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Was Sol Kaplan STAR TREK'S best composer?
*Cough* Jerry Goldsmith *cough*
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*Cough* Jerry Goldsmith *cough*
I think they're referring strictly to the original series. Goldsmith didn't compose anything for the show.
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Sometimes wonder how great it would have been if Goldsmith scored some of the Original TV Eps. What treasures those scores would be now. Well, probably in another alternate Universe or Timeline he did. And those inhabitants are enjoying them.
Zoob
I never found his TV scores to be his best work. Be it the size of the orchestra or the lack of time, but I just never really got into his television soundtracks. Well, that's not quite true, I always loved his score for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and his UNCLE and Barnaby Jones main themes were smashing. But otherwise, a lot of the stuff I've heard (not much, only what's on album) I had found rather grating. His work for films always blew them away for me.
So, Goldsmith on the original Star Trek? I wonder if it would have been as well liked as his movie work or even as much as the work o Gerald Fried or Sol Kaplan. I mean, I enjoyed Walter Scharf's music in UNCLE more than Goldsmith's. But, that's just my view, so there ya go.
BTW - I found John Williams' work on 60's TV to be absolutely fabulous. I would have loved to hear his ideas on Trek.
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I like many of the scores to the series. My favorite composer there would be Steiner. This series along with Thriller, Twilight Zone, and a few others offer some of the best music written for TV series.
J.
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I just listened to that Sol Kaplan score again. It's great, though I feel the climactic material goes blaringly over-the-top. Not really a criticism, I mean it was a pretty dramatic finale to the episode. What I really like about the Kaplan score is the way he adapts the theme by Courage on cello - now, I always thought that the Alexander Courage theme was a notoriously out of place thing to start with, and even more notoriously difficult to adapt in any way dramatically, but Kaplan did it with honours.
Having said that, my faves from the original series are by Gerald Fried and Fred Steiner. They really, for me, defined the sound of STAR TREK. Alexander Courage of course too. Very underrated composer, a lot more experimental than is given credit for.
So yes, Kaplan, Fried, Steiner, but my heart still goes with Duning, who may not have DEFINED the Trek sound, but whose scores are amongst the most heart-breakingly beautiful for any TV shows.
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