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Sep 24, 2016 - 4:35 PM
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OnyaBirri
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As I wrote in another thread:
"... I feel like I have some sort of deficiency that prevents me from liking Elmer Bernstein more. I want to like him and keep trying, and I feel like there is something wrong with me.
I don't apologize for not liking some other film composers, but my Bernstein problem bothers me."
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"...I do like "The Man with the Golden Arm," "Staccato," "The Silencers," and "The Carpetbaggers," but overall, his music does not engage me.
And I have tried. Whenever I come across one of his scores for a decent price, I will pick it up, but I am often disappointed. I don't know if it is a mental block or what."
I am going to listen to "To Kill a Mockingbird" now, both the Ava and WB LP, and mix a vintage rum cocktail, possibly a navy grog.
Please help me. With the Bernstein thing, I mean, not with mixing the cocktail.
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Sep 24, 2016 - 5:09 PM
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leagolfer
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I love Report to the Commissioner, Too Kill a Mocking Bird, TM7, The Ten Commandments, The Age of Innocence, Saturn 3, Gold, Hud, Trading Places & McQ, their all very-fine scores they all sound completely different which we want are composers too be extremley creative, Elmer's abilities are much more than just jazz works.
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Saturn 3
The Grifters
The Magnificent Seven
Stripes
Bernstein wrote for pretty much every genre and cross-genre there is. If you don't like his music for one kind of movie, you're bound to like what he wrote for something else.
He may be one of the most chameleon-like of film composers. His different scores to different movies all sound, well, different. Straight Drama may be what Bernstein is known most for (and those 50s & 60s scores may sound a bit fusty), but he wrote sooo much else.
Does 'Summer and Smoke' sound anything like '10 Commandments' sound anything like 'The Grifters' sound anything like 'Stripes'?
If nothing else, I defy you not to like 'The Magnificent Seven' (or 'Stripes').
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Just spun WB Mockingbird. Some nice moments, but my mind kept wandering.
Taking a break with "Toccata for Toy Trains." I adore this.
Going back to the Ava Mockingbird after this.
The Ava Mockingbird is my favorite presentation of the score.
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Sep 24, 2016 - 8:25 PM
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joan hue
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Hey, Howard, of course I think Elmer Bernstein’s the greatest, and I have loved “most” of his scores. I don’t think anything I say can make others love him. So far people have been listing their favorites and those may or may not appeal to Onya.
To join the crowd, my favorite scores by Bernstein have been his westerns, especially The Magnificent Seven, The Comancheros, The Sons of Katie Elder, and The Hallelujah Trail, but not everyone will love those scores. Absolutely adore To Kill A Mockingbird, a score that I think is best appreciated when one first hears it synched to the movie before listening to it on CD.
However, my favorites are not always those that will appeal to others.
I’ve always felt that the best way to learn about a composer is to find a compilation of his most memorable themes and then decide if further exploration is desired.
(Nice older threads, Howard. Great memories.)
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