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Topic: Favorite Symphonic Movie Music Score & Composer?
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Geof Abruzzi
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From: Mesilla, NM, USA
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 06-24-2002 05:28 PM
First:"Night on Bald Mountain" is the title usuall used for the Rimsky-Korsakov adaptation of the original Mussorgsky piece. Mussorgsky himself went through several versions, and that one is usually titles as "St. Johns Night on the Bare Mountain". Of course all of these are Russian translation, so you can make the translation as spare or wordy as you like. Personally I much prefer the MM versions over the RK versions (the one used on Fantasia is the RK version, and in fact it is very hard to find recordings of the MM version.) The RK version has always felt kind of tame and pretty compared to the MM version which also uses full choir and soloists. very very cool. Film Composers: Not suited for all films, but Michael Nyman's work on Peter Greenaway films is amazing. (basically Draughtmans Contract through The Cook...) Also his score for "The Piano" is amazing. Bernard Herman rules. Elliot Goldenthal's score for "Titus" was really great. And of course, Ennio Morricone. According to IMDB he has scored about 450 films! But some are amazing: "The Mission" "The Good Bad and Ugly" (ok maybe not great, but memorable.) Maybe it's not exactly fair, but Prokofiev did some amazing scores for some Eisenstein Films. Geof
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 06-25-2002 04:35 PM
Greg: Absolutely not: the 1935 election in Britain was a very controversial one over the issue of rearmament. The left held that we should not spend money on this on the grounds of 'never again' after WWI, but Baldwin and the Tories argued that we could not ignore Germany tearing up the Versailles and Locarno agreements and doing the same thing. IMHO, Things to Come exposed these fears very effectively and it must have made very uncomfortable viewing when it was first shown. quote:
Maybe it's not exactly fair, but Prokofiev did some amazing scores for some Eisenstein Films.
I love his scores for Lieutenant Kije and Ivan the Terrible (OK, Kije is not at all Eisenstein - let's face it, he was never into comedy).
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Manny Knowles
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posted 06-27-2002 09:12 AM
John Williams...Superman - main title and end credits, krypton intro and flying over metropolis
E.T. - Escape/Chase/Saying Goodbye (the music alone can bring tears to my eyes)
Raiders - The Map Room
The Empire Strikes Back - Entire Score (Vader's Theme, The Asteroid Field and the closing scene especially)
Saving Private Ryan - Hymn To The Fallen --- James Horner... Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - opening title
Apollo 13 - The Launch Sequence
The Rocketeer* - Most all of the album is good, but tends toward repetition [main theme overused in trailers for other movies]
Willow - Willow's Theme [overused in trailers for other movies]
Cocoon - Theme from Cocoon *The Rocketeer soundtrack contains a GREAT version of "Begin The Beguine." --- John Barry - Somewhere In Time & Out Of Africa (entire albums)
Maurice Jarre - Lawrence Of Arabia
David Arnold - Stargate Overture --- As for Ennio Morricone... The first half of "The Mission" soundtrack is really inspired. A lot of the second half seems repetitive (with the exception of Ave Maria Guarani). Some of the themes in "The Untouchables" are really memorable, too. --- I have posted this info elsewhere, but it seems appropriate in this thread as well... "Titanic: The Essential James Horner" is a really good 2-CD set to have, especially if you want to build up a collection of familiar movie themes (instrumentals). "The Hollywood Sound" is just great. It's a collection of Oscar-winning themes. John Williams conducts The London Symphony Orchestra. "Film Music" by Michael J. Lewis is a very good 2-CD set as well. I had never heard of him. This was one of those happy accidents with Columbia House.
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Michael Brown
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From: Bradford, England
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posted 06-27-2002 05:38 PM
Edward Shearmur The K-Pax score (The opening titles im particular) were good. They were a similar style of Elfman. Cruel Intentions was also good in some parts.
---------------- Tim Burtons Ed Wood:
The music was by Howard Shore (In the absence of Elfman)
Very Good, Shore copies Elfmans style wonderfully.
Other note worthy Shore Films (for me): Copland, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Mrs Doubtfire
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Paul Cassidy
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From: Auckland, New Zealand
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 06-28-2002 04:03 PM
Elmer Bernstein for the Score of "The Magnificent Seven"
His first major recognition came from the score for Man with the Golden Arm (1955). He continued to score important films throughout his illustrious career, continuing well into the 1990's. Among the several hundred titles to Bernstein's credit include The Ten Commandments (1956), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Hawaii (1966), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) for which he won his only Oscar. Bernstein's more recent work includes such well-known scores as Ghostbusters (1984 ), Cape Fear (1991), A River Runs Through It (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993) and Devil In A Blue Dress (1995
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