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Jerry Goldsmith was born on February 10, 1929 in Pasadena California, but grew up in Los Angeles, California. Jerry Goldsmith was the son of Tessa and Morris Goldsmith. Tessa was an artist and Morris was a structural engineer. Jerry Goldsmith …show more content…
His scores have been essential in promoting the fine art of film music composition. A huge knowledge of music history and the structure has enabled him to create a wide variety of moods in the films he has scored. At the same time, though, he has been criticized by film music experts for the lack of impressiveness, thematically influential scores in the later stages of his career. Goldsmith's willingness to take on such projects as Mom and Dad Save the World and Dennis the Menace isolated many of those who were his closest fans in the days of The Wind and the Lion and Chinatown, but enlightened an entirely new generation of film music fans. Goldsmith's quest for new challenges, leading to this new range of original, smaller films, has produced such wonderful efforts as Gremlins and The 'Burbs. So popular is Goldsmith's career that nearly every work he has produced has been pressed onto a CD album. Those few that don't exist on album are the frightful cases in which the master tapes of Goldsmith's recordings are likely lost. In the 1990's there were two collectible CDs that skillfully captured the essence of Jerry Goldsmith: in 1993, The Society for the Preservation of Film Music gave 500+ CD's to those who attended the annual dinner (which that year honored Jerry Goldsmith). Now, at an estimated price of $500+, it is one of the most collectible soundtrack-related CDs of all time. All of the music it contains was unreleased at the time. The other great Goldsmith composing CD is a collection of suites and themes released by the Master Film Music series in 1988 and has the live music most often heard on Goldsmith's concert tours. Originally valued at about $100-$125, this album's recording has since been offered on other CD releases and is no longer a collectible. At the same time, with the volume of work that Goldsmith has