På Jerry Goldsmith Online kan man nu læse flere uddrag fra biografien “Deconstructing Dad: The Unfinished Life and Times of Jerry Goldsmith”, som er skrevet af komponistens datter.
Materialet til bogen blev påbegyndt nogle måneder inden Goldsmiths død i 2004, og fra uddragene kan man opleve hvordan den ellers så diplomatiske Goldsmith lukker op for posen og på meget underholdende vis fortæller om sin tidlige færden i Hollywood. Man kan bl.a. læse om hvorfor forbilledet, Miklós Rózsa, var en elendig læremester, og hvordan det var wrestling, og ikke video, som dræbte radioen. Hele bogens første kapitel kan i øvrigt læses på Joel Goldsmiths hjemmeside.
Den færdige biografi forventes at udkomme senere på året.
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Om festaben Leonard Bernstein:
"...was one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century ... In Detroit once, when he was there with the New York Philharmonic, he was late and didn't get there until a half hour before the performance. He asked the orchestra, 'What are we doing?', proceeded to conduct brilliantly, and then schmoozed at the bar until 5:00 in the morning. Now that's brilliance."
My father spoke with such authority and with such a sense of intimacy, I was surprised when he said he had never met Leonard Bernstein. "But I did meet Copland once backstage after he conducted the L.A. Philharmonic," Dad said, and started laughing. "Copeland ignored me; he probably hated me because I ripped him off so much."
I asked my father what he would have said to Bernstein if he had ever gotten the opportunity to meet him. Dad chewed on his cracker and thought about my question carefully.
"I would have asked him," he said after a moment, "'Why don't you come out of the closet?' I saw him at Tanglewood with girls hanging all over him. What a waste!"
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Dad was initially in awe of Krenek's musicianship, but the composer's appearance disconcerted him. "He was a very good composer," Dad recalled, "but he was bald, and he never wore socks. I know it's cool now, but in 1948, it looked like poverty."
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Og så er der det om at John Williams er en snob og det med polyester-nørden Jamie Horner: "And don't forget your old boyfriend; he went from 'Jamie' to 'James', and looked what that did for his career."
Dad was talking about composer James Horner, who I'd known in high school through a friend of mine he was dating. Years before his Titanic success, Jamie was a geek in polyester pants and a huge fan of Dad's. Jamie took me to the movies once, and I listened to him complain about my friend dumping him, and when he wasn't complaining about her, he was talking non-stop movie music. I avoided his calls thereafter. Nevertheless, Dad loved to exaggerate my one outing with Jamie Horner into boyfriend proportions.
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