Malte Müller
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The locals gave me a strange stare as I insisted to have it outdoors. Us crazy Norwegians!
Weird, it’s nice weather and no rain 😉
Digital downloads, which I quite like, are even more niche than CDs.
Yeah, sad but true.
The problem with streaming is that not only is not everything available on streaming, sometimes stuff gets withdrawn.
Same for downloads, too. Seem to be some contractual limits in play.
I didn’t know ALIEN isn’t otherwise available for streaming, but unfortunately a lot of grrat film music isn’t.
Which of course helps our niche to still sell CDs 😉
Well, why not if he isn’t replaced shortley before release by someone else. His two Bond scores might not have been real classics in the series but served the movies in general. Another big franchise surely pays off for him moneywise 😉
We got plenty SW scores that didn’t sound totally like JW. The question is how much will this sound like TN.
There is no law that says you can’t go on holiday with your parents at age 48.
Of course not. Especially if you have a general good relationship with them you should (at some age again) spend time with your parents as long as you still have them!
I saw a few silent movies with new scores live as well. Don’t remember all. But for example THE GOLEM with a new music by Betty Olivero featuring the Arditti Quartet and Giora Feidman as soloist (since I also have the CD of that). Or THE BLACK BIRD with a news score by a local band (which even was on some DVD).
I find that too modern scores, be it too pop or too advantgarde often tend to clash a little with the “old images”. If you know what I mean. But that’s probably a different topic.
Not directly the same at least “as intended”: I saw several silent movies with live music some years ago, some to note were:
– THE GENERAL: Open Air with Carl Davis’ score played by our local Symphony Orchestra (sadly without Davis himself)
– THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE: With the original score by Joseph Weiss
– THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED with the original score by Wolfang Zeller at our University Of Music played by a student chamber orchestraI once had the CD to THE NATURAL but for reason I don’t know I sold it once but regret it. I like his Pixar scores like A BUG’S LIFE, the TOY STORIES, CARS, MONSTER INC and of course the great (first) theme song to the tv show MONK. I never explored his song work outside films.
Didn’t he have (a little bit like Alan Menken) a reputation of rather being a songwriter than a composer?
Yes, I think he had one as a good theme/melody writer and lots of those ended up as film songs.
I also have that rerecording of The Uninvited. Didn’t do that much for me.
Yes, for me too. Been a while I listened to the album but I think I liked the other scores more.
But I am a fan of his Scaramouche suite on that swashbuckling Captain Blood album conducted by Richard Kaufman.
Overall one of my favourite Golden Age albums.That’s a good suite.
You named a lot of the scores I would also list. I would add the western scores RIO GRANDE, JOHNMY GUITAR and SHANE. Although I prefern Tiomkins western scores in general of that era.
I never subscribed to the German split between E-Musik and U-Musik. Not in school, not now. It’s bollocks really.
First, the terms are misleading. Is all E-Musik “serious” and not entertaining? Is all U-Musik entertaining but not serious? That’s ridiculous.Fully agree, I never liked those terms, too. There is sort of good or bad work. Sometimes that judgement may depend on what it was made for or my current scope of knowledge as already discussed above.
These puns are fun 😉 I am guilty of using that term often in the meaning of “guilty pleasure”. Or for “minor” scores of a composer that already has better or more original masterpiece scores in his ouvre.
Yes, `gebrauchsmusik’ (meaning “applied music”) in contrary to “absolute music” (meaing the “concert” or “art music”) are also commonly used terms. Although “Gebrauchsmusik” as “U-Musik” has a strong lower rank connotation to it.
Perhaps we should have a separate off topic forum unless we are starting to discuss sports music themes 😉
