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 Ormsby
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Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:44 am Post subject: My Favorite Composers |
 
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I started listening to soundtracks along about 1960, when Ben-Hur was released, and that score had a profound effect upon me, so my choice for
Number One: Miklos Rozsa
Number Two: Alex North mainly because of his genius at composing some of the greatest processional music ever written ( e.g., Shoes of the Fisherman)
Number Three: Frank Skinner for his profoundly sad and highly romantic score for "Back Street," which to my knowledge has never been released on CD.
Number Four: Billy Goldenberg, mainly for one score, "Red Sky at Morning," again, not out on CD to my knowledge.
Number Five: Lee Holdridge
Number Six: Jerry Goldsmith, everything from "A Patch of Blue" onward thru "The Blue Max", the 1966 remake of "Stagecoach," and even his catchy tango-like "Six Degrees of Separation." But especially for "Rudy."
Number Seven: John Williams for everything.
Number Eight: John Barry for everything
Number Nine: Ennio Morricone for everything EXCEPT that cheesy score to "MIssion to Mars," which is awful.
Number Ten: Nino Rota, mainly for his score to the 1968 "Romeo and Juliet," in which he captured perfectly the beauty of love and the sadness of death.
Number Eleven: Johnny Green for "Raintree County" and especially the track "Search for the Raintree" which has the most beautiful twenty seconds of music I have ever heard.
Number Twelve: Franz Waxman for "The Spirit of St. Louis," and "Sayonara," but most loved for the track "Rosanna" from "The Adventures of a Young Man," which achieves a few seconds of most the beautiful sound you're likely to hear in music, so perfect is it.
Number Thirteen: James Horner for everything, beginning with "Krull,", which was the first CD I ever bought.
Number Fourteen: Dave Grusin for "My Bodyguard," and "On Golden Pond."
I may add some others later, but how's that for a unique list.
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Damyst
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musicmarie
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eugenephillips
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Frank Skinner and John Williams are really great composers. These people made a lot of really interesting compositions |
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