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Basil Poledouris has always thrived amidst the carnage of the action film. Known primarily for his excellent work on Conan the Barbarian, Starship Troopers, The Hunt for Red October, and the television miniseries Lonesome Dove - for which he won an Emmy - some of the composer's best work can be found on the soundtrack to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi revenge romp, Robocop. Robocop (Original Soundtrack) Basil Poledouris to stream in hi-fi, or to download in True CD Quality on Qobuz.com.

Basil Konstantine Poledouris (/ˈpɒlɪdʊərɪs/; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores,^[1] best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Among his works are scores for the films Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Iron Eagle (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993), Starship Troopers (1997) and Les Miserables (1998). Poledouris won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special for his work on the four-part miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989, and was a four-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award.

Life and career[edit]

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Miklós Rózsa; the second his own Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the Church, and he used to sit in services enthralled by the choir's sound.^[2] At the age of seven, Poledouris began piano lessons, and after graduation from Garden Grove High School, he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study both filmmaking and music. Several short films to which he contributed are still kept in the university's archives. At USC, Poledouris met movie directors John Milius and Randal Kleiser, with whom he would later collaborate as a music composer. He appeared as a background extra in several episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.^[3] In 1985, Poledouris wrote the music for Paul Verhoeven's Flesh & Blood, establishing a durable collaboration.

Poledouris became renowned for his powerfully epic style of orchestral composition and his intricate thematic designs. He scored the soundtrack for The Blue Lagoon (1980; dir: Kleiser); Conan the Barbarian (1982; dir: Milius); Conan the Destroyer (1984); Red Dawn (1984; dir: Milius), Iron Eagle (1986); RoboCop (1987; dir: Verhoeven); The Hunt for Red October (1990); Quigley Down Under (1990 Simon Wincer); Free Willy (1993) and its first sequel Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995); Starship Troopers (1997; dir: Verhoeven); and For Love of the Game (1999).

Poledouris' studio, 'Blowtorch Flats', was located in Venice, California, and was a professional mixing facility specializing in film and media production.

Poledouris married his wife Bobbie in 1969; they had two daughters, Zoë and Alexis. His elder daughter, Zoë Poledouris, is an actress and film composer, who occasionally collaborated with her father in composing film soundtracks.

In 1996, Poledouris composed 'The Tradition of the Games'^[4] for the Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony that accompanied the memorable dance tribute^[5] to the athletes and goddesses of victory of the ancient Greek Olympics using silhouette imagery.^[6]

Poledouris spent the last four years of his life residing on Vashon Island, in Washington state. He died on November 8, 2006, in Los Angeles, California, aged 61, from lung cancer.^[7][8]

Awards & nominations[edit]

• Winner Best Score for Miniseries – Emmy Awards (Lonesome Dove)
• Nominee Best Score – Saturn Awards (Conan the Barbarian)
• Winner Special Recognition Music Award – BMI Film & TV Awards (Olympic Tribute for 'The Tradition of the Games')
• Winner Film Music Award – BMI Awards (Free Willy)
• Winner Film Music Award – BMI Awards (The Hunt for Red October)
• Winner TV Music Award – BMI Awards (Lonesome Dove)
• Winner Film Music Award – BMI Awards (RoboCop)

Filmography[edit]

Basil Poledouris Klendathu Drop

Films[edit]

Television[edit]

Other works[edit]

• 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games (Opening Ceremony)^[4]
• Conan Sword & Sorcery Spectacular (Universal Studios' live stage show)
• American Journeys (A Circle-Vision 360° film at Disneyland and Magic Kingdom)
• Flyers (IMAX, 1982)
• Behold Hawaii (IMAX, 1983)

References[edit]

1. ^Nelson, Valerie J. (2006-11-10). 'Basil Poledouris, 61; film composer known for his bold sounds'. Los Angeles Times. ISSN0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
2. ^Rhodes, S. Mark. 'A Sprig of Basil: The Musical Mastery of Basil PoledourisArchived October 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.' Film Score Monthly, Volume 9, Number 4, 2004.
3. ^'Basil Poledouris'. Memory Alpha. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
4. ^ ^abBasil Poledouris. '1996 Olympics Opening Ceremony – Honor and Glory CD Audio'. Basil Poledouris website. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
5. ^'Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games opening ceremony via Youtube (video)'. CBC TV via YouTube. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
6. ^'Basil Poledouris Biography'. Basil Poledouris website. Archived from the original on 20 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
7. ^https://perspectiveforum.net/2016/05/22/finding-family-with-basil-poledouris/
8. ^'Basil Poledouris 1945 – 2006.' Basil Poledouris Message Board, 8 November 2006.

External links[edit]

• Basil Poledouris on IMDb
• Basil Poledouris interview at UnderScores : Musique de Film

Soundtrack Information

Varese Sarabande (302 066 429 2)

Year Released: 1987 / 2004

Conducted by Howard Blake / Tony Britton

Performed by
The Sinfonia of London

Format: CD

Basil Poledouris Music

Music By

Track Listing

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• RobocopVinyl Edition Limited to 3,000 Units
  Milan Records

  Released: July 17, 2015

  Formats: CD, Digital, Vinyl (56 min)

• RoboCop (Complete)Limited Edition of 3,000 Copies
  Intrada (Special Collection Vol. 129)

  Released: April 12, 2010

  Format: CD (56 min)

• RobocopVarese Sarabande (VCD 47298)

  Released: October 25, 1990

  Format: CD (41 min)

• Varese Sarabande: A 25th Anniversary CelebrationVarese Sarabande (302 066 460 2)

  Released: 2003

  Format: CD (300 min)

• Brain in a BoxRhino Records (R2 79936)

  Released: 2000 Super mario 3d world cemu.

  Format: CD (305 min)

• Space 3: Beyond the Final FrontierSilva America (SSD 1112)

  Released: 2000

  Format: CD (133 min)

• Basil Poledouris FilmworksLimited Edition
  Promotional Release (LA-CD 50320)

  Gang beasts. Released: 1998

  Format: CD (78 min)

• Honor and GloryAgency Promo
  Promotional Release

  Released: Unknown

  Format: CD (73 min)

Review: Robocop

I remember reading somewhere in the past 10 years or so, how Basil Poledouris and Jerry Goldsmith, more than most other film composers, have a unique ability to provide genuine pathos and heart to the most testosterone-laced films. It is amazing how much warmth and melancholy Goldsmith wrung from the Rambo trilogy, a series a lesser composer would have treated one-dimensionally, scoring it in only a visceral fashion. Poledouris in turn colored the worlds of both Conan and Robocop with sonorous tonalities, intricate instrumental depths and subtext beyond what the normal audience expected from the experience. John Milius and Paul Verhoeven understood the importance of this type of scoring for their manly, blood soaked epics, where they wisely allowed Poledouris to supply context to the violence, musically hinting at deeper emotions which the strong-arm characters may not be able to convey visually on screen.

Basil Poledouris Wikipedia

I am so pleased that Robocop is available in the stores again. I recall finding the first Varese album in summer 1990 and being overwhelmed with the orchestral and electronic dance happening within the score, representing the human and mechanical sides sparring within the body Peter Weller's unlucky cop character, Murphy. He is resurrected, after being brutally gunned down early in the film, as a cybernetic prototype, the first in a new line of defense officers in Detroit of the future. Most genre fans know the story of this modern science fiction classic inside and out, a sort of hybrid Frankenstein type parable plus a warning of fantastic new technologies swallowing our fragile human emotions. Poledouris's score is a violent, passionate work, seething angrily in ways the transformed Murphy can no longer aptly display.

There are numerous themes he weaves expertly, beginning with a furious, insistent action ostinato bellowed by low brass in 'Van Chase' and heard again, in a slower tempo, in 'Robo vs ED 209'. It is extraordinarily exciting but one can also sense its cruel menace, foreshadowing that the chase will end very badly and bitterly. The action cues in Robocop rarely reach for heroic resolutions where we know the side of right has achieved victory. Even when Poledouris launches forth his memorably sturdy Robocop fanfare and theme in 'Rock Shop', the theme never quite reaches a well-rounded conclusion; instead, the cue diminishes into uncertainty, mirroring Murphy's fear of letting his own bloodlust envelop him. Regardless, the theme displayed in 'Rock Shop' is invigorating, immediately a classic, and Poledouris fans have always wished he had expanded on it further in this and his subsequent Robocop 3 score.

On the other side of the spectrum is an oboe led theme highlighting 'Home', a scene where Murphy as Robocop visits the now empty home he once shared with his wife and child. A tentative beginning leads to electronic splashes (including the interesting choice of synth choir to perhaps represent the side of Murphy which was once truly human now being filtered through circuits and microchips), then into urgent strings as Murphy attempts to track down the source of his lost humanity. The cue has such an amazingly moving turn of phrase starting at the 2 minute mark and continuing forward, with gorgeously crafted melodies somehow seeming inspired by a fervent love scene rather than that of a robotic man stoically touring his abandoned home.

These are but of few of the highlights of Poledouris's powerful score, a landmark for him in terms of an orchestral and electronic blend and a benchmark for film score fans in what Poledouris is capable of in his finest hours. The Varese special re-release includes all the tracks from the original album, remastered and in the same order, but with the added bonus of four extra cues. Robocop was punctuated by mock news briefs and sardonic commercials selling outrageous items which we might seem to need in the not too distant future and each featured original music by Poledouris (a trait he and Verhoeven also experimented with successfully in 1997's StarshipTroopers). His punchy, 'tele-type' sounding news intro begins the film and the disc, the other bonus cues range from the rapturous 'Have A Heart' to the bombastic 'Big Is Better', nicely fleshing out the musical universe of Robocop.

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