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Feb 4, 2025 - 11:54 AM
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trevan323
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COMING IN 2022: THE JERRY GOLDSMITH COMPANION: VOLUME 1 and 2
For over 70 years, and even now almost two decades after his death in 2004, the name of Jerry Goldsmith has been an iconic addition to a host of science fiction movies, action films, thrillers, war movies and other genres, as well as television projects throughout the 1960s and 1970s, radio work, concert compositions and even familiar movie studio logo music and commercials. Goldsmith’s name guaranteed one thing—that the music from these projects would take on its own life as a virtuoso, involving composition, a work of art of its own that could continue to grip and involve listeners year after year—often when the film or television project itself had been long forgotten.
Jerry Goldsmith’s scores for classic films like Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Omen, Alien, Poltergeist and Basic Instinct are part of the DNA of these films—music that helped define them and push them into the forefront of our cultural consciousness. But the composer’s efforts on other films—The Blue Max, The Chairman, Capricorn One, Star Trek – The Motion Picture, First Blood, The Secret of NIMH, Under Fire, Legend, Total Recall, L.A. Confidential, The Sum of All Fears and dozens of others—stand up as influential, lasting creations as well.
Now for the first time in the U.S. Goldsmith’s career and music is explored in a titanic, 2-volume publication by Jeff Bond, author of The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, Danse Macabre: 25 Years of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton, The Music of Star Trek and other books. Over three years in the making and boasting a manuscript of over 330,000 words - OVER 1,000 pages - The Jerry Goldsmith Companion covers the composer’s earliest projects, including radio work involving Ray Bradbury, William Conrad, Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood; Goldsmith’s groundbreaking work on live television with directors like Franklin J. Schaffner and John Frankenheimer; his pivotal work on the TV programs The Twilight Zone and Thriller, his years under contract at 20th Century Fox where he wrote classic scores such as The Sand Pebbles, Planet of the Apes and Patton; his gritty 1970s television and TV-movie work and his Oscar-winning score for The Omen; his conflicts with directors like Otto Preminger on In Harm’s Way and Ridley Scott on Alien; his struggle to create the monumental music for Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979; his symphonic fantasy and action movies of the early 1980s like Poltergeist, The Final Conflict, Night Crossing and First Blood; his exploration of electronics throughout his career and his constant evolution from year to year and decade to decade, and his emergence as one of the only composers of his generation to adapt and remain relevant and in demand for major motion pictures up until the final days of his career.
With never-before-published photographs and artwork, music samples and interviews both archival and new (with fresh insights from David Newman, John Mauceri, Christopher Young, Michael Giacchino, Christophe Beck, John Ottman, Ludwig Goransson, Richard Kraft, Peyton Reed, Conrad Pope, Douglass Fake, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Malcolm McNab, Jeff Russo and others), this massive two-volume set finally puts into perspective the work and career of one of the most important musical artists of the 20th Century.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!
I've been waiting for this for forever, it seems like, ever since I supported the project on Kickstarter.
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The printing process is inching forward and I’m still hopeful people will get their books this year. That’s all I can say at the moment—progress is being made but until I know more about the schedule there’s nothing else to report. Totally understand the frustration and this is as good a place to vent as any.
Dude, blink three times or something if you're being held captive.
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Face it, this is gone in the wind.
Maybe, but are we going to take that lying down?
Some will.
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There is no excuse for saying the printing process is inching along. Those days are done, and I say that with the utmost respect for Jeff, whose writing is wonderful in these tomes. There is also no excuse for anyone at this point in time to say they feel confident that the book will be done this year. This YEAR extends all the way to December. And if that's the date it arrives, which at this point no one really believes, I should think the angry people who put their trust in this will have long since explored what avenues are open to them. As I've said all along, this now reeks of Tim Lucas and his big Bava book. REEKS. First of all, Jeff shouldn't be giving updates - he's the author of the book, not the one who's causing the delays. Perhaps the publisher asked him to do it, but it's wrong. Everyone deserves the truth. Of course, the publisher could do his best Jack Nicholson impression and say, "You can't handle the truth!" but it's the ONLY right thing to do - come clean, once and for all. If it's not going to be done by the end of the year, that is known right now.
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Honestly, now that I've completed (as of past Saturday) the memoir I've been working on for the past two years, I could use the real deal. I mean "Internet for Dummies" worked well for me back in '97 or '98!
Great! Hang in there, I might do a Kickstarter for this book then.
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I wondered, if we will ever get the books… are we still be able to enjoy after all the frustration. I mean, some of us who payed up didn‘t even receive the pdfs, so at the moment some of us have nothing, nada… nichts.
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In five years or so you'll probably have a laugh about it, but beyond the sheer incredulity of holding the books in your hands, its sure to stain the pleasure from them for awhile.
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Why Not Print in Bora Bora Bora, So We Can All Read About Tora Tora Tora.
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Great! Hang in there, I might do a Kickstarter for this book then.
Ha, you've got me thinking...I will get an estimate from whatever outfit to create a soft cover book (actually, it's been separated into five volumes at around a hundred fifty pages apiece), start m'own Kickstarter for that as well as distribution purposes and see what happens. Would be funny if Bora Bora or wherever follows through...heh heh and my creation is out in circulation ahead of Jeff's...
A serialized memoir? You sly dog.
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How about a Kickstarter for a book "Waiting for Goldsmith" about signing up to the Kickstarter and the long wait for the book? It could be a high-octane tense thriller... Will it come out, when will it come out, will it get through the postal system unscathed, who was this Goldsmith fella anyway?
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I'm curious if anyone has taken the PDF files to a print shop to get an estimate how much it would cost to print one set of books (in color)?
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