I look forward to the day when I am reading an article which references several different pieces of music and I don’t have to put the magazine down, go to a computer, search for the right recording, listen to it, and then pick up the magazine again.
Rather, I’ll be reading the article, come across a name, click on it, a menu will pop open, I’ll listen to the bit the author had in mind, close it, and go back to where I was. Until then, if you’re reading the May 17 New Yorker profile of composer Michael Giacchino, here are some of the references:
Jerry Goldsmith, Planet of the Apes: titles, The Hunt
György Ligeti, as in 2001, Atmospheres, Requiem
Bernard Herrmann, Citizen Kane, Vertigo
Leonard Rosenman, The Car
Michael Giacchino, “Lost” character motifs