moonraker Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Great composer of film music and father of Jean-Michel dies age 84.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7971223.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I was reading his IDBM profile this morning and realised how little I knew about him, apart from being aware he was Jean-Michel Jarre's father and a composer...I was quite surprised to see he had composed the scores for many of my favourite films and some very famous ones too...Grand Prix, Ghost, Fatal Attraction, The Mosquito Coast, Witness, A Passage to India, The Year of Living Dangerously, Soleil Rouge, Jesus of Nazareth, Doctor Zhivago, Jacob's Ladder, Laurence of Arabia... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Likewise Clair, film scores, think John Williams. He will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 JM Jarre has always been one of my favourite musicians (Lynda hates his music), but I know very little about him. I didn't even know his father was a composer, but thinking about it, it makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 [quote user="LyndaandRichard"]JM Jarre has always been one of my favourite musicians...[/quote]When you look at JM's bio, it would appear there was limited opportunity for the father to influence the son.I was in my mid-teens when Oxygène came out. Our philosophy teacher brought in in class for us to listen to and I was completely transfixed! (likewise with The Floyds' Wish You Were Here). One of my friends, who was classically trained in music, walked out of the class in anger over what she described as plagiarism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Equinoxe 4 from the Concerts in China was the first one I ever heard (although I had heard Oxygene 4 years before on a tv show, but didn't know it was Jarre at the time).Was blown away by it, and soon discovered many of the music on games on my old Commodore 64 was taken from Jarre.Happy days.I bought the 30th Anniversary of Oxygene. 3D in surround sound. Live in Your Living Room. Great stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessfou Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 A very, very, very distant relative - go forward one generation, then sideways by marriage, back five generations, then sideways, then fast forward five generations to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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