{"id":9655,"date":"2016-10-15T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2016-10-26T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T01:46:23","slug":"movie-composers-worth-listening-to-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/movie-composers-worth-listening-to-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie composers worth listening to, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/movie-composers-worth-listening-to-part-2\/\">part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Burt Bacharach<\/h2>\n<p>Bacharach is mostly focused on his pop music career but he scored a few movies. The James Bond spoof <strong>Casino Royale<\/strong> was a ridiculous movie but the music was glorious.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Casino Royale (1967)\n<ul>\n<li><em>The entire album, especially<\/em> Casino Royale (Main Title)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Angelo Badalamenti<\/h2>\n<p>Badalamenti has scored movies for David Lynch and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Upcoming work includes the 3rd season of <strong>Twin Peaks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Very Long Engagement\n<ul>\n<li><em>The entire album, especially<\/em> Mathilde&#8217;s Theme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Elmer Bernstein<\/h2>\n<p>Bernstein scored many westerns, epics, and comedies &#8212; with themes that range from majestic to playful. His theme was used, of course, in the <strong>Magnificent Seven<\/strong> remake.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Great Escape\n<ul>\n<li>Main Title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Magnificent Seven\n<ul>\n<li>Main Title And Calvera<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Terence Blanchard<\/h2>\n<p>Blanchard has written soundtracks for several Spike Lee movies. His jazzy themes aren&#8217;t the usual movie music, but they are great.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inside Man\n<ul>\n<li><em>The entire album, especially<\/em> Above Your Pay Grade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Burkhard Dallwitz<\/h2>\n<p>Dallwitz has a great relationship with Peter Weir. His music hasn&#8217;t appeared too often on the big screen but he also scores TV shows. The <strong>Truman Show<\/strong> soundtrack has some tracks by Philip Glass as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Truman Show\n<ul>\n<li><em>The entire album, especially<\/em> A New Life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Way Back\n<ul>\n<li>Lake Baikal<\/li>\n<li>Tibet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dave Grusin<\/h2>\n<p>Grusin is known in the jazz world as well as the movie world. His &#8220;Fratelli Chase&#8221; stayed in my mind for years even though I didn&#8217;t have it on tape or CD.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Goonies\n<ul>\n<li>Fratelli Chase<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re Here and Skull Cave<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nicholas Hooper<\/h2>\n<p>Hooper ably stepped into the <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong> franchise after John Williams and Patrick Doyle had taken turns. Like Dallwitz, Hooper&#8217;s music hasn&#8217;t been on the big screen too many times &#8212; but it could be. Upcoming work includes <strong>Winter Thaw<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\n<ul>\n<li>Fireworks<\/li>\n<li>Dumbledore&#8217;s Army<\/li>\n<li>Death of Sirius<\/li>\n<li>Flight of the Order of the Phoenix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Henry Mancini<\/h2>\n<p>Mancini had a terrific relationship with Blake Edwards. Some of his tunes are collected in <strong>Pure Gold<\/strong>. Outside the film industry, he recorded music of a pop, big band, jazz, and easy listening nature &#8212; and conducted live performances as well. &#8220;Baby Elephant Walk&#8221; is from <strong>Hatari! <\/strong>and &#8220;It Had Better Be Tonight&#8221; is from <strong>The Pink Panther<\/strong> (I prefer the instrumental version).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Premier Pops\n<ul>\n<li>TV Theme from &#8220;Remington Steele&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pure Gold\n<ul>\n<li>The Pink Panther Theme<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Lucky<\/li>\n<li>Baby Elephant Walk<\/li>\n<li>Peter Gunn<\/li>\n<li>It Had Better Be Tonight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Return of the Pink Panther\n<ul>\n<li>The Return of the Pink Panther (Parts L &amp; LI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate Pink Panther\n<ul>\n<li>A Shot in the Dark<\/li>\n<li>The Inspector Clouseau Theme (from &#8220;The Pink Panther Strikes Again&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>David Newman<\/h2>\n<p>Newman has scored several movies for Danny DeVito (who, although mostly known as an actor, is also a director). Upcoming work includes <strong>Army of One<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill and Ted&#8217;s Bogus Journey\n<ul>\n<li>Main Title; B &amp; T University<\/li>\n<li>Heaven<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Serenity\n<ul>\n<li>Serenity<\/li>\n<li>Going For a Ride<\/li>\n<li>Funeral \/ Rebuilding Serenity<\/li>\n<li>End Credits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Eric Serra<\/h2>\n<p>Serra has a great relationship with Luc Besson, being most fruitful on <strong>The Fifth Element<\/strong>. He also ushered in the Pierce Brosnan era of James Bond movies with <strong>Goldeneye<\/strong>. Upcoming work includes <strong>The Lake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Le cinqui\u00e8me \u00e9l\u00e9ment (The Fifth Element)\n<ul>\n<li>Little Light of Love<\/li>\n<li>Lucia di Lammermoor<\/li>\n<li>The Diva Dance<\/li>\n<li>Protect Life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Goldeneye\n<ul>\n<li>The Goldeneye Overture<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s What Keeps You Alone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This list continues from part 2. Burt Bacharach Bacharach is mostly focused on his pop music career but he scored a few movies. The James Bond spoof Casino Royale was a ridiculous movie but the music was glorious. Casino Royale (1967) The entire album, especially Casino Royale (Main Title) Angelo Badalamenti Badalamenti has scored movies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,13,72],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-music","tag-soundtracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}