The Movies' Music Man; Leonard Rosenman and the Sound of `Star Trek'

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 1, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

So what's this, Leonard Rosenman? You have hair, a little wild in the Beethoven style, and brown eyes behind bifocals tinted yellow like a sharpshooter's, and even, this morning (ugh!) phlegm (lay off the Winstons, Leonard).

Film composers are supposed to be invisible.

Their music, according to an ancient bromide, is best when it is invisible. On a budget, they're not invisible, exactly, but hard to find-even the most successful composers, like John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, get only $125,000 a picture, less than the lowly screen writer. And to the critics, composers are all but ...

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