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THE ONE & ONLY – Gabriel Yared

February 21, 2003 Leave a comment

Think of Gabriel Yared, and you would probably automatically think of the lush strings, high dramatics and gut-wrenching melodies heard in scores such as City of Angels, Message in a Bottle and the Oscar-winning The English Patient. The French/Lebanese composer has made a profitable, and successful, Hollywood career scoring cinematic tear-jerkers and heartbreakers in this manner, which makes his work here all the more unexpected – a) because it’s a million miles removed from that style of scoring and, b) because on the whole, its awful. Read more…