Absolutely agree about Ken Wannberg, who, IMO, did a knockout job on the Canadian thriller "The Silent Partner" (which I just saw this past weekend), interpolating Oscar Peterson's thematic material into his very suspenseful underscore. I think he was very talented and could have had much more of a feature film composing career.
Indeed. Amazing score. I wonder if BSX could release it as they produced several great CDs of Mr. Wannberg's music.
For some reason, Wannberg scored several Canadian films in the late 70's to early 80's and everyone of them was fantastic. I'm guessing it had to do with the generous tax credits handed out by the Canadian tax dollars. If that was the case, it was one of those rare times where the bucks were spent for a good purpose.
Ferde Grofe showed a great talent for film scoring based on the two he wrote in 1950--Rocketship X-M and The Return of Jesse James. Unfortunately, he didn't write any more after that year.
TO TONE ROW- tHANK YOU VERY MUCH, YOU SUM UP EXACTLY MY POINT, ABOUT SO MUCH GREAT MUSIC THAT IS NEGLECTED BY GREAT COMPOSERS, YOU GAVE 3 EXAMPLES WHICH CAME TO ABOUT , WHAT 250 OR MORE FILMS AND YOU CAN COUNT ON YOUR FINGERS THE AMOUNT RELEASE, NOW THERE ARE HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS OF EXAMPLES OF COMPOSERS WHICH WILL COME TO------ WELL WE KNOW HOW MANY FEATURE LENGHT FILMS HAVE BEEN MADE SINCE 1930, SO IMAGINE THE GREAT MUSIC NEGLECTED WHICH CAN THEREFORE CAUSE MANY PEOPLE TO UNDERATE A COMPOSER, BECAUSE HOW CAN YOU SAY SOMEONE IS GREAT IF YOU DON'T HERE ENOUGH OF THEIR MUSIC BUT YOU WOULD SAY HE OR SHE IS GREAT IF YOU HEARD MORE OF THEIR MUSIC, THANKS AGAIN FOR THAT EXAMPLE, I MEAN YOU COULD HAVE A RADIO STATION JUST WITH MORRICONE AND DELURUE[S OUTPUT, I MEAN BETWEEN JUST THOSE 2 YOU HAVE, WHAT OVER 500 FILMS, THINK OF ALL THAT MUSIC, BUT MORE IMPORTANT CONSTANT FINE MUSIC.
WHAT?!?! I COULDN'T QUITE HEAR WHAT YOU SAID THERE?
Absolutely agree about Ken Wannberg, who, IMO, did a knockout job on the Canadian thriller "The Silent Partner" (which I just saw this past weekend), interpolating Oscar Peterson's thematic material into his very suspenseful underscore. I think he was very talented and could have had much more of a feature film composing career.
Indeed. Amazing score. I wonder if BSX could release it as they produced several great CDs of Mr. Wannberg's music.
For some reason, Wannberg scored several Canadian films in the late 70's to early 80's and everyone of them was fantastic. I'm guessing it had to do with the generous tax credits handed out by the Canadian tax dollars. If that was the case, it was one of those rare times where the bucks were spent for a good purpose.
Bumping this. Hopefully, THE SILENT PARTNER will make it to CD one day.
i miss MR dan the man, his gramar and speling is offal but his humor and his hart were in the rite plaice, and he new a lot about old horror films and obscure composrers, and he mentioned MR Lee Holdridge in his first post so he can't be all bad, HA HA just joking my friend, as we drift thru life.
Gerald Busby composed an eerie, edgy score for Robert Altman's Three Women. The score is available through Bandcamp. This may have been his only score. Altman was thrilled with it. In the 70s Virgil Thomson arranged for Busby to move to the Chelsea Hotel, a home for many of an artistic nature.
Gerald Busby composed an eerie, edgy score for Robert Altman's Three Women. The score is available through Bandcamp. This may have been his only score. Altman was thrilled with it. In the 70s Virgil Thomson arranged for Busby to move to the Chelsea Hotel, a home for many of an artistic nature.
For me it's Sylvester Levay. He composed only approx. ten movie scores, but they are very good. And then "Airwolf"... still hoping for a four disc set along with some of Harpaz' scores.
I mentioned Gerald Busby in an earlier post. Pierson also wrote an excellent and appropriately bleak score for Altman--for Quintet, which means that very few people heard it. He also wrote some additional music for Popeye and arranged the Gershwin score (not "Rhapsody in Blue") for Manhattan.
So, the scores of Quintet (Pierson), Three Women (Busby), and Images (J. Williams) form an unrelated triptych of nightmarish scores from Robert Altman films.
