I’ve been listening to John Williams’ medley of classic film scores for the Oscars. I think I’ve decided that this is my absolute favorite film score medley. And Austin Wintory deserves just as much credit for that as Goldsmith.
One of the things I always loved about Jerry Goldsmith was that when you saw his name in the opening credits of a movie then, no matter how wonderful or awful the script or acting was, you were in for an acoustic treat. His choices always surprised and delighted me as a listener.
This is the most amazing piece I have ever heard! HUGE Goldsmith fan and this brought tears to my eyes, masterfully done sir! Absolutely nailed it, a total blast that I will now be listening to daily! A gold standard and wonderfully performed. Now do another piece with another 21 themes that you couldn't include!
Wonderful! I've seen maybe 5% of those films (and that's being generous) but it's a testament to Jerry Goldsmith that the music is still so evocative. Hell, it even makes me want to watch a few of them - though something tells me Medicine Man should stay in its box...
speechless, this was so good. I kept hoping to see Matinee (one of my favs from Goldsmith) but there's just so much amazing music from him. And The Blue Max, Total Recall, Mummy.....too many!
That movie is sorely underrated thriller. Also it was no accident that I juxtaposed the scores with the widest span in years in this thing (THE EDGE 1997 and STUDS LONIGAN 1960) :)
Fantastic overall, but man the way you orchestrated out part of the star trek theme really highlights the brilliant contrary motion with that flip of melody into the viola/clarinet/trb with vln/fl/ob/trpt playing the inner harmony. I dont know if he actually had that in one of the uses throughout the history or not but that was a real nice recontextualization of the line for me.
This was a very nice tribute. I've been working on my Jerry Goldsmith collection for years. Finally got Black Patch about a week ago, his very first feature film work from the late 50s. Always glad to see people keeping his memory alive. Nice work on Aliens Fireteam Elite by the way, enjoyed listening to the music immensely.
The Patton motif is among my favourite of his various earworms. It's fantastic to hear it in this context. Also, when I heard the tambourine I knew what was coming. *Chef's kiss*. I've lined up every cap I own and tipped them all simultaneously.
Jerry Goldsmith is my second-favorite composer, behind only John Williams. I'm so sad that no one knows him, because he truly is brilliant. My five personal favorite Goldsmith scores are: 1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 2. Hoosiers 3. Mulan 4. Gremlins 5. Alien
The GOLDen State Pops Orchestra performing "The GOLD Standard" of film scores by Jerry GOLDSmith as arranged by (AU)stin Wintory. See what I did there?
Over more than 40 years of doing interviews, I enjoyed being with Jerry the most. He laughed when I told him that I had been a high school cheerleader in two of the gyms where "Hoosiers" was filmed. Jerry, thanks for making our lives better. Rest, Jerry. You deserve it.
Even as some of the movies he scored were not the greatest, his scores were. I have a soft spot for Warlock and the Ghost and the Darkness (I bought the score after seeing only a trailer of that movie)
I recently rediscovered this tribute, and it is just pure joy to my ears. What a showcase of such an amazing composer. A distinct voice that is still missed.
I’m still catching up on all your videos, but as a Jerry Goldsmith fan like yourself, I was blown away by this medley. Not having a musical bone in my body, apart from appreciating good music, I’m always in awe of the composers skill to evoke emotions in the listener, combined with the visuals. Your medley is brilliantly arranged without slavishly crowbarring in themes as written, but weaving them in with a sense of fun and wonder all the way through, to that final statement of the Star Trek theme. Great stuff. Thanks for posting it on your channel.
I had only previously heard the 2 minutes version of this medley. Thank you for both long and short medleys. It's remarkable how many people still do not immediately recognise the name 'Jerry Goldsmith'. People do not read movie credits, or follow up by doing basic research into their favorite films. Goldsmith may have scored too many diverse films, using no instantly recognizable musical style, but I knew who he was by age 12 (1980 pre-Internet) for the simple reason that his music both stood out as often truly exceptional/innovative and also usually perfectly fit the film it supported.
What 2-minute version? This is the only version of this one .... Also I disagree about him not having an identifiable musical style. He's very identifiable *despite* being a total chameleon.
Love the score presentation complete with movie posters; really makes it wonderful to musical novices like myself. As a fan of Barnaby Jones (and the theme song), I was delighted to see such a clever mingling of that theme with Basic Instinct! So many great scores: Wind and the Lion, Masada, Islands in the Stream, Rudy, Ghost and the Darkness (probably my personal favorite). Interweaving Patton and Star Trek TMP throughout was brilliant!
His music is just absolutely magical. Every once in a while, I'll throw on a film, not knowing he's the composer, but I can immediately tell it's his work. A master of his craft. I listen to this every month or two. Always leaves me with goosebumps, sometimes even tears. Thank you Austin
Most of these movies are from before I was born, I have never seen a single one of them (the only Jerry Goldsmith OSTs I know are Planet of the Apes and Alien). Somehow I still feel like I have heard these themes... Maybe because a lot of composers were inspired by him. I should probably watch some of those, starting with Star Trek, The Edge and Mulan. And props to Austin for arranging this, the way the themes interact is brilliant, the medley is evolving into different things, but not just going "here's theme A, and now here's theme B, and now...". I love how there are several things going on at once! I wonder though, did you arrange this by ear, Austin?
WOW, very well done!! Fantastic job of weaving the tunes in and out, and with other tunes that fit will together (ie the Klingon theme and The Wind and the Lion). I've loved Jerry's music since I was a kid, and I seem to love it more with each passing year. BRAVO!!!
This is amazing how you arranged all of the scores together! I’m not familiar with Goldsmith, so to me it honestly sounded like one piece. I’m definitely going to check him out now!
Yeah though when I create things for myself, the mockups are never really proper. They sound awful (compared with the ones that I have to prepare for a client approval)
I’ve been listening to John Williams’ medley of classic film scores for the Oscars. I think I’ve decided that this is my absolute favorite film score medley. And Austin Wintory deserves just as much credit for that as Goldsmith.
I took a Master Class with Jerry years ago at UCLA. Brilliant guy.
Great! What did he tell?
The Mummy is what opened my eyes to the world of JG. Hopefully Omni music publishing will release it one day!
Jerry Goldsmith definetely was the greatest!
One of the main inspirations for me to also become a composer & conductor.
He is sorely missed.
One of the things I always loved about Jerry Goldsmith was that when you saw his name in the opening credits of a movie then, no matter how wonderful or awful the script or acting was, you were in for an acoustic treat. His choices always surprised and delighted me as a listener.
Exquisitely Wondrous!🎼🎶
You're a madman! This is brilliant!
Said before and I'll say again, TMP over Rudy, and Klingon theme into wind and the lion into Stream...perfection.
Yea man My heart started to race when I heard those two playing at the same time.
Agreed. Brilliant blending.
Wow. Goosebumps.
Ghost and the Darkness is one of my favourite films of all time.
...and now I know his name: Jerry Goldsmith.
Saying that this is monstrous, in work and dimension first and foremost , is a diminutive.
This is the most amazing piece I have ever heard! HUGE Goldsmith fan and this brought tears to my eyes, masterfully done sir! Absolutely nailed it, a total blast that I will now be listening to daily! A gold standard and wonderfully performed. Now do another piece with another 21 themes that you couldn't include!
Love love love love! Only super nerds would guess these without the posters 🤯🤯🤯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Amazing work...
But it hurts my heart not to hear Alien!
Wonderful! I've seen maybe 5% of those films (and that's being generous) but it's a testament to Jerry Goldsmith that the music is still so evocative. Hell, it even makes me want to watch a few of them - though something tells me Medicine Man should stay in its box...
speechless, this was so good. I kept hoping to see Matinee (one of my favs from Goldsmith) but there's just so much amazing music from him. And The Blue Max, Total Recall, Mummy.....too many!
I'm so glad The Edge made it into this piece of gold. It truly IS the Gold Standard. Your weaving skills are fabulous. 👏👏👏
That movie is sorely underrated thriller. Also it was no accident that I juxtaposed the scores with the widest span in years in this thing (THE EDGE 1997 and STUDS LONIGAN 1960) :)
@@awintory and how great they go hand in hand... I remember The Edge got bad critics reviews all over the place. Never understood why.
@@awintory The Edge has always been one of my favorite scores, and that soaring main theme really evokes the vast wilderness.
Fantastic overall, but man the way you orchestrated out part of the star trek theme really highlights the brilliant contrary motion with that flip of melody into the viola/clarinet/trb with vln/fl/ob/trpt playing the inner harmony. I dont know if he actually had that in one of the uses throughout the history or not but that was a real nice recontextualization of the line for me.
Amazing work and tribute Austin! 👏🏽
This was a very nice tribute. I've been working on my Jerry Goldsmith collection for years. Finally got Black Patch about a week ago, his very first feature film work from the late 50s. Always glad to see people keeping his memory alive. Nice work on Aliens Fireteam Elite by the way, enjoyed listening to the music immensely.
thank you so much!
Spectacular! Congratulations! 😀
For me,he's one of the most innovative composers still today !...
The Patton motif is among my favourite of his various earworms. It's fantastic to hear it in this context. Also, when I heard the tambourine I knew what was coming. *Chef's kiss*. I've lined up every cap I own and tipped them all simultaneously.
Wonderful! I love the counterpoint of themes including towards the end Star Trek and Rudy! Thank you for sharing.
I've never even watched Star Trek, but I cheered when the theme came in, too... because it's just that fucking good!
Jerry Goldsmith the LEGEND🎼🎼
Wonderful! Jerry is also my favorite composer of all times!
My favorite jerry goldsmith soundtrack is from Rambo: First Blood! When I heard you were inspired by him I freaked 😆😆
THIS. IS. BRILLIANT!!!
Absolutely lovely, Austin. What a way to honor this brilliant man's legacy. The GOAT hands down.
Thank you so much :)
Excellent! I always wish that I was musically inclined and can write a medley of Goldsmith scores for myself.
I keep coming back to your Medley, Jerry will never be topped, he was the greatest of his generation
Thanks for marking the themes with colors, as I have never seen any of these movies and would have had no idea what was going on!
Jerry Goldsmith is my second-favorite composer, behind only John Williams. I'm so sad that no one knows him, because he truly is brilliant. My five personal favorite Goldsmith scores are:
1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
2. Hoosiers
3. Mulan
4. Gremlins
5. Alien
The GOLDen State Pops Orchestra performing "The GOLD Standard" of film scores by Jerry GOLDSmith as arranged by (AU)stin Wintory.
See what I did there?
Brilliant :P
This is great!! There's so much love for Jerry Goldsmith put into it. I liked how Patton was subtly-yet-non-subtly sprinkled throughout the piece.
Over more than 40 years of doing interviews, I enjoyed being with Jerry the most. He laughed when I told him that I had been a high school cheerleader in two of the gyms where "Hoosiers" was filmed. Jerry, thanks for making our lives better. Rest, Jerry. You deserve it.
I love this comment :)
Thank YOU.
Well, it was the truth and I think it was a one-of-a-kind question. Thanks for being here. Dennis
BRILLIANT MEDLEY THANKS FOR THIS
That was great, solid work Austin! The color coded thingys in the video were a nice touch too
Nice profile pic, by the way
such an iconic composer. he pretty much scored all the movies that I watched when I was young. thanks for this Austin!
I loved his theme on hollow man.
Austin this was awesome, you should do a full Goldsmith tribute concert, so many scores you didn’t put in here this could’ve been so much longer :)
Even as some of the movies he scored were not the greatest, his scores were. I have a soft spot for Warlock and the Ghost and the Darkness (I bought the score after seeing only a trailer of that movie)
I love GHOST AND THE DARKNESS ! Great film!
♥LOVE IT! What a great Medley, superb transitions! Jerry was one of the greatest!!! ♥
I recently rediscovered this tribute, and it is just pure joy to my ears. What a showcase of such an amazing composer. A distinct voice that is still missed.
This was beautiful. I heard themes I haven't heard in years
BRAVO!!
I’m still catching up on all your videos, but as a Jerry Goldsmith fan like yourself, I was blown away by this medley. Not having a musical bone in my body, apart from appreciating good music, I’m always in awe of the composers skill to evoke emotions in the listener, combined with the visuals. Your medley is brilliantly arranged without slavishly crowbarring in themes as written, but weaving them in with a sense of fun and wonder all the way through, to that final statement of the Star Trek theme. Great stuff. Thanks for posting it on your channel.
I had only previously heard the 2 minutes version of this medley. Thank you for both long and short medleys. It's remarkable how many people still do not immediately recognise the name 'Jerry Goldsmith'. People do not read movie credits, or follow up by doing basic research into their favorite films. Goldsmith may have scored too many diverse films, using no instantly recognizable musical style, but I knew who he was by age 12 (1980 pre-Internet) for the simple reason that his music both stood out as often truly exceptional/innovative and also usually perfectly fit the film it supported.
What 2-minute version? This is the only version of this one ....
Also I disagree about him not having an identifiable musical style. He's very identifiable *despite* being a total chameleon.
Love the score presentation complete with movie posters; really makes it wonderful to musical novices like myself.
As a fan of Barnaby Jones (and the theme song), I was delighted to see such a clever mingling of that theme with Basic Instinct!
So many great scores: Wind and the Lion, Masada, Islands in the Stream, Rudy, Ghost and the Darkness (probably my personal favorite). Interweaving Patton and Star Trek TMP throughout was brilliant!
His music is just absolutely magical. Every once in a while, I'll throw on a film, not knowing he's the composer, but I can immediately tell it's his work. A master of his craft.
I listen to this every month or two. Always leaves me with goosebumps, sometimes even tears. Thank you Austin
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS WONDERFUL THREAD OF JERRY'S MUSIC!
Omen movie series introduced me to Jerry Goldsmith and it's undoubtedly the most evil theme!
Such a great tribute!
Really wonderful arrangement Austin, many congratulations! Best regards and blessings, Max T.
Most of these movies are from before I was born, I have never seen a single one of them (the only Jerry Goldsmith OSTs I know are Planet of the Apes and Alien). Somehow I still feel like I have heard these themes... Maybe because a lot of composers were inspired by him. I should probably watch some of those, starting with Star Trek, The Edge and Mulan.
And props to Austin for arranging this, the way the themes interact is brilliant, the medley is evolving into different things, but not just going "here's theme A, and now here's theme B, and now...". I love how there are several things going on at once!
I wonder though, did you arrange this by ear, Austin?
Jerry's themes feel so inevitable and timeless, like they have always been in our consciousness
Yep all arranged by ear, long ago :)
Dude this was amazing. I loved it. :)
I loved his music for Rudy, I'm pretty sure Silvestri took quite a bit of inspiration for Forrest Gump from it.
WOW, very well done!! Fantastic job of weaving the tunes in and out, and with other tunes that fit will together (ie the Klingon theme and The Wind and the Lion). I've loved Jerry's music since I was a kid, and I seem to love it more with each passing year. BRAVO!!!
This is amazing how you arranged all of the scores together! I’m not familiar with Goldsmith, so to me it honestly sounded like one piece. I’m definitely going to check him out now!
Go go go! Your ears will thank you
"...the greatest in the history of Hollywood."
That's why his middle name was King.
A master
He truly was
Magnificent!
Would love to do a rousing medley of his score for Explorers.
This guy even sounds and talks like Goldsmith.
Amazing medley! A pity you couldn't include Chinatown but it would have completely disrupted the tempo.
There are 500 scores i'd have love to include :)
@@awintory Do another???
Did you create mockups of this before you scored it? How the hell do you go about making something like this??
Yeah though when I create things for myself, the mockups are never really proper. They sound awful (compared with the ones that I have to prepare for a client approval)
Is this score available for purchase and performance?
If you have an ensemble eager to perform it, contact me via my website :)
He was like, John Williams before John Williams was a thing.
Check out the score STUDS LONIGAN. John Williams was still a gigging session pianist and is the featured soloist on the score!
@@awintory Holy crap that's awesome. I love the history of film music. So many great composers.