Master composer Jerry Goldsmith's highly acclaimed horror masterpiece that earned him his sole Academy Award. Copyright goes to their respective owners. This video is not for profit.
The conductor looks as though he is possessed. Such a well crafted composition and Jerry certainly unroot the extreme evil in his mind blowing composition.
There is no other soundtrack to match this one. Jerry brought out pure evil intentions of satan when he wrote this piece. It holds sheer terror, darkness, despair, and potent cursed linguistics of his chorus line. It had to be the most influential soundtrack of its time, and Gregory Peck said that listening to such a nightmarish sound gave him goose bumps for three days.To this day no other music composer could ever match this unique tale of darkness. It the most powerful masterpiece ever created, which won an Oscar for the best original soundtrack, and well worth it. Absolute genius. Hats off to Jerry Goldsmith.
Chris Sorensen you articulated exactly what I'm thinking. especially Bout the orchestrated linguistics. chants. truly haunting yet blissfully beautiful. the wand-wielding orchestra leaders down there in the pit, holding this all together, and showing the emotion expressed through their moments, is a site to behold.
It's an outstanding soundtrack. But, musically speaking, if you listen to just some of the pieces of Penderecki (speacilly his Utrenja or The Polish Requiem), Ligeti, Varese or Xenakis, you'll get even more chills down your spine.
Only three days!!! Try 3 decades...for me!! I hear this first track and every image from where it was used in the movie floods back. A truely brilliant movie and equally brilliantly effective soundtrack. The 70s had some totally freaky, psychologically long lasting horror movies. They don't make movies like this anymore...nor are there as good soundtracks. This soundtrack is a perfect example of how music can really make a movie what it needs to be. Music effects the soul 😈
You did a Master`s class with him. What an honour. I miss the man, I was lucky enough to meet him 3 times, he was warm, caring, charming, to a fanboy who was obviously tongue tied in his company. Genius is the right word, he lives in his music, the gift that keeps on giving.
I bought the soundtrack album as a teenager in the 70s before having actually seen the film. Played it in my bedroom at full blast. My parents must have thought they'd raised the spawn of the devil! The music inspired many film stories in my head later turned into scripts.
Extremely its a masterpiece...!!! Its is unforgetable music score of all time..since i am an artist in horror art works here in the Philippines ..i recommend theseto all movie horror & even to the horror times of Coronavrus ...its a big fucking problem here in our world...Stay Safe To all ..Screw these Pandemic..
I had no idea the great Jerry Goldsmith wrote this!! What was particularly spooky was his use of Gregorian chants, using chorale singers to heighten the suspense. He really created a style that all other film composers would follow in the years to come, and this brilliant score still holds up today. My favorite of all his soundtracks, however, still has to be "Alien," his masterful use of sound and effects taken to a level never before heard in science fiction, or anywhere else. RIP.
Why don't Classical radio stations ever play this, nor Orchestras perform it? This is the only performance on record I've found. Its truly an outstanding piece of music, hell (see what I did there) Jerry Goldsmith even won an Academy Award!
@@nikreece6295 No, it's just the right amount of sinister. This music was composed for a film about the spawn of Satan. Not playing it because it's "too sinister" is missing the whole point.
Director Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie) rode the razor's edge, when intending to make this a serious and believable horror/drama. It could've been a laughingstock. Jerry Goldsmith's genius score gave it a gripping and phobic reality, more potent than anyone could imagine possible!
Fucking MASTERPIECE of a score, for a masterpiece of a film. BRILLIANT dark ART!!! Can you IMAGINE being IN this performance as an artist, or in that chorus! The sheer POWER of this piece is almost intoxicating. Beautiful recording and performance!
7:35 this music played during the scene when Damien is a toddler. They are in England, strolling through green fields, very beautiful 😍 9:10 Then the music quickly changes to something chaotic and evil. Well done Jerry Goldsmith, brilliant composer 🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵
It's equal, maybe even better for me, personally, but Basil Pasildouris' Conan the Barbarian score is exhilarating, to say the least...I also dig Graham Revelle!!!
Movies nowadays don't have the good music or score to go with it . There's no imagination anymore . These old movies were great , that's why try to remake them but there never any good 👹
There are only two horror films that have well and truly scared me. Salem's Lot (1979) and The Omen (1976). Spine-tingling listening to the music live. Thanks.
Jeffrey Kaufmann I loved her. "Pardon me for speaking my mind, maam. Don't you think a four year old is too young to understand the going ons of the Episcopal way?
Extraordinary! This song is one of the greatest masterpieces I have ever heard. I still want to write something that has orchestrated this weight and this beauty.
My daughter's boyfriend is a devil son that boy is almost 30 some years old X evil it was so evil that soon as the first met him open the door up and open she didn't have to open his mouth I didn't like him since then and whole bunch of problems it's been going on for 8 years problems
If that's the case, then the many groups that were annihilated by Nazi Einsatsgrupen must have been downright musical - with machine gun staccato, no less!
Nothing more rewarding in life than when you go and watch and orchestra perform music like this. Watching a movie, you don't realise the hard work which goes into the score. I think every one is familiar with this one.
+walkingeaglewoman It's been sung for over 40 years though... this one is already over 5 years old and they already made many more successful concerts, the last one this October. So I guess whatever "magic" there is clearly didn't do its job pretty well :-) Besides, this one is just made up Latin.
if there ever was a horror film with the most incredible score....hands down nothing has since beat this...and to think Jerry Goldsmith also composed the theme to The Waltons 😁
My favorite part starts around 10:00. I like the slight pause and how the percussion meshes well with that pause. Also how the "madness" / fear is portrayed in the strings at 10:13.
Oh my DAMIEN…brilliant ! That conductor…one can tell he’s top notch…so obseßed or rather poßeßed with his black diamond of an orchestration. So dramatic & theatrical 🖤❤️ it.
I always wanted to see who would be brave enough to conduct, sing and play it/this piece... I still am in awe, how Jerry Goldsmith develope the music for this movie..? Bravo!! May you R.I.P. Jerry Goldsmith.....
One of the best of Jerry Goldsmith 1976 brilliant film for an (8 year old. ) when I was watching it in the summer school holidays. Even though it was a certificate (X)
non c'è paragone... non esiste un brano più significativo, capace, straordinariamente emotivo, intenso. Unico com'era Jerry... un mito nel suo genere. Ineguagliabile. Il senso del contorto, del sinistro, del cupo e dell'horror... fantastico come il gran finale di Omen III. Altro brano stupefacente... Bravo maestro. Straordinaria esecuzione. ottima orchestra...
The brilliance of the complex dynamic composition got exposed by the brilliance of the interpretation of the orchestra & choir led by a brlliant conductor