Members sinew1958 Posted March 30, 2009 Members Share Posted March 30, 2009 Film composer,he was 84 years old.And father of Jean-michel Jarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TropicThink Posted March 30, 2009 Members Share Posted March 30, 2009 He was the man behind the music for the Shogun TV series, my second favourite TV show in the eighties (after Miami Vice, of course), as well as the more famous Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack. Shame that he's gone. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OPEN OCEAN Posted March 30, 2009 Members Share Posted March 30, 2009 a true musician who along with some other people like ennio moricone,miklos roza etc formed the great soundtracks for all these epic productions of the 60's and 70's RIP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blue Lec Posted March 30, 2009 Members Share Posted March 30, 2009 He also did "Witness". Very lush, synth soundtrack. A bit dated today, but beautiful nevertheless. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members poumtschak Posted March 30, 2009 Members Share Posted March 30, 2009 My favourite Jarre OST was the Jacob's Ladder one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hogberto Posted March 30, 2009 Members Share Posted March 30, 2009 may he rest in peace. he is quoted as saying this: One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head and that only I can hear nice epitaph. P.S. "Goodbye Maurice Jarre" sounds like a fantastic name for an album. i saw it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Obsidious Posted March 30, 2009 Members Share Posted March 30, 2009 Awww I just rewatched Mad Max 3 last night and was all "Ooooo who scored this one again?" when the theme started up, sure enough it was Maurice. I was stoked that someone as cool as Jarre worked on an Aussie film. My faves were Lawrence(of course), Dr Zhivago, Jacobs Ladder, Witness, The Year of Lving Dangerously, and last but not least Enemy Mine FTMFW. A legend. R.I.P. And holy {censored} I didn't know he was JMJ's old man? I'd thought there might be a connection before but dismissed the possibility as too obvious...No wonder JMJ was such a wunderkind, how cool would it be having a legendary film composer for your pops. Man, some kids get all the breaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mediterranean Posted March 31, 2009 Members Share Posted March 31, 2009 Doctor Zhivago's score won him an Oscar. "Lara's Theme".. such a beautiful melody. I whistled to it hundreds of times after watching the film:) His son will probably compose something on his synths in homage to his dad. RIP. [YOUTUBE]3X-Q4nmYqc4&feature=related[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paolo Di Nicolantonio Posted March 31, 2009 Members Share Posted March 31, 2009 Able to score such classic movie masterpieces of the golden 1960s like Doctor Zhivago (wonderful movie too) and have the fun factor to also score Top Secret - genius Another great passes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kennychaffin Posted March 31, 2009 Members Share Posted March 31, 2009 Wow. I was totally unaware of who he was (Jean Michael's father) or what he had written/scored. Excellent work, we'd lost a great! I think the whole world knows that song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cygnus64 Posted March 31, 2009 Members Share Posted March 31, 2009 And holy {censored} I didn't know he was JMJ's old man? . Yeah, I didn't know that either. There is also another son who is a screenwriter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OPEN OCEAN Posted March 31, 2009 Members Share Posted March 31, 2009 was he involved in Jesus from Nazareth soundtrack ?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flat earth Posted March 31, 2009 Members Share Posted March 31, 2009 RIP Maurice Jarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mediterranean Posted May 13, 2009 Members Share Posted May 13, 2009 may he rest in peace. he is quoted as saying this: Quote: One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head and that only I can hear nice epitaph. P.S. "Goodbye Maurice Jarre" sounds like a fantastic name for an album. i saw it first. "Unfortunately", Jarre never said that. It was a fake quote a 22-year-old Irish sociology student posted on Wikipedia hours after Jarre died. It fooled everyone, including the media who took the bait and used it when covering Jarre's death. It was on the news just today. Here's the article Excerpt: "I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. "I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kennychaffin Posted May 13, 2009 Members Share Posted May 13, 2009 "Unfortunately", Jarre never said that. It was a fake quote a 22-year-old Irish sociology student posted on Wikipedia hours after Jarre died. It fooled everyone, including the media who took the bait and used it when covering Jarre's death. It was on the news just today. Here's the article Excerpt: "I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. "I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact." I think that says a number of things about our current society..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I think that says a number of things about our current society..... That only says a lot about people who considers Wikipedia a trustful source of information. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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