Maurice Jarre ranks among the finest of film composers with a career that began
in France in the 1950s and led to the pinnacles of success in Hollywood and
around the world. Nominated for nine Academy Awards, he won three, each for a
David Lean epic: 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962), 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) and 'A
Passage to India' (1984). His love theme for 'Doctor Zhivago', called 'Lara's
Theme', with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, became a hit record for the Ray
Conniff Singers, Connie Francis, Andy Williams and others. A theme he wrote for
Lean's 1970 film 'Ryan's Daughter', with...