[GerateWohl]

People evaluating Hans Zimmer scores by the criteria of classical orchestral music, for example.

Nah. By my experience it is rather the other way around. Rarely I experience Zimmer fans praising how he creatively uses the symphony orchestra as another sound design tool besides his computers. More often enough he gets praised by them as a new Mozart or Beethoven or John Williams. And such statements hurt my soul.

And besides, why use a symphony orchestra in the first place? It is a little like knocking in nails with a Stradivari. Yes, that might work. But the one group might claim, rather stick to the hammer, and others might respond to those claiming that this was the best violin performance since Paganini, that some have more conservative ideas of using that instrument.