Ray Bayles wrote:

>I think most movie scores and sound tracks are forgettable, John Williams,
>Rozsa, and others included.  Good scores suit the movie quite well as
>background that an immeasurable enhance what you see on the screen.  But
>very few stand up on their own, and almost none of them reach to my notion
>of classical music.  Movie scores and musical sound tracks are forms of pop
>music.  They have their place and I have a large number of such recordings
>in my collection.  But I don't see how they deserve discussion on this
>list.

If this is the case then we should throw out incidental music to plays as
well.  Who among us would say Beethoven's Egmont music and Mendelssohn's
A Midsummer Night's Dream are not classical music? Are they "different"
because they were written in the previous century? What about ballet scores
or opera overtures? Are Korngold's film scores non-classical but his
symphony and violin concerto classical (even though they are stylistically
remarkably similar)? Whenever I try to draw a line between what I consider
"classical music" and what I consider not classical, I get into trouble.
For me it comes down to what I like and don't like, and there are plenty of
film scores I really don't care for.

-Matthew Huston