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I don't know, but I can never read a book on a screen. It hurts my eyes..
Whatever I want to read, I print it...
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Also, did anyone clear with 20th Century Fox the use of an image from PLANET OF THE APES for the cover as well.
That photo is actually from BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES which Goldsmith DID NOT score.
Five pages here and no one talks about the content. Who's read it and is it worth reading? Is there anything we don't already know?
As much as I hate to unceremoniously slam another writer's work, the only words I can use to describe the book is "superficial" and "sparse." There's nothing here that isn't in the half dozen books that feature major prose about Goldsmith that folks here aren't already familiar with. Plus it's apparent that many quotes were translated from English to Italian and back to English, and come out both mangled and misrepresent what the composer actually said. It reads like the dissertation paper is was originally intended to be, and cannot stand up to the close scrutiny this community of folks will put it under.
The life and works of Jerry Goldsmith are too broad a subject to cover in a 200 page book.
For Rory and other fans of "Planet of the Apes" that are out there on this board: As far as the "Planet of the Apes" material (and I know I'm leaving myself open here to be bit back later) he tries to condense an analysis of this work into a half-dozen pages. The two excerpts have wrong notes, wrong octave splits and inaccurate instrument indications (timpani is not timbales, resin drum or cuica). The author spends too much time talking about the ram's horn (shofar) and then has a picture of the wrong type--a Yemenite shofar (which is made from a kudu horn not a ram).
Most troubling is when he describes the score as "free twelve tone"--whatever in the hell that actually means. THIS IS WRONG. Goldsmith's score to POTA is a SERIAL work. The composer said so himself. Any claims to the contrary show a lack of understanding of the material. And as I've hinted at in another thread, I'm putting the finishing touches on a book that is approximately 280 pages about POTA that revolves around a VERY in-depth analysis of Goldsmith's score. What I've learned is that this score is "very studied, very carefully structured"...exactly as Goldsmith said it was.
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