response 37 of 122:

Dec 17 10:09 UTC 1998

(Are you sure it isn't Max Steiner, rather than Rudolph Steiner?)

In point of fact, I'm a classical music lover who also loves
movie music. My favorite film score composers are probably
Bernard Hermann and Nino Rota. Hermann did the scores for
"Citizen Kane", various Hitchcock films ("Vertigo", "Psycho",
"Marnie", etc.), Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451", Scorsese's
"Taxi Driver". Rota is most famous for "The Godfather" and
his scores for numerous Fellini films.

One of my favorite film scores of all time is Prokofiev's
score for "Alexander Nevsky", later arranged as a suite for
orchestra and chorus.

response 39 of 122:

Dec 17 11:31 UTC 1998

Yes, Max Steiner is definitely the film composer.  Rudolf Steiner,
I believe, was an anarchist theorist.  Probably composed atonal
music on the side.  Speaking of which, the first atonal score used
in a popular feature film was the one for Fantastic Voyage.

response 41 of 122:

Dec 17 19:26 UTC 1998

Well, might as well admit that John Williams' Star Wars scores are heavily
classical in style while blaring out catchy themes.

response 43 of 122:

Dec 17 23:09 UTC 1998

Re 36:
        To add even more to the list, the minimalist Michael Nyman has created
"The Piano Concerto" out of the theme from the movie "The Piano".  Aram
Khatchaturian also composed some music for movies, such as "The Battle of
Stalingrad" (Russian, I'm guessing around the same time as Alexander Nevsky,
but I've never seen it.  The music is great, though, if you like
Khatchaturian.)

response 45 of 122:

Dec 18 13:07 UTC 1998

Add Ennio Morricone to my list of favorite film composers. He did
the score for Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" and
other spaghetti westerns. More recently he's been working with
David Lynch, most notably the wonderful music for the "Twin Peaks"
TV series.

response 47 of 122:

Dec 18 23:40 UTC 1998

  Badalamenti, I think..

response 49 of 122:

Dec 19 12:04 UTC 1998

(One of Deep Purple's early albums had rock versions of parts of Tchaikovsky's
Romeo & Juliet and of a Beethoven symphony.)

response 51 of 122:

Dec 19 19:16 UTC 1998

re 49:          ?"Music for two unfreindly groups of instruments"?

response 53 of 122:

Dec 21 04:43 UTC 1998

A lot of people seem to like her but at least the singles I've heard
have really turned me off.  Judging by the bland magicky-fantasy lyrics
I've heard I expect her to start singing about hobbits at any minute..
Given that that's my big reservation, should I steer clear or have I
formed an incorrect impression based on the few songs one might hear
on the radio (in particular the dance re-mix of "The Mummer's Dance",
which gets played most often, really turns me off (not necessarily the
music or vocals but mostly the lyrics, though the music doesn't do much
for me either..) 

response 55 of 122:

Dec 21 13:32 UTC 1998

Yah, her traditional music is good, and I rather like her version
of the "Highwayman". She does tend to get off into a Celtic fae mood
a bit often, but on the other hand, I happen to *like* Celtic fae stuff
when I'm in the mood for it, and her music is just right for those 
moods, being not too New Age-y and mushy.

response 57 of 122:

Dec 27 04:23 UTC 1998

  Sindi, great item.  I'm just coming to the music conference finally,
after not having been able to make the time for a while.

  The following are all things I've given to friends who are classical
music people who've frowned on other forms of music.  Not all liked
all the things I loaned out, but at least I've never received any
gagging motions from them upon getting the CD's back.

  For jazz, I'd say look at Jean Luc Ponty, from Canada.  He is still
making music today, and has been for about 20 years now, I think.  A
german group which has disbanded is Passport, headed by Klaus
Doldinger.  Very good stuff there.

  For rock, listen to the early music of Yes.  Their offerings from
the 70's such as "Going for the One", "Fragile" and "Tormato" are
wonderful.  They are my all time favorite 'rock' music, but that
doesn't do them justice.  Among Yes fanatics there is a strong
coorelation with a liking of classical, myself included.

  Also called Rock, but more like folk are three albumns by Jethro
Tull.  Called "Songs from the Wood", "Heavy horses" and the last
one whose title escapes me but talks of north sea oil.  I can only
think that Ian Anderson meant to do this, which was a trilogy of
songs about nature, man/nature, and man/technology.  The first two
even my mother loves--Ian writes beautifully, and I have used the
song "Velvet Green" to shut up more than one music snob who said
that no popular music could be 'good'.

response 59 of 122:

Dec 27 18:35 UTC 1998

   I think their later works (Talk, 90125, Big Generator coming to mind)
aren't as good as the odler ones.  If there was one specific CD to get...
Hmm...  I'd say either Going for the One or Fragile.  (thats hard to
think of, just one of them to get)