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Of the 8 composers who wrote music for ST episodes [Courage, Duning, Fielding, Fried, S. Kaplan, Matlovsky, Mullendore, F. Steiner], only one of them (Courage) appears on this list below:
NOTES ON MUSIC MEETING – 12/8/64
1 – Jerry Goldsmith – Not Available.
2 – Elmer Bernstein – Interested – likes pilot – wants to read script. Wilber sending
script to Bernstein.
3 – Harry Sukman – MGM – Available.
4 – Les Baxter – Available – Wilbur Hatch reluctant to recommend.
5 – Dominic Tronteri [sic, Dominic Frontiere] – Available.
6 – Franz Waxman – Available.
7 – Sy Coleman [sic, Cy Coleman] – Suggested by Oscar Katz – Wilbur checking him
out.
8 – Alexander Courage – Young composer – up and coming.
9 – Hugo Friedholder [sic, Hugo Friedhofer] – Did some of the original music on
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
10 – David Raxton [sic, David Raskin] – Wrote Laura. Works closely with the
producer.
11 – Johnny Green – Would love to do a series. Did music for Empire.
12 – Leith Stevens – Doing Novack – Did the last few shows for Empire. Scored a
feature with a Science Fiction theme.
13 – Johnny Williams – Did Checkmate – Presently doing music for “Baby Makes
Three” pilot for Bing Crosby Prods.
14 – Jack Elliott – Suggested by Oscar Katz – Feels that he has great potential.
Wilbur checking him out.
15 – Wilbur Hatch checking out the composer of “The Man from Iphania”
16 – Will Markowitz [sic, Richard Markowitz] – Wilbur checking him out.
17 – Lalo Schiffrin [sic, Lalo Schifrin] – Recommended by Wilbur Hatch and Herb
Solow – Wilbur checking him out.
18 – Nathan Van Cleave – Wilbur checking him out.
Which composer would you select? (excluding Goldsmith and Courage, that is)
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Schifrin. Although it'd be interesting had Waxman been hired.
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Schifrin. Although it'd be interesting had Waxman been hired.
I think the only Waxman of that era was the TZ episode where he was basically required to mimic a classic Golden Age score...t
Too bad because he was one of the few Gokden Agers who could write ' modern'.
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Bernstein for me. He didn't work much in science fiction -- but his sci-fi scores are among the best.
He also should have scored Star Trek IV.
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Aug 21, 2019 - 6:14 AM
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Last Child
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Well, they did choose a "young up and coming" composer. The rest is history! 
He seems like an unlikely choice unless Gene was hiring by price and Courage was asking the least money. I'm not sure Courage was as distinctly different as, for example, Markowitz was from Tiomkin for WWWest. Maybe his orchestral skills made an impression. And thank god for the unmentioned Fred Steiner.
Back around that time, The Breaking Point (1963-4) series had a nice list of composers:
Richard Markowitz ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Walter Scharf ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Jerry Goldsmith ... (2 episodes, 1964)
Van Alexander ... (1 episode, 1963)
John Carisi ... (1 episode, 1963)
Gerald Fried ... (1 episode, 1963)
Hugo Friedhofer ... (1 episode, 1963)
David Raksin ... (1 episode, 1963)
Morton Stevens ... (1 episode, 1963)
George Duning ... (1 episode, 1964)
John Williams ... (1 episode, 1964)
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He seems like an unlikely choice unless Gene was hiring by price and Courage was asking the least money.
If that's what happened, then the angels or divine providence got involved, because the Courage fanfare alone has been a defining element of the franchise. His episode scores and library cues were also seminal, providing ideas that the other composers riffed on in their ST scores.
Much as I wonder what John Williams would have produced if he had done "The Cage," I would not be willing to trade.
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Much as I wonder what John Williams would have produced if he had done "The Cage," I would not be willing to trade.
He might have done The Cage but he couldn't have done Where No Man Has Gone Before! (Well, he COULD have but it would have been so different.)
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Anybody been able to identify "The Man from Iphania"?
I looked, found no film by that name. Then I did a quick search on Iphania and the word "film", but came up empty. I also tried ASCAP and BMI. Then, as a last resort, I tried Google Books, thinking this was the original name of a film that changed names (you can find that sometimes in old articles).
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Roy Budd was originally going to score that film (I don't know if he did anything), so it would be more reasonable if it was him.
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"Girl of Ipanema" (1967), maybe still not finished (since it came out in 1967) or maybe it was shelved for a bit and out later.
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