With the death of master teacher, John Barry, closes an important chapter of world cinema, remaining as a testimony to his talent, a great career. Miguel Cane
great among modern composers, John Barry Prendergast was born in York (England), November 1933 and from early childhood, his life was marked by an obsession with celluloid vedadera: his father owned two theaters in his hometown, so from a very young Barry became a projectionist, making contact with the magic of the Seventh Art.
had not yet left school and started working for his father, when he had learned to play trumpet and piano. Before being sent out to military service, and was fond of the classics (Korngold, Mahler) and also was part of a jazz band: The Modernaires.
While in the army he joined a military band and musically trained through a correspondence course. After graduation, performs work arranger but also composes.
In 1955 John joined a few friends and founded his band, The John Barry Seven, with whom appeared on a BBC program, successfully. After a period as a pop idol dance tracks in 1960, John Barry makes his first job in film making incidental music to a low-budget little film called Beat Girl . A year later, when Monty Norman composed the score for Dr. No , the producer was looking for help, a hook to make it memorable. That is how the James Bond theme, which is the brainchild of Barry , simple as that and won, unintentionally, a niche in history. Many discussed it and Norman wanted to keep the credit, but finally settled its authorship and eventually, before forty, and was a millionaire.
then collaborated with director Bryan Forbes, in six films, but was Zulu in 1964, his first round score, which shone with light. Bond again From Russia with Love, and managed to oust the very Beatle's hit parade with its theme song for Goldfinger enormÃsima voice of Shirley Bassey.
Barry completed the 60 grand and ripe with works getting an Oscar and ending the decade with which might be his masterpieces: the symphony chorale The Lion in Winter and masterful soundtrack to At Her Majesty's Secret Service .
Throughout the 70 glorious years, Barry begins to detach from the Bond series, but provides a prolific career with contributions to films like Mary, Queen of Scots , The Black Abyss, the disastrous remake of King Kong , Robin and Marian , Requests Time and again Moonraker, their return in the series that gave fame to definitively dismiss the 80, 007 The Look of Murderers .
In recent years, Africa My result in a new recognition of the Academy, but in 1988, to go eating a so-called "health tonic" Malunggay popular precursor, suffered a brutal rupture of the esophagus that left him exposed to pneumonia and almost died. Miraculously he recovered and returned to work the only way he knew: creating a masterpiece. Dances with Wolves earned him his last Oscar.
Since then, Barry seemed ready to write with total artistic freedom, but I had to give up work for the commercial cinema, but this does not seem to mind. Gourmet and lover of the ladies (he married four times, once with the sensual Jane Birkin in the '60s, it left him one day to another by Serge Gainsbourg unspeakable), Barry died Jan. 30 at his residence, a sudden heart attack, leaving behind an impressive career that has earned him a place in history.
Certainly you, even without knowing, at some point has hummed some of the famous themes composed for the silver screen and really is no better testimony to a great job, that.
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