Notes in the Dark

Terrible news today… we’ve lost another of the genuinely talented. Basil Poledouris, dead at 61, of cancer. Unbelievable.

He’ll always be known for Conan the Barbarian and his work on macho John Milius movies, but he was a really brilliant and well-rounded and quality composer (e.g. Lonesome Dove, Wind). If there was ever such a thing as the “Bronze Age” of film scoring, he has to be considered one of its very best artists, one of the ones with the most integrity and “voice.” His absence from the scoring scene in recent years was an unhappy thing.

A real class act, and a real loss.