Jerry Goldsmith Legacy

He was probably the most respected working composer in Hollywood. Jerry Goldsmith, who died July 21 at the age of 75, was very much a man of his time. He started at the bottom and built a career that had no real precedent.

We can lament the fact that Goldsmith didn't live longer. Or that he didn't win the four or five Oscars that he truly deserved (for, say, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Chinatown, Papillon or Star Trek: The Motion Picture). But we can take heart in the music, which he wrote with such passion; and the memories, which those of us who grew up with his astounding body of work will always cherish.

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