[Thor Joachim Haga]

I wouldn’t rank her higher than Bernard Herrmann or John Barry, just to name two other British composers. But I would rank her higher than David Arnold and Angelo Badalamenti.
Probably even better than Michael Kamen. Better than Maurice Jarre? Tough choice. But probably not.

Some interesting names you compare with there. Herrmann and Barry are both in The Reception for me, so Dudley is two floors up from that. David Arnold and Michael Kamen, meanwhile, are in Waiting Room No. 3, while Badalamenti is in Waiting Room No. 2, so all above Dudley. Maurice Jarre, however, is out on the streets, so considerably lower than Dudley, but is being judged hard by the bouncers; he’s quite close to being admitted to The Reception.

Ah…it’s quite entertaining to rank.

Thinking about these things I realize, that it is a difference to judge the quality of a composers music or to decide which composer is in your personal favourites.

Any kind of “objective evaluation”, I put completely away. For me, this is ALL about personal favourites. Which is why you have big names waaaay down the list. Max Steiner, poor chap, a cornerstone in film music history, is rummaging through the streets, for example. Which wouldn’t make sense if I were doing a more “objective evaluation” of their position in film history or whatever.