Re: Classical music in movies

Date: 4 Mar 2003 09:39:48 -0800
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
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"Mason Verger" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<yYX8a.64780$email-address-deleted>...
> Is there some website that has a database on what piece of classical music
> has appeared in any particular movies? Something like where I could search
> on a piece, say "Beethoven 7th Symphony" and get a list of movies.
In case anyone was interested, I believe that John Willams actually
has an established group of composers who writes music in his name. I
forgot what the name of the company was, but a lot of his commercial
output is done through an organization and not necessarily written
solely by the composer which makes him seem more prolific than he
actually is.
Lot of true classical fans don't like his music because they're easily
digestable and pretty predictable because they rehash the same chord
progressions over and over. Like I said above, it's become easy
enough to write so that others can just write assembly style to meet
the demands of the media. Hence why some people consider him to be a
"sell-out".
Not that there's anything wrong with that, because one way for
musicians to make a living is to meet the damands of the public. I
know he's written some pieces apart from the commercial arena that are
pretty nice stuff.
It's also a good way to get people interested in classical music...I'd
be lying if I said he didn't have an impact on my interest in the
genre when I was younger.