My current obsession is with film scores.
Have been reading up on a number of books on the subject lately, as well as perusing the works of John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt.
I think film scoring is such a fascinating genre of music and there is such a wealth of material to explore.
Almost every single movie we watch nowadays has at least, say, sixty minutes of music scored to it…it’s just that we usually do not really take careful notice of the music that is being scored to the film. And only one in a really large number of movies has a score which is memorable and truly stands out, like say “Gladiator” or “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “Lord of the Rings” or “Harry Potter” in recent years.
I am, of course, totally in awe of the works of John Williams, and am currently head over heels with the theme from “Hook” (though I have never watched the movie before).
Hearing the score to “Hook” makes me wanna go watch the movie. It’s definitely one of my favourite John Williams themes at the current moment.
Here’s a live orchestral version conducted by the maestro himself:
