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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 21:05:55 GMT
A film score composer, maybe.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 21, 2018 18:54:58 GMT
Likely for film composers, although movie music is changing and taking on a more contemporary feel. The concert music-like (sic?) film scores of the last century strikes me as having legs, or potentially anyway, from the works of Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Victor Young, Alfred Newman and Miklos Rozsa through the later scores of men like Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Johns Barry and Williams, I can see, or rather hear, this happening. Those old-time film composers were, most of them, classically trained, and in an (I suppose ) ideal world most of them would likely have been writing symphonies, concertos and the like, but they were born too late for that, as the classical tradition, such as it can be called, gave way to modernity, and it seems like there's no turning back the clock from,--wherever --say, Shostakovich (or Schoenberg) left off, the music of the movies is the best melodious, easily accessible music for the average person to take in and wholly appreciate. For some reason the European film composers seemed to get taken more seriously, or get more airplay, but the Americans are popular as well, as the themes of such classic films as The Magnificent Seven and Patton have achieved something like near classic status.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 21, 2018 22:26:14 GMT
A film score composer, maybe. That’s almost impossible to say – so I will go ahead and take a stab at it anyway. In addition to film scores, I would also suggest music composed for the stage, even if some songs have long outlived the show they were composed for. I am speaking particularly of the song writers from the 1920s thru the 1950s (roughly) who comprise the so-called Great American Songbook, viz., the likes of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin, and esp. George Gershwin who already shows up regularly on classical concerts and radio stations. Using the example of Gilbert and Sullivan whose “light entertainment” still fills auditoriums going on a century and a half later (H.M.S. Pinafore had its 140th birthday last May, premiering May 25, 1878) and are still going strong, I will also go out on a limb with the idea that some Broadway and West End productions may far outlast their contemporaries. I’m thinking Les Miz and Phantom. Or, maybe, they will fall out of fashion next week.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 22:49:50 GMT
Yes the really great once will be remembered as the really great once of the past have been remember.
Just think of all the composers of the past that has been forgotten. Far more have been forgotten that have been remembered.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 28, 2018 22:54:17 GMT
consulting my crystal ball, will get back to you.
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Post by ellynmacg on Aug 26, 2018 18:11:01 GMT
A film score composer, maybe. That’s almost impossible to say – so I will go ahead and take a stab at it anyway. In addition to film scores, I would also suggest music composed for the stage, even if some songs have long outlived the show they were composed for. I am speaking particularly of the song writers from the 1920s thru the 1950s (roughly) who comprise the so-called Great American Songbook, viz., the likes of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Ro dgers, Irving Berlin, and esp. George Gershwin who already shows up regularly on classical concerts and radio stations. Using the example of Gilbert and Sullivan whose “light entertainment” still fills auditoriums going on a century and a half later (H.M.S. Pinafore had its 140th birthday last May, premiering May 25, 1878) and are still going strong, I will also go out on a limb with the idea that some Broadway and West End productions may far outlast their contemporaries. I’m thinking Les Miz and Phantom. Or, maybe, they will fall out of fashion next week. I agree with everything you say here, Mike, and if the word "Ditto" hadn't been tarnished by its association with certain right-wing radio screamers, I'd say that, too. I am disappointed that no one has mentioned Aaron Copland, "Duke" Ellington, or Leonard Bernstein.* (Of course, I may also be feeling a tad bitter that nobody showed up yesterday to share my birthday greetings to Lenny. ) *Cue someone to comment (or sneer): "But he was better known as a conductor/musicologist/TV personality/radical troublemaker" in 4, 3, 2, 1...)
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