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  1. It's common knowledge that Goldsmith was a chromogen not unlike Bernard Herrmann. Marco Beltrami said that Goldsmith had a chip on his shoulder that he never found his Spielberg or Lucas which I thought was a dig at JW. This sort of stuff isn't really that big a deal because it's so common. We tend to compare ourselves to our peers rather than to ourselves and at the top levels like these two were, it can be fiercely competitive but doesn't mean that much. It's sort of just an emotional response but if given a moment to think more clearly on it, I think Goldsmith would refine his criticism to more of a backhanded compliment. When JG died, his daughter published online about 50 pages of a bio she was writing about her dad. I think the book was either never completed or the project fell through, but I read it and she quoted JG commenting on many of his contemporaries. Again, it wasn't personal, just chromogeny comments when comparing himself to others feeling he didn't get an award someone else did for something he felt was inferior, type of thing. So what. Saying it doesn't make it true and isn't insightful to what he even really means.
  2. I've attended some of these and recall some real gems. LA Phil is very, very supportive of young, unproven composers. Was it the 100th anniversary year included 100 commissions, it was a few years ago so can't remember what the celebration was. It's not unusual for a program with Dvorak to be paired with a world premiere and I don't think I've heard a failure. Some have been outstanding and almost always by composers I've not encountered before, and I am an adventurous listener.
  3. Oh, come on. You think the biopic of the first conscientious objector who refused to fire a weapon and would receive a Medal of Honor when there was no such thing after saving 72 men in the battle of Okinawa isn't a worthwhile story? It's a very well told story of a side of war never heard. Those who refuse to bear arms but are still willing to die for their cause.
  4. What do you know of Johnny's grandfather? I understand he was a composer too.
  5. To me, he'll always first be known as Towner Nagle.
  6. It's really fascinating and I bet a book could be written about this topic. First, we got a great score. What could Horner have created that we didn't imagine if he had six more weeks or Abbey Road had better facilities? What he's saying isn't wrong, Abbey Road knew it and did fix it, they talk about that in a spitfire walkthrough of the studio how during the late 1980's they made major upgrades. Would it have mattered? I believe this pressure resulted in the change in his style from his earlier scores and his mid/later scores. Everything he says is spot on except what's complicated is and yet he managed to deliver. Maybe he always feels this way. You gave me six months but if I had eight more months what could I have delivered? By the time of Troy (2004), he farmed out a lot of the work because he had to deliver a 2+ hour epic score in three weeks. What could he have done with that if he had 8 more weeks? If he had those 8 more weeks, what if he had 12 more weeks? To what composer does this not apply? It's probably diminishing returns.
  7. They are comparable. I have Krull and it's great.
  8. Ok, this one is hard to explain. I deeply loved this sequence from Heat. I remember seeing it in a theater vividly when you're completely engrossed in the film. The whole time, Deniro is pulled from a life of crime and leaving it behind. In this scene, very late in the film, he finally meets someone who he connects with personally and is pulling him away from crime. They are leaving crime for a happier life. You see the dilemma in his mind. He realizes who he is. He is a criminal. I just love this scene and how it was scored by Elliot Goldenthal. One of the best crime dramas I've ever seen. What I think makes this film so good (aside from the score) is that Pacino, who has the same obsessive desires, is just as broken, but as a broken hero, willing to sacrifice his life, his love, his family, everything, for his obsession. These two desperately lonely characters only truly understand each other...their enemy. Then this scene without a word. The music beautifully swells to Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo obsession level.
  9. If this thread was called "What Television series are you watching?", I am really enjoying "The Big Bang Theory". I tend to be very late to the party when it comes to pop culture and what everyone else is watching. So I just now started watching TBBT and find it very funny! Highly recommended.
  10. I really enjoyed 2014's The Equalizer. Great bad ass kicking some Russian mafia ass. Made me wonder, how does one become a master assassin? Are there masterclasses in assassinry? How do you find gigs and ascend to master level in that career?
  11. Very nice! One thing you might want to try is more tempo irregularities. It feels too straight, not how humans would play this. Sometimes dynamic and tempo shifts are exaggerated by real performers for effect but here, it's very controlled breaking the spell of otherwise fine writing. There are also some instrumental balance issues. The harp and celesta at 4 minutes are too loud in the mix. Push those way back. Take a listen of this very fine contemporary piece for an example of how harp and celesta sit in a real mix. The harp starts the phrase and the celesta finishes it. It's far more subtle in the sound mix. Remember that sample libraries generally make the dynamics equal across instruments and that is not reality so without some tweaking, it sort of breaks the illusion. Regardless, I enjoy your music.
  12. Those of you who know a lot about AI audio restoration, or state of the art dialog fixing, can this audio be repaired? Is it recoverable? Sound 1.mp3
  13. I watched 1979's The China Syndrome staring Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, and a very good Jack Lemmon. The film is neurotic, anxious, and cynical. But an interesting glimpse of 1970's anti-establishment, conspiracy, and paranoia of all thing's authority. It should be remade and more updated to modern concerns. At the time of the film, the concern was nuclear power.
  14. I really like the disaster strings rhythm. That used to be one of his 1970's signatures for tension risers but he doesn't do it anymore.
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