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Dec 28, 2014 - 10:45 PM
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Smaug
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http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/182726,Wojciech-Kilar-Award-to-honour-film-music-composers
Plans for the award were revealed on Sunday during the closing night of the 7th Film Music Festival in Krakow.
In a statement released by the two mayors, it was specified that the annual prize “will be granted to outstanding and original film music composers who remain faithful to the traditional art of composition.”
Heavyweights including composer Krzysztof Penderecki and veteran film-makers Andrzej Wajda and Roman Polanski have agreed to be members of the Kilar Award Honorary Committee.
According to Krakow mayor Jacek Majchrowski and his Katowice counterpart Piotr Uszok, the prize will place an emphasis on composers who “similarly to Wojciech Kilar” draw inspiration from “folk tunes and national musical traditions... believing that national identity is more important that post-modernist attempts at globalizing music.”
Wojciech Kilar, who was born in 1932, was initially a pioneer of the avant-garde, but he later devoted himself to more traditional compositions through film music.
Among his most celebrated compositions are a polonaise for Andrzej Wajda's Pan Tadeusz, based on national bard Adam Mickiewicz's 19th century classic of the same name, as well as the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Besides honouring the composer, the award is intended to consolidate the image of Krakow and Katowice “within the international film and music recording industry.”
The first winner will be announced in 2015, and the award will consist of jointly funded recording session with the orchestra and choir from Katowice or Krakow, with recording and postproduction carried out at Krakow's Alvernia Studios. (nh)
Source: PAP
- See more at: http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/182726,Wojciech-Kilar-Award-to-honour-film-music-composers#.dpuf
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May 9, 2015 - 3:14 AM
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Thor
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By the way, by my count there used to be lots of composers who would qualify for this award (actually having an artistic life besides film) but sadly nowadays there are about five candidates, at least that i can think of.
Curious -- which five would that be?
Personally, I'm thinking John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Michel Legrand, Max Richter, Abel Korzeniowski (although he's mostly doing films these days), Quincy Jones (but he hasn't done a film in years) etc. But more and more composers seem to branch out into concert territory -- Elfman, JNH, Horner, Shore. And of course we have a whole slew of artists coming in from the pop/electronica world and doing more and more film music, like Junkie XL. Or guys like Vangelis who do a film once in a blue moon. But they probably wouldn't qualify for this particular award.
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May 9, 2015 - 10:42 AM
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Smaug
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Hi Thor, to me a composer would not just have one or two concert pieces (Elfman,Horner,Shore) but an actual career in the concert hall. As much as we love film music, as far as street cred goes, honestly I think only a few qualify:
Candidates? There are lots of dead composers who had a foot in both worlds from Rozsa, Rota, Copland, Korngold, Delerue, and in the past Shostakovich, Britten, Prokofiev, Walton, etc. But now it's a rare bird.
But nowadays there's a small roster of candidates for the award:
Tan Dun
Philip Glass
John Corigliano. (All three of these composers are more art composers who have dabbled in film music)
John Williams (he has a lot of concert works but like Morricone's big body of work, they aren't beloved. Both Williams and Morricone are non-entities to the concert hall crowd) and I don't think Williams has even been to any countries besides the USA and England.
Morricone (I suppose he may not have important concert works but he has a huge body of concert work)
Elfman? (He's got one ballet, one concert piece, and one overture, and a bunch of silly ska pop records)
Zbigniew Preisner (three concert works)
Desplat (one flute concerto and a set of piano études. Theoretically had a theatre career in France)
Jonny Greenwood? He's trying really hard to evolve from pop star to "composer" but the jury is out.
James Newton Howard (two concert pieces)
Horner (just wrote two concertos this year in his film style. But that's it)
Howard Shore (we witnessed what his "art music" was all about. He also has an opera, and overture, and a song cycle)
So I think the selection of Goldenthal is a good one. He's got as many theater scores and concert pieces as he does film scores. But other than him, I'd say Tan and Glass are the only other two with international standing and a real body of work in both fields.
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May 11, 2015 - 1:27 PM
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governor
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Hi Thor, to me a composer would not just have one or two concert pieces (Elfman,Horner,Shore) but an actual career in the concert hall. As much as we love film music, as far as street cred goes, honestly I think only a few qualify:
Candidates? There are lots of dead composers who had a foot in both worlds from Rozsa, Rota, Copland, Korngold, Delerue, and in the past Shostakovich, Britten, Prokofiev, Walton, etc. But now it's a rare bird.
Let's not forget Christopher Gunning, Frederic Talgorn and the late Richard Rodney Bennett, quite productive as far as concert pieces are concerned.
http://www.christopher-gunning.co.uk/concert-music/
http://frederictalgorn.free.fr/various.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodney_Bennett#Selected_works
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