The R.I.P. Thread
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And I think that’s probably why I like them a bit less. Nothing against drums or guitars, but I prefer the purer synthy waves of Enya. “I admire its purity”, as Ash would say.
Yes, nice one.
Just the other day, you brought up PATRIOT GAMES, and I was singing the virtues of “Harry’s Game”.
Interesting to learn that the song actually belongs to a same named TV series from 1981. The song from LAST OF THE MOHICANS seems to have been a original one though.
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has died, age 81:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/arts/music/michael-tilson-thomas-dead.html
I got this Stravinsky 3CD set many years ago, which is very good (although the dynamics from high to low even challenges those old RSNO recordings from the 90s). Not sure what else I have of him.
Oh, how very sad to hear. Terrific conductor, I’m really sad to hear that news. He made one of my all time favorite Mahler recordings (7th, with the London Symphony Orchestra).
I’ve got a number of recordings he made, and they are all excellent. I’m particularly fond of his Ives set for Sony Classical.And the Stravinsky set is excellent, top drawer.
One of the American greats. He’d been I’ll for a while,, so not a huge surprise, but he will be missed. He has a number of reference recordings.
Ben Bartlett has died with 61 (damm cancer strikes again…)
https://filmmusicreporter.com/2026/04/25/ben-bartlett-1965-2026/I am not too familiar with his music but I like his documentary scores WALKING WITH DINOSAURS and WALKING WITH BEAST. I saw some episodes of the crime series VERA he scored but honestly don’t remember the score…
Yes, sad news indeed. Way too young.
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS has this big crossover appeal. I remember holding a film music lecture for young folks two years ago, and one of them brought this score up when I asked them for favourites. I think the series itself was a big thing at the time. I remember it was on, but I was too old (about 22) to get any nostalgic connection to it. I got my nostalgic dinosaur connection with JURASSIC PARK some year earlier.
It’s a fine score (including WALKINGS WITH BEASTS), but not something I’ve sought out to own.
I think these are the only two works I’ve heard by Bartlett.
I have both digitally and I at least watched some of tthe DINOSAURS episodes as it was broadcasted over here, at prime time even I think. Back then the visual effects were state of the art.
RIP norwegian director Anja Breien.
She worked four times with Jan Garbarek on different projects, and once with Arne Nordheim.
I would be interested in hearing Garbarek’s score to SMYKKETYVEN from 1990.
Yes, sad news. A legend in Norwegian film history, a pioneer for women in film. I ran into her a few times at various festivals, but never chatted much. Nordheim’s FORFØLGELSEN is a spellbinding score that should get a release some day. The Garbareks too.
No, I don’t think so, but I’m guessing they’re good. He usually is.
I forgot that Nordheim scored ARVEN too. And the brilliant Stefan Nilsson did DEN ALVARSAMMA LEKEN.
Just read on FSM that Japanese composer Yuji Ohno passed away. Not terribly familar with him but he of course was the original composer of CAPTAIN FUTURE.
Mark Smythe, apparently a composer originally from New Zealand, has unexpectedly died as well. I have never heard of him before but seems he was quite known as composers like McCreary, Wintory etc posted about it on social media.
And Ohno was even born in 1941, so he would have qualified for the “Composers at 85+” thread. But I wasn’t aware of him, and now it’s too late. But reading some of the comments on forums, he seems to have done several things I’m familiar with. At least by name.
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