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Oct 2, 2014 - 11:56 AM
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Thor
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Blame it on the age-old nature/nurture debate, and whether genetics or not is involved, but I've always been fascinated by the children of famous film composers who have gone on to follow in their parents' footsteps, although perhaps not quite as successfully.
Let's see if we can come up with a few examples.
John Williams: Oldest child Jennifer is not involved in music. Mark was involved in pop music for a while in the 80s, but seems to be pretty much retired. Joseph, on the other hand, has done a few film and tv scores (in addition to his Toto and singing stints, obviously).
Elmer Bernstein: Peter Bernstein has done some stuff, sometimes with his father, but I have no idea what he's doing these days.
Maurice Jarre: Jean Michel Jarre is mostly famous as an electronic music pioneer, but has done a couple of film scores and has said he's interested in doing more in the future.
Jerry Goldsmith: Joel Goldsmith did quite a few film and tv things, most recently STARGATE: UNIVERSE, before his untimely passing.
Alfred Newman: David and Thomas goes without saying.
Basil Poledouris: Zoë did her first film score this year, I believe, for the animated film THE HERO OF COLOR CITY, although some of her song work has been in movies before (like her father's STARSHIP TROOPERS).
Who else would you count?
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Joel's last [known] score was for an unreleased pilot called "Echoes" (done by one of tyhe Stargate: SG1 people).
There's Scott Clausen, son of Alf Clausen. According to IMDb, he's even scored one episode of "The Simpsons" (What to Expect When Bart's Expecting). Looks like he started his career in 2001 and hasn't stopped working on TV shows since.
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Oct 3, 2014 - 7:04 AM
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Thor
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Ernest Gold had a son named Andrew, who had an uber-annoying 1976 US hit called "Lonely Boy."
Jazz arranger and sometimes TV composer Marty Paich had a son named David, who was a member of the uber-annoying pop group Toto.
Dick Marx, pianist for Ken Nordine, whose word jazz albums might be considered soundtracks to the subconscious, had an uber-annoying son named Richard, who had dreadful pop career in the 1980s.
Ha, ha....not too keen on the spawn of these gentlemen, I see. However, none of them did film music (unless you count David and Toto's brilliant DUNE, which they did in collaboration with Marty).
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Williams also has two other brother who is a percussionist on scores, and another person (whom I don't recall the relation of to, or name of) who also performs on scores. Just a point of interest for you all. In a similar situation, William Broughton (brother of Bruce, also does scores, though to a far lesser extent).
Emilie A. Bernstein, daughter of Elmer Bernstein, has two TV series on her IMDb page for composer (though you never know the accuracy of that). She does songs and has or plays in a band.
David Farnon, son of Robert Farnon, also does film and TV scores (According to his website, though his IMDb page shows nothing yet). Of interest: Robert's brother, Dennis Farnon, also did TV and film scoring.
I just now discovered his website -- check it out -- he's quite talented!
http://www.davidfarnon.com/
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