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For our hobby, recorded history practically begins with Max Steiner. He's like Moses or something.
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Ray, thanks so much for posting this remarkable document!
And John, that wonderful story about your talented vocalist mother was the icing on the cake.
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Max's contribution is frequently underrated, despite his great fame.
The canard that he's some sort of dinosaur who only wrote deedly-dee Mickey-Mousers is tediously overstated. He may not have exactly invented leitmotif cinema technique worldwide, but he certainly mainstreamed it in Hollywood, and this article just shows his influence. Sure, one may say he was fortunate enough to be in at the birth, and some of these ideas would've flown anyhow, but it was he who seized the day and was there.
Later composers who happened to use more dissonance, modernities, and sparseness (though he could do all that too) gave him an Oedipal begrudgement sometimes as though he were second-rate, but he wasn't. He made Hollywood, not the other way round. They owe him a debt.
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Oct 22, 2014 - 12:07 PM
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Max's contribution is frequently underrated, despite his great fame.
The canard that he's some sort of dinosaur who only wrote deedly-dee Mickey-Mousers is tediously overstated. He may not have exactly invented leitmotif cinema technique worldwide, but he certainly mainstreamed it in Hollywood, and this article just shows his influence. Sure, one may say he was fortunate enough to be in at the birth, and some of these ideas would've flown anyhow, but it was he who seized the day and was there.
Later composers who happened to use more dissonance, modernities, and sparseness (though he could do all that too) gave him an Oedipal begrudgement sometimes as though he were second-rate, but he wasn't. He made Hollywood, not the other way round. They owe him a debt.
Very well said William. And if Max wrote scores in the 70s, 80s, etc., I'm sure he would have changed with the times, to a point. In his day, he wrote exactly what Jack Warner and others wanted him to do. Max was a real composer who wrote real music, not what these fakes are doing in recent years. To those who don't like him then that's fine, Max is my favorite! 
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