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 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 3:11 PM   
 By:   David-R.   (Member)

I thought this may help others as well, but I know I need it for so many out there. I try to pronounce a few, but after finding another film score fan and comparing pronunciations, I realized I don't know exactly how to say certain names.

I'll go first: Michael Giacchino (MY-kul juh-KEE-no)
[I heard him pronounce it himself in an interview; before that I thought it was Jee-uh-CHEE-no]

And I have one specific question: Is it Bruce Brow-tun or Bruce Brah-tun?

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 3:18 PM   
 By:   David Sones (Allardyce)   (Member)


And I have one specific question: Is it Bruce Brow-tun or Bruce Brah-tun?


Brah-tun

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 3:18 PM   
 By:   Mark Ford   (Member)


And I have one specific question: Is it Bruce Brow-tun or Bruce Brah-tun?


Brah-tun


Yeppers!

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 3:47 PM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

How do Yugoslav names go?

I'm assuming it's Doozhan Raditch.

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 3:49 PM   
 By:   Jon Broxton   (Member)

How do Yugoslav names go?
I'm assuming it's Doozhan Raditch.


Based on having heard commentary featuring a Yugoslav soccer player with the same first name, it's more like "Dooshan".

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 3:58 PM   
 By:   reecardov   (Member)

I've got a good one. Anyone know how to pronounce "Wojciech Kilar"? Love his music and I feel like a schmuck that I can't say his name correctly.

I think I heard somewhere that it was "Why-check Key-lar"

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:00 PM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

How about Ramin Djawadi? Particularly which syllables are stressed?

rah-MEEN?

RAH-min?

RAY-min?

juh-WAH-dee?

jawa-DEE?

Now that's a thinker.

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:00 PM   
 By:   KevinSmith   (Member)

is it Jerry gold-SMITH or Jerry GOLD-smith?

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:01 PM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

I've got a good one. Anyone know how to pronounce "Wojciech Kilar"? Love his music and I feel like a schmuck that I can't say his name correctly.

I think I heard somewhere that it was "Why-check Key-lar"


I think it's wah-CHECK KEY-lar. Not sure though. Might be kih-LAR.

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:02 PM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

is it Jerry gold-SMITH or Jerry GOLD-smith?

Seriously?

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:12 PM   
 By:   Jon Broxton   (Member)

I've got a good one. Anyone know how to pronounce "Wojciech Kilar"? Love his music and I feel like a schmuck that I can't say his name correctly.

Vo-Check Key-Lahr.

The "o" of the "Vo" part of his first name is a very short vowel, as in "pop"... not a long vowel.

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:19 PM   
 By:   KevinSmith   (Member)

is it Jerry gold-SMITH or Jerry GOLD-smith?

Seriously?


I was joking.

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:28 PM   
 By:   Urs Lesse   (Member)

I hope we get a Polish native speaker in here, because I think it's
VOY-CHECK

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:33 PM   
 By:   PeterD   (Member)

And I can never remember the correct pronunciation of Maurice Jarre's and Jerome Moross's last names. Anyone?

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:38 PM   
 By:   Urs Lesse   (Member)

Maurice Jarre

Hard to phoneticize in English. I guess it's like "jar", but the j pronounced much softer, like a sound between a J and a SH. Not sure, but maybe like the "zh" in "Zhivago".

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:45 PM   
 By:   Zoragoth   (Member)

Ok, Bronislau is easy enough, but what about Kaper? "Capper?"

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:47 PM   
 By:   Urs Lesse   (Member)

Ok, Bronislau is easy enough, but what about Kaper? "Capper?"

Carper or Cahrper

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:50 PM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

Then there's the case with Franz Waxman. It's pronounced "WAX-Man" but the German pronounciation is "VOX-Mann".

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 4:51 PM   
 By:   David-R.   (Member)

Ok, Bronislau is easy enough, but what about Kaper? "Capper?"

Carper or Cahrper


I would think it would be "KAY-per", but maybe not.

Here's what I've thought so far, but it could very well be wrong:
I always thought Jarre was "jar", but I heard someone else say "jzar-AY"
Moross, I think, is "more-OSE"

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2010 - 6:09 PM   
 By:   TheSeeker   (Member)

Bronislau (orig. Bronislaw) Kaper: BRAW-nee-swaff KAH-pehr

Wojciech Kilar: VOY-chekh KEE-lahr

Stop looking skeptical, I have Polish relatives and know how to pronounce the language. smile

Then there's the case with Franz Waxman. It's pronounced "WAX-Man" but the German pronounciation is "VOX-Mann".

It's not.

CK

 
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