Favorite Orchestrators and Orchestrations

[KenNickels]

I hope I'm not about to get laughed off this forum, but in no particular order:

Hans Zimmer
Randy Edelman
Angelo Badalamenti
John Barry
John Williams
Enni Morricone
Rachmaninov
Gustavo Santaolalla
Claude Debussey
John Cage
Lalo Schifrin
Danny Elfman
Thomas Newman
James Horner

I've just got a thing for movie soundtracks.

We wouldn't laugh ... but, John Cage?

[Frodo]

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How many movies have borrowed from this score?

[KenNickels]

Wasn't it a Russian composer who said that all composer's are German?

This is your brain on 'German'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1YY_BvWU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[VitcoMusic]

I hope I'm not about to get laughed off this forum, but in no particular order:

Hans Zimmer
Randy Edelman
Angelo Badalamenti
John Barry
John Williams
Enni Morricone
Rachmaninov
Gustavo Santaolalla
Claude Debussey
John Cage
Lalo Schifrin
Danny Elfman
Thomas Newman
James Horner

I've just got a thing for movie soundtracks.

John Cage? How about that one piece of his where he just sits at the piano for a few minutes and plays nothing. That took some real thought.

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[KenNickels]

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John Cage? How about that one piece of his where he just sits at the piano for a few minutes and plays nothing. That took some real thought.


This is a hoot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQa4DL17Aug" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ootini]

Some of Cage's stuff is quite good I think.

I'll add Philip Glass to that list too.

[monkey man]

Wes Montgomery's "Day in the Life"

Much of Quincy's stuff

[KenNickels]

Here's an interesting one. A clever arrangement by Juliette Greco, centered around one note and one word - Si (yes) - Note that the instrument is never the same , nor her pronunciation of the word. The French kill me with their charm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdikU8MQDrU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Morrisonsfweb]

Such a nice posting... thanks!!!

[cowtothesky]

Why all the John Cage hate? - I happen to think his song Silence was an extraordinary statement.

This is more on the Cage side of music, but this is a pretty interesting orchestration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAPNu1CGWp0

[bdr]

Happy Birthday Antonio Carlos Jobim! While not an orchestrator per se, if you know his work you can hear in a lot of his accompaniments the lines that would then be taken by great arrangers such as Claus Ogerman and Eumir Deodato and fully orchestrated.

Really love Claus Ogerman's work with Jobim and his voicings are amazing.

My favourite song, probably of all time, love the string voicings in this version



although the version of Jobim and Elis Regina is joyous.

[KenNickels]

Why all the John Cage hate? - I happen to think his song Silence was an extraordinary statement.

This is more on the Cage side of music, but this is a pretty interesting orchestration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAPNu1CGWp0

Liked it. But I don't hate Cage, I just thought he was an amusing example of an orchestrator, cuz composing and orchestrating require a lot of ego. And Cage is all about chance ... well, chance and mushrooms

I like modern music, but the conceptual stuff is kind of only interesting the first time you hear it (or not It's really just intellectual - unless you're with a hot babe.

Wow! Re: Jobim, I just posted a beautiful samba version of Over the Rainbow.

What about the lowly arranger
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