The Influential Score behind Planet of the Apes
Monday is about movies. And sometimes TV. Today, a classic film’s (even more) classic soundtrack.
No less of a film score buff than the redoubtable Victoria Kelly, composer/arranger extraordinaire, once told me that Jerry Goldsmith’s score for Planet of the Apes was basically “it!” – a year zero, the birth of modern (and great) film composing. I had to go and listen to it again!
In a way, the film had been huge for me, kinda scary. It just got me at…
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