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I gather Ennio morricone is a huge art collector. Sure there's some places that notes the various works he has acquired through the years.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 3:34 AM
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Thor
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James Newton Howard has cities and cityscapes.
does he collect them, question mark... are you talking about hobbies which influence composers' writing, or just films they've done which have a kind of common denominator, but inspires them into writing the way they do, question mark...
thor, i think you ought to set out the parameters in a much clearer way, otherwise this thread will degenerate into a succession of puerile self-referencing, thus losing the opportunity of becoming a natuarally evolving meta-topic...
...although i think we've done it before... damn search engines a bit wonky.
OK, I'll try.
I'm talking about objects or phenomena that a composer feels particularly drawn to (that have nothing to do with music, really). It could be a hobby, it could be a passion, it could be an interest that they've had all their lives. Obviously, if he or she has this, it is often mirrored in the music as well -- such as all the Williams concert pieces inspired by trees, or the way JNH captures cityscapes in his music. In fact, I asked him about this a couple of years ago, in this interview:
http://celluloidtunes.no/celluloid-tunes-07-james-newton-howard/
...and he explained why he felt particularly close to cities, in particular.
By the way, I'm also interested in composers outside the realm of film music here, since our knowledge of composers' personal passions will quickly dry out.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 4:06 AM
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Graham Watt
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fine - i don't know how relevant this is, but i recall a thread - i really do - about composers' alter egos, in inverted commas, such as british composer bruce montgomery, who was also a successful writer of crime fiction, as edmund crispin...
i must have mentioned this before, but here goes again - gil melle.
blue note boss alfred lion said that melle was a true renaissance man..., one of the youngest of the blue note musicians, and self-taught i think, melle was also a designer and artist for the famous jazz label in the '50s, creating the sleeve images for other musicians' vinyl releases... as a saxophonist, it's easy to hear in some of his film scores how he had been surrounded by band arrangers since his youth.
he was also very interested in electronic instruments, even creating his own... again, no surprise to hear that aspect in his scores, often merged with the increasingly avant-garde jazz leanings.
as a painter, his initial work for blue note developed in later life into digital painting..., which was really one of the main things he dedicated his life to after all but giving up scoring movies and tv..., he was also a sculptor - i wonder how those interests translated into how he approached music...
i believe he was also president of the american microscope society for a period of time, and had a great interest in all things mechanical, such as vintage cars... and i'm forgetting a lot.
anyway, i'm not able to say how such an eclectic combination of interests outside music itself would manifest itself in his music - all i know is that when i first heard the music of gil melle, long before i knew anything at all about him, it was just mind-blowing... like he'd just arrived from another planet and was doing everything so differently from everyone else - there's very little film-music-cliche, in inverted commas, in any of his work.
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Bronislau Kaper was a fencer, and he watched boxing a lot.
Ernest Gold rode horses.
Elmer Bernstein retreated to England each year to paint. Incidentally, are images of any of Elmer's paintings online?
Miklos Rozsa liked photography, and his son Nicholas is a photographer in Frisco. Rozsa also collected ancient classical sculpture, and Flemish Masters.
Andre Previn had a chat show.
Malcolm Arnold liked the amber nectar.
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Scriabin was heavily obsessed by the occult.
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