David Shire
David Shire (born July 3, 1937 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American composer of numerous films (for cinema and television) as well as musicals .
Career
Shire began his film music career in television in the 1960s. In the early 1970s he managed to switch to cinema. His most important film music is The Conversation (1974) by Francis Ford Coppola - Shire's brother-in-law at the time. The music is mainly written for solo piano and also contains some sound alienations. In this, his most fruitful decade, Shire delivered a series of effective works that proved to be particularly thematically very catchy. Among lovers, the aggressive-jazzy score developed into Stops the Death Journey of the U-Bahn 123 ( The Taking of Pelham 123, 1974) became a particular favorite. The importance of this work is also shown by the fact that Chris Boardman (not to be confused with the racing cyclist of the same name ) copied essential stylistic features of the music for the Mel Gibson thriller Payback - Payback ( Payback , 1999).
Other characteristic works from the 1970s and 1980s are Die Hindenburg ( The Hindenburg , 1975), Fahr zur Hölle, Liebling (1975) and finally Oz - Eine fantastische Welt ( Return to Oz , 1985). Because of the catastrophic economic failure of those Wizard-of-Oz - continued their elaborately crafted score received little attention.
From the mid-1980s, Shire's career flattened out a bit and he began to focus more on working for television. In 2007 he made a cinema comeback with the frugal original music for David Fincher's thriller Zodiac - Die Spur des Killers .
Shire's songs have been recorded by Barbra Streisand , Melissa Manchester , Maureen McGovern , Johnny Mathis , Billy Preston , Jennifer Warnes , John Pizzarelli , Pearl Bailey and many more.
Shire was married to actress Talia Shire from 1970 to 1978. He has been married to Didi Conn since 1982 . He has two sons, Matthew (with Talia Shire) and Daniel (with Didi Conn).
Works (selection)
Cinema and television
- 1971: Hot Gold from Calador (One More Train to Rob)
- 1971: Marriage: Year One (TV)
- 1971: The Impatient Heart (TV)
- 1971: Two Gallows Birds (Skin Game)
- 1971: The Boss (Episode: The Priest Killer) (TV)
- 1971: Drive, He Said
- 1971: Summertree
- 1971: Harpy (TV)
- 1973: Isn't It Shocking? (TV)
- 1973: The vultures are already waiting (Showdown)
- 1973: College Love (Class of '44)
- 1973: Two People on the Road (Two People)
- 1973: Crooks on the wrong track (Steelyard Blues)
- 1974: Footsteps in the Sand (The Godchild) (TV)
- 1974: The Virginia Hill Story (TV)
- 1974: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three stops the subway 123's death ride
- 1974: Dialogue (The Conversation)
- 1974: You Can't Leave It (Sidekicks) (TV)
- 1974: Tell Me Where It Hurts (TV)
- 1974: Killer Bees (TV)
- 1975: The Hindenburg (The Hindenburg)
- 1975: Farewell, My Lovely (Farewell, My Lovely)
- 1975: Dowry Hunter (The Fortune)
- 1975: Winner Take All (TV)
- 1975: Joe and Sons (TV series)
- 1976: Amelia Earhart (TV)
- 1976: The Hair-raising Journey in a Crazy Bus (The Big Bus)
- 1976: The Untouchables (All the President's Men)
- 1977: Saturday Night Fever only
- 1978: hour of probation (straight time)
- 1979: The Promise
- 1979: Norma Rae - A woman stands her man ( Oscar for the best film song It Goes Like It Goes )
- 1981: I Need an Heir (Paternity) ( Golden raspberry for worst song Baby Talk )
- 1982: Garp and How He Saw the World (The World According to Garp)
- 1983: Max Dugan's Moneten (Max Dugan Returns)
- 1984: 2010: The Year We Make Contact (2010: The Year We Make Contact)
- 1985: Blue Yonder - Flight into the Past (The Blue Yonder)
- 1985: Oz - A Fantastic World (Return to Oz)
- 1986: Night, Mother
- 1986: Number 5 is alive! (Short circuit)
- 1987: Final Night (Backfire)
- 1988: I am you (Vice Versa)
- 1988: The monkey in humans (Monkey Shines)
- 1989: Steven - The Abduction (I Know My First Name Is Steven) (TV)
- 1990: The Kennedys of Massachusetts (mini-series)
- 1990: The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (TV movie)
- 1992: Agents live lonely (Bed & Breakfast)
- 1992: Broadway Family (Broadway Bound) (TV)
- 1994: The man who never died (The Man Who Would not Die)
- 1995: A Hot Affair (One Night Stand)
- 1997: Last Stand at Saber River (TV)
- 1998: Rear Window (Rear Window) (TV)
- 1999: Double Platinum - double platinum! (Double Platinum)
- 1999: Winter's End (Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End) (TV)
- 2002: Ash Wednesday
- 2004: The Tollbooth
- 2007: Zodiac - The Trail of the Killer (Zodiac)
- 2009: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt)
On broadway
- The Unknown Soldier and His Wife (1967, play , music )
- Baby (1983, musical, music; Tony nomination for best music )
- Big (1996, musical, music; Tony nomination for best music, drama desk nomination for outstanding music)
- Saturday Night Fever (1999, musical, songwriter of "Manhattan Skyline", "Salsation" and "Night on Disco Mountain")
Off-Broadway
- Starting Here, Starting Now (1975, revue , music)
- Urban Blight (revue, music)
- Closer Than Ever (revue, music)
- The Loman Family Picnic (play, music and songs with lyrics by Donald Margulis, author of the play)
- Smulnik's Waltz (play, music)
Songs
- With You I'm Born Again (lyrics by Carol Connors ; international chart hit by Billy Preston and Syreeta)
- Starting Here, Starting Now (text by Richard Maltby ; recorded by Barbra Streisand)
- What About Today (text and music by Shire; theme song from Barbra Streisand's album)
- The Morning After (text and music by Shire; recorded by Barbra Streisand)
- I'll Never Say Goodbye (text by Alan and Marilyn Bergman ; recorded by Melissa Manchester )
- Autumn (text by Maltby; recorded by Barbra Streisand)
- It Goes Like It Goes (text by Norman Gimbel ; recorded by Jennifer Warndes )
- The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye) (Text by Marilyn and Alan Bergman ; recorded by Melissa Manchester, Nancy Lamott )
- Coffee, Black (2006, text by Maltby; recorded by John Pizzarelli )
Web links
- David Shire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- David Shire in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shire, David |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo , New York , USA |