Friday Minute
No. 51 | March 12, 2010
What’s the Score?
Our theme this week (theme introduction)
Unforgettable film scores of the 1960s
Featured this week
Monday — Bernard Herrmann: “Psycho” (1960)
Tuesday — Elmer Bernstein: “The Magnificent Seven” (1960)
Wednesday — Ennio Morricone: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966)
Thursday — Henry Mancini: “The Pink Panther” (1963)
Maurice Jarre: “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962)
About Maurice Jarre
- French, 1924-2009; active in film 1952-2001
- Left his engineering studies at the Sorbonne to pursue music at the Conservatoire de Paris
- Best known for his collaborations with director David Lean; four films, including three Oscars
- Wrote primarily orchestral works, though composed electronic scores in the 1980s (Witness, Fatal Attraction)
- “Somewhere My Love,” a Top 10 hit from 1966, is based on Jarre’s “Lara’s Theme” from the Doctor Zhivago soundtrack
Honors
- Academy Awards: 3 Oscars, 9 nominations
- One score among the top 25 American film scores chosen by the AFI in 2005 (Lawrence of Arabia, #3)
Select list of film credits
- Eyes Without a Face (1960)
- Sundays and Cybele (1962)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Is Paris Burning? (1966)
- Grand Prix (1966)
- Isadora (1968)
- Topaz (1969)
- Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
- A Passage to India (1984)
- Witness (1985)
- Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
- After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
- Ghost (1990)
- Mr. Jones (1993)
- Fearless (1993)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Maurice Jarre, composer
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean, director
Freddie Young, director of photography
Quote of Note
“You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other’s heads off and that’s where you’ll be in another hundred years, so on behalf of my firm I accept your offer.”
—Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon), Syriana (2005)
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