my first beef with Taxi

[didger]

I don't normally complain, had plenty of practice with rejection in high school, and have agreed with every return I got from Taxi until now. I just can't understand the reasoning on this one.BIG ORCHESTRAL TRACKS are needed immediately by the Licensing Partner of a Music Production Company that specializes in original music for Film and TV as well as Documentaries. Their clients include FOX TV, ABC Family, E Entertainment, ESPN and many more. They would like to hear instrumentals that have high energy, a good build, and also contains tension/a dark undercurrent of emotion. They gave the film Gladiator as a perfect example of the type of underscore they are looking for – but please don’t send a soundalike, they are looking for original tracks only. Here's my piece that I did for the listing after first listening to Gladiator:http://www.taximusic.com/stream/253811/ ... ert.mp3The critique was, "More World music than big orchestral. Cool sound, though!"If you only listen to the 30 second clips of the Gladiator soundtrack on iTunes, you will hear santoor (the one melodic/harmonic "world" instrument I used), taiko (I used), some hand drums, dumbek or darbuka or something (I used djembes and admittedly got a bit louder at the end to satisfy the energy and build requirement), plus flamenco guitar, duduk and male and female "world" vocals. Gladiator is clearly a big orchestral AND world music score, so I made something using full orchestral strings, percussion, trumpets, trombones and horns, using some similar tonalities and moody legato strings that I heard in Gladiator, and some of the same "world" instruments, but I didn't intentionally imitate any specific melodies, harmonies or rhythms. It's got dark undercurrent, it's all about building to high energy. So I was sure I was nailing this one.But it was returned for being too "world," when all the world instrumentation and inspiration came from the one example they gave as "perfect?" I would have accepted other reasoning, but the reason I was given makes me think the reviewer didn't listen to Gladiator before doing the critiques and just focused on "big orchestral."Any thoughts?