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