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The Way I Was by Marvin Hamlisch
Noises in the Head by Laurie Johnson
Musician by Lyn Murray (highly recommended!)
Composed and Conducted By... by Walter Scharf
and of course Please Don't Hate Me by Dimitri Tiomkin, followed years later by Christopher Palmer's tome (Portrait) of the same composer.
There are others yet, I'm sure...
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Eduard Artemyev
Tangerine Dream (Digital Gothic)
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Composed and Conducted By... by Walter Scharf
If someone has read this autobiography, how do you rate it ?
Is it as rich and full of anecdotes as Rozsa's or Previn's ?
Angelillo, I have read it many times and the basis of the book is Walter Scharf's feelings and findings about the famous people he encountered and worked with over the course of his long career : Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin, Harold Lloyd, Jules Styne et al. He is quite opinionated about some of them (Bing Crosby, for example, doesn't meet with much appraisal...) In between the chapters on those luminaries, Scharf provides "Grace Notes" dealing with his own career path with brief references to family, etc. Good book.
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Nov 29, 2015 - 9:15 AM
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Angelillo
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Composed and Conducted By... by Walter Scharf
If someone has read this autobiography, how do you rate it ?
Is it as rich and full of anecdotes as Rozsa's or Previn's ?
Angelillo, I have read it many times and the basis of the book is Walter Scharf's feelings and findings about the famous people he encountered and worked with over the course of his long career : Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin, Harold Lloyd, Jules Styne et al. He is quite opinionated about some of them (Bing Crosby, for example, doesn't meet with much appraisal...) In between the chapters on those luminaries, Scharf provides "Grace Notes" dealing with his own career path with brief references to family, etc. Good book.
Thank you very much, James !
I've just bought on Amazon Lynn Murray's autobiography based on your "highly recommended" comment, so the Scharff's will follow in a blink of an eye !
Incidentaly, the "opinionated" angle you mention is the kind of spirit I enjoy the most in autobiographies : I don't consider it's something about a fact being right or wrong, but simply a way of expressing/sharing a personal feeling/memory.
Xmas is going to be an exciting reading time !
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To Angelillo - Well I'm sure you will enjoy both books, but now of course you've gotta come back (once you've read them!) and let us know what you thought of them...
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David Raksin, The Bad and the Beautiful: My Life in a Golden Age of Film Music. Sold as an Amazon Kindle ebook but also readable on any computer.
John, yes, I thought about that one and it is a most worthy addition; unfortunately the editing of it in the Kindle edition is kind of muddled, as I'm sure you'll agree. I wish it could be made available in "physical" book form, a proper thing with lots of photographs of a genius who enjoyed a long and varied career and who (as Previn once said) "knew everybody" !
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Mission Impossible: My Life in Music, Lalo Schifrin
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John Barry : " I dont need No Stinking Orchestrators!"
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Earle Hagen - "Memoirs Of A Composer Nobody Heard Of".
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There's one on George Duning ("George Duning: El Compositor de los Estudios Columbia") by J.D. Romero Mora, edited by Antonio Piñera (Rosetta Editions). It's apparently been out since 2017, but has passed me by. It's a big drawback not having bookshops nearby where I can browse these kinds of things nowadays. I don't really need another book filled with, "Then he did this and it was good, then he did that and it was great" statements. According to the reviews I've come across, this does seem to be a lot more than that thankfully, but I'm still hesitant.
Still, it's another for the list. Available in Spanish only, gringos, so don't abandonar las clases nocturnas.
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