Shire did not win an Oscar. I know it is not his usual style but a couple of notes made me think of Maurice Jarre
Unless you count his Oscar for the song in NORMA RAE. By the way, I don't know who it is, but if it IS Shire, I'll share the honour with Yavar, thanks.
P.S. Sorry, my italics are here to stay, apparently.
Yes, apologies Yavar, I forgot he won for best song. I don't think it can be Desplat I think he only wrote one score in the 90's and that does not fit the bill.
I think you guys are right with David Shire - I cannot confirm it but I think it could be from Bed and Breakfast
I wouldn't consider Shire "really popular". "Pretty popular amount film score lovers", perhaps. But not the level of any of the ones I mentioned above.
But words can be weird...my actual first/second thought was Shire along with Grusin, but I actually almost thought it'd be too obvious if it were him....
I'm thinking Jan A.P. Kaczmarek who won an Oscar for Finding Neverland in 2005. His style does border on the likes of Shire and Grusin. He did a lot of scores in the 90s and he's still very busy. But not a clue what the mystery clip is from. But all we have to do is name that composer.
Ding, ding, ding! Multiple Oscar winner and very recently so and VERY popular. This track is from the first score I heard by him and when his name first registered with me - the film is from 1998 and I probably saw it for the first time around 2007. 1 Chance Sur 2, a Patrice Leconte movie, starring Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Vanessa Paradis. Very enjoyable film and score.
Don't forget that this composer won several Oscars for music. Stothart and Bronislau Kaper were single Oscar winners, according to imdb (I wouldn't know this off hand). There's more of a Stothart career connection. I'm not sure Stothart ever composed in a Coplandesque style (the first cue).
I couldn't guess but I did Shazam. I know the composer but not this album, great find, thanks!
Ah-ha, Sean, you still didn't let others know who & what it is, ... so here we go:
The composer was American serialist/jazzer Meyer Kupferman. The mystery cue is the first movement from a 3-movement work called "Wings of the Highest Tower", completed in 1987.
Kupferman scored around a half-dozen independent productions throughout the 1960s such as Blast of Silence (1961), Black Like Me (1964) & Hallelujah the Hills (1963) [which even had a corresponding LP soundtrack release on Fontana Records!]. I'm surprised haineshisway didn't peg this one because he may have even seen a Kupferman-scored movie when initially distributed and might have even owned that LP.
Here's another related image which I found interesting:
Kupferman established a signature tone-row from the '60s onwards which he referred to as "infinities" and it shows up frequently in his compositions (many of which materialized on disc via his Soundspells Productions).
There really are only two candidates And funnily it doesn't sound like either one of them. Of course, if the composer won multiple Oscars for musical direction and adaptation, that's another story and there's only one of those who seems to fit the bill.
