To the editor: It’s not notably shocking that the producers of the 2026 Golden Globes broadcast determined to relegate the announcement of finest authentic rating to a industrial break (“What you didn’t see on TV on the Golden Globes,” Jan. 12). Just a few years in the past, the producers of the Academy Awards eliminated authentic rating and different craft classes from their broadcast earlier than reinstating them the next yr.
However why ought to anybody be shocked when so many latest film scores appear to aspire extra towards the realm of sound design than memorable music? I believe that, if the present development continues, the unique rating and sound design classes will merge into one (“finest aural atmosphere”?).
Largely gone from our newest blockbusters are memorable themes, these musical signatures that stick with us lengthy after the popcorn bag is empty. It is a big loss and, like a lot that has slowly been taken from us, we’re, in our lack of vocal protest, complicit in its disappearance. The worth of the well-crafted, memorable musical theme has been downgraded in favor of (largely) technologically generated sounds, gestures and punctuation.
And whereas some movie-goers (or producers or administrators) could not think about music an important component of a very good or nice movie, I counsel all of us think about for a second the sweeping aural vistas of Maurice Jarre’s music for “Lawrence of Arabia” or the characterful John Williams themes for the “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and “Harry Potter” films. When E.T. boards his spaceship to return residence, Steven Spielberg’s filmmaking presents convey tears to our eyes, however I counsel it’s Williams’ music that wets our cheeks.
Robert J. Elias, Santa Clarita
