Creating grand, sweeping, orchestral soundtracks for Hollywood movies 'Conan the
Barbarian', 'RoboCob' and 'Free Willy', Basil Poledouris filled his music with
epic drama and majestic ambience and was widely recognised as one of the most
groundbreaking film score composers of the 1980s and '90s.
Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, Poledouris began taking classical piano
lessons at the age of seven, and set his sights on becoming a concert pianist
until he became disillusioned with the modern composition classes that he was
taking at the School of Music at the University of So...