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JESUS – Patrick Williams
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
I’ve come to the conclusion that Patrick Williams doesn’t get the recognition he deserves. Williams is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar nominated composer who, like many others, writes consistently excellent music for movies which get no attention whatsoever. Over the last five years or so, Williams has been involved with several highly respected TV movies and small-scale features, including Geronimo, The Siege at Ruby Ridge, the Bette Midler vehicle That Old Feeling and the period drama The Grass Harp, but his music hardly ever sees the light of day on disc. That is why it is so gratifying to see his efforts on Jesus, the self-proclaimed “epic mini-series” based on the bible stories, rewarded in this way. Read more…
THE END OF THE AFFAIR – Michael Nyman
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
When Michael Nyman was nominated for a Golden Globe for Gattaca in 1997, he wrote an article in the Guardian newspaper in England chronicling his experience at the ceremony. The long and the short of was that he hated every moment of it, and in doing so questioned why he was writing film music in the first place, as it gave him far less pleasure than writing pure classical music. I have often wondered about Nyman’s work ethic since then, especially as his film music output has increased considerably, both in volume and quality, during the last couple of years. Has he changed his mind about liking film scores? Does he still consider its creation nothing more than a chore he undergoes in order to pay the bills? Or has he undergone a catharsis, awakening a new found love for the music of the silver screen? Read more…
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