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today marks 12 years since Goldsmith died. Still hurts to this day.
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Jul 22, 2016 - 12:33 PM
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Howard L
(Member)
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In my heaven fantasy I see all of our beloved passed composers getting together and having a jolly good time doing what composer angels do. Ha Ha. Like there's this big heavenly club venue where they go and conduct orchestras full of long passed musicians they worked with. Weekly concerts and stuff. If it turns out to be true and when I die and hopefully go to heaven, I hope it's open to us all!
Hey zoobs here's a little taste of FSHeaven from long ago; a piece of a conversation between an esteemed departed film music fan of note and an esteemed composer of note also departed:
HANK: Hey Gersh—wave to the new recruit!
GUY (waving back): George Gershwin?! What’s he doing in this section?
HANK: He was writing film music before they called it that. He likes to stop by. You should see him and Ira. They’ve been inseparable since Ira got here. Picked up like they’d never stopped.
GUY: Amazing.
HANK: Well, let’s get down to business. First, I want to thank you for all your kind words about my work.
GUY: Oh, you’re welcome. But it was easy. You made it easy.
HANK: I’m not an idle flatterer, Guy. Neither is Ray Heindorf. (Guy raises his eyebrows) What you did was nice; VERY nice. And don’t think for a moment we don’t care what’s said about our work, because we do. You may think because some of us made a pretty decent living writing music for films that we were above that kind of confirmation, but it’s not true.
GUY: I remember Audrey Hepburn once wrote you that “A movie without music is a little bit like an aeroplane without fuel. However beautifully the job is done, we are still on the ground and in a world of reality. Your music has lifted us all up and sent us soaring.” I would have thought it was enough to get applause from your peers.
HANK (happily reminiscing): Tiffany’s. Which leads me to my next point—I want to thank you not just on behalf of myself and Ray, but for all the film composers here and down there. And before you ask why, I’ll tell you: although we may never admit it, when you and all the other guys on the Messageboard, in the magazines, whatever—write and talk and wax crazy over music that means so little to most people but means everything to us and to you—well, you make us feel like a million bucks. And nobody pushes you but yourselves.
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Hope he and James Horner are able to have some friendly discussions on movie music.
Doubt it.
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