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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Sol Kaplan - The Doomsday Machine     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 11:31 AM     By:   LeHah   (Member) I found this little docu about the breakdown of the famous Star Trek TV score...    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 11:37 AM     By:   Adam.   (Member) Wasn't that a photo of Gerald Fried (not Sol Kaplan) at the very end there? Interesting video though. Thanks.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 11:59 AM     By:   chriss   (Member) Wasn't that a photo of Gerald Fried (not Sol Kaplan) at the very end there? Interesting video though. Thanks. Yes, that's grotesque! But they show a correct photo at the beginning...    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 12:07 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) Perhaps it was the goatee that threw him. You'd think that after a twenty-second vanity logo (with sound fx!) they'd give Sol (and Gerald) a little more screen time. Can't wait to see who shows up at the end of his "Amok Time" analysis.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 1:09 PM     By:   Jehannum   (Member) The Doomsday Machine is a genius score. They got that right. Shame about the photo. Enjoyed watching the video.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 1:16 PM     By:   chriss   (Member) The Doomsday Machine is a genius score. They got that right. Shame about the photo. Enjoyed watching the video. Same here! The score is a stroke of genius - as is Kaplan's first season Trek score "Enemy Within". It's great nonetheless that he gets that recognition in the video.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 1:37 PM     By:   Sarge   (Member) That sad yet noble theme for the crippled Constellation is a personal favorite, to say nothing of the music for the doomsday machine itself. And then there's that action cue when Decker fights the security guard... simply amazing. You'd think it was Danny Elfman in his prime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxqtyrelM5U&feature=youtu.be#t=1m10s    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 2:52 PM     By:   MikeP   (Member) The Doomsday Machine is a genius score. They got that right. Shame about the photo. Enjoyed watching the video. Same here! The score is a stroke of genius - as is Kaplan's first season Trek score "Enemy Within". It's great nonetheless that he gets that recognition in the video. This is probably the music that sparked my interest in dramatic scoring. Damn it is good, and like the fella said it may not have been equaled yet in TV scoring. A nice tribute, and nice find , thanks for linking the video !!    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 7:37 PM     By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member) I saw "The Doomsday Machine" dozens of times in the 1970s and 80s, but the CD was still a revelation. The sad, thoughtful parts really come out to be savored.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 8:50 PM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) This is a great thread. "The Doomsday Machine" has long been a personal favorite ST score of mine as well. The video made me smile as I watched because it hit upon many of the points that made this particular score so memorable to many of us in the first place. As a kid when I first saw this episode in reruns on Channel 11 WPIX here in NY, I was not listening for the music, but it impacted the drama, and was unforgettable. Wonderful scoring on limited budgets by talented composers. We really miss the likes of men like Sol Kaplan today.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 8:55 PM     By:   LeHah   (Member) As a kid when I first saw this episode in reruns on Channel 11 WPIX here in NY, I was not listening for the music, but it impacted the drama, and was unforgettable. Ha! A local! Thats the same station I watched it on as a kid too!    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 9:37 PM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) As a kid when I first saw this episode in reruns on Channel 11 WPIX here in NY, I was not listening for the music, but it impacted the drama, and was unforgettable. Ha! A local! Thats the same station I watched it on as a kid too! Ha! A "local" who has been on this board since 2001. I always enjoy your posts. You are passionate about what you love.    Posted:   Jun 27, 2011 - 11:48 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) Wasn't that a photo of Gerald Fried (not Sol Kaplan) at the very end there? Interesting video though. Thanks. Yes, that's grotesque! But they show a correct photo at the beginning... Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but -- horror of horrors -- an extensive Google Image Search revealed that the ONLY accurate photo of Sol Kaplan on all the internet is the one here at FSM: Every other site uses the younger Gerald Fried (below left) and when the same site needs a picture of Fried, they use the older-Fried pic (below right). Some examples: http://www.last.fm/music/Sol+Kaplan http://www.epdlp.com/compbso.php?id=3509 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11649833 However, according to this site . . . http://www.enotes.com/videohound-reviews/people/sol-kaplan . . . Kaplan "Hitchcock-ed" his way into the following movies, which he also scored: Tales of Manhattan (1942) The Halls of Montezuma (1950) Niagara (1953) Salt of the Earth (1954) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) Over the Edge (1979) If someone here had the technical skills, perhaps he/she could put together a nice gallery of Sol Kaplan pictures from his cameos in the films listed. Anyone up to the challenge?    Posted:   Jun 28, 2011 - 12:11 AM     By:   ToneRow   (Member) . . . Kaplan "Hitchcock-ed" his way into the following movies, which he also scored: Tales of Manhattan (1942) The Halls of Montezuma (1950) Niagara (1953) Salt of the Earth (1954) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) Over the Edge (1979) If anyone here had the technical skills, perhaps he/she could put together a nice gallery of Sol Kaplan pictures from his cameos in the films listed. Anyone up to the challenge? Did Kaplan play a guard with a red shirt who gets killed off in HALLS OF MONTEZUMA?    Posted:   Jun 28, 2011 - 12:15 AM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) If only it were that easy! I'm sure there are many more fighting men in that film than there ever were security guards in any Trek episode . . . (--Although, now that you mention it, I do remember a poor redshirted soul named Lt. Kaplan who met his maker in the second-season Trek episode "The Apple." He was struck by a cartoon bolt of lightning, courtesy of the great paper-mache reptile-headed god Vaal. There was nothing left of the guy but a black spot on the studio floor.)    Posted:   Jun 28, 2011 - 6:11 AM     By:   Josh "Swashbuckler" Gizelt   (Member) The video is spot on. "The Doomsday Machine" is one of my favorite space opera scores, having all of the scope of a Star Wars or Last Starfighter or Starship Troopers. It also proves what a lot of television music from the era does, that you don't necessarily need a huge orchestra for muscular music, just intelligent orchestration. Fred Steiner's short suite of "The Doomsday Machine" gets a lot of flack, but I think that it's an engaging variation for a larger orchestra. Tony Bremner's recording of "The Enemy Within" is essential, though.    Posted:   Jun 28, 2011 - 6:15 AM     By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member) As a kid when I first saw this episode in reruns on Channel 11 WPIX here in NY, I was not listening for the music, but it impacted the drama, and was unforgettable. Ha! A local! Thats the same station I watched it on as a kid too! Me too. :-) 11 Alive!    Posted:   Jun 28, 2011 - 6:50 AM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) As a kid when I first saw this episode in reruns on Channel 11 WPIX here in NY, I was not listening for the music, but it impacted the drama, and was unforgettable. Ha! A local! Thats the same station I watched it on as a kid too! Me too. :-) 11 Alive!    Posted:   Jun 28, 2011 - 7:49 AM     By:   LeHah   (Member) Unfortunate that PIX has been deligated to being a trash channel for the last decade. You use to still find some great obscure movies on there during the late hours in the 1990s.    Posted:   Jun 28, 2011 - 8:00 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Yes its a classic score and I agree never been matched on television. The music complemented every scene, every emotion, and gave a sense of warmth and humanity in an other wise cold and alien "Star War" storyline. Never caught the connection between the Doomsday Machine theme and Jaws theme before. Brilliant!     General Discussion: Sol Kaplan - The Doomsday Machine    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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