It doesn't have to be someone that no one's ever heard of - just someone you hadn't listened to until now.

For example- I've recently become very interested in Chinese composer Zhao Jiping, and Asian film music in general, based on the two recent releases ELECTRIC SHADOWS and FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (from Silva).

Most recently, I discovered Rachel Portman's score to The Cider House Rules. That doesn't mean I have really discovered Portman. As of yet, she's just another one of those composers from whom I have one CD. I like the score very much, but I can't say that I have discovered her until I've heard more works by her. Which I'm eager to do, though.

The only composer I've recently "discovered" is Richard Marvin, composer of U-571. This guy composed a killer score! Unfortunately, there's been no sign of a release.

By the way, this is my first time to see you post, though from what I can tell, you've posted 30 or so times. Since I'm just now noticing, I'm not sure if anyone else has welcomed you. Soooo..... Welcome!, welcome!, welcome! I look forward to conversing w/ you on the board.

Jeron

All I do is discover new composers. I like to hear a wide range of things, and so am not really stuck to one genre.
I guess the last composer I had an epiphany about was Carter Burwell. I heard Fargo, and that was it man. I had to check this guy out!
Now I have many scores of his, and have a wishlist that includes 3 or 4 of his unreleased scores.

Chuck Cirino is another one that’s on my quest. I accidentally
heard a few Morriconeish themes from the movie, Big Bad
Mama II. Horrid movie, great music. IMDb shows that he has
scored for a lot of CULT type movies and below average horror
flicks. (Ghoulies IV, Sorority House Massacre, Bad Girls
from Mars..do I want to rent these?? Hmmm.) I recently
rented Return Of the Swamp Thing-campy fun- and was again
impressed with both his ST action theme and the love theme.
Ford Thaxton on this Board recently mentioned Cirino’s Weird
TV web site, his production of some of his music, and listed
Cirino’s e mail address. I e mailed him a compliment about his
music and received a very kind response in return.

do you have Wiseman's Tom and Viv or Wilde ?

go to this page for a Wiseman filmography.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~cm1jwb/wiseman.htm

Here is an list of some of the composers I just recently started listening to.

Richard Harvey
Anne Dudley
Thomas, David, Alfred and Randy Newman
Wojciech Kilar
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Alex North
Miklós Rózsa
Franz Waxman
Marco Beltrami
Rachel Portman
Max Steiner
Bruce Broughton
Robert Folk
George Fenton
Michael Giacchino
Elliot Goldenthal
Joel Goldsmith
Trevor Jones
Michael Kamen
Ennio Morricone
John Ottman
Patrick Doyle
Bernard Herrmann
Don Davis
John Debney
James Newton Howard
Elia Cmiral

All of which are great and can't wait to hear more of.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

Have to add to the above threads that every movie I've rented so far scored by John Scott has had wonderful music. Is Hollywood nuts not giving him major motion pictures?

Joan: As I said, despite the warning, I still love the LOTR movie. Perhaps only because it introduced me to Tolkien's world. If you enjoy it only the slightest bit, you'll LOVE the novel (actually, have you read it?)

Ah shucks, Marian, you had to ask me if I’d read LOTR. Please
know that I’m a voracious reader and will read just about anything
I get my hands on. Also, length is no problem. (Just read Lamb’s
This I Know To Be True-800 pages. Read Lonesome Dove when
first published.) But the one genre I have never related to is
fantasy. My literature students used to beg me to read LOTR, and
usually I read whatever they wanted me to read for the sake of
discussion and bonding. For some unknown reason, I avoided
the trilogy. So little time, so many books. I know, I know, I SHOULD
just do it. Inertia reigns. I’m reminded of an old CHEERS episode
where Ted Danson spends days reading War and Peace to impress
Diane. Then he’s livid when he finds out there’s a movie of Tolstoy’s
novel. Come on guys. Can’t MOM just wait for the movie?

NP Going to bed

Mr. H'ness: Of course you'll agree that if a movie is letterboxed, the picture resolution is lower because of those black bars. Now I'd rather have lower resolution than only half the picture (pan&scan), but there's this nice technique called "anamorphic transfer", also known as "16:9 enhanced": The movie is stored on the DVD stretched vertically, so the resolution is higher. During playback, it is squeezed again to have the correct aspect ratio, but the resolution isn't diminished. I didn't calculate this myself, but reportedly non-anamorphic discs have about 25% less image information than anamorphic ones.

Your H'ness, Your so right about John Scott,He could handle a score for Gladiator no problem!,My faves are Greystoke,The Shooting Party and Shoot to Kill, I also like some of his 'Cousteau' documentary scores!

Anyone here seen The Killing Fields which has a wonderful (and one off?) score by Mike Oldfield of Tubular Bells fame?!,with additional music by British classical composer David Bedford,someone whose own music I rate very highly!

....Oh your H', Bruce Robinson did the screenplay!!

I'd wondered only because I haven't really seen a topic like this before--most are discussions about established composers only. So thanks for posting this, Ellen!

Thor: I'm very interested in the "young hotshots" on your list--can you share some names?

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Originally posted by debi:
Joan: "one genre I have never related to is fantasy." -- I SO know better than that! Seriously, if you're like me, the real criteria is that the story be well written--good characterization, well plotted, subtext, emotional resonance, etc. And honestly, LOTR does fulfill those elements. Not every fantasy book does--but then again, 90% of mainstream books don't either. For me, it's not the genre, it's the writer.

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VERY right. It's the same with films: I like EVERY movie if it's good, independent of the genre (mostly, at least).

I don't know much fantasy besides Tolkien, but everything by him I've read so far is fantastic.

Marian: As you are a RVW fan, you've no doubt heard the Marco Polo compilation of his film music? It's a great album, and includes The 49th Parallel as well as other WWII-era scores. It makes a great companion album, by the way, to the Chandos compilation of William Walton's non-Shakespearean film scores.

But I can't LIE!