Volume 9, Number 7 Original Music Soundtracks for Movies and Television Goodbye, David pg. 4 JERRY GOLDSMITH 1929-2004 07> 7225274 93704 $4.95 U.S. • $5.95 Canada v9n07COV.id 1 9/7/04, 3:36:04 PM v9n07COV.id 2 9/7/04, 3:36:07 PM contents AUGUST 2004 DEPARTMENTS COVER STORY 2 Editorial Jerry Goldsmith 1929-2004 Let the Healing Begin. It would be difficult to reflect on both Jerry Goldsmith’s film music legacy and his recent passing without devoting an entire 4 News issue of FSM to him; so that’s what we’ve done. From fan Goodbye, David. letters and remembrances to an in-depth look at his life and 5 Record Label musical legacy, we’ve covered a lot of ground. Just as impor- Round-up tant, we hope you, Jerry’s fans, find it a fitting tribute to a man What’s on the way. whose monumental work meant so much to so many. 5 Now Playing Movies and CDs in The Artist, release. 12 The Gold Standard 6 Concerts Quantifying Jerry Goldsmith’s contribution to film scoring Film music performed isn’t easy...but we’ll try anyway. around the globe. By Jeff Bond 7 Upcoming Film Assignments 19 Goldsmith Without Tears Who’s writing what The imagined, decades-long conversation with Goldsmith for whom. may be over, but his music lives on. By John S. Walsh 9 Mail Bag Lonely Are the Brave. 24 Islands in the Stream 10 Pukas Jerry’s industry contemporaries chime in on If Only It Were True. his life and legacy. Collected by Jeff Bond 33 Score Recent two-word titled 28 Good as Goldsmith His Movies, CDs reviewed including It didn’t get much better than 1960s-era Jerry Goldsmith. The Village, The Terminal, Here’s a closer look at four scores that helped define his style. The Punisher and The By John Takis Clearing. 42 Dear Jerry... FSM’s editor and publisher writes about the letter the never 38 FSM Marketplace penned to his favorite composer. By Lukas Kendall 45 Jerry Unplugged Jerry’s music wasn’t just a score for a film— it was a soundtrack for life. By Jason Comerford Our Music...and More. ON THE COVER: A Patch of Blue Illustration by Shaun Cashman ©2004 Film Score Monthly (ISSN 1077-4289) is published ten times a year (with double issues in May/AUGUST and November/December) for $36.95 per year by Vineyard Haven LLC., 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232. Periodicals postage paid at Culver City, CA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Film Score Monthly, 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 FILM SCORE MONTHLY 1 AUGUST 2004 v9n07Iss.id 1 9/7/04, 4:16:47 PM EDITORIAL Volume 9 • Number 7 Let the Healing Begin EDITORIAL STAFF Editor & Publisher ’m resisting the temptation to use that eral of which we’ve reprinted in this issue’s LUKAS KENDALL tired Dickens quote, but it truly has Mail Bag) from Goldsmith fans who said Executive Editor been a strange mixture of the worst and since learning of his death they have listened JONATHAN Z. KAPLAN best in film music over the past month. more closely, and with more appreciation, to Managing Editor IWith the passing of Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer his music. TIM CURRAN Bernstein and David Raksin, there’s a wound And the same is happening with Elmer, Design Director in the tight-knit world of film music fandom and David, too. Maybe the best way to JOE SIKORYAK that will never fully heal. Sure, you could honor their passings and to appreciate their Supervising Content Consultant argue that neither Jerry nor Elmer was pro- contributions to film music is just to keep AL KAPLAN ducing the career-making work of his glory listening to their music, and to share it with Editor-at-Large JEFF BOND days. And David Raksin had been retired others. Perhaps we should consider it the Copyeditor for about 15 years. Still, there’s no quarrel- inheritance they have bequeathed to us. LAURA ARENDAL ing that a torch has been passed (though to Contributing Writers whom it’s unclear). These guys were the mas- s soon as we got the news of Jerry DOUG ADAMS ters. They were why we love film music. They Goldsmith’s death, we knew we JASON COMERFORD were important. And now they’re gone. would have to put a large tribute LUKE GOLJAN A Death brings us all closer to our own mor- together for this issue. We just didn’t real- ANDREW GRANADE tality. It forces us to deal with loss. It compels ize we’d have too much material to fill it. We MARK GRIFFIN us to hope. And it ultimately helps us appre- wanted to make it personal. We wanted to NICK JOY ciate what we have. In short, death brings make it interesting. More than anything, we STEVEN A. KENNEDY life. And never has that been more apparent wanted to make it matter. I hope that’s what DARREN MACDONALD KYLE RENICK than with the passing of these three men, we’ve done. We’ve tried to fill the issue with JOHN TAKIS and in particular, Jerry Goldsmith. equal amounts remembrances, anecdotes, JASON VERHAGEN Yes, people are sad, even devastated by the retrospectives and score discussion. The truth JOHN S. WALSH loss of this great artist. But his passing has is that we could probably turn the magazine CARY WONG brought a new life to his music. Let’s face into Goldsmith Score Monthly and never run it, most of us didn’t know Jerry personally. out of material. We still have to finish the BUSINESS STAFF We love to discuss what he was all about, Goldsmith Buyer’s Guide, 1999-2004, which how he did what he did, why he chose the we will do next issue. Editorial & Subscriptions films he chose, or why he acted the way he And speaking of next issue, it looks like 8503 Washington Blvd. acted. The truth is, it’s none of our business. we’ll be taking a month to gather material for Culver City, CA 90232 PH. 310-253-9595 We didn’t get to know that Jerry. Instead, we our Bernstein tribute issue, which means next FAX 310-253-9588 got his music. And that’s what will live on. The month will pretty much be business as usual E-MAIL [email protected] sadness many of us feel that we will never for FSM. Then the issue after that will focus on hear another new Goldsmith score is under- the life and legacy of Elmer Bernstein. 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After the chance to write the score graduating from the University for Otto Preminger’s romantic of Pennsylvania, where he mystery, Laura—Herrmann told studied composition while Newman “Laura wouldn’t lis- earning his tuition through ten to Herrmann, she’d listen to his performing and conducted Debussy.” Raksin had to persuade jazz music for school football Preminger not to use the song games, he moved to New York “Sophisticated Lady” as Laura’s and arranged for dance bands.