[Fmpro] wantingI want Bernard Hrrmann, Alfred Newman, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith,

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In a message dated 5/29/2008 5:07:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
fmpro-request at nxport.com writes:

Latest  Rant: "Where are the Distinctive Voices in scoring?" - OK, yes, there 
are a  few courageous and profoundly expressive artists still functioning in 
the  medium - Alexander Desplat, Chris Gunning, Jose Nieto, Ennio Morricone, 
Mike  Giacchino, John Williams, Joe Hisaishi, Angelo Badalamenti (where has he  
been), Howard Shore, Ryuichi Sakamoto and some others - but they are 
certainly  in the extreme minority (or don't seem to work enough). I want FILM MUSIC 
to  come back. I want film composers to once again be permitted - no, 
encouraged -  to express themselves fully from the deepest recesses of their being. I 
want  melody, BIG luscious full-blown memorable melody. I want bold, 
ostentatious  main title ballads or instrumentals that will vividly represent the whole 
of a  narrative and will stick with me for weeks after leaving the theatre. I 
want  distinctive and colorful motives (that will actually draw attention to  
themselves) for individual characters and/or situations/locales. 


I want Herrmann, Newman, Bernstein, Goldsmith and Raksin to stop  decomposing 
and to start composing, again.  I don't think that's going to  happen.
 
Producers today don't care about serious film music.  All they  care about is 
the song compilation for promotional purposes.
 
But, you want these things?  talk to the directors, they are  the ones in 
control according to DGA master contracts (but producers hold the  purse strings).
 
Brian
 
 



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