Occupation: Film Score Composer Birth: September 13, 1924 Death: March 28, 2009
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie..
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let….
The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak a….
My parents did not have any interest in music..
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written..
Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the….
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight be….
When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music..
Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult….
For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird..
I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year..