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Author: benzini
Date: 2011-10-10 06:40
Can anyone help me discover who's playing clarinet(s) on the original John Williams E.T Film Soundtrack?
I've been trawling through the net for sometime to no avail...
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Author: Dingo
Date: 2011-10-10 08:53
Yeah, the clarinetist on E.T. soundtrack was Jim Kanter, who played the clarinet on many motion picture scores (Schindler's List, As Good As It Gets, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Benny and Joon, Inside plan , Lars and the real girl...)
For more information about Jim Kanter:
http://www.eatonclarinets.freeserve.co.uk/kanter.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437907/
http://test.woodwind.org/oboe/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=253276&t=253276
Other musicians that played on E.T. soundtracks were:
Malcolm McNab, trumpet; Lloyd Ulyate, trombone; Vince DeRosa, french Horn; Jim Self, tuba; James Walker, flute; David Newman, violin.
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Author: benzini
Date: 2011-10-10 09:31
Many thanks Dingo!
There seems to be so many amazing session musos these days it's hard to keep track of who's done what.
much appreciated!
Ben
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2011-10-11 18:25
Hi All:
I just want to chime in on the clarinet playing on some of the recordings you've mentioned:
Jim Kanter in L.A. is one of the finest and most recorded Hollywood film Clarinetists, and sounds great on ET & Shindler's List, but I, in fact, was the Clarinetist who recorded Beauty & the Beast and Alladin (also Pocahontas).
Most of the films are recorded in CA and elsewhere in Europe, but NYC does get it's share!
Check my web-site where I've listed some of my 200+ films, recorded from 1975-2005, it was fun working with all those great famous film composers!
Enjoy:
Http://www.johnmosesclarinet.com
(Look under the "Filmography" tab.)
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
Post Edited (2011-10-11 18:26)
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Author: Dingo
Date: 2011-10-11 23:55
John, thanks for the explanation about the Disney's soundtracks ("Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "Pocahontas") and sorry for the wrong information. As you can read in my first link about Jim Kanter, the web of Eaton clarinets (caption included) reports about Jim played on the mentioned Disney's soundtracks and here was my misunderstanding. Again, sorry for this.
And congratulations for take part in so many soundtracks. I like listen soundtracks and I specially enyoyed Burwell's "Gods and monsters", "Fargo", "An the band played on"; Goldenthal's "Interview with a Vampire", "Michael Collins", "Sphere"; Doyle's "Carlito's Way", "Hamlet"; Bernstein's "Age of innocence"; Fenton's "You've Got Mail"; Glass's "Naqoyqatsi"; Shore's "Big", "Ed Wood"; Pino's "Dressed to kill"; Morricone's "The Untouchables", "Mission to Mars" ... and, of course, Menken's "Beauty and the beast", "Aladdin" and "Pocahontas".
Wow, you are a very talented clarinetist and a lucky man, too.
Best regards.
-Sorry for my english-
Post Edited (2011-10-12 16:36)
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Author: donald
Date: 2011-10-12 11:10
Ha, The Spanish Prisoner! I remember watching that and wondering who the clarinet/reeds player was!
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2011-10-12 16:57
Thanks for the mention, Dingo.
The best thing about doing all those big Hollywood films was to work with the great composers, orchestrators, and conductors, not to mention, some of NYC's finest recording musicians. It was a fantastic time to be recording live large orchestral scores in town! We still do a few feature here ever now & then, but it's much slower now than it was in the 1980-1990's.
I wish I had the time and energy to make the film industry understand how important it is to list, by name, all the fine musicians who spend their entire careers recording the Hollywood films will all enjoy seeing and hearing.
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-10-13 12:39
John J. Moses wrote,
>>I wish I had the time and energy to make the film industry understand how important it is to list, by name, all the fine musicians who spend their entire careers recording the Hollywood films will all enjoy seeing and hearing. >>
Hear, hear! As a movie critic (for the magazines "Scarlet" and "Van Helsing's Journal"), I love it when the screen credits include the musicians. It's frustrating when a score sounds superb and yet I can't find the information to praise a fine soloist by name. Sometimes the information that's missing onscreen does turn up on the IMDb or in an online press kit. More often, though, the info apparently gets written (somewhere) in Dark Matter. Maybe that's where some of the missing mass of the universe went. Either that or it's all in neutrino-based text whizzing past faster than light. Meanwhile, the invisible musicians play on as the *visible* end credits run for ten minutes and list everyone down to the craft service truck driver, whose union must have more clout than the musicians' union!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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