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In Reply to: RE: Movie music posted by Moldog on April 19, 2021 at 13:11:22
The only worthwhile classical music being written these days is movie music! ;-)
You're right that movie music (and I'm talking about the big symphonic scores) is perhaps not always satisfying from a long-range, large-scale formal perspective. But, most of the time, that doesn't bother me. (After all, I'm a big admirer of Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Caucasian Sketches"!) In any case, stylistically, a lot of music for the movies is classical music in everything but name. As for its worth, I guess that's for each individual listener to decide.
OTOH, there's some movie music which several legitimate classical players have taken up and which I can't stand. ("Ladies in Lavender" anyone? OMG! And, dare I say it, John Williams' music from "Schindler's List".)
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The suite to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (there are a few, I'm talking about the pure Williams one without the disney interlude) is as deserving wide play as The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Encompassing the spectrum from non-tonal non-12-tone non-chromatic ligeti-like start and ending with the pure intervals of solfege tonality instruction is an impressive musical history & theory commentary.And it's damn good sounding.
My opinion: Williams is at least as good a composer as Saint-Saens, who is programmed regularly, and much more versatile.
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There are other notable composers for movies as well .... John Barry, James Newton Howard, Henry Mancini, Maurice Jarre, Elmer Berstein, Max Steiner, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrmann and James Horner ALL contributed some of the MOST memorable scores in cinema history! The link is the opening theme for The Prince Of Tides which my wife and I used as supplemental music at our wedding as people entered the church to be seated. We also used some of the music from Out Of Africa which my wife walked down the aisle to......
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