Comments on: Keeping Score at the Movies

By: Dan the Music Master

Dan the Music Master — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:02:47 +0000

Glad you mentioned Aaron Copland in the original post. Also, one of my favorites for film is Bernard Herrmann.

By: Bel Biv Devoe

Bel Biv Devoe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:11:52 +0000

I sent this page to my friends as well

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:21:52 +0000

Conan the Barbarian has to be mentioned, especially the first twenty minutes when there is hardly a word spoken, just wall-to-wall music. It does steal from Prokofiev a bit, but so what. It´s glorious.

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:19:37 +0000

Definitely Howard Shore. Check out everything he´s done for David Cronenberg – Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Crash, The Fly – totally different in style, but always just right for the movie.

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:14:05 +0000

Goldsmith´s music for Star Trek – TMP, Alien, First Blood, Gremlins and Poltergeist is really part of my youth. Very memorable and effective. Legend was also pretty good.

By: Burt Prelutsky

Burt Prelutsky — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:19:42 +0000

CommonSense–I stand second to none in my appreciation of Buster Keaton, but even silent movies weren't silent. When they were originally shown, they were accompanied by a painist. Later, when they were shown on TV, they had music added.

movie_music: I thought "Somewhere in Time" might have had a classical source, but it had been many years since I saw the movie and could only recall that the music was the only thing that made the movie bearable.

And, for the few who took me to task, I did have Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith represented in my article. Sometimes, I get the feeling that some of you skip the peice and go straight to comments.

Regards, Burt

By: movie_music

movie_music — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:57:53 +0000

Actually the core theme of John Barry's score for "Somewhere In Time" was Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' which should have disqualified it from your list. Barry's use of dense low brass voicings made all of his scores highly recognizable and set the tone for all of the James Bond movie scores. But his most distinguished score was for the Oscar-winning film "Dances With Wolves". It played a huge part in audiences' emotional response to a film critics largely dismissed.

By: ScottDS

ScottDS — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:46:49 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, my dad's a middle school teacher and his students were born when I was about to get into high school. His students have probably never heard of Titanic, let alone the Back to the Future films.

By: FeFe

FeFe — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:08:33 +0000

# Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) Original Music by Georges Auric

I had to look it up and it seems he was on a roll. Here are some more I enjoyed too and I wish I could see many of the other movies listed at Imdb:

# Roman Holiday (1953)
# Moulin Rouge (1952)
# The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
# Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

By: Frances_Genau

Frances_Genau — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:52:23 +0000

ScottDS – that was just mean to remind me that a movie that came out when I was in high school is turning 25….