I read some sad news today relevant to the film music community.
One of Bruce Kimmel's contemporaries -- a British chap named
David Wishart -- passed last night from cancer. David had been sick for quite some time, and he had been in and out of hospital and taking chemo. Thankfully, he was able to be at home during Christmas, and he even posted a bit on some of the forums he frequented.
Wishart was a producer of soundtrack CDs. He had his own label for a while -- Cloud Nine Records -- on which he issued some treasured scores by Bernard Herrmann, Miklos Rozsa, Dimitri Tiomkin and John Williams.
He also worked extensively producing for Silva Screen Records (UK), and he produced many film music collections of British composers.
It's a devastating loss to the community -- David was a gentleman, an educator, a generous soul, and he had a wicked sense of humor. He was one of those people who never seemed to age, and I often accused him of having a grotesque portrait of himself under lock and key.
To have his voice silenced is an egregious loss.
