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    Jerry Goldsmith composed Music for Orchestra in 1970 during a difficult personal period. The piece has three sections - fast, slow, fast - reflecting Goldsmith's turmoil of pain, anger, and sorrow at the time. Using a lyrical 12-tone technique influenced by Alban Berg, Goldsmith scored Music for Orchestra for a large orchestra. At just 8 minutes, it is considered a masterpiece among Goldsmith's non-film works and shows his personal turmoil being poured into the composition.

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    Jerry Goldsmith composed Music for Orchestra in 1970 during a difficult personal period. The piece has three sections - fast, slow, fast - reflecting Goldsmith's turmoil of pain, anger, and sorrow at the time. Using a lyrical 12-tone technique influenced by Alban Berg, Goldsmith scored Music for Orchestra for a large orchestra. At just 8 minutes, it is considered a masterpiece among Goldsmith's non-film works and shows his personal turmoil being poured into the composition.

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    Jerry Goldsmith composed Music for Orchestra in 1970 during a difficult personal period. The piece has three sections - fast, slow, fast - reflecting Goldsmith's turmoil of pain, anger, and sorrow at the time. Using a lyrical 12-tone technique influenced by Alban Berg, Goldsmith scored Music for Orchestra for a large orchestra. At just 8 minutes, it is considered a masterpiece among Goldsmith's non-film works and shows his personal turmoil being poured into the composition.

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    Music for Orchestra (Jerry Goldsmith) 12/5/19, 12(25 AM

    ESPAÑOL
    Music for THE BOWL STORE GIVE LOG IN (0)

    Orchestra
    C O N C E RTS & E V E NTS VISIT ABOUT LEARN S U P PO RT

    Jerry Goldsmith

    Composed: 1970
    Length: c. 8 minutes
    Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, 3 oboes (3rd = English horn), 3
    clarinets (2nd = E-flat clarinet), 3 bassoons (3rd = contrabassoon),
    4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass
    drum, bongos, chimes, glockenspiel, maracas, snare drum,
    suspended cymbals, tam-tam, tambourine, timbales, triangle,
    vibraphone, wind machine, wood block, & xylophone), harp, piano
    (= celesta), and strings
    First Los Angeles Philharmonic performance: March 26, 1998,
    Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting (West Coast premiere)

    Born in Pasadena, Jerry Goldsmith grew up in Los Angeles, where


    his composition teachers included Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco,

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    Music for Orchestra (Jerry Goldsmith) 12/5/19, 12(25 AM

    Ernst Krenek, and Miklós Rózsa. After writing music for CBS radio
    and television programs, he began scoring films with the 1957
    western Black Patch, eventually composing more than 175 film
    scores. Among them are classics such as Planet of the Apes (1968),
    Patton (1970), Chinatown (1975), The Omen (1976 – Academy
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    how we use Award), Alien
    cookies, (1979),
    see our Hoosiers
    Privacy Policy.(1986), Basic Instinct (1992), and L.A.
    Confidential (1997). Among his many television credits are The Man
    From U.N.C.L.E. (1965/66) and a majestic theme for Star Trek:
    Voyager. He had a close relationship with the Los Angeles
    Philharmonic, including conducting the orchestra in the first
    performances of his Fireworks (A Celebration of Los Angeles) in
    two concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 1999.

    The masterpiece of his non-film works is Music for Orchestra,


    composed for Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony in
    1970 during downtime in his work on the score for Patton. This
    was not a happy period for Goldsmith, who was in the middle of a
    divorce while his mother was very ill with cancer. “All of my
    personal turmoil — pain, anger, and sorrow — went into writing
    Music for Orchestra,” he said. There are three clear sections, fast-
    slow-fast, in the short work – turbulent, introspective, and very
    agitated, in Goldsmith’s own description. He employed a very
    lyrically oriented 12-tone technique, much influenced by Alban
    Berg, and a large, vibrantly voiced orchestra.

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