boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (05/22/84)
Rich Rosen asks (perhaps rhetorically) if it wasn't John Williams who composed
the music for LOST IN SPACE. Well, yes it was (he was known as "Johnny" then),
but what has that got to do with it? I was put off by that comment/question, not
because I am a LIS fan (which I blush to admit), or because I thought that the
music for LIS was terrific stuff (it was rather pedestrian, to be honest), but
because I saw a specious chain of logic in that comment. To wit:
1. LIS is, as we all know, among the lowest of the low in the land of network
television, therefore
2. Anything having to do with LIS, including the music, is not worth taking ser-
iously.
3. John Williams did the music for LIS, therefore
4. John Williams is a hack composer, who produces nothing of worth.
Frankly, I can't see how *any* of those steps, leads into the one following it.
As far as Williams' music goes, I enjoy it, mostly, though he's certainly not
perfect (I don't care for his music for RAIDERS or ET, for example). My personal
favorite is "The Superman March", which is the only music of his that one can
truly say has "stolen" from somewhere else (though it's actually a case of hom-
mage). If you listen closely to it, you can pick out the general melody from the
SUPERMAN tv show theme.
Jerry Goldsmith, however, happens to be my *favorite* film scorist, and he has
composed what is my single favorite piece of movie music: that from the opening
"Klingon" sequence in STAR TREK --- THE MOTION SICKNESS, excuse me, PICTURE :-).
There was such a wonderful feeling of savagery and impending war in that music
that just set the mood for that scene perfectly. [Incidentally, the music, plus
the direction and photography for that scene makes it my single favorite scene
from any movie whatsoever, even if as a whole, the film had a lot to be desired]
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA)
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ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPAgrw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (05/24/84)
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"Johnny" Williams also did the incidental music
for Gilligan's Island.
The original "No cute signoff" kinda guy,
-Glenn