[Fmpro] 2. Re: Interesting News (Claude Castonguay)

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Speaking of Myers I can heartily recommend the Finders Keepers release of 
SITTING TARGET. This 2005 CD hit me between the eyes like a snipers bullet. 
The disc presents a mean bulldog of a score, a careful but harsh 
distillation of compositional possibilities to a point were the listener is 
confronted by only the sharp mathematics of an assassin's mind. Listening to 
this tight, cool work (and I listen to it a lot) always leaves me with the 
impression that Myers had been waiting patiently for the appropriate 
opportunity to get these magnificently cruel sounds out of his system. 
Better still this score is not all dark, there are a number of quite 
precious urban tone poems that allow for the CD to play out comfortably as a 
whole - no programming required with this gem. Finders Keepers kicks ass! 
Who are these guys? - JohnB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff H Kaufman" <jhk at pacbell.net>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:16 PM
Subject: [Fmpro] 2. Re: Interesting News (Claude Castonguay)


> Message: 2
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> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:44:18 -0500
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> From: Claude Castonguay <c.castonguay at videotron.ca>
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> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Interesting News
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> To: fmpro at nxport.com
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> Yes and by none other than John Williams.
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> Did Williams write library music?
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> Best,
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> Claude
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> Dear Claude
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>
> I am sure you believe that you have the knowledge of film music and those
> that compose because you share the same profession. Unfortunately, you are
> wrong when it comes to facts. Before writing, check the facts. One of
> England's finest film composers of the last 50 years, the late Stanley
> Myers, composed the theme and score to "The Deer Hunter." The piece he 
> wrote
> is "Cavatina" and performed by the equally talented guitar impresario John
> Williams.
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> The composer John Williams had nothing to do with the film or music other
> than release and perform recordings of it in a series of records and
> concerts about Great Film Music Themes.
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> "Cavatina" maybe a library track though a different version of it was used
> by Stanley in his score to the  1970 film, "The Walking Stick"  , it falls
> under the same category as the Theme to the "Godfather"  composed by Nino
> Rota which was written for an earlier Fellini movie in the 1950's.
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> (Practically every major British Film Composer has composed library tracks
> and I am sure Les did not mean his statement as an insult to all these 
> fine
> men and women who if listed you would recognize. Just to name a few, 
> Stanley
> Myers, Hans Zimmer, Richard Harvey, Rachel Portman, George Fenton,
> Christopher Gunning, Colin Towns, Michael Gibbs, Trevor Jones, Harry
> Gregson-Williams, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Dominic Muldoney and many 
> more).
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> Mr. Myers whom I had the pleasure of representing had a credo that was the
> following "The only excuse not to finish a score was if you were dead." He
> lived and died by that. He completed his last film score while he lay 
> dying
> of cancer in the hospital. He loved film, music, and life but took the
> business of film music very serious. Stanley wrote music for many of the
> groundbreaking English films in the 1970's, and 80's most notably for
> Directors Stephen Frears and Nicolas Roeg. He was mentor and partners with
> composers Richard Harvey and Hans Zimmer (His first film jobs started as
> apprentice to Stanley Myers). Stanley Myers was a great man and one of the
> few composers over time acknowledged by the Cannes Film Festival as "Best
> Artistic Contribution."
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> Best Regards,
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> Jeff H Kaufman
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