![]() ![]() Otherwise, why wouldn’t Jerry want to conduct his own?” He gave him the stage and Jerry said, ‘Lionel, would you like to conduct?’ Lionel was conducting for John, and it was very prestigious-and there’s nothing wrong with that. “Lionel gave him the stage,” Goldsmith’s music editor Ken Hall, himself a fixture at Fox, said in 2000. But scoring at Fox came with the usual price of Lionel conducting Goldsmith’s music. Goldsmith’s relationship with the studio and with Lionel Newman, then nearing his final years as head of music, was still good. ![]() There was only one studio in Hollywood with a soundstage that had a built-in organ: 20th Century Fox. ![]() Goldsmith was already planning an elaborate score for a large orchestra that would include at least some electronics, a battery of exotic percussion, and a pipe organ. There was not much more, just a few shots of the Enterprise in drydock.” They were tests for the cloud and for some of the very beginning units of Spock arriving at the Enterprise on his space shuttle, and that’s about it. I also saw a few tests that Doug had been doing, and they looked to be remarkable. “I was to start the picture officially August 1. “At that time, there were no special effects at all,” he told interviewer Preston Neal Jones. Jerry Goldsmith watched all of the film’s live-action footage in May while he was at work on Paramount’s Players. The following excerpt is from volume 2, chapter 5, “The Human Adventure,” covering Goldsmith’s work in 1979, most of which was focused on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. TrekMovie is proud to present an exclusive excerpt from The Jerry Goldsmith Companion about Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated score to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, including a couple of exclusive images featured in the book. Exclusive excerpt on scoring Star Trek: The Motion Picture By backing the project, you can reserve your own digital, softcover, or hardcover copy. The Kickstarter has already exceeded its goal, but is still running for three more weeks. The following Kickstarter video offers an overview of The Jerry Goldsmith Companion: The book is written by TrekMovie contributor Jeff Bond, author of The Music of Star Trek, numerous Star Trek CD liner notes, and (with coauthor Gene Kozicki) Star Trek: The Motion Picture-Inside the Art & Visual Effects. The Jerry Goldsmith CompanionĬreature Features Publishing is now fundraising on Kickstarter for The Jerry Goldsmith Companion, an illustrated two-volume biography of Goldsmith. His decades-spanning career included nominations for 18 Academy Awards (including for Star Trek: The Motion Picture), and he won five Emmy Awards (including one for Voyager). Goldsmith composed the music on five Star Trek feature films, as well as the theme to Star Trek: The Next Generation (repurposed from Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and Star Trek: Voyager. A new two-volume biography is chronicling the life and work of legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith, who played a key part in defining the musical voice of Star Trek. ![]()
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