The score is by Francesco De Masi, highly reminiscent of the film scores of fellow countryman Ennio Morricone for the Sergio Leone films.
The film scores a 32 on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Herrmann was discouraged by the obscurity of his concert music compared to his film scores, and this underperformed Quintet, a final resurrection of the lost Madeleine (his somber string quartet "Echoes" had resuscitated her two years earlier), indicates he had every reason to be.
At Beijing's Oriental Plaza moviehouse, 600 filmgoers, including 200 journalists, watched the film showing simultaneously in the cinema's six viewing rooms, while scores of others were turned away.
Even though the film has received worse reviews than any of the original Lord of the Rings movies ( it scores a 65 on Rotten Tomatoes compared to the average 94 out of 100 for the first three movies) and many have questioned the look of the film when shown in 48 frame per minute, audiences are eating it up.
At one point, a medley of nominated film scores went on so long, the producers cut to an ad break.
The ability to instantly grasp what is on the page has also served him well in executing film scores, often with little time to prepare.
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Hollywood composer John Williams will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award, while The London Chamber Orchestra will perform a montage of his film scores including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Superman and ET.
He says he understands the pressure the recording industry is facing - but ultimately he does not think film scores count as classical music.
It remained for the 1939 MGM version to add the image of the rainbow to the iconography (courtesy of lyricist Yip Harburg), to make the whole story a Technicolor dream and, most significantly, to saturate the entire narrative in one of the most glorious scores (by Harburg and composer Harold Arlen) of any film or show.
Those with longer memories remember him as a film-music wizard whose scores for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Southern blues myth Crossroads (1986), among many, brought a spooky desolation to Hollywood storytelling.
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