ASK BK
What is your favorite or what do think is the best score by the following film composers (If you don't have a favorite/best you don't have to make a choice.)
Bernard Hermann
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Franz Waxman
Max Steiner
Victor Young
Alfred Newman
Dimitri Tiomkin
Hugo Friedhofer
Aaron Copland
Alex North
David Raskin
Ernest Gold
Elmer Bernstein
Henry Mancini
Jerry Goldsmith
John Barry
John Williams
or anyone else I might not have listed that you like,
Herrmann - today it's North By Northwest - tomorrow, it would be something else
Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood
Waxman - Sunset Blvd.
Steiner - don't know if I have a favorite, but I'll say The Searchers
Young - Around The World In Eighty Days
Newman - The Counterfeit Traitor
Tiomkin - High Noon/The High and the Mighty
Friedhofer - The Best Years Of Our Lives
Copland - The Red Pony/Our Town
North - Spartacus
Raksin - Laura
Gold - Exodus
Bernstein - To Kill A Mockingbird
Mancini - Breakfast At Tiffany's/Days Of Wine and Roses (not the Tiffany's LP, but the actual score)
Goldsmith - A Patch Of Blue
Barry - Robin and Marian
Williams - The Accidental Tourist
Those are today's personal favorites - maybe not the best scores they wrote, but my faves.