Jerry Goldsmith has
written scores of
scores.

Celluloid
Musician

omposer Jerry Gold--
smith, whose music has
set the moods for scores
of motion pictures and
TV series, will bring
those moods to life next
week as he conducts the
Detroit Symphony
Orchestra.
During four concerts
scheduled April 1 - 4 at
Orchestra Hall, he will
feature the theme from
Basic Instinct, which
this year has brought his
16th Academy Award
nomination, along with
the music from Star Trek
V, Rambo III, Sleeping
With the Enemy and
many other familiar
works.
"This will be more or
less the standard concert
I'm doing this season,"
said Mr. Goldsmith, who
is making his second
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One of Hollywood's
most successful
composers will
conduct the
DSO next week.

that have become associ-
ated with me that I do
plus music from the
more recent pictures that
were very successful."
Since he started to
write for radio and TV in
the early '50s, he has
taken special pleasure in
conducting.
"When you do a film,
you write the music,
record the music and get
the reaction of the direc-
tor," he explained.
"Sometimes you wait
months before the film is
released, and then maybe
you'll get a nodding glance
from the critics, see a
great review or be totally
ignored. You don't get an
immediate feedback.
"But when you do a con-
cert, you walk out on the
stage, and it's an immedi-
ate rush — a wonderful
relationship between the
performer and the audi-

ence that you don't get as
a composer."
Mr. Goldsmith, who
began taking private
music lessons at age 6,
knew he wanted to be a
composer by the time he
turned 14.
"I thought I- wanted to
write for films because I
loved drama also," he
said. "It seemed a way to
be a composer and also
make a living at the same
time."
"When I got out of col-
lege and finished my stud-
ies, I went to work at CBS
in the early days of televi-
sion and gradually worked
my way up to motion pic-
tures."
His first professional
composition was for the
radio show "Suspense,"
and he went on to produc-
tions of "Hallmark Hall of
Fame," "Playhouse 90,"
"Gunsmoke" and many

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others.
"One becomes a chame-
leon when writing film
music, but that makes it
fun because it's a chal-
lenge to your technique,"
said Mr. Goldsmith, who
is now working on the
score for Dennis the
Menace. "You do a comedy,
and you write in one style;
you do a melodrama, and
you write in a different
style.
"For instance, on the
program, I'm doing a suite
from the film The Roys
From Brazil. The director
wanted the music to be
very much in the style of ccg
Wagner and Richard 0,
Strauss, and so it was fun
to see if I could write that (c' ,
way.
"It's nothing like sitting
down and writing a big <
concert piece. People 2
would make fun of you for

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