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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: Franco Zeffirelli, R.I.P.    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2       Last Post   Posted:   Jun 17, 2019 - 7:53 PM     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member) It's hard to fathom why Nino Rota's beautiful music [for ROMEO AND JULIET], popular then and still popular today, was not even nominated. An embarrassment of riches in 1968, perhaps: The Lion In Winter - John Barry The Fox - Lalo Schifrin The Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith The Shoes of the Fisherman - Alex North Which one would YOU knock out? Also not nominated: Once Upon a Time In the West - Ennio Morricone Where Eagles Dare - Ron Goodwin The Swimmer - Marvin Hamlisch Hang 'Em High - Dominic Frontiere The Odd Couple - Neal Hefti The Scalphunters - Elmer Bernstein Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin Ice Station Zebra - Michel Legrand The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Dave Grusin Dark of the Sun - Jacques Loussier Petulia - John Barry Some good work here, I agree. Might add Rozsa's THE POWER. For context, just a year earlier Page Cook had claimed that good film music had vanished from the earth, which gave him the chance to name CAMELOT (i.e., Alfred Newman's adaptation) as the most significant cinema music achievement of 1967.    Posted:   Jun 19, 2019 - 1:06 PM     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member) Operatic production was paramount for most of Zeffirelli's career. This NY Times assessment summarizes today's conventional wisdom on the subject, namely, that Z. gradually declined from imaginative, colorful stagecraft to mere bloat and sensation. There are doubtless several of his productions on video, though it is doubtful whether that medium can replicate the full impact of his spectacular Met stagings. But the two photos are revealing. Turandot, which I've enjoyed, is an exotic fairy tale from Imperial China. Surely the spectacle and Chinoiserie are appropriate. But La Bohème, which I've not seen, is an intimate story of starving artists in a Parisian garret. You can see why many think Z. overdid things. Audiences, however, loved it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/arts/music/franco-zeffirelli-dead.html?searchResultPosition=5    Posted:   Jun 19, 2019 - 2:17 PM     By:   Viscount Bark   (Member) Operatic production was paramount for most of Zeffirelli's career. This NY Times assessment summarizes today's conventional wisdom on the subject, namely, that Z. gradually declined from imaginative, colorful stagecraft to mere bloat and sensation. There are doubtless several of his productions on video, though it is doubtful whether that medium can replicate the full impact of his spectacular Met stagings. But the two photos are revealing. Turandot, which I've enjoyed, is an exotic fairy tale from Imperial China. Surely the spectacle and Chinoiserie are appropriate. But La Bohème, which I've not seen, is an intimate story of starving artists in a Parisian garret. You can see why many think Z. overdid things. Audiences, however, loved it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/arts/music/franco-zeffirelli-dead.html?searchResultPosition=5 I think there's a line in a Lina Wertmuller film in which one character scorns another with, "Your idea of poverty is living in a garret designed by Zeffirelli!"     Non-Film Score Discussion: Franco Zeffirelli, R.I.P.    << < 1 2  >   Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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