He made you hear the twisted murmurings of colonial India, the elegiac Russian winter and the swirling Arabian desert sands. His film scores comprised the breadth of modern cinema: Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day, The Tin Drum, A Passage to India, Fatal Attraction, Dr. Zhivago, Witness and Ghost. There were three Academy Awards and the privilege of working alongside Lean, Hitchcock, Weir, and Schlöndorff, to name but a few. With him gone, movies won’t sound quite the same. RIP.

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