Film Orchestration

Who needs to go to Los Angeles or New York for a film orchestration workshop?

Go here. Click "Samples" and Mr. B. has been kind enough to load some downloadable (complete!) full scores of cues along with the corresponding audio mp3s.

He may not be your favorite, but he is a pro; and he was a student of the Master (seemingly the only one Goldsmith ever acknowledged).

How cool is that?

Film Score Friday: Jerry Goldsmith Edition

Last Sunday was Jerry Goldsmith's birthday. He would've been 79.

Jerry Goldsmith wrote more great scores in any genre than maybe any other composer. So today's list looks a little like this:

Alien (monster movie)
Basic Instinct (suspense thriller)
L.A. Confidential (crime drama; really film noir)
Legend (fantasy)
Mulan (animation)
The Omen (horror)
Rio Conchos (western)
The Shadow (crime fighter)
Star Trek: First Contact (space opera)
Total Recall (action)
The Wind and the Lion (period film)
The 13th Warrior (sword and sorcery)

Even the Alter Ego doesn't usurp Film Score Friday.

Johnny's 76!

Today is John Williams' 76th birthday (it's Mrs. Pikey's birthday, too, so Happy Birthday, Mrs. Pikey!).

It's an all-Johnny Film Score Friday here in the office.

Listening will be chosen from:

Star Wars (I-VI)
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Saving Private Ryan
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Another Road Trip

St. Louis beckons again; this time for the U.S. premiere of John Adams' symphony based on his opera Doctor Atomic.