[Mark Burgess]

I think I’m more of a film music rebel in my world.

My interests have often been at odds with everyone around me, certainly my family (when they were alive). My parents were fans of classical music, which I grew up with, but almost no one else around me had an interest in symphonic music of any kind, let alone music that is not pop or metal. Even the few people I know who do like film music seem interested in one thing (typically an obsession with John Williams), then I am usually somewhere else in my interest. Perhaps that’s because I tend to get excited about something and study what I listen to. Not quite in a scholarly way, but as a science-y need to understand how things work, as well as admiring the beauty of it. I wonder if I could do that…

Now, I am very blessed to have a partner who is happy to share an enjoyment of the music I select, and often comes up with new things herself. She is the first person to really not despise and derive my choices lol. We have since been to several concerts of film composers and look forward to new ones.

BTW, my inspirational starter moment was Jerry Goldsmith’s Star Trek: the Motion Picture (not really Star Wars, which was familiar being closer to things like Rimsky Korsakov that I had grown up with).