, 2014 - 8:36 AM
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Mike_H
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More on the subject of gossip than jealousy, I was always curious as to who Shirley Walker was referring to in this incident: Even when the composers and I didn't get along great, for whatever reasons, once I had committed myself to doing that job, I was there for them and for their music. Unfortunately, a lot of them couldn't get beyond using the orchestra as a tool to write their score. So, frequently, they really hadn't finished the writing. They needed that pressure, that deadline collision, to finally get it all out of them, to get it done. And in that environment, there isn't room for that. It's just a mad scramble to get something on tape that everybody in that control room is happy with. You've got a director and a producer and a composer in there. But I just enjoy that kind of chaos. I had one incident where I was in tears on the podium, and I was very embarrassed about that. But God bless the orchestra: they covered for me. They could see that I was so humiliated and upset. I guess I still haven't gotten over it -- I'm getting teary-eyed right now, just thinking about it. It was out of my control, and it was done by a composer with a colossal ego who was in a transition period. He did something that was incredibly offensive to me and hurt my feelings. I think enough of him that I believe he would not have done it if he had realized what he was creating. At the time, he was just involved in himself and not thinking. Well, that stuff happens, this business is like that. You get bumped around. And that's okay. Whatever personality conflicts I've had with some of the guys I've worked with, they don't take away from the fact that I was part of these guys' teams at a time when they were doing some very exciting things. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud that I got to participate with some of these characters at a time when they were doing very exciting things.
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morricones quotes about orchestrators are ancient and were not anti- williams. They were relating to his frustration about musical amateurs who dabble in film composing and need orchestrators because they havent been through the years of training to become a bonafide maestro in the way that he and other old school composers did. Equally i have never seen criticism from morricone about either star wars nor maestro williams - a composer he admires very much, as well as Alex North and others such as Leonard bernstein. In fact Morricone is most reticent and respectful about other maestros and is not usually drawn on such subjects. He once expressed some thoughts, when pushed by the interviewer, and translated into english, that, as an experiment, he would have taken a different approach to williams on Star wars. Nothing more nothing less. Hardly constitutes genuine criticism and discord and jealousy between these two legends of film music, does it??
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