Come on labels! "Airwolf"- & "Cobra"-Soundtrack please (and maybe "Wet Gold" too).
I believe Levay talked about WET GOLD (without mentioning the title) in the interview. It was a replacement score he did in a few hours in 1984, replacing John Scott.
Levay is fast and good. I like his early stuff most (1980 - 1986).
I don't think he did anything before 1982.
I think he was great all through his career from 1982-2007.
Of those composers who is most known for scoring movies with all electronic/synthesizers and then suddenly get the chance to do a full blown orchestral/symphonic score there are two kinds. One is those who hires someone else to conduct (and or orchestrate for them) such as Brad Fiedel. The other one is those who apparently decide to conduct (and or orchestrate) themself such as Levay.
So with that in mind I have always wondered when it comes to Levay. With his electronic/synthesizer background did he got conducting education from the beginning. Some composers such as Michael Kamen was a composer with rock and roll background and yet he was classical trained. Did Levay have a similar background situation or did he decide later on to learn how to conduct an orchestra just because he wrote orchestral music?
Because to me it feels odd that someone who previously only did electronic/synthesizer music then when composing orchestral/symphonic score music decide to conduct the orchestra.
That would be my question to him if I ever got the chance to ask him anything.
Come on labels! "Airwolf"- & "Cobra"-Soundtrack please (and maybe "Wet Gold" too).
I believe Levay talked about WET GOLD (without mentioning the title) in the interview. It was a replacement score he did in a few hours in 1984, replacing John Scott.
Levay is fast and good. I like his early stuff most (1980 - 1986).
I don't think he did anything before 1982.
I think he was great all through his career from 1982-2007.
Of those composers who is most known for scoring movies with all electronic/synthesizers and then suddenly get the chance to do a full blown orchestral/symphonic score there are two kinds. One is those who hires someone else to conduct (and or orchestrate for them) such as Brad Fiedel. The other one is those who apparently decide to conduct (and or orchestrate) themself such as Levay.
So with that in mind I have always wondered when it comes to Levay. With his electronic/synthesizer background did he got conducting education from the beginning. Some composers such as Michael Kamen was a composer with rock and roll background and yet he was classical trained. Did Levay have a similar background situation or did he decide later on to learn how to conduct an orchestra just because he wrote orchestral music?
Because to me it feels odd that someone who previously only did electronic/synthesizer music then when composing orchestral/symphonic score music decide to conduct the orchestra.
That would be my question to him if I ever got the chance to ask him anything.
Good question. My theory is that he probably studied some orchestration and conducting in the 70s.
