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	Maurice Jarre - Biography - AOL Music
		Film music composer Maurice Jarre attended the University of Lyons, then went to Paris, where he studied engineering at the Sorbonne before entering the Paris Conservatoire to study composition and percussion.
		The motion picture academy bestowed nominations on Jarre for The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean in 1977 and Mohammad, Messenger of God in 1977, and he finally won a third Oscar for his music to David Lean's return to filmmaking and final work, A Passage to India, in 1984.
		The 1980s were even busier for Jarre than the '70s had been, and he adapted himself to the expanded opportunities offered by technological innovations, composing and performing electronic music for such scores as the one for Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously (1983) and Witness (1985).
	music.aol.com /artist/maurice-jarre/1154/biography (500 words)

	12/6/01: Maurice Jarre in Concert
		Jarre then explains to us how director Frankenheimer had asked him to be driven into a high-powered car to discover the true feeling of speed so as to write an effective score.
		Maurice Jarre has in fact always been interested in technological extensions of the musical field, and he showed it through notably his score for Peter Weir's WITNESS (1985).
		Maurice Jarre is a man of music and language, the musician of a language that he is the only one to know.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2001/06_Dec---Maurice_Jarre_in_Concert.asp (1081 words)

	"S-RWF" Dead Poets Society - Maurice Jarre
		Jarre’s score features a main approach, which perhaps is very unusual, but at the same time brilliantly in its use.
		Jarre tries to portray the dark mood by putting it a short bit under the surface, so a bit subdued.
		Jarre uses a lovely, soft, romantic harp theme for this sequence from Knox’s departure until he’s in front of the house.
	www.robin-williams.net /scores/deadpoetssociety.htm (1266 words)

	Maurice Jarre : The Essential Maurice Jarre Film Music Collection: Dr. Zhivago & Other Classical Themes - Listen, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Twenty-three of Jarre's scores are represented, and, while necessarily, there are extended excerpts from the composer's two most famous works, Lawrence of Arabia (culled from the Philharmonic Orchestra disc) and Doctor Zhivago, the range of writing is quite broad.
		Jarre may be remembered for the austere beauty of the Lawrence theme and the lush melodiousness of "Lara's Theme" from Zhivago, but this collection reveals him to be an adaptable composer capable of evoking swing music in "Adela's Theme" for A Passage to India and convincing John Philip Sousa-style march music in Topaz.
		Jarre is not always inspired; some of the music here is only serviceable, some noticeably similar to the work of other composers.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,970774,00.html (548 words)

	Sunshine by Maurice Jarre @ Cinemusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maurice Jarre seemes to be enjoying a resurgence these days.
		Jarre builds his score on his major theme, which is first voiced in "Sunshine" (which is the english translation of the main characters last name: Sonnenschein).
		It's laced with warmth and ethnicity and Maurice manipulates it rather well throughout the album.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/sunshine.html (478 words)

	Maurice Jarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maurice Jarre's output has declined substantially in recent years, but A Walk in the Clouds proves that he's lost none of the romantic qualities that made him so popular with moviegoers all those years ago, when he wrote Oscar-winning scores for movies like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
		Jarre includes a couple of suspense motifs, such as at the beginning of "Butterfly Wings", though that cue soon develops into another spine-tingling rendition of the magnificent main theme.
		Jarre has his army of detractors, though this is probably because of his misguided foray into electronic music in the 1980s; A Walk in the Clouds hearkens back to his romantic epics of the 1960s, and is probably as good as any of them.
	home.thirdage.com /games/rgf918/Jarre.html (337 words)

	Maurice Jarre
		Jarre's career took off in 1961 when producer Sam Spiegel asked him to work on David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia.
		Jarre earned worldwide recognition (and a second Oscar) for his popular "Lara's Theme" from Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965), and collaborated with the director again on Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage To India (1984), for which he received a third Academy Award.
		Mainly perceived as a symphonist and known for his prominent use of percussion, Jarre often integrated ethnic instruments in his orchestrations, such as the kithara on Lawrence of Arabia or fujara (an old Slovak flute) on The Tin Drum (1978).
	www.settling-the-score.com /maurice-jarre.html (319 words)

	Filmtracks: Ghost (Maurice Jarre)
		The score is from the depths of Maurice Jarre's long and storied career, and film music fans will be able to recognize the Jarre theme along with the major song adaptation.
		That said, Jarre's score is an interesting study in and of itself, combining an Alex North-like orchestral simplicity of lofty theme with an often curious and disjointed effort to fill in the underscore with electronics.
		Unfortunately, Jarre only hints slightly at the theme for the majority of the score until, during the end titles, he finally presents a four-minute suite performance of the lush theme in all its glory.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/ghost.html (718 words)

	Maurice Jarre - film composer
		One might first come across Jarre's name in association with the classic scores he produced in the early 60s for films like "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago", and he was also associated with many French films prior to this.
		The name of Jarre may also be familiar from Maurice's son Jean Michel Jarre who is the well-known composer of synthesizer albums such as Oxygene, and more recently for producing huge dramatic open-air spectacles involving music, fire-works and lasers.
		There is also Jarre's ever striving love theme in addition to the cover version of "unchained melody".
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Maurice-Jarre.htm (679 words)

	Maurice Jarre, Persian Art Music
		Soon Maurice Jarre was moving in the same circles as "angry young men" such as renowned English playwright Harold Pinter and French-Algerian author Albert Camus.
		The sweeping, powerfully romantic orchestral theme is Jarre's stock-in-trade, but he is also at home with the tender and intimate, as in his sublime works for Ghost (1990), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Fatal Attraction (1987).
		Maurice Jarre was nominated for nine Oscars and won it in 1963, 1966 and 1985.
	www.persianartmusic.com /Musicians/maurice_jarre.html (607 words)

	Doctor Zhivago: The Essential Maurice Jarre
		For some reason, even though Maurice Jarre has written some of the best classic scores of all time, film music messageboards across the Internet continually overlook these, call them overrated, and proceed to bash his synthesized scores.
		Jarre is also particularly adept at scoring Westerns, particularly the Mexican elements.
		Jarre provides a modest, charming orchestral score heavy on the tin drum and military snares, as well as several other unusual ethnic instruments.
	scoresheet.tripod.com /Reviews/EssentialJarre.html (1839 words)

	Filmtracks: The Bride (Maurice Jarre)
		The Bride: (Maurice Jarre) There have been dozens upon dozens of Frankenstein interpretations on the big screen over the past 80 years, but by the mid-1980's, a while had past since the last monster thriller involving the famed creature.
		Jarre had the musical sensibilities of the era from which Frankenstein films experienced all their glory.
		To provide a comprehensive score, Jarre would need to choose a sound that was appropriate enough for all of the aims of the film to bring all of these elements together under one musical roof.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/bride.html (798 words)

	I Dreamed of Africa by Maurice Jarre
		Jarre works in the memorable main theme into each of his pieces and probably realizes its fullest potential in the closing track, Kuki’s Determination.
		The five score tracks of Jarre are above average in length and, if nothing else, provide an adequate sampling of the diversity in Jarre’s composing style.
		Maurice Jarre does deliver a number of enjoyable moments, but they are usually interrupted by not-so-enjoyable moments…and usually within the very same track.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/idreamed.htm (429 words)

	Maurice Jarre : Doctor Zhivago - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Doctor Zhivago is a lively and vibrant work from the brilliant young French composer Maurice Jarre.
		With a chilling sense of detail, scope, and experimentation, Jarre proves to be successful at capturing the essence of the film's main character, Doctor Zhivago, featured earlier in the book by Boris Pasternak, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		Jarre conducted the orchestra himself for ten days, using the full 110-piece group assembled in Hollywood for the occasion.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,77378,00.html (333 words)

	Sunshine - Maurice Jarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In typical Jarre style, the theme is deceptively simple, but the unexpected modulations and secondary subjects demonstrate's Jarre's impeccable ear for melody.
		The gentle development of the major themes and motifs in the opening cue, comes to an unexpected halt as that material fades away to be replaced by a sobering return of the opening piano motif.
		Fortuntely for us, Jarre seems to have successfully left the synth meanderings of his scores Peter Weir films and returned to what he is undeniably best at; impressive, melodic and very memorable orchestral scoring.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/sunshine.htm (411 words)

	Enemy Mine - Maurice Jarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jarre isn't exactly known for his sci-fi scores, aside from perhaps Mad Max, but he became (in)famous for his synth scores during the 1980's, as a result of encouragement from director Peter Weir.
		Jarre's synth writing is quite unlike that of say Jerry Goldsmith or more recently Hans Zimmer.
		Jarre tends to write for a synth ensemble rather than using the electronics to augment the orchestra.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/enemymine.htm (375 words)

	I DREAMED OF AFRICA \| Maurice Jarre @ Cinemusic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maurice Jarre has been noted to take alternative approaches to film scoring in the past.
		For I DREAMED OF AFRICA, Jarre pulls out all the orchestral stops, but in the meanwhile creates a confusing score that at times is head-scratchingly frustrating.
		Much goes for the rest of Jarre's score - it all seems perfectly good, but the eccentric flourishes and overlapping of different elements creates the feel of music going in every direction but forward.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/I_dreamed_of_africa.html (506 words)

	Doctor Zhivago: The Essential Maurice Jarre Film Music Collection
		Such an omission would be unforgivable as Jarre is, of course, responsible for some of the greatest themes the cinema has ever known, and boasts amongst his filmography such unforgettable epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter.
		At the other end of the scale, Jarre's thunderous action music for the 1985 Mel Gibson vehicle Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is all out orchestral warfare, fuelled by a huge brass section, a mass of percussion, a lovely choir, and a dense yet heroic central theme.
		For Jarre novices, or for anyone with limited funds who would appreciate a decent overview of his career to date, Doctor Zhivago: The Essential Maurice Jarre Film Music Collection is a worthwhile purchase.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /jarrecocd.htm (913 words)

	The Film Music of Maurice Jarre
		I am not entirely certain what the source of this album is, but it appears to have been recorded live (the applause at the end of a few tracks give it away).
		During Jarre's electronics phase, he wrote several scores for the films of director Peter Weir, perhaps the most famous being Witness.
		I don't think that Jarre is that readily associated with Jodie Foster vehicle Gorillas in the Mist, but to my mind it is one of his most stirring themes.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/filmmusicofmauricejarre.htm (418 words)

	Maurice Jarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An important composer for films for over 40 years, as a youngster Jarre intended to become an electrical engineer, but changed his mind and studied music at the Paris Conservatoire in 1944.
		Jarre's other 60s scores for English-speaking films included Behold A Pale Horse, The Collector, Is Paris Burning?, The Professionals, Grand Prix, Gambit, The Night Of The Generals, Villa Rides!, Five Card Stud, The Fixer, Isadora, The Damned and Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969).
		In 1991, Jarre received an ASCAP Award as the composer of the music for Ghost, the "top box office film of 1990".
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6741522 (327 words)

	Maurice Jarre - Moviefone
		A hugely prolific composer best known for his multiple collaborations with director David Lean, Maurice Jarre is one of the most well-respected...
		Maurice Jarre (I) (Composer, Lawrence of Arabia (1962)) birth name "Maurice-Alexis Jarre"...
		Jarre denies this and has pointed-out that his electronic score for Witness was...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/maurice-jarre/95896/main (153 words)

	Amazon.com: Ghost: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Music: Maurice Jarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maurice Jarre — Find pics, news, movies, interviews, filmography and more at Moviefone.
		Since Jarre intended these instrumentals to heighten tension and create feelings of stress, some of the music is mildly discordant.
		Mssr Jarre is obviously a talented composer, but the two renditions of "Unchained Melody" are really the only things on the disk that I can stand.
	www.amazon.com /Ghost-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B0000015KG (1386 words)

	Movie Music UK - Maurice Jarre
		Other landmark works by Jarre include "The Longest Day" (1962), "The Professionals" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "Topaz" (1969), "Red Sun" (1972), "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975), "The Message" (1976), "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977), "Witness" (1985), "Fatal Attraction" (1987), "Dead Poets Society" (1989), "Ghost" (1990) and "A Walk in the Clouds" (1995).
		Now officially retired, Jarre's scored his last film in 2001, a TV movie about the Holocaust entitled "Uprising", but has left behind him a legacy that includes nine Academy Award nominations, and a legacy of some of the most enduring film music ever written.
		Jarre's eldest son, Jean-Michel, is also a popular recording artist, who specialises in progressive electronic music, while his youngest son Kevin is a screenwriter, having penned movies such as "Tombstone" and "Glory".
	www.moviemusicuk.us /jarre.htm (683 words)

	Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack - Maurice Jarre
		Maurice Jarre's Oscar winning soundtrack to David Lean's epic masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif.
		Jarre was given only six weeks to compose the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack so to ensure that he got the job done, he established a disciplined routine of four hours work followed by ten minutes of sleep - night and day.
		Not surprisingly, once he was finished he was totally exhausted and it took him five months to fully recover.
	www.moviegrooves.com /shop/lawrenceofarabiasoundtrack.htm (211 words)

	Maurice Jarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jarre established himself as a serious composer and writer of theatrical scores in the 1950s and earned a reputation for feature film scoring in the following decade.
		Jarre has of late become a frequent collaborator with director Peter Weir.
		His son, Jean-Michel Jarre, is a successful composer of popular electronic music.
	www.theoscarsite.com /whoswho4/jarre_m.htm (217 words)

	Maurice Jarre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Other notable movies scored by Jarre include Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969), John Huston'sThe Man Who Would Be King (1975), and music for Mohamed: The Messenger of God 1976 by Mustafa Al Akkad, Top Secret (1984), Dead Poets Society (1989) and Jacob's Ladder (1990).
		His score for David Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970), although set in Ireland, completely eschews Irish music styles, owing to Lean's preferences.
		The latter is written for full orchestra, augmented by a chorus, four grand pianos, a pipe organ, digeridoo, fujara, a battery of exotic percussion and three Ondes Martenot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Jarre (642 words)

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