{"id":11584,"date":"2026-10-07T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:59:51","slug":"happy-birthday-gabriel-yared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=11584","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday Gabriel Yared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett: Happy 77th birthday to the great Lebanese-French composer Gabriel Yared with thanks for all the splendid film music and fine times at the World Soundtrack Awards. He is on the left in the picture from Gent several years ago with fellow Oscar-winner the late Maurice Jarre and Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias. If you saw Anthony Minghella\u2019s Best Picture-winning movie \u2018The English Patient\u2019, what you \u00a0probably recall most are Kristin Scott-Thomas in the cave, Juliet Binoche as the compassionate nurse and Gabriel\u2019s multi-award winning score. Have a great day, Gabriel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11585\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?attachment_id=11585\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11585\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11585\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11585\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5080-1024x594.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5080-1024x594.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5080-300x174.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5080-768x446.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5080-1536x892.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5080.jpeg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yared, Jarre, Iglesias<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett: Happy 77th birthday to the great Lebanese-French composer Gabriel Yared with thanks for all the splendid film music and fine times at the World Soundtrack Awards. He is on the left in the picture from Gent several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=11584\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,5469],"tags":[310,595,850,1248],"class_list":["post-11584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-world-soundtrack-awards","tag-alberto-iglesias","tag-gabriel-yared","tag-maurice-jarre","tag-world-soundtrack-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11586,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions\/11586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}