Reply To: FSM # 20: Final scores – best and worst?
It’s good that Herrmann managed to finish Taxis Driver. Obsession would have been quite a lukewarm finale.
Anyway, there are some living composers who in my view have their best time behind them and I don’t expect them to finish their career on a high note. Howard Shore will not be able to top his LOTR scores. Alan Silvestri does what he does, it’s never really bad but also mostly not what I would call outstanding.
But I am sure with the right canvas James Newton Howard could still be creating something grand.