Star Trek composer dies

Star Trek composer dies

RIP

norman lebrecht

February 19, 2023

The East Coast composer Gerald Fried has died in Connecticut.

He started working on NBC’s Star Trek in mid-first season and made an indelible mark on the second-season opener, ‘Amok Time.’

He had previously scored Stanley Kubrick’s first four films: Fear and Desire (1953), Killer’s Kiss (1955), The Killing (1956) and Paths of Glory (1957).

Fried started out in 1948 as a woodwind player in the Dallas Symphony.

Obituary here.

Comments

  • Old Man in the Midwest says:

    What a rich musical life well lived to the end. Quite a fascinating obituary for a musician.

  • YB Schragadove says:

    Age was 95 according to the obituary, not 88.

  • J Barcelo says:

    For many of my generation Fried will always be known for writing the music for the goofy show GIlligan’s Island. RIP.

  • Adam Stern says:

    I think of Fried most fondly as composer of a couple of fine scores for 1950s Grade B horror flicks: “The Return of Dracula” (great use of the Dies irae), and “I Bury the Living” (sample the opening — dig the creepy harpsichord part, and the segue into “Hey Ho, Nobody Home” — so appropriate for a graveyard):

    https://youtu.be/jMwfhCT8CSE

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