Composer John Barry may be best known for his 007 scores, but we look beyond Bond for a detailed look at the rest of his extraordinary career...
Timeless, innovative, expansive and sensual, the music of John Barry Prendergast is a thought-provoking testament to a man who set the bar high and kept on raising it.
For many of us, the work of British composer, Barry, is synonymous with the Bond franchise, and there's no mistaking his contribution to that legacy. His work (along with that of Monty Norman) came to signify the arch, dangerously seductive swagger and cool, ambivalent melancholy that is the man behind the martini glass. He captured a world of intrigue, code and double meaning, of subterfuge, ambiguity, covert operation and sexuality. His was a trenchant and identifiable yet intriguingly elliptical and diverse musical sensibility that lassoed widely different vocalists from Louis Armstrong to Duran Duran, invariably producing something magnetic and memorable.
Timeless, innovative, expansive and sensual, the music of John Barry Prendergast is a thought-provoking testament to a man who set the bar high and kept on raising it.
For many of us, the work of British composer, Barry, is synonymous with the Bond franchise, and there's no mistaking his contribution to that legacy. His work (along with that of Monty Norman) came to signify the arch, dangerously seductive swagger and cool, ambivalent melancholy that is the man behind the martini glass. He captured a world of intrigue, code and double meaning, of subterfuge, ambiguity, covert operation and sexuality. His was a trenchant and identifiable yet intriguingly elliptical and diverse musical sensibility that lassoed widely different vocalists from Louis Armstrong to Duran Duran, invariably producing something magnetic and memorable.
- 7/25/2011
- Den of Geek
Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, known best for his scoring many of the James Bond movies, died of a heart attack in New York, according to published reports. He was 77.
Barry was born on Nov. 3, 1933, in York, England. His affinity for movies developed early in his life as his father was the owner of several local cinemas.
While the Bond themes may have been his signature, Barry won the Academy Award for best original score for his work on such classic films as “Dances with Wolves,” “Out of Africa,” “The Lion in Winter” and “Born Free” (for which he won two). He was nominated an additional two times, for “Chaplin” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,” and he did the music as well for John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking 1969 drama “Midnight Cowboy.”
Barry composed the scores for 11 Bond films, among them “From Russia with Love,” “Goldfinger,” “You Only Live Twice,” “Diamonds are Forever,...
Barry was born on Nov. 3, 1933, in York, England. His affinity for movies developed early in his life as his father was the owner of several local cinemas.
While the Bond themes may have been his signature, Barry won the Academy Award for best original score for his work on such classic films as “Dances with Wolves,” “Out of Africa,” “The Lion in Winter” and “Born Free” (for which he won two). He was nominated an additional two times, for “Chaplin” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,” and he did the music as well for John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking 1969 drama “Midnight Cowboy.”
Barry composed the scores for 11 Bond films, among them “From Russia with Love,” “Goldfinger,” “You Only Live Twice,” “Diamonds are Forever,...
- 1/31/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, known best for his scoring many of the James Bond movies, died of a heart attack in New York, according to published reports. He was 77.
Barry was born on Nov. 3, 1933, in York, England. His affinity for movies developed early in his life as his father was the owner of several local cinemas.
While the Bond themes may have been his signature, Barry won the Academy Award for best original score for his work on such classic films as “Dances with Wolves,” “Out of Africa,” “The Lion in Winter” and “Born Free” (for which he won two). He was nominated an additional two times, for “Chaplin” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,” and he did the music as well for John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking 1969 drama “Midnight Cowboy.”
Barry composed the scores for 11 Bond films, among them “From Russia with Love,” “Goldfinger,” “You Only Live Twice,” “Diamonds are Forever,...
Barry was born on Nov. 3, 1933, in York, England. His affinity for movies developed early in his life as his father was the owner of several local cinemas.
While the Bond themes may have been his signature, Barry won the Academy Award for best original score for his work on such classic films as “Dances with Wolves,” “Out of Africa,” “The Lion in Winter” and “Born Free” (for which he won two). He was nominated an additional two times, for “Chaplin” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,” and he did the music as well for John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking 1969 drama “Midnight Cowboy.”
Barry composed the scores for 11 Bond films, among them “From Russia with Love,” “Goldfinger,” “You Only Live Twice,” “Diamonds are Forever,...
- 1/31/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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