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Sep 11, 2021 - 1:18 PM
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SchiffyM
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Your thoughts on this?
I think this article is silly.
I mean, the very first paragraph is about the Los Angeles Philharmonic devoting three concerts to film music. Because a concert hall is a venue for music.
A museum is not generally a venue for music. I happened to drive by the Academy Museum yesterday, and there are banners everywhere announcing its opening, and they promote that you can see C-3PO there, and something from Oz, and I can't remember what else. Because museums are (generally) about tangible items. You can listen to music in the car on the way, but you can only see a real E.T. puppet or a genuine costume from Wakanda at the museum.
Of course there's a target on the back of this museum, with people saying it doesn't properly celebrate every possible group's contributions to the form. This is par for the course.
But as a huge film music fan (obviously), I'm not the least bit offended by any of this. And I'm glad film music is being celebrated by a major orchestra, which feels a lot more appropriate to me anyway.
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"A Hollywood Museum" is a concept that goes back at least 60 years. And they've repeatedly tanked, footled around, and gotten it wrong.
No surprise they're doofing it up again.
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So I don't go off an obscenity-filled, spittle-flecked rant, just a few notes about Swed's column:
The opening day/night event of the Museum is two screenings of THE WIZARD OF OZ, with David Newman conducting the score live-to-picture.
One of the first screening series focuses on Women Composers.
"Although there is no gallery for film scores, there is a room with a surround-sound setup. From time to time, film composers will be thrown a bone by being commissioned to create a sound installation piece."
Current composers getting the chance to fill an entire room with their music is being "thrown a bone?"
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"gave it some thought" is being too kind, I think.
I'm curious, how much has Swed ever given a crap about film music before?
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"So I don't go off an obscenity-filled, spittle-flecked rant, just a few notes about Swed's column:"
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No reason, though, why you shouldn't write an obscenity-filled, spittle-flecked Letter to the Editor.
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