Christopher Smith wrote:
whereas some others like John Williams hand over highly detailed 6-staff sketches, leaving the orchestrator with little to do besides prepare the full score and decide section splits (and maybe add in some accents and crescendos that JW might have missed.)
I personally think John Williams' orchestrator does more than this. There's a big difference in style between the Herbert Spencer orchestrations and the stuff following it, specially in the "void" at the beginning of the 90s.
Btw, an British composer I know composed the music for a couple of Hollywood movies in the 70s. He said that "Hollywood rules" forced a composer to have an orchestrator even if that person isn't used (in cases where the composer orchestrate him/herself, which my fried did). Was it really like that? Or perhaps it still is like that?
Unions can be very powerful and can force industries to maintain (and pay for) jobs which may not be needed in specific instances.
I recall hearing of some such jobs in Broadway pit orchestras, where certain individuals were always hired for each show and very often didn't have to play a single note, sometimes didn't even have to show up!
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