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Post by Yavar Moradi on Feb 15, 2007 15:06:43 GMT -8
I'm listening to Rachel's Party (string quartet version of the main theme) from Paycheck right now, and it is just *so* wonderful. I wish there were three other movements to go with it.
John Powell should write string quartets. And a few symphonies wouldn't be bad either. Who's with me?
Yavar
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Post by indy2003 on Feb 15, 2007 15:08:18 GMT -8
I'm in. Wanna pool our resources and commission him to write something, Yavar?
back at ya later
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Post by Yavar Moradi on Feb 15, 2007 15:09:20 GMT -8
Don't think he'd do it if we just asked nicely?
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Post by indy2003 on Feb 15, 2007 15:11:30 GMT -8
Hmm... well, it's worth a shot. Of course, he'd be more likely to do it if we asked him nicely with big bags of money in our hands that said "for John Powell" written in big red letters.
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Post by cheno on Feb 15, 2007 15:16:46 GMT -8
We could just bake him a cake.
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Post by indy2003 on Feb 15, 2007 15:20:38 GMT -8
A cake that says, "We'll pay you big money to write a symphony" in red icing.
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Post by gumdrops1 on Feb 15, 2007 19:48:04 GMT -8
How much money would a film music composer ask to write a symphony?
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on Feb 17, 2007 6:14:55 GMT -8
This should be pro bono work for them, considering how much money the top guys make on one film. I don't know if we could compete with the going rate, for a high budget film. How about offering Powell the chance to write a classical peice where he pays for everything, while getting our advice and input in return. ;D
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Post by Yavar Moradi on Feb 18, 2007 23:06:34 GMT -8
Chris, out of curiousity, how much would you expect for a full symphony commission? Maybe the board can start collecting...
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Post by Hook on Feb 18, 2007 23:34:05 GMT -8
He's probably not going to do it unless his wife makes a show about singing lions. He will then trade playing the warthog with writing the music for her next piece of conceptual theater. Hey, it worked for Goldenthal. I don't even know what our own NSO charges. I should probably ask maestro Chosei Komatsu that. I have a feeling he won't care.
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Post by Brendan Anderson on Feb 19, 2007 18:27:09 GMT -8
Chris, out of curiousity, how much would you expect for a full symphony commission? Maybe the board can start collecting... The Phoenix Symphony just commissioned a new symphonic work for the next season...I'm not sure what the final budget numbers were, but from the discussions I heard, I would say that a symphony-length commission from a major symphony orchestra would probably allow the composer to be paid somewhere between $1,000 and $5,000 per finished minute of music, depending on the notoriety of the composer and the size of the project. Therefore a full 45 minute symphony might cost anywhere in the ballpark of $45,000 - $225,000. -Brendan
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Post by Joe Irvin on Feb 20, 2007 8:32:33 GMT -8
Not only should John Powell be writing concert works, I can think of plenty of other film composers who should be taking a stab at it!
Which reminds me...wasn't there supposed to be a series of cd's coming out soon by Michael Nyman? His complete string quartets or something like that...
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Post by Armin on Feb 23, 2007 14:15:24 GMT -8
Dangerous. That's all I'll say. You have to realize that composers switch to a completely different mindset when they write outside of the movies. Somehow they seem to think their music is not good, intelligent, interesting enough without the pictures. What we get is stuff that sounds so different from the film music type we expected to hear, that we serisouly question to point of it. Point in case: John Williams. Not bad concert work, but why can't the man write something like Star Wars for the concert hall?
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Post by ellen on Feb 23, 2007 14:58:08 GMT -8
But why should he write stuff like Star Wars for the concert hall? It's not like we don't already have hours and hours of Star Warslike music from him.
Actually for me, what cracks me up is how many film composers are writing these grandiose, very ambitious, serious things... just the titles are grandiose... "Christus Apollo"... "Spectral Shimmers"... "Five Sacred Trees"... lighten up guys! (I know some of these aren't huge, but the titles are)
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Post by christopher on Feb 23, 2007 15:09:17 GMT -8
Elfman didn't take his concertwork's (very clever) title too seriously.
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