<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Who can not compare the opening theme of the first Star Wars to The Planets: Mars? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:04 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:56 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat<br>
<<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Bill Wallace wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br>
> <extropy-chat at <a href="http://lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I am at the point where I think I know just about every piece up until<br>
>> about 1900 or maybe 1930 that I like. So after that I am looking for<br>
>> new music to buy. I get the American Record Guide and buy CDs<br>
>> based on reviews and have a success rate of maybe 10%. The<br>
>> others I give away.<br>
>><br>
>> So, I am interested in finding out from other classical music lovers<br>
>> who, since 1900, has become a favorite whose music I might like. If<br>
>> a composer is famous I very likely know all I need to know about<br>
>> him or her.<br>
><br>
> I would get the musical scores from the Star Wars movies performed by<br>
> the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In so far as classical music can be<br>
> considered a genre instead of a musical period ending in the 1800s,<br>
> then John Williams is one of the best modern classical music<br>
> composers. He is why the Star Wars movies are "space opera" instead of<br>
> "space theater" or "space story".<br>
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Violates Bill W's dictum: someone he would likely not know.<br>
<br>
While immensely popular, Williams basically recycles other composers.<br>
And mean recycle not in the sense of is heavily influenced by but as<br>
in merely takes their stuff and repackages it into movie music. I feel<br>
Ennio Morricone is a much better film music composer. This isn't to<br>
saw a Williams score doesn't work. It does. And his earlier stuff is<br>
better; he seems to be phoning it in now.<br>
<br>
By the way, a movie music composer who's definitely not for everyone,<br>
whom I like, is Stelvio Cipriani. I especially like his work in "What<br>
Have They Done to Your Daughters?" (1974). I haven't actually seen<br>
that movie, but I like his work on it.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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