Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such noteworthy films as The Sand Pebbles, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Wind and the Lion, The Omen, The Boys from Brazil, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Rudy, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, The Mummy, three Rambo films, and five Star Trek films. He collaborated with some of film history's most prolific directors, including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. Schaffner. Goldsmith was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards. In 1976, he was awarded an Academy Award for The Omen.

Early life and education

The Zoo

The Zoo is a one-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by B. C. Stephenson, writing under the pen name of Bolton Rowe. It premiered on 5 June 1875 at the St. James's Theatre in London (as an afterpiece to W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb), concluding its run five weeks later, on 9 July 1875, at the Haymarket Theatre. There were brief revivals in late 1875, and again in 1879, before the opera was shelved.

The farcical story concerns two pairs of lovers. First, a nobleman, who goes to the zoo to woo the girl who sells snacks there. He tries to impress her by buying and eating all of the food. The other couple is a young chemist who believes that he has poisoned his beloved by mixing up her father's prescription with peppermint that he had meant for her.

The score was not published in Sullivan's lifetime, and it lay dormant until Terence Rees purchased the composer's autograph at auction in 1966 and arranged for publication. The opera is in one act without spoken dialogue, running about 40 minutes. Like Trial by Jury and Cox and Box, it has been staged as a curtain-raiser to the shorter Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Triple-bills of Sullivan's three one-act operas have also proved successful.

Boomerang (TV channel)

Boomerang is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. Originating as a spinoff of Cartoon Network (which originated Boomerang as a programming block in 1992), Boomerang specializes in a blend of classic and contemporary animated programming from Time Warner's extensive archives with a family-friendly approach, including Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Scooby-Doo, along with repeats of shows still in production on Cartoon Network like Sonic Boom and Teen Titans Go!.

As of February 2015, approximately 43.6 million households (37.5% of those with television) receive the channel.

History

The Zoo (New Zealand TV series)

The Zoo is an award winning New Zealand observational documentary series, made by Greenstone TV, that follows the lives of Auckland Zoo's animals and zookeepers. The series explores the new arrivals and births of Auckland Zoo, to the fights, illnesses and mating rituals, how the animals are fed and how they live. The series' production crew are based full-time at the zoo, but the series also follows zookeepers overseas on zoo-related trips.

The Zoo returned to New Zealand's TV One in 2013 for its 13th season. In the UK, it airs on Animal Planet.

Zoo staff

Season 12 staff stars

  • Christine Tintinger - Senior Primate keeper
  • Amy Robbins - Team Leader of Primates
  • Nat Sullivan - Team Leader of Pridelands
  • Andrew Coers - Team Leader of Elephants and Sea Lions
  • Bethany Jackson - Vet-in-residence
  • Richard Gibson - Team Leader of Reptiles and Invertebrates
  • Natalie Clark - NZ Birds Keeper
  • Main staff stars

  • Sandra Rice - Senior Carnivore keeper
  • Carly Day - Primate keeper
  • Laurel Sandy - Elephant & Sea Lion keeper
  • Podcasts:

    Jerry Goldsmith

    ALBUMS

    Dr. Kildare

    Released 2009

    Cain's Hundred

    Released 2009

    The Early Years, Volume One

    Released 2007

    The Spy With My Face: Music from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Movies

    Released 2006

    Born: 1929-02-10

    Died: 2004-07-21

    developed with YouTube
    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Rambo: First Blood Part II

    by: Jerry Goldsmith

    We gave our hearts
    We gave it all
    Flame in the fire
    Burns forevermore
    The sorrow in believing
    Honor and truth
    Gray spires climbing
    Wrapped around our youth
    CHORUS:
    Peace in our life
    Remember the call
    Oh, a cheer for my brothers
    Think of them all
    Home of the brave
    We'll never fall
    The strength of our nation
    Belongs to us all.
    Time is the healing
    of souls laid to rest
    Peace is the virtue
    Never forget
    Tomorrow's an angel
    Watching us all
    Telling the people
    she wraps around our hearts
    CHORUS (x3)




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