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Are there stories about Jerry and Danny? Did Danny ever mention Jerry in his interviews, commentary etc?
Yeah. On the Planet of the Apes DVD Danny said Goldsmith was one of our best composers and that he could write memorable themes in his sleep. He also called the original APES score far more (if i remember him correctly) progressive than his own for the 2001 remake.
All in all I think Elfman really admired Goldsmith. Goldsmith did exactly what Danny did on Batman with his score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Goldsmith ceated a massive orchestral score inspired to some degree by (but not a duplicate of) Bernard Herrmann’s music.
I got an old interview from the famous and very seriuos french magazine “Cahiers du Cinema” where he mentionned being friend with both Bernstein and Goldsmith…
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