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Jeannot Boever, Pascal Dupont, N. William Snedden

Webmaster and Manager : Jeannot Boever  (Died February 4, 2024), Pascal.
Web creation ( Concept Cinescores Center, design and logo)  by
Pascal Dupont  (nautylus.design@gmail.com)

Photo opening Slider - Basil Poledouris by Julio Rodriguez - With his kind permission


Many thanks to the following

Alex Raksin: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; son of Hollywood composer David Raksin

Andrew Knowles: Chairman of the Alan Rawsthorne Trust 

Annette Insdorf: Columbia University Film Professor and Moderator of "Reel Pieces" at Manhattan's 92Y

Dave Stein: The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

Dirk Wickenden: Saxophonist and film music journalist

Dimitri Kennaway: Composer and pianist; his stepfather was the acclaimed composer Benjamin Frankel

Doug Raynes : Miklos Rozsa Society Associate, Soundtrack ! website administrator

Eleanor Angel (Violist) and Jonathan Angel: Niece and nephew of Hollywood composer Hugo Friedhofer

Hans Sørensen: Director of Artistic Planning hos Singapore Symphony Group

Hugh Wooldridge: Theatre and television producer and writer; son of British composer John Wooldridge

James V. D’Arc: Formerly Curator of the BYU Library – Special Collections

John Fitzpatrick: Editor of Pro Musica Sana; Quarterly Publication of the Miklos Rozsa Society

Kirk Henderson: Art director and conceptual designer at Kirksworks

Len Mullenger: Founder and owner of MusicWeb International

Luc Van de Ven: Publisher and editor of Soundtrack! magazine

Petr Bakla: Director of Czech Music Information Center
Randall D. Larson: Independent Soundtrax Columnist, buysoundtrax

Ray Faiola: Owner-operator of Chelsea Rialto Studios a classic film score restoration company

Robert Orledge: Musicologist, and a professor emeritus of the University of Liverpool.

Roger Hall: Publisher and Editor, Film Music Review

William H. Rosar: Film historian-musicologist and editor of the Journal of Film Music

Zach Klitzman: Editorial Assistant; Library of Congress Publishing Office


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In tribute to our sincere friend, Jeannot Boever

En hommage à notre ami sincère, Jeannot qui nous a quitté le 4 Fevrier 2024

Je laisse un autre ami, Bill Snedden en dire plus sur ton combat contre le cancer

dans son hommage touchant qu'il vient de me faire parvenir - ci dessous.


Repose en paix Jeannot.

Je prie pour que tu puisses enfin rencontrer tous ces

grands personnages, ces compositeurs de génie que tu as merveilleusement bien servi

en y mettant toute ta passion, ton investissement créatif et ton dévouement.


Pour le futur, avec d'autres amis certainement, nous essaierons de préserver au mieux ton travail sur le web et faire en sorte que tout ce que tu as fait profite à des générations futures et passionnées par la musique de cinéma.

Nous avons beaucoup fait ensembles, trouver des solutions graphiques et des modes de présentation pour nos sites internet. Ton aisance à travailler sur le net nous a considérablement aidé à nous investir autrement, dans les styles et des designs divers.  La beauté, la sobriété de Cinescores Center ainsi que sa clarté a été le fruit de la conjonction de nos talents respectifs.

Ensembles, à la tâche, nous avions l'impression que tout nous était possible, grace à notre rapidité de réflexion et d'exécution.

Tu étais un ami hors pair et un collaborateur plaisant. Depuis notre association sur le site officiel de Georges Delerue en 2013, nous n'avons cessé de travailler en team.  Moi en France, toi au Luxembourg.  Sur Skype, nous pouvions travailler des heures des heures les après midi sur les sites dédiés.

Hugo Friedhofer que nous avons fait trois fois, Cinescores center, deux fois, Lp Cover Art, Soundtrack archives, Roy Budd Museum, un site sur Maurice jarre qui n'a jamais vu le jour, un autre sur David Raksin qui restera dans les tuyaux et le dernier en date, celui de Benjamin Frankel, particulièrement fascinant et que je vais continuer d'enrichir.

Jeannot, j'ai eu la chance de travailler et de partager avec toi. C'était un privilège de t'avoir en ami.

                                                                                               

Benjamin Frankel


Tout simplement, bravo et merci. Ton âme demeure dans tout ce que tu as touché et réalisé.

                                                                                                                                          À  Jeannot.  Pascal



Je remercie Bill pour son message chaleureux et comprends son désarroi à savoir

que tu n'es plus de ce monde. Tout à été latent mais si rapide et tellement difficile pour toi.

Nous aurions tellement aimé être là, à côté de toi pour te dire un dernier au revoir. Ton dernier mot, nous ne l'avons pas entendu.  Tout ça reste troublant et injuste. 

je me joints à Bill pour un dernier signe de la terre. 


A ton épouse et tes enfants avec lesquels nous partageons cette peine.


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Remembering Jeannot Boever By Bill Snedden


It’s hard to comprehend that Jeannot is gone from this world, barely having time to start enjoying his retirement. Early in life he was a joiner for 16 years and for a time went back to school before joining the Luxembourg government (Maritime Affairs Commission). Jeannot was a remarkably kind and generous person. I corresponded with him for a little over five years. Our initial contact was in connection with Hugo Friedhofer. After seeing almost nothing on the web Jeannot took it upon himself to start a Friedhofer website. We often shared stories about ‘The Hug’ and music in general: MOR (Middle of the Road), classical and film. He told me his very first LP was the last live concert in Hawaii by Elvis Presley and the second record he purchased was a Morricone Western LP. After that came soundtracks: Ben-Hur, El Cid, The Lion in Winter and Alexander Nevsky. From here on he was hooked on film music. Providence was his all time favourite Rózsa score.


Jeannot owned somewhere in the region of 3,000 LPs but had to give these up to make room for his children. His collection was sold to Harold Moores, London’s last classical record shop. Harold, a friend of Bernard Herrmann, came in person to Luxembourg to pick up the collection. Jeannot always like the tactile feel of vinyl and would sit with the LP sleeve in his hand while listening to the music, something we had in common. After downsizing to mp3 format he began borrowing LPs from friends, scanning and uploading the covers in high definition, 14,000 quality images, a fraction of which survive online.

Jeannot taught me a lot about film music. His knowledge of the genre was encyclopaedic. He was a generous and gracious person and wouldn’t hesitate to offer help on just about anything you asked of him, from translating materials in a foreign language, to digitally touching up old black and white photographs of long forgotten film composers. I greatly envied his IT and web building skills.


I last wrote to Jeannot at the end of January 2024. He was undergoing chemo and I was witness to the daily struggle he bravely endured. At the time he was encouraging me to broaden my taste and to listen to Philippe Sarde, recommending two albums in particular: Tess and The Princess of Montpensier. Our last editorial project together was Toru Takemitsu; an article by Karsten Witt originally published in Soundtrack magazine, remaining unposted. Jeannot worked on his iPad right up to the end, continually improving, honing and expanding Cinescores Center and his many other websites, promoting and elevating film music: A-list and B-movie composers, interviews, book reviews and literature.

Please help keep Jeannot’s legacy alive by reading and valuing the many articles he wisely selected, most of which are written by his best friends and colleagues.


Adieu mon bon ami.



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