Jerry Goldsmith

John Williams and Steven Spielberg mark 40 years of collaboration

2012-01-08 00:00:00

The quietest room in Hollywood may be the office where John Williams composes. In a bungalow on the Universal Studios lot, steps from the production company of his most frequent collaborator, director Steven Spielberg, Williams works alone at a 90-year-...

It's still music to Dan Wallin's ears

2012-01-01 00:00:00

Just before noon on a clear fall day, the Newman stage on the 20th Century Fox lot is alive with bright lights, hovering microphones and a full 105-piece orchestra. It's one of the final scoring sessions for "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,"...

Music review: L.A. Phil provides PST with 'The Hollywood Sound'

2011-12-09 16:32:58

Clifton's Cafeteria to host Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, 'Chinatown'

2012-02-16 16:37:12

Randy Newman on writing songs about pigs: 'It probably hurt my chances for a hit'

2011-02-16 16:32:43

Los Angeles Philharmonic announces 2011-12 season [updated]

2011-02-06 16:32:40

Leonard Slatkin cancels Disney Hall appearances for December

2009-11-30 16:32:38

Music review: L.A. Phil's West Coast, Left Coast festival goes Hollywood

2009-12-04 16:32:41

'Ernest Bloch and Eric Zeisl: Fifty Years Later' honors L.A.'s Jewish artists

2009-05-17 00:00:00

Classical composer Eric Zeisl had a tough time living in mid-20th century Los Angeles. The somber, heavy-browed Austrian, who left Nazi-dominated Europe in 1938, stated that the two things he hated most in this world were Hitler and the sun. He was...

Star treatment for Goldsmith's 'Trek' score: Restored version of landmark music gets deluxe package

2012-05-25 21:55:07

Thirty-three years after its initial release, composer Jerry Goldsmith's landmark score for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" has been completely restored and is about to be released in a deluxe package designed to satisfy fans who have long clamored for...

Trivia

2010-10-06 14:21:44

Denise Crosby was originally cast to play Counselor Troi, and Marina Sirtis was cast as a security chief named Lt. Macha Hernandez. Shortly before filming the pilot, the two switched roles and the security chief's name was changed to Lt. Natasha Yar. ----...

On Theater: A new, vital 'Our Town'

2010-11-04 18:46:00

Can a play written in 1938 about rural life in the early 20th century — and staged by virtually every high school and collegiate drama department ever since — speak to 21st century audiences with relevancy and immediacy? If the play is...

Jerry Goldsmith (above), one of filmdom's most prolific composers won the only Oscar of his career for this over-the-top score, yet another movie about the offspring of Satan. A seemingly 10,000-voice choir belts out "Ave Satani!" ("Hail! Satan!

2012-10-24 00:00:00

TONAL: I can't claim to have gone ape over the "Planet of the Apes," but I liked it when I first saw it in the late '60s.

2008-07-25 15:04:16

Shown in his Beverly Hills home studio in 1999, he composed music for nearly 200 feature films and memorable themes for several television shows.

2004-07-22 17:40:18