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Apr 26, 2015 - 1:09 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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"...but I could also mention (very off the top of my head) JEREMY, ONE ON ONE, PAPILLON.."
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Three interesting titles you mention there Graham, even if they are right off the top of thine head.
Papillon was bought with a stack of other Goldsmith titles that I bagged all together in the one shop (Probe) as I was just getting into Jerry in a major way, having been dazzled by ST-TMP and ALIEN.
I must have dropped nearly £100 picking up almost every LP that was out there by him at that time - I was young, had a well-paid steady job, no girlfriend and lived at home with Mummy and Daddy  - and I liked Papillon but it never seemed quite right. Not fully Jerry! It was only later I read that the main theme isn't his, but a redo of an existing work (is this true or an urban legend?).
The action and the pensive, suspense stuff was typical Jerry, but it never grabbed me the way a lot of the other LP's did (Patch Of Blue, Patton, The Chairman, Bandolero, POTA, Swarm, MacArthur, Capricorn One, Logan's Run, Wild Rovers...can you imagine getting all of them at the same time...to be heard, for the first time!!).
Now Jeremy...I LOVE that score. That cello concerto is exquisite and I adore it now the way I adored it then. And where's the bloody CD!!?? Expanded please!
I don't even know what One On One is? Never heard of it.
Also, I seemed to have missed Airport 75 (Cacavas...right?). It just shows you what a difference a few years makes!
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Apr 26, 2015 - 5:14 PM
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joan hue
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My tastes have somewhat remained the same. I am attracted to melodies and great themes. I like thematic action music. Soundscapes may work perfectly in a movie, but I don't buy those CDs as stand alone listening music.
Morricone was hard to keep up with. After I heard his Dollar western music, he only composed a few more westerns that played in our area. Then he quit westerns. He composed a ton of scores for foreign films that never played where I lived. For decades we had no Internet. Later, the internet allowed me to buy compilations. Some of his music seemed very strange to me, but I'm sure those compositions worked in their movies. I continued to like a lot of his scores that I could hear like Untouchables, Mission To Mars, Legend of 1900 and some of the foreign films that I could track down.
Goldsmith continued to hold my interest. I admired his experimental scores like Planet Of The Apes and Runaway, but those types of scores weren't played by me. I loved his action scores like 13th Warrior and his melodic rousing scores like Rudy. I learned to admire his more dissonant music, but I was usually pulled to his thematic scores.
Bernstein, like Goldsmith, scored some movies with music that didn't appeal to me. Also, he was big on scoring comedies, and I'm not a big comedy lover. However I do love Stripes. He evolved and changed, but he usually tried to have some thematic continuity. His last scores, Far From Heave and Keeping the Faith have given me hours of great listening.
Over the years, I was more in tune with orchestrations, but I never lost my preferences for themes and melodies.
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