> It's such a great cue. The way the string melodies go from wonder, awe, to
> tear-jerking, then excitement. Goldsmith's music evokes all these feelings
> and more in under 6 minutes.
Yes, it sums up not just the whole score, but Star Trek's vision of a better future perfectly, to me "First Contact" is the theme of Star Trek as a whole and Jerry did such a great job with it, you can feel love of Star Trek's ideals in the music, its just perfect.
> That would be James Horner for me... but Goldsmith followed not too far
> behind. When I was in high school I called Goldsmith, Horner, and Williams
> 'The Big Three' because they were my absolute favorites. It's surreal to
> me now because back then all three of them were cranking out masterful
> scores at breakneck pace. Now two of them are dead and the one remaining
> is in his 90s. It's crazy how times change.
> Goldsmith, though, really got me into action scores. Hearing his work for
> Star Trek, Total Recall, First Knight, Hollow Man, Air Force One,
> Lionheart, and Sleeping With the Enemy, among others expanded my horizons
> beyond beyond Horner and Williams.
Yes, it was when I first listened to his score for Star Trek: Insurrection, I just became obsessed with the music on that short album and played it to death, especially the end credits, I just loved it, then I listened to the rest of his works and now he's my favourite, although I think Horner is the better composer overall at how he could write such emotional music, Jerry is the composer I always return to the most, I can't describe it, there is just something warm and comforting about his style that makes me keep coming back and I can't listen to "A New Ending" from Star Trek Nemesis without breaking down either, that track is essentially his goodbye to to the series he loved to score the most and you can feel his heartbreak and sadness in the music at saying goodbye to Star Trek, because he knew that he would probably not live to see the next movie produced and "A New Ending" reflects that.
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