Hello, I worked a lot with Maurice Jarre, who had a cousin of L.Bernstein as orchestrator. Wow, they worked incredible fast, most over night. That time, they did not have the help of a PC. All music was written by hand by a legion of copyists. They were still writing out the parts when we were recording allready. So piece & fractions of pieces were reached into the recording hall one by one. There was zero time to rehearse anything as it was not ready. But what kind of a great music we did then : Enemy mine, Lawrence from Arabia, - just two name some. We also worked with Harry Rosenthal, wo arrived with complete scores, but was a very poor conductor. We recorded for "Peter the Great" & did a 15 min. sequence as one block in one take only. Lucky. There were many composers rcording for their films here in Munich. But this business is gone.
If you watch the great b/w mountain movies & others by Louis Trenker, famous mountaineer & producer-actor, one remains in doubt, if not R.Strauss himself had done some of these films to earn a further big cheque ..... ============================================================ =============================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herbert Foster Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:25 PM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] music ghost writers Some movie score composers do their own orchestrating, and others have the orchestrators do it. They work fairly closely with the directors, so ghost writers usually don't get into the act. Of course they may "borrow" some music. Composing movie music is an art in itself. Each cue is of a given length, and enhances the emotional impact. Herb Foster --- Per Ottar Gjerstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > > I may be wrong about this, but I believe that most movie score writers > make use of some sort of "short score" or "condensed score" when they > do the actual writing of the music. > These scores usually contains (more or less detailed) instructions for > the orchestrators, who then use this short score when laying out the > score that is actually used when playing and recording the music. > > > Per Ottar > > > > Subject: RE: [Hornlist] music ghost writers > > > > G.Mahler, R.Strauss, Korngold ....... > > ================================================ > > > > Subject: [Hornlist] music ghost writers > > > > idiocy and lousy arrangers aside, Is there someone who is willing to > > concur without using names that some famous movie score composers > > 'owe' their fame to ghost writers? > > > > or is this a question that should not be asked in public? > > _______________________________________________ > > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > > unsubscribe or set options at > > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. > > de > > > > _______________________________________________ > > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > > unsubscribe or set options at > > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/potgjers%40fr isurf.no > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/herb_foster%4 0yahoo.com > ____________________________________________________________ ________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
