Movie Music Magic

[stephiel]

First... many thanks to siochembio for encouraging me to write this post.  You're awesome!

In the interest of full disclosure....   My love of movie music started at a relatively early age when my father played his collection of movie and TV soundtrack albums every Saturday morning. His collection was rather wide-ranging, from Jerry Goldsmith's earliest

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[siochembio]

Great write up! I TOTALLY forgot about Fargo - what an evocative theme! I didn't know it was based on a Norwegian folk tune, but that makes perfect sense.

I laughed when I listened to the overture for Capricorn One because, um, yeah, Stravinsky, a wee bit?

And ditto for Star Trek VI. Holst, much?

It's interesting that so many of the classical-based themes/soundtracks are referencing early twentieth century composers. That would make a fascinating thesis - dissecting that particular relationship! How many times here did you reference Holst, Prokofiev, Stravinksy - and you're totally right!

Again, thanks for contributing this write up! I bow to your incredible knowledge of movie music!

[stephiel]

You're more than welcome... it was a real pleasure to write and post this article, and I hope to explore the Classical music connection in movie music in a future posting. Once again, I thank you for encouraging me to write this article. :)