R. A., I can wholly and completely say that
if anyone should be picking theme of the week, it should be you.
I have many, many memories or you walking
into any given situation and beginning talking about a topic that you pulled
seemingly from thin air. It never had anything to do with what we were already
talking about, and often the topics were only relevant in the most
extraordinary situations that normal people would never be in. But there we
would be, talking about the mechanics of removing coconut rind, or the
advantages of making umbrellas out of led, or the perfect strategies to pretend
that your drinking a lot but then remain totally sober, somehow making women
more attracted to you.
Yes, those were the off centre, left of
field, sometime surreal days.
Anyway.
Theme of the week
Since you mentioned those Disney cartoons,
the Jungle Book sprung to mind, so naturally I’m going to write about the
Shermann brothers.
A pair of composers who wrote musicals,
mainly for film. They aren’t quite up to the caliber of the Rogers and
Hammerstein, but they still have a really long list to their name(s). ‘Mary
Poppins,’ and ‘The Jungle Book’ are the ones that jump into my mind, though you
can call that my love of all (well… most) things Disney. They also composed the
music for a number of ‘Winnie The Pooh’ films and who doesn’t love Winnie the
Pooh? Well, real life Christopher Robin I guess, but he’s dead (not to be
insensitive) so yeah, everybody.
I can tell you from personal experience
that composing can be a very solitary experience. You sit down and think about
tunes and sounds and instruments, and you think about what it is that you’re
composing for. There is precious little human interaction until you get to the
recording and sound mixing stage, but the composing duos out there show us
something very important. Even the most solitary human activities, and this extends
to all lines of work, be they creative or analytical, can be made better and
more effective when you have someone to work with.
Once again, a very pleasant theme of the
week, and a good choice R. A..
Favorite Song Of The Moment
‘Rosetta’s
Comet Observatory 3’ from ‘Super Mario Galaxy.’ It is extraordinarily difficult
to compose something for a big orchestra that sounds quite so warm and loving
and amazing. Composers that compose amazing scores for big orchestras for,
like, a living, are amazingly skilled people.
Present Time!
That was a tense and thrilling short film
Dan. I could definitely see that expanded into a feature, though you’d need
some outstanding ideas and writing to make it work. Nice work though, you
continue to improve in your writing, and I enjoy reading the films in different
genre, keeps it interesting.
Anyway, I’m getting back to work.
Till next week brothers.
Andrew Lyons.
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