Your least favourite "classicalish" composer?

[techniquest]

And Horner for stealing the opening theme of Rach's 1st symphony for one of the two main themes of Enemy at the Gates. Etc.

There's not much Horner film music that hasn't been lifted (often whole and intact) from some other source. For example Red Dawn (a Schwarzeneggar movie) is actually the Philosophy theme from Prokofievs 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution as is The Land Before Time which also lifts directly from Peter and the Wolf and Romeo & Juliet.

Classical-ish music I quite like is Lloyd-Webbers 'Variations' and Ray Manzareks' 'Carmina Burana'. I also like the orchestral works by Deep Purples' Jon Lord, especially the Concerto for Group and Orchestra. Classical-ish that I cannot stand are things like 'The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays the hits of Abba / Jethro Tull / Pink Floyd / whoever...' and that 'Queen Symphony' by whoever it is.

[mahler10th]

Yep - Black Hawk Down - can't remember Horner or Hans Zimmer - Zimmer I think - why, it is Scarborough Fair!!

[Haffner]

The world would have been a better place if Andrew Lloyd Webber had failed his musical aspirations and turned into a despot instead.

I'm not wild about Webber either.

[Christo]

No, that's just Dm.

Then, it's absolutely Dm'd mean

[Haffner]

Then, it's absolutely Dm'd mean

BWA-...!

[Monsieur Croche]

I had the ill fortune of being exposed to the music of Ludovico Einaudi, once.

Just because an orchestral piece is not written for the concert hall does not diminish my enjoyment of it.  What is really the difference if orchestral music is written for a ballet or opera instead of broadway or a movie?

This was never in question.

So let me be one voice saying a big gigantic yes to classicalish music in general!

Long Live Sousa!

[Christo]

Long Live Sousa!

That was exactly what Matthijs Vermeulen yelled in protest during the moment of silence after a performance of Cornelis Dopper's Seventh Symphony in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, in 1919. It all led to a ban from the Concertgebouw and his eventual migration into oblivion to France - and the loss for Dutch modern music of its most promising composer.

[drogulus]

So let me be one voice saying a big gigantic yes to classicalish music in general!

    Yes! _{(semi-gigantic)}

     ....mostly for Williams and Shore. Though I've never been attracted to Webber and Rutter doesn't interest me.

[Teresa]

A. L. Webber is a festival of uninspired or stolen music... I find it pretty annoying... and it also has that annoying 70's and 80's feeling.

Curious  "The Phantom of the Opera" especially the opening piece for organ and orchestra stolen?  It is one of the most original musical pieces I own and I own a lot of classical music.

Some of the singing in his musicals may be uninspired but when the music is divorced from the lyrics and organized into suites it is some of the best orchestral music I've heard.  I love all the Andrew Lloyd Webber orchestral suites as recorded by Erich Kunzel on Telarc.