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Originally Posted by walkingwikipedia
P.S. to Qccowboy...
I question the need to reply to my opinions not with rebuttal/opposing opinions but rather with statements suggesting I don't know what I'm talking about. To me this is mildly offensive and I respectfully ask for you to offer healthy debate (even briefly)/constructive comments, or stay silent.
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if you had somethig to rebutt or oppose other than your banal statement regarding John Williams, then I might have.
I didn't say you were wrong about FILM music, I said you were limited in your assessment of John Williams as a composer, who HAS composed concert works (concerti, etc...).
I happen to have the highest regard for many of his concert works (and I don't mean "olympic fanfares" and his other incidental concert works, which bear more likeness to his filmscores than to his
true concert works).
I DID say that it was "ill advised" to simply dismiss film composers in the manner you did. It isn't all second rate music. I wouldn't give it to any of my students to study; however, it suits its purpose effectively. I liken (good) filmscores in many ways to opera and ballet.