Vote for the Next Living Film Composer That Should Be Featured in 'Écoutez le cinéma' Series

[Bespin 8,483]

Having honored Michel Legrand, Ennio Morricone, and John Williams in the 'Écoutez le cinéma' series, I'm eager to hear your preferences for the next living film composer to be featured...

[Yavar Moradi 2,599]

Laurence Rosenthal!

 

Yavar

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

William Ross.

[Andy 4,138]

Oh living composer.  I was looking for a better composer but, well….

[Faleel 5,355]

I voted Shore.

[Andy 4,138]

I voted Silvestri. I don’t like him enough to be a completist, but I think he has an interesting career.  And Elfman already got his box set. 

[Yavar Moradi 2,599]

23 minutes ago, Andy said:

Oh living composer.  I was looking for a better composer but, well….

 

52 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

Laurence Rosenthal!

 

[Thor 7,512]

I prefer to curate my own composer collections, so boxes like these aren't really for me. But I'd take a Vangelis 20-CD box that contains a LOT of his unreleased material.

 

[Edit....oh, forgot about the 'living' part. Some other synth heroes, then, whose soundtrack release record is skimpy. Sylvester Levay, for example]

[Edmilson 7,466]

JNH

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

Stephen Oliver.

[GerateWohl 4,370]

David Shire 

 

I mean, these boxes are for legendary composers whose recordings already fulfill certain contemporary standards. That excludes golden age composers and those who started their career in the 80s.

[Edmilson 7,466]

Why does it have to be a living composer. It makes much more sense to pay homage to someone who isn't alive but left a huge body of work. In fact, I think these boxes should prioritize legendary composers who have a lot of scores waiting to be discovered by the general audience, like Morricone himself.

[mstrox 6,651]

None personally.   Any composer I’d care enough about, I’d already own everything available from them that I want. This was the case with Williams. If they put something unreleased of value in a box like this, I’d probably be pissy that they didn’t just do an album specific to that score.

[Thor 7,512]

31 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Why does it have to be a living composer. It makes much more sense to pay homage to someone who isn't alive but left a huge body of work. 

 

Indeed. It's a bit of an odd criterion to have for this sort of thing.

[Mr. Hooper 1,793]

Giuseppe "Pino" Donaggio

[bollemanneke 3,349]

Doyle? Your thread title makes it sound very official.

[Bayesian 1,363]

21 hours ago, Andy said:

I voted Silvestri. I don’t like him enough to be a completist, but I think he has an interesting career.  And Elfman already got his box set. 

Elfman got a box set that no one owns because they made too few of them and they're impossible to find on the secondary market. I need my Elfman box set, one way or another.

[GerateWohl 4,370]

I think, when I look at the box's program I could easily sit there for two or three days and listen through the whole thing. Same works for the Morricone boxes. But the thought of listening to 18 or 20 Danny Elfman albums in a row really gives me a headache. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,544]

Gabriel Yared.

What a perfect opportunity to release a complete and chronological TROY.

[Marian Schedenig 8,200]

15 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Gabriel Yared.

What a perfect opportunity to release a complete and chronological TROY.

 

I'd pay full price just for that.

[JTN 2,030]

Danny Elfman

[Naïve Old Fart 9,544]

On 27/11/2023 at 11:35 AM, Marian Schedenig said:

 

I'd pay full price just for that.

 

+1, and for a C&C CITY OF ANGELS.

[Mr. Hooper 1,793]

Listening to the score for "Ghost Story", I thought "Hey, why not Philippe Sarde?" Plus he's French, so that might give him an edge.

[Bespin 8,483]

There are many good suggestions, thank you for your participation. Not surprisingly, a consensus seems to be forming around Howard Shore. It must be said that such an anthology would lend itself well to his vast and varied body of work. He is much more than Cronenberg's designated composer since 1979, and far more than the composer of 'The Lord of the Rings' too.

 

In addition to collaborations with Peter Jackson and David Cronenberg, he has composed music for films directed by Martin Scorsese ("Gangs of New York", "The Departed", "The Aviator", "Hugo"), Jonathan Demme ("Philadelphia", "The Silence of the Lambs"), David Fincher ("Seven", "Panic Room", "The Game"), Tim Burton ("Ed Wood"), Frank Oz & Robert De Niro ("The Score"), Chris Columbus ("Mrs. Doubtfire"), Al Pacino ("Looking for Richard"), Tom McCarthy ("Spotlight"), Mick Jackson ("Denial"), François Girard ("The Song of Names"), Robert Benton ("Nobody's Fool"), Barbet Schroeder ("Before and After"), Arnaud Desplechin ("Esther Kahn"), David Slade ("The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"), Penny Marshall ("Big"), Robert Shaye ("The Last Mimzy"), John Patrick Shanley ("Doubt"), and Phillip Noyce ("Sliver").

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

Yeah, he also scored the Hobbit movies.

 

I suggest Maurice Jarre.

[Edmilson 7,466]

Shore would be a nice choice, actually. It'd be a great opportunity for people who are well aware of his Middle Earth music to get acquainted with his considerable non-Tolkien body of work.

[Thor 7,512]

24 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Shore would be a nice choice, actually. It'd be a great opportunity for people who are well aware of his Middle Earth music to get acquainted with his considerable non-Tolkien body of work.

 

Universal Music France already released a pretty good 2CD set, in their Écoutez Le Cinéma series, that I would love to own, a compilation that covers pretty much all the essential bases of his work. But I believe it's OOP and hard to find these days:

 

https://www.discogs.com/release/11084055-Howard-Shore-The-Essential-Howard-Shore

 

[Bespin 8,483]

Indeed, it was an exercise before the real thing to come.

 

Unfortunately, I was never able to find this CD collection. Does anyone have it?