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Shocking and very sad news!, just as we were currently working on a new edition of "Murder on the Orient Express" for the end of January. Serve this as a posthumous tribute. R.I.P.
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Bennett was brilliant. Wrote several, almost iconic, scores in his time, then left film scoring altogether, for other pursuits. (Though I don't know if that was his choice.)
My favorite of his scores is FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, and I wish that score could be released complete. (The best CD of it was the Sony, which, though it was taken from the actual film soundtrack, nevertheless had the Overture, Intermission, Exit music, as well as the songs.)
But, perhaps a more influential score of his was for MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, which presented a train slowly starting up, accompanied by a waltz, which seemed almost astounding at the time, and surprised, and delighted, many audiences, even those with but little interest in film music.
I'm sorry he's gone. But I'm glad he wrote and recorded what he did.
Rest well.
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This is a shock for me. I would sometimes run into him walking to the store whenever I took my class to the Museuem of Natural History since he had lived a stone's throw away from there. New York City was his adopted residence for the last thirty years.
I am honored to have written about him for the print version of FSM.
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/fsmonline/issue_detail_print.cfm?issID=60&page=4
RIP, Sir Richard.
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I was saddened to hear that. He wrote some truly wonderful music. R.I.P.
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One of the first film music composers I got interested in after I discovered Williams and Goldsmith. The brilliant "Orient Express" has been mentioned - I also want to say how much I love the scores for "Equus" and "Nicholas and Alexandra." R.I.P.
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A man of many parts, he floated as effortlessly as Gershwin between the two worlds of orchestral composition and cabaret playing/singing performances. Equally wonderful at both pursuits, God bless him. R.I.P. indeed.
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