{"id":1482,"date":"2009-04-01T02:13:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/maurice-jarre-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T02:13:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:13:28","slug":"maurice-jarre-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/01\/maurice-jarre-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Jarre Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Maurice Jarre<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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By VERLYN KLINKENBORG<\/p>\n

Without Maurice Jarre, who died last week at 84, who would David Lean\u2019s Lawrence of Arabia be? Peter O\u2019Toole\u2019s deliquescent eyes, shimmering in the desert light, would have been little more than a silent mirage. Jarre\u2019s 1962 film score, which won an Academy Award, is a reminder that in the movies there is no character and no landscape unless there is a musical soundscape too.<\/p>\n

Maurice Jarre gave many of us a notion of the scale on which our personal life theme music might be written. People often notice the nostalgic quality of scent, the way a familiar smell can instantly carry you backward in time. The same is true of music.<\/p>\n

A few bars of the theme from \u201cThe Longest Day\u201d \u2014 astonishingly upright and Anglo-American for a French composer \u2014 and I am somewhere back in 1962, when I first saw the movie \u2014 and even further back in 1945. I understood, of course, that there was no harmony in the real sounds of D-Day. But Jarre\u2019s score made the horrors and the heroism of that day palpably real for me.<\/p>\n

To me, the indelible sign of Jarre\u2019s power is the score for \u201cDoctor Zhivago,\u201d which was released in December 1965. Let me put my 1965 in perspective. The Beatles album \u201cHelp\u201d came out in August, and \u201cRubber Soul\u201d came out a couple of weeks before \u201cZhivago….\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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