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Sep 29, 2022 - 10:31 PM
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Tall Guy
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Ennio Morricone
I love the idea of having a certain craziness as a condiment to a solid musical education, and it’s this inspired edge to his music that makes him my favourite.
John Barry
Always in my top two favourites from literally as far back as I can remember. A better and more rounded and sophisticated composer than many people allow.
John Williams
I didn’t really want to include him because there are many other composers I’m fonder of in smaller doses, but then I think of The Eiger Sanction, Earthquake, Cinderella Liberty and a few others and I can’t exclude him.
Nino Rota
His music for Fellini is amongst the most wondrous ever written for film.
Akira Ifukube
Really first among equals of a whole range of composers that could take this last spot, including Sakamoto, Fielding, Goodwin, Giacchino, Legrand, Jarre, Delerue, and Gold. My favourite of his is Ritmica Ostinata, not a film score at all.
If the question was “who are your favourite composers who have ever written film music”, I’m afraid Williams and Ifukube would have to make way for Shostakovich and Weinberg, who’d take two of the top three spots.
i totally agree with you!!!
You have excellent taste!
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Forgive some personal ramblings: Re: Youth and tastes.
I think that my generation was lucky (born in 1953) in that musical styles and genres went through dramatic and rapid changes during my youth and adolescence. I grew up in a smotheringly small Midwestern town, but somehow through radio, TV, movies, and recordings (and because I worked as a DJ/announcer for our local radio station starting at age 15), I was exposed to almost everything that was exploding at the time: the British pop invasion, Leonard Bernstein popularizing classical music on TV, the astounding variety of guests on variety shows like, but not exclusive to, Ed Sullivan. Also in the mix were the loosening of strictures in film and the onset of truly loud metal rock music. Country music was already in the air in my town, but even country started to edge into pop, just as folk edged into rock.
My mother also worked at the radio station, and before I started working there (no nepotism, they chose me from a bunch of unmarked tapes that they solicited from kids at my high school), she would bring home LPs that no one else wanted -- usually Columbia classical releases. many soundtracks, along with some weird specialty items like "Music of the Wolves". I also think that "2001: A Space Odyssey" just blew into my brain with a big whoosh when I grabbed the soundtrack at an early age and then saw the film on first-release in Cinerama. The music was so challenging at times, and unutterably beautiful in general.
I think those earlier experiences have left me with a continuing interest in exploring new music and new takes on old genres. So I personally don't feel locked into preferences that were determined in my younger days.
I feel truly blessed to have had such a multitudinous exposure to music. It must be different for current generations when everything is available all at once, but exposure, it seems to me, tends to be siloed for most folks.
This impression may be totally wrong of course!
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A "My Bottom 5 Film Composers" would make for a nice change of pace.
1. Marco Beltrami
2. Michael Kamen
3. Marc Shaiman
4. John Ottman
5. Brian Tyler
6. John Debney
7. Elmer Bernstein
8. Alexandre Desplat
Sit down, you're drunk.
Next!
I don't think I am. I have seen 94 films scored by these 8 composers, and their music has never grabbed me in any way. Sad but true.
I like the odd score by other "traditional" composers though, so it's not neccessarily because these 8 are predominantly symphonic in their approach.
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Oct 1, 2022 - 2:03 AM
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MusicMad
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...I think those earlier experiences have left me with a continuing interest in exploring new music and new takes on old genres. So I personally don't feel locked into preferences that were determined in my younger days.
I feel truly blessed to have had such a multitudinous exposure to music. It must be different for current generations when everything is available all at once, but exposure, it seems to me, tends to be siloed for most folks.
This impression may be totally wrong of course!
I have similar views but from a different background: a few years younger than you, I was brought up in a household which enjoyed music, mostly easy-listening, some C&W, some jazz, and on a diet of films (mostly US as my parents thought our British films were poor in comparison). Although I liked some pop music, I spent my youth fighting the culture which forced me to listen to the pop/rock bands.
My exposure to classical music was limited but when I finally started to delve and collect recordings I had the advantage of the major labels looking to generate income by repackaging old recordings in box sets. Instead of paying GBP 10+ for a single CD OST, I found I could buy 50 CDs for less than GBP 2 a disc. Yes, I now have multiple recordings of some works but this was/is no problem.
And the massive benefit it brought: I now have a collection which includes dozens of composers I'd never heard of ... hundreds of works which would never have been played in this house ... etc. I can't believe how much we enjoy choral, chamber ... even operatic and song cycles (for me, at least) works.
So, whilst I still enjoy film music and can nominate favourite composers I now accept that, as a genre, film scores do not represent the majority of music to which I listen.
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Today my top five are............
And tomorrow they are.........
The day after they are.........
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John Williams
Vangelis
Elliot Goldenthal
James Horner
Michael Kamen
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ennio
il maestro
ennio morricone
mio fratellino
morricone
in no particular order!
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