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Topic: Favorite Symphonic Movie Music Score & Composer?
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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"
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From: Bloomington, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-01-2002 10:39 AM
Oh, yes!Greg that's a great theme. I can sit through the closing credits anytime, anywhere. Those violins and trumpets..."The Right Stuff" is really the most soaring theme I can think of. I have been known to start the DVD of "The Right Stuff" at the Claire de Lune fan dance at the Texas barbeque and then watch straight through to the end from there. In fact...That sounds like a GREAT idea! ------------------
~Manny. "The brown acid that is circulating around is not specifically too good." -- An announcement in the film, "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music."
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
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From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 07-01-2002 05:33 PM
Yankee Doodle Dandy Words and music George M. Cohan 1942 Favorite Film.Oklahoma Rogers and Hammerstein. Joel McCrea West Side Story- Lenard Bernstein 1964 Buddy Holly Story- Music Buddy Holly & Big Bopper and Ritchie Valans Hard Days Night - Beatles 1966
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Dwayne Caldwell
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From: Rockwall, TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 07-01-2002 08:33 PM
I've been listening to alot of James Newton Howard and David Arnold lately. J.N.H.'s Flatliners is kick ass, but they never released a commerical CD. Just some bootlegs floating around. Same with Arnold's complete score to Independence Day and Shaft (which is actually good in that cheesy 70's kind of way). Dave, if you should ever have lunch with Broughton again, see if you can get me a copy of his complete score to Young Sherlock Holmes.  Intrada released a limited edition recently (limited to 500 copies I believe) that sold out before I could get a copy. Those bastards. ------------------
The man with the magic hands.
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the
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From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 07-02-2002 09:41 AM
My favourites are "Lawrence of Arabia" (which is probably also my favourite movie)and "Star Wars". But I found Williams` work for Episode 1+2 very disappointing and on top of that, not very well played and recorded. I think Hans Zimmer should also be mentioned. A lot of his music sounds the same but sometimes he comes up with great ideas as on the scores for "Black Rain" (another of my favourite movies) and especially "Gladiator" which has some very good moments.
By the way, in the Russian original it`s BALD mountain, a location near Kiev. There are three versions, the original orchestral draft, a second draft including a baritone solo and chorus which Moussorgsky intended to be included in a never finished opera. And finally, Rimsky-Korssakov`s version, which is based largely on the second version, but without the voices and with a much tamer and conventional orchestration. R-K also "corrected" some of M`s harmonic extravaganzas not because he thought they were wrong, but because he feared people weren`t ready for them at his time. But we are now, and the original versions are really the ones one should listen to.
Recommended recordings:
Original version: Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnanyi on Decca
Chorus Version: Berlin Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado on Sony Classical
R-K: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Charles Dutoit on Decca
Michael
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