Reply To: Film music vs. classical music
The thematic urgency and immediacy (often without the ornamention or fancy bridges you hear in concert music),
This is actually what drove me to film music in my later teens. Simply put: The immediacy of pop music and a feel like classical music to put it simply. Plus that I liked TV and films for ages. Classic I found rather boring and the cause was music in school actually and changed later via film music.
Tried to find which composer said that, must have been something like “you get one chance with a theme to get the audience” or so but couldn’t find it so far. Maybe some one else remembers that?
In film music these breaks are more determined from the outside than on classical music where they are more determined by making sense musically. Even if the inspiration is something programmatic. And ballets are musical through and through for both parts.
Stravinsky is a very “filmic” composer anyway.
Indeed and Symphony Of Psalms is of course the direct inspiration for Goldsmith’s OMEN and RITE also is very Goldsmithy 😉