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My dad was a great filmbuff, we went to see a movie every week,sometimes more than once.Max Steiner was his favourite composer and they would correspond from time to time,he had lots of Steiner scores from the Max Steiner Society,I still have some even though the condition now is pretty poor.
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Jun 17, 2019 - 6:21 AM
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Thor
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But in a weird way, he was partly responsible for my original musical path that eventually led into soundtracks.
My father is a music lover (mostly classical and jazz, but also old-school rock and pop) and a HiFi freak, with high end equipment and thousands of LPs and CDs. When I was a youngster, he gave me all of his cassettes -- mostly stuff he had taped off friends' LPs -- and these became my first real passion. Of those cassettes, I gravitated particularly towards art rock and prog rock with lengthy instrumental passages, mostly from the 70s (some 80s). From there, I gradually got hooked on electronic music and other forms of concept albums. From there again, I began to suspect that film music albums would offer a similar 'concept feel' -- especially because my film interest was blooming at the time. And lo and behold -- they did!
In the following years, I've tried to convince my father of the glories of film music, but although he likes some of what I've played for him (or mixed tapes for his car etc.), he's still a classical/jazz buff.
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Both my father and his brother, my uncle, as well as my mom's brother (obviously my other uncle) were film buffs. I got an early film "education", as I got to see movies from silent to the the (then) modern era.
They were classical music buffs as well (my father in particular, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, my uncle on the other hand was especially fond of Verdi, Italian opera, etc.), so I got to listen to a lot of that stuff growing up. And they both enjoyed good film music, though not in the sense that they collected LPs of soundtracks, but in that they knew about the importance of film music. My dad and his brother both loved Dimitri Tiomkin and Miklós Rózsa.
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I burned some CDs with some film music for my father (and mother). He liked it, but it was not something he explored by himself. He liked jazz and classical. He passed away in 2011.
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Aug 10, 2019 - 2:30 AM
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Ray Worley
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My father was not a fan of film scores in general. Although he was a film buff and especially enjoyed Westerns (as do I), I can vividly remember him complaining about “that damn background music” in more than one film we attended in my youth. Being of the “greatest generation” and a WWII veteran, he was very much into swing music, jazz, Dixieland, etc.: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band…those were his idols.
I think he may have only disliked very “upfront” scores…I particularly remember him complaining about SOLOMON AND SHEBA.
He really did not understand my obsession with film scores. Grumping that “Every movie he sees, he has to get the record!”
Oddly, he was really taken with Ron Goodwin’s score to THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. He really loved that movie (he was a private pilot) and always burst into song whenever I played the LP. I also managed to get him to appreciate M SQUAD and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
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I remember after seeing the original STAR WARS movie at the theater as a child, the first thing about the movie I told my dad was: you would have loved the music!
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My dad was a jazz drummer. I still have his conga. He loved all music but he didn't pay a lot of attention to film music. At least, not enough to remark on it. So in 1983, we're in the theater for the opening weekend of Krull. I was already a Horner fan thanks to Star Trek II. The movie starts and the theme comes up and once it kicks in, I got excited.
Me (whispering to dad): "That's James Horner!"
Dad: "What?"
Me: "The composer! I know it's Horner."
Dad: "How do you know?"
Me: "I recognize his style."
Dad scoffed. What did I know? I was 15.
Then...
"Music by James Horner."
Dad: "I'll be damned."
After that, our relationship opened up into discussions about orchestral music and suddenly he was very interested in learning more about this genre he previously neglected. He started getting ME albums. I loved that I was able to influence HIM for a change.
I miss my dad.
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