[ExI] for classical music lovers only

[William Flynn Wallace]

Who can not compare the opening theme of the first Star Wars to The
Planets:  Mars?  bill w

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:04 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:56 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > Bill Wallace wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> > <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >> I am at the point where I think I know just about every piece up until
> >> about 1900 or maybe 1930 that I like.  So after that I am looking for
> >> new music to buy.  I get the American Record Guide and buy CDs
> >> based on reviews and have a success rate of maybe 10%.  The
> >> others I give away.
> >>
> >> So, I am interested in finding out from other classical music lovers
> >> who, since 1900, has become a favorite whose music I might like.  If
> >> a composer is famous I very likely know all I need to know about
> >> him or her.
> >
> > I would get the musical scores from the Star Wars movies performed by
> > the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In so far as classical music can be
> > considered a genre instead of a musical period ending in the 1800s,
> > then John Williams is one of the best modern classical music
> > composers. He is why the Star Wars movies are "space opera" instead of
> > "space theater" or "space story".
>
> Violates Bill W's dictum: someone he would likely not know.
>
> While immensely popular, Williams basically recycles other composers.
> And mean recycle not in the sense of is heavily influenced by but as
> in merely takes their stuff and repackages it into movie music. I feel
> Ennio Morricone is a much better film music composer. This isn't to
> saw a Williams score doesn't work. It does. And his earlier stuff is
> better; he seems to be phoning it in now.
>
> By the way, a movie music composer who's definitely not for everyone,
> whom I like, is Stelvio Cipriani. I especially like his work in "What
> Have They Done to Your Daughters?" (1974). I haven't actually seen
> that movie, but I like his work on it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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