[Fmpro] Alexander Courage & Earle Hagen died

[Jeff Sultanof]

Courage was also responsible for many wonderful orchestrations for MGM
musicals. An excellent musician. I believe his papers were donated to
Eastman.
I am so saddened by Hagen's passing. Happily, he knew he had many fans. His
book on scoring was such a groundbreaker. Most people I knew had never heard
of a click track, let alone used one. Even though the original publication
is from a different time, it is still a book that I treasure.

Hagen was also responsible for the publication of some of the theoretical
work of his teacher, George Tremblay, who had his own take on the serial
techniques of Arnold Schoenberg. The book is hard to come by now, but it is
well worth searching out. I used some of the techniques Tremblay outlined
and they were really powerful.

Jeff Sultanof

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Mark McKee <mark at unm.edu> wrote:

> http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/30/obit.courage/index.html
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/27/earle.hagen.ap/index.html
>
> I think part of my mild resentment towards John Williams has to do with my
> suspicions that the Star Wars theme is the main reason every Star Trek theme
> after the original sucked.  Ironically Sandy Courage and John Williams were
> good friends.
>
> It has also occurred to me that the recent visions of what music will sound
> like in the 24th century seems to point to a complete genocide of any music
> of color, which wasn't the case with the original ST theme, which had that
> groovy Latin theme in the background.
>
> As for Earle Hagen, we're not worthy! The Mod Squad theme totally rocked,
>  as did the Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith themes, but my personal fav was
> I Spy. And then there was Harlem Nocturne, what can you say?
>
> They're dropping like flies people!
>
> Mark McKee
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