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Feb 17, 2019 - 9:44 PM
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Zooba
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at this time in your life, right now, living or dead and to heck with the search engine.
Your choice might have changed if there was a prior post.
This moment in your life, who would you love to meet and again, living or dead.
Personally, I was lucky in my life so far to have met and talked to the wonderful and may they Rest in Peace, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, James Horner, Georges Delerue, Soren Hyldgaard and Daniel Licht and I also have met and spoke to Dave Grusin, David Arnold, Christopher Young, Tom Scott, Nathan Scott, Cliff Eidelman and John Williams. How truly lucky and fortunate am I?
I think right now I would love to meet and talk to and have a lovely glass of wine and a good meal with the Great and Superb Maestro Miklos Rozsa. That would be so Awesome!
Okay. Your turn. Pick only one please. Thanks Board friends!
Zoob
For those who may not have seen it, here is a great Documentary on Miklos Rozsa. I believe it appears on the EL CID DVD Special Features or another DVD of a Rozsa scored film. It's so good!
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUFiku_0Nrs
Great vintage 1979 appearance and interview featuring Miklos Rozsa and John Williams with Andre Previn on Previn's show PREVIN AND THE PITTSBURGH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O9lCYM2Dh4
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Feb 18, 2019 - 3:39 AM
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Thor
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to heck with the search engine.
The zooba mantra! 
Yes, we've had this topic a few times before.
On the top of my list is John Williams, obviously. I've SEEN him in person twice, but never met him and never will, I've come to terms with that. Same with Morricone.
But yes, if I could pick ONLY ONE: John Williams all the way.
Otherwise, I've been fortunate to meet and talk to most of my favourite composers throughout the years, through my profession - James Horner, Danny Elfman, Giorgio Moroder, James Newton Howard, David Newman, Elliot Goldenthal, Alan Silvestri, Cliff Martinez and many more. Some I've only met and never interviewed, like Hans Zimmer.
Other living composers I'd like to meet include Vangelis, Harold Faltermeyer, Thomas Newman, Alan Menken, A.R. Rahman, Jean Michel Jarre, Ben Watkins/Juno Reactor etc.
Of dead composers, the list is too long, really. I'd love to have met Goldsmith and Herrmann, to see if I could deal with their grouchy personalities. Michael Kamen, Basil Poledours, Franz Waxman are others.
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Alfred, for being like a force of nature during the Golden Age; his abilities were far-ranging and impactful. To me he was, like Morricone, Williams, Herrmann, Goldsmith, one of the best music composers (period) since probably Bartok.
On the other hand, Zimmer himself related that he met Jerry and found him one of the most humble and kind people he'd ever met (and was borderline fanboy in his complimentary views of JG's works).
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Sylvester Levay. I have interviewed him by e-mail though.
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John Barry. For so many reasons.
Aside from my lifelong attachment to his music . . .
I can't think of another composer (Herrmann, perhaps) whose music consistently reflects something deeply personal. That melancholia, that darkness manifested itself throughout Barry's career. Who else would have scored King Rat with that sad oboe theme?
Barry could come across in interviews as soft-spoken, elegant, and quite proper, but was known to have a temper and could be quite entertaining, telling stories, imitating producers, and he never put up with crap from anyone. Even on his first film score--when he was nobody in the film business--he talked the producer into using a different recording studio. He put Michael Crawford in his place during Billy and asked Harry Saltzman what the hell he knew about songwriting. He had a wicked sense of humor.
He could tell stories about the swinging sixties in his ground-zero Chelsea digs. He also had a deeply spiritual side.
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John Barry. For so many reasons.
Aside from my lifelong attachment to his music . . .
I can't think of another composer (Herrmann, perhaps) whose music consistently reflects something deeply personal. That melancholia, that darkness manifested itself throughout Barry's career. Who else would have scored King Rat with that sad oboe theme?
Barry could come across in interviews as soft-spoken, elegant, and quite proper, but was known to have a temper and could be quite entertaining, telling stories, imitating producers, and he never put up with crap from anyone. Even on his first film score--when he was nobody in the film business--he talked the producer into using a different recording studio. He put Michael Crawford in his place during Billy and asked Harry Saltzman what the hell he knew about songwriting. He had a wicked sense of humor.
He could tell stories about the swinging sixties in his ground-zero Chelsea digs. He also had a deeply spiritual side.
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I met Bernard Herrmann at a promotional gathering in Wardour Street in London, but I'd like to have those few moments again so I can see if I made a gushing fool of myself or if I came across to him as having some degree of intelligence.
Wow! That must have been amazing. Herrmann is the composer I'd most want to meet. I thought about Goldsmith but I think Benny would be more interesting to talk music and aesthetics with.
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