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Topic: Composers Who Copy Themselves - A New Twist
Lou Goldberg
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I think Hal takes the prize for getting it right. When I hear Elmer Bernstein crib from Men in War for some sections of The Good Son or Twilight, I figure he had a deadline to meet, not that he ran out of inspiration that day. The same goes for Goldsmith. When The Shadow sounds like that Waxman motif from Prince Valiant (or for that matter, when Herrmann's Marnie sounds like Rebel Without A Cause), I tend to think it's coincidence not theft, the guy hearing it one day and composing something like it years later. With Horner, all I can think of is Alexander Lazlo, the composer who took his B movie scores and sold them as a cue library for early TV shows, recycling and recycling everything or hiring out or buying cues and slapping his name on them. It's not that Horner hasn't done some great composing, but he's shamelessly done the opposite too. I don't feel he's above cribbing a whole score out of the public domain and taking credit for it. In 1935, when Korngold was scoring Captain Blood, he wrote 98% of the score, but a deadline forced him to include a passage of Liszt. He made sure his credit on screen read 'Musical arrangements by'rather than 'Music composed by'. When Horner shows that kind of integrity, maybe I'll cut him the slack I do others (but I'm sure Hell will freeze over first).NP: Cross Creek (Leonard Rosenman)
posted 11-21-2000 11:39 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB