{"id":749,"date":"2012-07-05T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/07\/the-roots-of-a-film-composer.html"},"modified":"2012-07-05T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T00:18:00","slug":"the-roots-of-a-film-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/07\/the-roots-of-a-film-composer.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of a Film Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS week, British film composer George Fenton &#8212; he wrote the scores to Gandhi, Groundhog Day, The History Boys, lots of Ken Loach films, and dozens more &#8212; comes to the Hollywood Bowl to conduct <i>Frozen Planet<\/i>, a documentary that&#8217;s shown on the BBC to much acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>I corresponded with him for my Influences column and he came up with some expected choices &#8212; playwright Alan Bennett, who he&#8217;s worked with several times &#8212; as well as some I didn&#8217;t predict, like Rothko. The whole story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-influences-20120705,0,2585961.story\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS week, British film composer George Fenton &#8212; he wrote the scores to Gandhi, Groundhog Day, The History Boys, lots of Ken Loach films, and dozens more &#8212; comes to the Hollywood Bowl to conduct Frozen Planet, a documentary that&#8217;s shown on the BBC to much acclaim. I corresponded with him for my Influences column [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,76,67,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-film","8":"category-hollywood-bowl","9":"category-west-coast","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}