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MUSICIANS
Charles Bernstein
"I wish we could do away with the notion of rescoring altogether, then all those great tossed-out scores by Elmer [Bernstein], Jerry [Goldsmith] and others would still be with us. Sadly, most films today are actually rescores in the sense that virtually every film we see has been previously scored with a 'temp track' for test audiences before the composer ever writes a note of music."
Neil Brand
"A real virtue of silent cinema is its ability to be reinvented musically for succeeding generations. I would strip off the synchronised Hugo Riesenfeld score from F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) and get the film rescored every ten years by the best film composers around. Sunrise is the highest achievement in silent cinema and, to my mind, it is dragged down by a plodding, pedestrian score which uses contemporary repertoire but flattens out all emotional complexity to the crudest broad terms."
Eliza Carthy
"I often wish that I'd had the chance to put relevant traditional music into historical English material. I frequently feel let down by period films that are obviously painstakingly researched in every detail except music. People tend to assume that only modern people define themselves by their musical tastes and how and where they socialise, but people have always been the same, and to present characters with no musical context feels dumb and shallow. CoW Mountain (2003) made me wish that I was American and able to participate in that, teaching actors how to sing unaccompanied music from their ancestors."
David Mansfield
"In an age when film composers are replaced as frequently as screenwriters and are seen as completely disposable, the term 'rescore' has a rather offensive ring to it. And if there is a film score that I truly wished I'd written, that only means I never could have written it."
Marcus Miller
"I would like to score one of the superhero films... Batman, Daredevil or X-Mm, or something like that and give it a very urban score instead of an...