According to reports on Facebook, composer-conductor Dominic Frontiere passed away on December 21st at the age of 86.
I recall his music for the western Hang'Em High and the John Wayne pictures Brannigan and Chisum.
Oh my...another "great one" has passed on. This makes me sooo sad. I really enjoyed all his work and especially his compositions for "The Outer Limits" and "Twelve O'Clock High (tv)". I hope Jerry has greeted him at the Pearly Gates and that he's pointed out the best grand piano up there. Vale Frontiere...
Barquero was always my favourite frontiere western. I preferred it to hang em high. In fact i enjoyed the van cleef film more. On LP i had his washington behind closed doors tv drama, which was great, terrific main theme.
Morricone is right - that Outer limits stuff was top notch.
Left a good body of work. His family can be proud of him.
Barquero was always my favourite frontiere western. I preferred to hang em high. In fact i enjoyed the van cleef film more. On LP i had his washington behind closed doors tv drama, which was great, terrific main theme.
Morricone is right - that Outer limits stuff was top notch.
Left a good body of work. His family can be proud of him.
I can still hear that "Da da da de dum...da..da..dadda...daaaaa!" of "Hang 'em High" in my head every time I think of that great movie! Frontiere was brilliant!
Oh I forgot about that. I loved that theme as a youngster. To me it signified the good life and being wealthy, etc... (I was pretty poor as a youngster!). The faster tempo of the ongoing series was just as good:
I’m not sure how much music he wrote for it, but I always regret that there’s never been an outing for his work on Freebie and the Bean. RIP Mr Frontiere.
Always loved this theme and show. It's a very sad reflection of the current culture that this type of theme music is null and void. And what themes you might get now are 10 second pcs of ?%#*+=!! (With the nice exception of some British dramas).
