\nDominoes meme where the first one is “Anthony Yerkovich pitches NBC ‘MTV Cops’” and the last one is “orchestras play JRPG concerts”
You see Miami Vice began the trend of scoring television with contemporary pop songs rather than orchestration, and while other factors were at play (including ones particular to features \u2013 the soundtrack album was establishing itself as a revenue stream) orchestral scoring took a big hit. Now, civic and other “high art” orchestras often subsidized their artistic ambition by playing “Pops” concerts of familiar songs, and “recognizable tune arranged for an orchestra” was traditionally a soundtrack wheelhouse. Well\u2026
Of course Miami Vice has scoring composed just for the show \u2013 that’s what Jan Hammer was for!
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