Maurice Jarre - A Passage To India

Did Maurice Jarre ever compose a score beforehand for the would-be David Lean film Nostromo?

Maravilhosa!
Queria vê-la ao vivo aqui no Rio de Janeiro.

Bravo! :))

If you look around the minute mark where hes conducting...is that a big clock next to his stand?

It is, yes! He was timing the performance of the music to the images that were playing on the screen. Very tricky business, that. Conducting a film score is an entirely different set of challenges from a straight symphonic score.

Oh my god wow! Not to mention playing with a constantly unpredictably changing tempo.

A couple of years back I had the privilege of attending a screening of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, with the Hartford Symphony in front of the screen, playing the entire score live. The conductor had a clock on his podium as well, because the musical timing had to have split-second precision (bearing in mind that even the sound effects were purely musical, and thus had to be timed exactly with what was happening on screen). The HSO did the same thing earlier with Alexander Nevsky.

May he RIP....

....for only 20 minutes in a 2:30 plus film, HE, Maurice won his 3rd Oscar for it.

é maravilhosa

Some of you don't get it. It's classic "Suite" music of the 1930's. You'd hear similar music from the house band of any first class hotel or liner. Think Ray Noble and "Cherokee" or "Red Sails" . More importantly, some of the big British dance bands of the 30's. Jarre in an interview on NPR this weekend said his intent was to convey the both the elegance and mystery of travel back then, just as Bennet's did for "Murder On the Orient Express". BTW, it's a foxtrot.