Taking questions for an interview with...

[tharpdevenport]

TOS composer Gerald Fried!


What a super nice guy, too.


Will be taking them for two weeks, at which time I will turn them in to Mr. Fried.

 

[Doug Otte]

"What music and composers influenced your work?"

Thanks.
Doug

 

[tharpdevenport]

Just a reminder: taking questions for about one more week, then I'll turn them in.

 

[jwb]

My question: Star Trek loved to track parts of old scores into new episodes. Did you ever watch an episode you had nothing to do with and realize, "Hey, that's my music!"?

-jwb-
jwbraun.com

 

[xortex]

What did he think of Goldsmith's score for TMP and does he see that as the way Trek music in the future should go.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Gerald Fried's interview is now up:
http://www.RejectedFilmScores.150m.com/geraldfriedinterview.html#TOP

I hope you all enjoy. If the "jump to" feature doesn't work, scroll down a little; the ad coding messes with it sometimes, and I had to move it down so it didn't lap over the banner.

 

[Harvey]

It doesn't seem to work with the "www." on my computer, but removing it does allow the link to work:

http://rejectedfilmscores.150m.com/geraldfriedinterview.html#TOP

 

[Doug Otte]

Favorite composers: "Bartok, Copland, Stavinsky." Three of my favorites as well.

Is it too much of a stretch to say that the "Amok Time" fight theme has elements of all three, or am I falling into a placebo effect?

Doug

 

[xortex]

Damn. I forgot to ask him how he defines his style and has it changed over the years or for different projects. I forgot about this thread. I guess he would say what we could all hear I guess, Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev and Copland and fiercly and ruggedly American of the 50s and 60's.