[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Michael Kamen died way too soon, at only 55 in 2003. He’s a bit hit and miss, but I’ve always liked him.

Same here. He started out great, my first encounter was THE DEAD ZONE, which I thought was great. He then did a lot of action scores in the 80s and 90s which I — at the time — considered boring. However, I have come to re-evaluate a lot of them since and my esteem for Michael Kamen has only risen. For example, the LETHAL WEAPON scores are really excellent. And he did some truly wonderful work with scores like THE WINTER GUEST, MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS, and many others.
Also, he seemed to have been an all around great, likeable guy, heard only good things about him. So he’s deeply missed.