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26 101 Great Film Scores on CD 2 Editorial Here at the end of the year, century, millennium, Counting the Votes. —FSM sticks out its collective neck and selects the ultimate list of influential, significant 4 News and enjoyable soundtracks released on CD. , 1922-2000; By Joe Sikoryak, with John Bender, Jeff Bond, Winter Awards Winners. Jason Comerford, Tim Curran, Jeff Eldridge, 5 Jonathan Z. Kaplan, Lukas Kendall Round- & Chris Stavrakis What’s on the way. 6 Now Playing 33 21 Should’a Been Contenders Movies and CDs in release. Go back to Back to the Future for 41 Missing in Action 8 Concerts ’round-the-clock analysis. Live performances page 16 around the world. f e a t u r e s 9 Upcoming Assignments 14 To Score or Not To Score? Who’s writing what Composer Alan Silvestri found his music for whom. struggling for survival in the post-production of Cast Away. 11 Mail Bag By Jeff Bond Brucing up the Place.

16 Future Past Present 49 Score Sometimes pop classics yield good soundtracks; The latest CD reviews, come back to Back to the Future to analyze what including: The Phantom works so well. Menace: Ultimate By Jon and Al Kaplan Edition, and Sound and Vision. Now on DVD, The Cell offers a 45 Crouching Composer, cerebral sound experience. Hidden Cellist page 22 Composer and cellist Yo-Yo Ma discuss 62 Pocket Reviews scoring the atypical art-house action flick. Attention Deficit By Jeff Bond Disc Honors.

64 Retrograde i n t e r v i e w Tuning up for Prime Time. 22 Set Free in The Cell Howard Shore returns to the serial killer 52 Marketplace with a twist. By Doug Adams 12 Reader Ads

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editorial staff or, WHY IT TOOK US TEN YEARS TO COMPILE A LIST OF 101 GREAT FILM SCORES Editor & Publisher lukas Kendall SENIOR Editor est of” lists are tempting. It’s This last matter is especially important. Jeff Bond an irresistible notion, to try In the last 10 years the state of film music MANAGING EDITOR “Band come up with the definitive on CD has gone from largely unavailable tim Curran list of our favorite music. It’s easy enough with a few good to largely available Departments Editor to start: Gone With the Wind, Ben-Hur, with fewer and fewer important works still Jonathan Z. Kaplan Psycho, The Empire Strikes Back, the big unrepresented. In 1990 collecting film music DESIGN Director stuff. Those roll off the tongue. So do the on CD was about hungering for those favor- Joe Sikoryak next dozen or two. Then it gets much more ite scores beyond our reach, gobbling them Contributing Writers difficult... Bullitt or Dirty Harry? Laura up one by one as they came out; today the doug Adams or The Bad and the Beautiful? Eventually new collector is surrounded by hundreds if John Bender it becomes a maddening, almost arbitrary not thousands of titles. Whereas our buying A.K. Benjamin effort demanding a sort of overall macro pattern used to be dictated by the order in Jason Comerford justice that smoothes over the endless micro which the material trickled out, today it’s up Martin Dougherty inequities: trade you that extra Herrmann to us to shop for the good stuff. This maga- Jeff Eldridge for a Friedhofer. zine, therefore, must expand from mere rabid steven A. Kennedy NO RECOUNTS: At All of this explains why I never tried to reporting of new CDs to thoughtful coverage Chris Stavrakis least we didn’t do it! In 10 years of publishing Film Score of everything out there. I don’t know if any- have any chads, Monthly I have considered the notion of one has or would want to have all of our 101 copyeditor dimples or a “best scores ever” article but never had greats in the same collection. The material steve Gilmartin butterflies to the wherewithal to follow through and crosses generations and shares in Thanks to contend with. make the tough choices. I wish I could only the fact that it accompanies movies. b.A. Vimtrup say “until now,” but the fact is, I still It is natural that each fan would gravitate don’t have the wherewithal! The list of toward a certain era or style and home in business staff 101 Great Film Scores on CD in this issue on that particular world, be it Golden Age, is the brainchild of our talented art director, Silver Age, contemporary, foreign, electronic Associate Publisher Joe Sikoryak, who came to us four years ago or otherwise. But this list is an important Chelo Avila offering his services for a movie music fan overview of all those worlds and how they EDITORIAL & SUBSCRIPTIONS magazine solely out of his love for the mate- mesh to form a unified pantheon of great 8503 Washington Blvd rial. Since 1997 the look of the magazine has works. I thank Joe and our staff for putting Culver City, CA 90232 been Joe’s doing, and today more of the feel of it together and letting enjoy it the same PH. 310-253-9595 it is his as well. Joe was the one who pushed way as you, the readers—it’s fascinating FAX 310-253-9588 for doing the 101 greats and then did the reading and I can’t wait to argue against E-MAIL [email protected] brutal, inescapable work to make it happen: those choices I don’t like! brainstorming entries, soliciting knowledge- SALES & MARKETING MANAGER able contributors, rounding up reviews—and One last thing: despite the awesome pro- bob Hebert making the tough choices. 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In fact, FSM ers; has always put out 9 or 10 issues a year and OUR WEBSITE 3 That it hedge its bets with reasonable not 12 as the title “Monthly” might imply. I is updated five times weekly! guidelines to limit the potential entries picked that title when I was 18 so we’re kind Point your browser at: (see the article, page 26); of stuck with it! WWW.FILMSCOREMONTHLY.COM 4 That it serve as a useful and accurate © 2000 Vineyard Haven LLC. overview of suggested film scores for our Printed in the U.s.a. CD-buying readers. Lukas Kendall

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NEWS Smarter Than the Average Bandleader book-like shows derived from Gaylord Carter: Hoyt Curtin: 1922-2000 Curtin’s scoring for , a groundbreaking adult- 1905-2000 oriented cartoon that aired in omposer and silent movie prime time and featured one of Corganist Gaylord Carter the most thrilling and dynamic died November 20 in San Pedro, title themes ever written for tele- , at the age of 95. vision. Curtin won an ASIFA One of the last surviving organ- Winsor McCay Award for life- ists from the silent movie era, time achievement in November Carter was best known for accom- 2000. He was also the author of panying 1926’s silent classic Ben- a book, Music? Write It by Ear. Hur when it opened at the Million Curtin’s other credits include Mr. Dollar Theater in and Magoo, The throughout its six-month stint Show, Wacky Races, Partridge there. He composed much of what Family 2200 A.D., he played; in fact, he was hired by Phooey, Battle of the Planets, The Paramount in the to score a Smurfs and The Super . dozen film classics for home video —Jeff Bond release. Winter Awards Winners

omposer Hoyt Curtin— as 1953’s Mesa of Lost Women • was presented with Billboard’s Cprolific composer and and 1954’s Jail Bait (credited as annual Century Award for creative achievement in music supervisor for most of Hoyt Kurtain); later, he worked songwriting and film scoring at the Billboard Music Hanna-Barbera’s best-known on the anthology comedy series Awards ceremony at the Las Vegas MGM Grand animated television programs— Love, American Style and the Arena in December. For a full list of winners, visit died December 3 at his home 1978 TV movie KISS Meets the www.billboard.com/musicawards/win2000.asp in Southern California. He was Phantom of the Park. 78. Curtin’s early work was in His distinctive songs and Randy Newman will be honored again, this time with the commercial jingles, experience comic mickey-mousing for the Award for achievement in film scor- that proved invaluable when he Hanna-Barbera cartoons were ing at the 12th Annual Nortel Networks Palm Springs went on to work for legendary, with a swinging, big- International Film Festival, Saturday, January 13, 2001, giant Hanna-Barbera in the late band influence in his themes, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Other honorees 1950s. He eventually wrote some and unusual instrumentation, include actor Nicolas Cage and director . of the catchiest theme songs ever including and odd heard on television, including percussion. Curtin was equally • Ennio Morricone will be honored by The themes for , The adept at writing high-powered, National Board of Review with a career achieve- Jetsons, , exciting action music for car- ment award for excellence in film music scoring. and Josey and the Pussycats. toon adventure series like The Morricone’s many credits include The Good, the Bad, and Curtin’s scoring for , and the Ugly, Maddalena, The Untouchables and the recent was less frequent, although he The Herculoids. Much of the Mission to Mars. The awards will be presented January 16 did get early work on such films music tracked into these comic- during a Board gala at Tavern on the Green in City. Corrections On page 29 of FSM Volume 5, Number 6, director • The Simpsons continues to garner awards after was quoted describing composer Howard Shore’s approach to scor- 12 seasons; this time honors were bestowed upon ing his film The Cell. Singh’s quote gives the impression that Mr. series composer at the 28th Annual Annie Shore used the f-word while addressing the Philharmonic Award show in late November. Clausen’s music won ; in fact this was Mr. Singh’s colorful way of expressing for Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime or Late himself, and Mr. Shore would like to assure everyone that he never Night Animated Television Program and for Outstanding used such profanity in his discussions with the orchestra. Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Oh, and that anonymous Downbeat on ’s Requiem Television Production, with the episode entitled “Behind for a Dream score (Vol. 5, No. 8) was written by Jeff Bond. the Laughter”—a spoof on VH1’s popular series Behind Sorry Jeff. FSM the Music.

N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0  F i l m S c ore M ont h l y On Wax) has been pushed out to February. Due in February is Contact: Prof. Roberto Zamori La Linea (Franco Godi), featur- P.O. Box 13 - 59014 Iolo - PRATO - Record Label Round-Up ing music with some voice-over Tel./Fax : +39-0574-625109 Start saving your lunch money! and sound effects. www.hexacord.com Write Cinesoundz, Lindwurmstr 147, 80337 Muenchen, Germany; Hollywood tel: +49-89-767-00-299 Due Jan. 23: The Wedding Amber Records Due March 6 are the latest fax: +49-89-767-00-399 Planner (Mervyn Warren); Mar. Forthcoming from Elmer in the “Chapter III Classics” [email protected]; www.cinesoundz.de 20: Summer Catch; Mar. 27: At Bernstein’s new label are series, (Ron 17 (various artists); May 15: Pearl Volume Two of the Charles & Goodwin), El Cid (), Decca Harbor (Zimmer). Eames films series, and a The VIPs (Rózsa), Biggest Bundle Due Feb. 6 is Hannibal (Hans rerecording of Kings of the Sun of Them All (Riz Ortalani)/ Zimmer). Due Feb. 26 is a Intrada (1963 epic with Yul Brynner). ZigZag (Oliver Nelson) and Hotel second CD of previously unre- Promotional releases of Bruce www.elmerbernstein.com Paradiso (Laurence Rosenthal)/ leased score cues to Gladiator Broughton’s Jeremiah and The Comedians (Rosenthal). (Zimmer). ’s The Wonder Artemis www.chapteriii.com Boys are available now. Forthcoming are Vol. 2: Ship of Fools, Ernest laboration with director Franklin CinemaScope features of the Gold Vol. 3: Cross of Iron; FSM Classics Schaffner. The score, totalling early ’50s. While the tale of rival Mary, Queen of Scots (John over an hour of music, is in ste- sponge-divers in the keys Barry); Anne of the Thousand or the first time, Film Score reo. was fairly routine, the picture Days (); FMonthly is releasing two The is paired with was enlivened considerably by Khartoum/ Ring of Bright titles in a single month, a Golden an 11-minute suite of cues from dramatic underwater photogra- Water (Frank Cordell; with additional music and opening narration by Leo Genn). Buyer Beware: Initial reports are that the latter is remastered from LP, suggesting that the subse- quent releases listed above may be as well.

Buddha Records Forthcoming from Buddha Records will be several RCA Records titles from years past. Due in January is The Pink Panther, which will feature Age and a Silver Age album Nick Quarry, an unsold television phy and Herrmann’s score (then additional tracks from the film’s simultaneously. series demo based on the feature studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck sequels. First comes The Stripper, one Tony . This mono record- singled out Herrmann’s score of ’s earliest ing was discovered in the 20th as having elevated the film’s assignments and an important Century-Fox vaults and has not impact.) The CD features the Forthcoming is The Glass one in that it is one of his earliest been heard since 1967. entire score in stereo. Menagerie (, 1950). scores available to collectors, Future releases include working in a genre uncommon But Wait, There’s More several new to the Chromatic Records to his oeuvre. This adaptation of FSM is also proud to announce its series...but their names would be Due Jan. 2001: License to Chill: the William Inge play A Loss of first release featuring the legend- telling. As always, we invite you Spy vs. Fly, a trip-hop tribute Roses starred Joanne Woodward ary : Beneath to send us your suggestions; con- to James Bond spy music. Due and more importantly, marked the 12-Mile Reef. tact info, pg. 2. FSM spring 2001: V.I.P. The Original Goldsmith’s first film col- This film was one of the first Television Soundtrack (Frankie Blue). www.chromaticrecords.com Cinesoundz Hexacord Productions www.intrada.com Due in January is Filmmuseum Tentatively scheduled for mid- Chapter III Vol. 1 & 2, a 2-CD winter are Un Genio, Due JOS Records Due Jan. 23: Invisible Circus, compilation of German film Compari, Un Pollo (Ennio Available now are John Scott featuring score from Nick Laird- music from 1900 (not 1950 Morricone; featuring a bonus CDs Shergar, The Lucona Clowes (formerly of the band as announced previously) track from Autostop Rosso Affair and an expanded version Dream Academy), and songs through present day. The Ennio Sangue), Copkiller (Morricone; of Antony & Cleopatra. by Yo La Tengo, the Upsetters, Morricone remix CD (various includes previously unreleased John Scott’s website: http://webhome. Trashmonk, Woodrow Wilson artists, including Rockers HiFi, material), Nana and Il Tesoro idirect.com/~rlevy/ Jackson III and Petra Haden. Pizzicato Five and Nightmares Delle 4 Corone (both Morricone). (continued on next page)

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Marco Polo Fingers and most of the score to www.mmmrecordings.com Their next commercial release Still forthcoming: The Treasure The Snows of Kilimanjaro. is a Ronald Stein doubleheader: of Sierra Madre (Max Steiner); a Pacific Time Entertainment Invasion of the Saucer Men/It CD of Roots of Milan Due Jan. 23: What’ s Cooking Conquered the World. Heaven (including cues by Alfred Jan. 23: Frasier (music from the (Craig Pruess); February 13: www.percepto.com Newman based on Arnold’s TV series). Forthcoming is Une Shadow of the Vampire (Dan work) and David Copperfield; Pour Toutes (). Jones), Ricky 6 (Joe Delia). Pomme () and a Steiner CD of Son of Kong www.milanrecords.com www.pactimeco.com Forthcoming is Le Fils du and The Most Dangerous Game. Francais (Vladmir Cosma). Coming from Swiss producer/ Monstrous Movie Music Percepto Records conductor Adriano: Georges The next Monstrous CD will be Forthcoming is a limited- Saimel Records Auric: Suites From Lola Montez, Mighty Joe Young. This “Ray release promotional CD for Forthcoming are La Reina Notre-Dame de , Farandole; Harryhausen tribute disc,” fea- Vic Mizzy, which will compile Isabel en Persona, La Rosa and Suites Rififi, La Symphonie tures music from three of his many of the composer’s classic de Piedra (Eva Gancedo) and Pastorale, Le Salaire de la Peur; early pictures: 1949’s Mighty Joe ’60s film and TV themes. Titles Tiempos de Azucar (Luis Ivars). and : The Young, (); 1957’s 20 will include The Ghost and www.rosebudbandasonora.com Fall of Berlin (complete original Million Miles to Earth, (Mischa Mr. Chicken, The Caper of the Email: [email protected] version), with suite from The Bakaleinikoff and Columbia Golden Bulls, A Very Special Memorable Year 1917. Scheduled music library cues by George Favor, The Night Walker, Did Screen Archives for release in the latter half Duning, Frederick Hollaender, You Hear the One About the Entertainment of 2001 are two titles we’ve David Diamond, Daniele Traveling Saleslady?, The Forthcoming is The Court- announced previously: an Adolph Amfitheatrof, Max Steiner, David Shakiest Gun in the West, The Martial of Billy Mitchell Deutsch album with extended Raksin and Werner Heymann); Spirit Is Willing, The Perils (). suites from The Maltese Falcon, and 1956’s The Animal World, an of Pauline, The Reluctant Contact Screen Archives Entertainment at High Sierra, George Washington Irwin Allen documentary scored Astronaut, The Love God, Don’t PO Box 500, Linden VA 22642; Slept Here, of by Paul Sawtell. This Island Make Waves, The Busy Body ph: 540-635-2575; fax: 540-635-8554; Dimitrios and Pursuit; Earth will follow. and How to Frame a Figg. TV www.screenarchives.com and a Bernard Herrmann CD fea- (800) 788-0892, fax: (818) 886-8820 themes include The Addams turing the complete score to Five email: [email protected] Family, and more. (continued on page 8)

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2220 Mountain Blvd, Suite 220 CA 94611 total______RECORD LABEL RO U ND- U P Film Music Concerts (continued from page 6) Martinez). Hear it loud and clear and live! Silva Screen Due Jan. 23 is The Varèse Sarabande Fugitive (original television Due Jan. 30: Cast Away (Alan Maryland soundtrack by ). Silvestri; album is report- Mauceri in Germany Feb. 15-18, Baltimore, edly filled out with cues from ohn Mauceri will conduct the Baltimore S.O., , Sonic Images other films). JGewandhausorchester cond.; Mission Impossible Forthcoming is the original www.varesesarabande.com Leipzig in a two-night con- (Schifrin), Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack for the Showtime cert series entitled “Love and (Jarre). horror series The Hunger, Verve Records Death in Hollywood.” The with music by FM LeSieur (through Universal France) performances—Jan. 19 and New York and . Forthcoming from this 20 at 8 p.m. in Gewandhaus, Jan. 20, Syracuse, Syracuse www.sonicimages.com French label are Papillon Leipzig, Germany—will feature S.O.; The Snowman (Howard (Jerry Goldsmith), L’Homme works from North by Northwest Blake) with film. Sony Classical Orchestre (Francois de (Bernard Herrmann), Psycho Feb. 15, N.Y.C., Eos Orchestra, Forthcoming is Le Prof (Jean- Roubaix), Serie des Fantomas (Herrmann), West Side Story Ethical Culture Center, Claude Petit). (Michel Magne), Le Cinema (), Cleopatra Jonathan Scheffer, cond.; www.sonyclassical.com/music/ de Georges Lautner (Divers, (), Lawrence of “Tribute to Bernard Herrmann,” soundtracks_idx.html compilation) and Le Cinema de Arabia (), Out of featuring Psycho and Wuthering Godard (Divers, compilation). Africa (), Cinema Heights. Super Collector www.traxzone.com Paradiso (Ennio Morricone), The Forthcoming are Scary Movie Godfather () and La North Carolina (David Kitay), Battle of the Please note: Dolce Vita (Rota). Feb. 10, Wilmington, Planets (Hoyt Curtin and We depend on the record labels For details, visit www.gewandhaus.de Wilmington S.O.; Vertigo Bob Sakura; 1978 animated for updated and/or amended (Herrmann). series) and promotional release information. And CDs of The Adventures though we’d prefer to present Thank you sir, may of and Bullwinkle these release announcements we have another… Jan. 12, , (Mark Mothersbaugh) and with 100 percent accuracy, ue to last year’s wildly Philadelphia Virtuoso Chamber Heavy Metal 2000: The Score dates slip, titles get pushed Dpopular concerts featur- Orchestra; Psycho (Herrmann). (Frederic Talgorn). out months or sometimes are ing work from www. supercollector.com canceled altogether. When that and ’s The Canada happens, it’s beyond our con- , the Montreal High Feb. 24-26, , Toronto TVT Records trol. Just so you know… FSM Lights Festival has scheduled S.O., Lara St. John, solo- Due Jan. 9: Traffic (Cliff another film music concert, ist; Carmen Fantasy (Franz this time celebrating the works Waxman). of Bernard Herrmann. On February 23, 2001, Rolf Bertsch will direct the Orchestre InternationalConcerts Symphonique de Montréal Reach a dedicated audience of synced to picture in perfor- Jan. 13, Cambridge, mances of such Herrmann clas- Kensington Orchestra; Vertigo film music fans, professionals sics as Vertigo, Marnie, Psycho (Herrmann). and Fahrenheit 451. and enthusiasts France orth merican Mar. 25, Paris, Orchestre des N A Concerts Lamoureux, Yutaka Concerts Sado, cond.; Psycho (Hermann). California Sweden Advertise in FSM Jan. 22, San Marino, Feb. 12, Stockholm, Fillen California Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Godfather Orchestra; (Ernest Suite (Nino Rota). For rates and information Gold), Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre). Remember to contact the orchestra’s box contact Bob Hebert office to confirm showtimes and other informa- Florida tion. Thanks go to John Waxman of Themes & Feb. 23, Boca Raton, Boca Variations (http://tnv.net) for this list; he provides 323-962-6077 Pops Orchestra; Mission scores and parts to the . For Impossible (). music concerts, see Tom Murray’s web site: www. [email protected] cinemaweb.com/lcc. FSM

N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0  F i l m S c ore M ont h l y Evan Evans Tripfall (Eric Roberts, John Ed Grenga Catalina Trust (d. Will Conroy). Ritter); Newsbreak (Michael Rooker, Andrew Gross Viva Las Nowhere. Upcoming Assignments Judge Reinhold). Who’s writing what for whom? —H— —F— Chris Hajian Naked States (documentary), Shayne Fair & Larry Herbstritt Tequila Raw Nerve, Yonkers Joe. Bodyshot. Denis Hannigan Catdog and the Great —A— Elia Cmiral Six Pack (French). Summer Catch. Parent Mystery ( TV feature). Mark Adler Focus. Serge Colbert The Body, Forever Lulu, Bad Allyn Ferguson Back to the Secret Garden Richard Hartley Peter’s Meteor, Victory. Eric Allaman The Last Act. City . (German theatrical, Hallmark release). Paul Haslinger At 17 (Disney), Cheaters John Altman Beautiful Joe. Michel Colombier Dark Summer, Pros & Frank Fitzpatrick Lani Loa (Zoetrope), (HBO). Craig Armstrong Moulin Rouge (Ewan Cons. Ghetto Superstars, Cowboys and Angels. Todd Hayen The Crown, The Last Flight. McGregor & Nicole Kidman). Eric Colvin Model Behavior. Nathan Fleet First Time Caller (d. Reinhold Heil/Johnny Klimek The D’Artagnan (dir. Peter Inferno (Jean-Claude Van Alessandro Zavaglia, ). Empress & The Warrior, Slacker. Hyams), Dr. Who (new theme arrange- Damme). Claude Foisy 2001: A Space Travesty John Hills Abilene. ment for audio books). Stewart Copeland Sunset Strip. (Leslie Nielsen). Peter Himmelman A Slipping-Down Life Eric Avery (former bassist for Jane’s Ruy Folguera Picking Up the Pieces (Guy Pearce, Taylor). Addiction) Sex With Strangers (Showtime —D— (Woody Allen, Sharon Stone). Weight of Water. documentary). Jeff Danna O (modern-day Othello). David Michael Frank The Last Patrol. Family Plan (Leslie Nielsen), Shaun Davey The Tailor of Panama (dir. Rhys Fulver Delivery. No Other Country, Africa, By the Dawn’s —B— John Boorman, Sony/Columbia). Early Light. 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N ovember /D ecember 2 0 0 0 10 F ilm S core M onthly READER album mercilessly chopped RANTS, in two, callously book-ending one of the Egyptian nightclub RA V ES & tracks and with its mid-sec- RESPONSE tion gone! Another disappointing MAIL BAG absence is the brief but won- Brucing Up the Place Too Little, Too Late We started phasing out Weinstein awhile derful Parisian waltz in A any thanks for the just received the lat- ago—that’s probably why you didn’t find View to a Kill when we cut Minsightful look into Iest issue of FSM, and it much of him in recent issues. And you’re too to the Eiffel Tower where one of our leading compos- saddens me to learn of the late. We’re not powerful like Entertainment Bond is meeting with a detec- ers. I missed the chance to departure of Jesus Weinstein. Weekly, so we can’t cavalierly insult the tive named after a vegetable! thank you for the earlier Bruce While I can’t remember if I things that we are reviewing. Unless you Mind you, I haven’t actually Broughton discography, but actually read anything by Mr. want to come work here and deal with all bought the Bond & Beyond 2 this time I’ll take the oppor- Weinstein, I am sure I must the complaining phone calls about Weinstein, CD yet, but the track listing tunity. Jeff Bond lets Bruce have over the years that I we’re not bringing him back. doesn’t suggest this cue to be do the talking, and Broughton have been reading this publi- on there. Am I right or am I is characteristically candid as cation. I have even renewed Beyond Insult right!? he recounts some of the prob- my subscription so I can only don’t know about anyone Matt Manning lems in the director/composer assume that Mr. Weinstein has I else, but I found the track [email protected] relationship. Would someone contributed to my enjoyment. listing on the second album of just tell them to allow some However, his farewell letters Nic Raine’s Bond & Beyond Review the Album, emotion into the mix and turn in the editorial section in the re-recordings to be disap- Not the Film: Part 2 down the “rocket exhaust” sfx? current issue are truly memo- pointing. There’s certainly ’d like to toast Thor Haga, On the other hand, Bruce is rable and prompted me to go an over-abundance from Man I who makes an excellent case gracious to point out the direc- back to look at previous issues With the Golden Gun, most of for appreciating film music as tors that do in fact just “let the to refresh my memory on Mr. which was already released, music (Vol. 5, No. 7—Mailbag, music play.” Weinstein’s contributions. and the biggest letdown of all page 12). Most of us who listen Interesting anecdotes Alas, I seem to have misplaced was the missed opportunity to soundtracks do so without abound, for example, as Bruce them. Regardless, I feel it is to record the full version the benefit of seeing the movie recounts working with Mort a mistake to let this gentle- of the pyramid light-show or without the opportunity to Stevens on a Gunsmoke ses- man go. Mr. Weinstein himself sequence from The Spy Who watch the movie repeatedly for sion for brass ensemble (... stated that if three people had full musical appreciation. these 18 guys sounded like 40). spoken on his behalf then this Haga’s letter also high- I’ve always been impressed sad state of affairs may have lights the conflict between by his orchestral technique been avoided. Consider this those who love the music and facility with counterpoint. letter to be a belated attempt and those who relish cues It’s amusing to hear him at keeping Mr. Weinstein in designed to underscore describe the current crop of the FSM fold! I am sure I action and create tension. keyboard-improviser compos- can find at least two fellow These aficionados appreci- ers whose scores go “right readers who will share this ate music in service of film. hand, left hand, right hand, sentiment. If so, perhaps Mr. My experiences reflect right hand...” So true and so Kendall can reconsider his a continuum. On one end obvious. decision. is music that stands alone On a personal note I can Scott Tobias and greatly enhances the thank Bruce for his early [email protected] film experience. Happily encouragement to me as a many films fill this niche: writer while he was a guest The following email was sent immediately The Heiress, The Hanging conductor at a summer music thereafter from the exact same address: Tree (a Steiner gem await- camp in New Jersey, and then ing discovery so apprecia- again when I graduated from feel Mr. Weinstein should Loved Me with orchestra tion can only be by repeated Berklee College in . I stay at FSM. I have and choir. film viewing) and Jurassic Park. Now, after 20+ years as Staff enjoyed his contributions to does a cue similar in func- These are ideal marriages of Arranger to “The President’s this fine magazine...I believe. tion to Barry’s “Romance for cinematic and aural elements. Own” U.S. Marine Band in Please reconsider! & Orchestra,” where Another point along the Washington, D.C., I can thank Scot Tobin the music accompanying the continuum is music that can him again for the continuing and finally.... light show (as Bond tries to be fully enjoyed without hav- inspiration that his work pro- contact someone linked to the ing seen the film. Indeed, the vides. Thank you for taking agree with the other two. submarine tracking-device at music may be the outstanding the pages in FSM to share his I Mr. Weinstein has been this show but Jaws gets to virtue of the film! In this group fascinating story. a valuable asset to FSM. He him first) is also the underly- I place films like The Natural, Stephen Bulla should not be allowed to leave! ing dramatic score. It’s the Thunderball, Under Fire and Bowie, Maryland Scottie Tobias best part of Hamlisch’s score Witness. In this grouping, I and appeared on the original would place films I might never

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N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 12 F i l m S c ore M ont h l y music featured in some of the Kamen and Queen’s score to the Airwolf and Space 1999. Dream of Jeannie had fun, more introspective moments of original Highlander? I’d like to see FSM create and moving themes. The composers Dawn of the Dead. In closing, I wonder what new publish a poll on what televi- and conductors of those shows It looks like Christopher labels, composers, formats and sion soundtracks most readers brilliantly orchestrated and Young has returned to his early films will be around when the would like to see released. Once reinvented the main themes to sound with his excellent Bless 20th anniversary edition of Film this poll is printed, maybe it convey a wide variety of feel- the Child. This ranks up there Score Monthly arrives... will generate interest in cer- ing and emotion. I’m sorry, but with his classics, The Dark Christopher Jenkins tain studios. I myself would that sort of originality isn’t too Half and Hellbound: Hellraiser Smithtown, New York love to see music from The Six prevalent today. II. Now when will his superb Million Dollar Man come out James Smith III Species be reissued? The Exorcist/Amityville Horror thing is not a on CD. (In particular, I want Williston, North Dakota I’ll probably get hammered secret, but it’s not really common knowledge either. Lee Majors’ classic rendition of for this one, but the CD to Don’t feel bad. As for Species, it was released as a his love in “Sweet Jamie”—that We agree with you James, particularly on Highlander: Endgame is promo a while back and that doesn’t bode well for old Fall Guy can easily rank the Lee Majors point. True, he may be no Chuck uniformly excellent. Stephen a future commercial release. up there with William Shatner Norris—after all, who could compete with Graziano and Nick Glennie- any day with his abil- the masterful Walker, Texas Ranger theme? Smith have imbued this “final” Sweet, Sweet Jamie ity. And wouldn’t it be great if Nonetheless, Majors deserves to be recog- game with dark, dramatic hile most agree that it’s this was preserved for poster- nized for his brilliance. synths and impassioned voices. W been a lukewarm year ity?) I would also like to see Zimmer devotees will probably for film music, I have a sug- soundtracks of and/or love it, while his detractors will gestion that might revive some cartoon music by loathe it. Especially poignant interest amongst the old FSM and company. Your letters are always welcome at: is the opening cut, “Bonnie readership. I realize that FSM Shows from the ’60s and FSM Mail Bag Portmore,” a traditional Scottish focuses mostly on film music, early ’70s boasted a lot of great 8503 Washington Blvd. theme adapted by Mr. Graziano, but the magazine would do music—powerful, imaginative Culver City, CA 90232 much better represented here well to include more info on TV pieces that seldom turn up in than in Highlander: The Final soundtracks—especially with today’s everything’s-a-pop-hit or e-mail: Dimension. And on that note, the advent of such fan-gener- frame of mind. The Big Valley, [email protected] how about a CD with Michael ated soundtracks as the recent High Chaparral and even I

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F i l m S c ore M ont h l y 13 N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 To Score or Not To Score? COMPOSER ALAN SILVESTRI FINDS HIS MUSIC IN A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL

by Jeff Bond

The stark realism of the movie’s island sec- tion forced Silvestri and Zemeckis to wrestle with the choice of including underscoring in these sequences. “From many talks with Bob Zemeckis about the film, everyone involved seemed to struggle right from the beginning with not wanting this to take the easy way out,” Silvestri says. “Not wanting to soften what folks had to experience on the island with Tom, because one of the great things about the film is he is you, he is me—he’s like an ordinary guy who’s watching the news on CNN one day and the next day he’s on this island. And he’s seen Gilligan’s Island, he’s seen Robinson Crusoe, he’s grown up watch- ing all these movies, and maybe he’s even seen Survivor, but here he is now. It’s about what would really happen, and I think it’s magnifi- cent the way both Bob and Tom approached how it would really happen on film. Part of it is we always tried to let the film call for The stark realism of the island scenes in Cast Away the music, and what we found on the island challenged conventional scoring choices. was that anytime we would consider music he production of director or try music it would start to feel, for lack of a better word, like a movie. It was destroying ’ film Cast Ford supernatural , everything that the filmmaker wanted to cre- which was scored by Zemeckis’ long-time ate in terms of an impression. Look, we all Away followed an unusual path musical collaborator Alan Silvestri. Silvestri know that to make fire you get two sticks and T wrote around an hour of music for What Lies you rub them together. But if you and I had to in its journey to the screen. The film Beneath, more or less average for a contempo- go out right now and make a fire by rubbing rary thriller. sticks, it ain’t as easy as it sounds, and neither follows as a man lost on is anything else that goes with surviving. So On Shifting Sands it’s actually through the choice to be absent a deserted island and forgotten by Silvestri’s work on Cast Away, however, was musically on the island that ultimately helps anything but average. As Silvestri explains, to allow for this kind of raw impression of this civilization for four years; and part the problem in scoring Cast Away came not guy trying to survive.” ORK S from finding the right music for the picture, of the plan in filming was to shut but in determining just when a musical score Composing the Anti-Score would enter the film at all. “There’s a big While the tendency in current film scoring RE AMW Fox/D down the production so that hanks transition for Hanks’ character on the island,” is to overload the movie with music, the Silvestri recalls. “There’s a four-year time result is often a balm that coats the film

could lose a substantial amount of change, and we were able to see that come up and prevents it from having to support itself Cen t ur y before we went off to do What Lies Beneath, dramatically on its own terms. Silvestri attri- 10 t h weight in order to appear convincing and there was a substantial part of the film butes much of the film’s ability to function

spent on the island. So we got to live with that without underscoring to the of ©2000 as an emaciated real-life survivor piece of film for a long time, and even though Tom Hanks. “Hanks is so magnificent that ork this was a film with great , you don’t feel you need any shoring up or later on in the film. during the hia- one of America’s finest actors and everything any kind of help to stay engaged while you’re Ar tw that the film industry and America can sup- watching the film,” Silvestri says. “The film tus, Zemeckis filmed the harrison port resource-wise, it has an almost European begins with him in his normal life. He’s like

point of view and flavor.” a FedEx trouble-shooter and he’s sent to get CAST AWAY

N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 14 F i l m S c ore M ont h l y something back on track in another part of to this point,” the composer notes. “Oddly score action, it doesn’t score surface emo- the world, so the start of the film is seeing enough the most emotional moment in the tional tracking. It’s always like this other him in his life and his normal routine. A love film is when Tom leaves the island, because layer of something, whether you would call it story is established between him and Helen you have this intense sense that although it fate or his higher power or however you may Hunt—he’s going to go away for two days was challenging to the point of almost killing want to describe that, it always seemed to be and be right back, takes a plane to Malaysia him, there’s still this sense that he’s leaving there in that way with the music. So there and it goes down. He winds up on this island something for the unknown, but this time are a number of different kinds of emotional for at least two-thirds of the film, and we he’s doing it intentionally.” scenes and moments, and the theme seems to tried to be very open-minded about this; transcend the literal.” we just sat and watched the film. We just Transcendant Writing Silvestri’s approach of limiting the music kept going, ‘Not yet. Not yet.’ Interestingly While Silvestri compares the feel of the in the film included restricting the score’s enough, the first time either of us felt music film and the scoring approach to European orchestrational palette. “When I was think- could be in the film was when he left the movie traditions, he did not take the tack ing orchestrationally about how I would island. Early on there had been an aborted of composers like Ennio Morricone, who approach all this, I kept removing things and attempt when he had almost been killed try- often writes self-contained pieces removing things and ultimately ing to get through this surf to escape from of music that are recorded sepa- the score was performed with an the island. It’s a very big moment when he rately and then married to the film Anytime we oboe, an English horn and a string crashes through this sort of do-or-die wave, later (sometimes even influenc- considered orchestra, nothing else,” he says. and once again everything in you is saying, ing the movie’s editing rhythms). “I didn’t even want a finger cym- ‘Well, surely that would be the moment,’ but Silvestri did score and time spe- or tried bal in it. Right down to the end it wasn’t. The music’s place in this movie cifically to picture. “Thematically music it credits it was still down to those kind of found itself. It’s basically one theme it’s one theme with a number of two woodwinds and strings, and that plays in a number of places from the parts,” he says. “It was designed would start we did add piano to the end cred- time when he leaves the island through the and orchestrated and recorded for to feel, its. But a substantial amount is end of the film.” each specific place, so we didn’t solo oboe. Every time I tried to Silvestri says that the complete lack of record a piece of music and then for lack of think of doing something more it a music score in the first two-thirds of the track it around the film. Changes a better started to feel like a movie. And movie makes the music’s ultimate appear- in the weighting of the orchestra- word, like a even imagining it you knew that ance that much more powerful. “When it tion and the pacing of the material you would destroy this movie if does come in it’s a composer’s dream because were unique to each place that we movie. you became willful about trying to you have not had this element in the film up used. But in a funny way it doesn’t bring too much music to it.” FSM

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F i l m S c ore M ont h l y 15 N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 ho could have predicted that Silvestri, the guy who did CHiPs and , could pull off a score to sup- port a film like Back to the Future? Silvestri was actually coming right off of Fandango, where he honed his ver- tical-writing skills and tackled a full Worchestra for the first time in his career. In some ways Fandango was a test run; a fledgling Back to the Future without the indelible themes and motives. It showed Silvestri’s craft and potential, but no one went to see the FFutureuture supremely average movie (which eschewed substantial portions of Silvestri’s music in favor of the temp track) and hence no one heard the score. The experience was by no means a waste for Silvestri, who discovered that he had the tools necessary to compose an exciting and compositionally sound orchestral score—and this just in time to put his talents to work in his second collabora- tion with Robert Zemeckis: the hugely successful Back to the Future. Back to the Future put Silvestri on the map and kept PPastast him there. His underscore, and especially the promi- nently used main theme, is one of the prime factors in the movie’s success. Zemeckis was lucky that Silvestri turned out such a bold score, but Silvestri, too, was lucky that Back to the Future succeeded as a film that spawned two sequels. Even today, everyday people are often able to identify the BTTF theme, but does anyone know Craig Safan’s great theme for The Last Starfighter? In some ways Back to the Future made Alan Silvestri, while Alan Silvestri made Back to the PPerfecterfect Future. Had Silvestri written his Back to the Future By Jon and Al Kaplan score—note for note—for Fandango and never met Robert Zemeckis, we may never have heard from the talented composer again. It’s like the age-old Star Wars argument: Did Williams’ music “make” those movies or did the success of “make” John Williams? It’s impossible to say (though it’s tempting to say the former), but Williams was already established so he didn’t really need Star Wars the way it needed him.

He’s No Huey Lewis Part of the charm of Back to the Future is that its opening act sets us up for a fun but schlocky ’80s comedy—before pulling the rug out from under us and delivering genuine heart, excitement and ingenuity. The film’s use of music, or lack thereof, parallels this concept. The first 15 min- WHAT MAkES THE Back TO THE Future utes of the film have no underscore at all, instead featur- ing Huey Lewis’ “The Power of Love.” At first viewing, series so successful AS film scoreS? one couldn’t help but anticipate a song score approach like Weird Science or even Ghostbusters. But while “The Power of Love” isn’t the only song in Back to the Future, 1990 U niver sa l c i ty st u d io s ACCORDING TO SOME PEOPLE, NOTHING. it’s Silvestri’s dramatic underscore that magically drives 1989, the story. From the first cues, where Silvestri suddenly takes charge in the Twin Pines Mall parking lot scene,

But the rest of us KNOW THAT Alan ©1985, we know we’re in for some “serious sh-t.”

MCA infuriated a lot of people with their original ork Silvestri’s Back TO THE FUTURE IS AS BTTF album, which contained several songs and only tw Ar two Silvestri cues (the main march and a suite that com- MUCH FUN NOW AS IT WAS 15 years bined various cues from the climax of the film). Missing music included the Twin Pines Mall chase; all of the hustle-bustle “explanation” material; most important, ago—my god, has it been that long? the climactic second half of the clock tower sequence. BACK TO THE FURTURE

N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 16 F i l m S c ore M ont h l y Some argue that with a full release of Back to the Future II (also on MCA), a legitimate album of the first score is unnecessary. While several cues from the original BTTF do pop up in the sequel, the lion’s share of Silvestri’s most ingenious writing toils on the unreleased tracks from the first film. The upcoming DVD release is rumored to have an isolated score track (and there’s always Varèse Sarabande’s horrendous re-recording), but Silvestri’s greatest film-scoring achievement has yet to be done justice on an album. The following is a breakdown of the key themes and motives in all three BTTF scores, similar to Doug Adams’ fabulous dissections of Star Wars. A serious analysis of the themes should help any Silvestri fan appreciate his scores more than they already do—if such a thing is possible. For those who were never too high Back to the Future Musical Samples on Back to the Future music to begin with, there’s the The Magic of Time Travel slightest chance that this article might elevate it for you. That’s unlikely though—the music speaks volumes for itself, so if you never held it in any regard, there’s always your trusty shotgun. Please forgive the arbitrary names we assign to the themes—they’re not leitmotifs... Back to the Future Main Theme Back to the Future The Magic of Time Travel Main Theme Bridge The building blocks of Silvestri’s BTTF vocabulary are introduced immediately in the Twin Pines Mall parking lot scenes: The first is an ethereal, six-note descending synth motive consisting of two major triads a tritone “B” Theme apart. This instantly establishes an octatonic flavor that figures prominently in all three BTTF films. In fact, those looking to pinpoint what makes Alan Silvestri sound like “B” Theme Bridge Alan Silvestri should know that the composer has made a career (at least as far as his action music is concerned) out of manipulating the octatonic scale. This scale rests at the core of many popular sci-fi scores; hence its instant Closing Fanfare conjuring of pop sci-fi lore in BTTF. Think of The Day the Earth Stood Still (or more recently Mars Attacks!); the bug music in Starship Troopers; or any number of Goldsmith action scores. In BTTF, this motive lends a sense of wonder and magic to the story’s concept of time travel. It appears at key moments like the first appearance of the DeLorean; Doc’s blinking eyes after we think he’s dead; the introductory title cards for both sequel films. It’s a calling card that quickly and efficiently says “Back to the Future” even more than the...

Back to the Future Main Theme Silvestri teases us with condensed versions of the main theme for the first half of the movie—at least until the wild skateboard chase. Part of the effectiveness of this theme is that it’s 20 notes long, but it’s so catchy that all Silvestri has to do is use a handful of notes at any given moment and we know exactly where he’s coming from. The first three notes of the melody are particularly memorable because they move by a descending fifth and an unstable ascending tritone. It can be dangerous to hinge a main idea so strongly on a tritone, but Silvestri’s theme becomes optimistically Lydian when it’s presented

F i l m S c ore M ont h l y 17 N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 The first idea is composed of quartal, fast-rising strings that act as a bridge between phrases of the A-theme. This is perhaps the only instance in the score where you can hear Silvestri nodding to the temp track (Jerry Goldsmith’s First Blood). The other motive is a percussive triplet-coun- terline that figures prominently in all three BTTF scores. This one accents between the phrases of the B-theme, and eventually becomes its own entity as a snare ostinato in the clock tower cues. It also acts as the rousing closing fanfare of the BTTF march (it finishes the march in the end credits of each film). In Back to the Future III, Silvestri cleverly incorporates it into his Indian music, as Marty is chased by a pack of marauding natives. Part of the appeal of Silvestri’s balls-to-the-wall John Williams-style theme is that he makes it work for an everyday kid like Marty McFly. We’re used to hearing such themes for an Indiana Jones or a Superman, but Silvestri attaches one to a regular Joe, someone any kid in the ’80s could (and did) identify with. The end result glorifies the “cool kid and his skateboard” in a way that no number of Huey Lewis songs could have ever done.

Explanation Motive This is a frenetic, bustling motive that consists of leap- ing intervals. The idea almost always accompanies Doc Brown’s rapid-fire scientific explanations but somehow, despite its frantic activity, never gets in the way of Christopher Lloyd’s delivery—the secret here is the use of a stable, regular rhythm and an inner pedal that grounds the chaotic interval jumps. Silvestri’s orchestra is dili- gently milling to and fro, working like a crazed-but-deter- mined machine (like Doc), and adds a sense of bubbling excitement to Brown’s dialogue. The music ensures that Christopher Lloyd’s character is not seen as a scatter- brained schmuck but rather, a good-natured mad scientist. Nowadays, composers are taught and/or instructed to lay low and strip their music down to bare essentials during most dialogue scenes. Silvestri’s BTTF delivers a trium- phant “In your face!” to this school of thought. And while this tactic is not appropriate for all films, in Back to the Future it works miracles.

Military Ostinato Silvestri uses a five-note militaristic ostinato as a “prepa- ration for time travel” riff in all three BTTF films. Usually voiced in snare and timpani, this simple, primal motive also has a cameo in the climactic “preparation for battle” sequence in , where Arnold Schwarzenegger sharpens his knives and smears his body with grey mud. in a faster “heroic mode” (as in the skateboard chase). There’s also Danger Motive something inherently uplifting in the I-II progression that kicks off One of BTTF’s most ubiquitous motives is an eight-note low-end the theme—it’s similar in effect to “Tonight” from West Side Story or piano figure that’s vital in the score’s many action sequences. This Yoda’s theme from The Empire Strikes Back. (Incidentally, take away motive undergoes many transformations, especially in terms of the third note in Yoda’s theme and you’ve got Back to the Future!) intervallic order, but is consistently marked by a similar contour and The first three notes of the BTTF theme also work perfectly over a driving, mechanical rhythm (not unlike the explanation motive). the octatonic material, so Silvestri can easily mesh the A-theme The danger motive is particularly effective in kicking off the Twin with any of his subsidiary action motives. The majestic stepwise and Pines Mall chase scene with a slicing Stravinsky-esque setting. The descending B-section of the theme is reserved for key moments in writing that follows (for Marty evading the Libyans—by the way, the first film (when Marty does exciting things with his skateboard; how often do you see the words “Libyan” and “Lydian” in the same moments of closure between Marty’s parents; when the DeLorean article?) is incredibly propulsive, marked by odd meters, thunder- reaches 88 miles per hour), but also serves as a fanfare to kick off ous percussion and a jagged fanfare. Silvestri’s skilled the classic Back to the Future march. The B-theme is used more manipulations of his motives and endless capacity for generating freely in the sequels. memorable material from the smallest fragments of his themes are The main theme features two final components worthy of mention. most notable in this tremendous sequence.

November/December 2000 18 Film Score M o n t h l y Lyon Estates Fanfare This octatonic fanfare rears its head only once in the first Suspense Motive BTTF film (as Marty sees his neighborhood as a “farm- land as far as the eye can see”). However, it also turns up in BTTF II in the alternate 1985 sequence, so it’s worth mentioning. The motive has a foreboding sense of A WHOLE CAN OF WORMS grandeur—plus, it appears in Silvestri’s The Abyss when Predator Michael Biehn closes the door on the water tentacle.

Future Repercussions Motive The Abyss In the sequence where Marty brings Doc’s “1955 ver- sion” to see the hidden DeLorean, Silvestri introduces yet another recurring motive important to the trilogy: a Blown Away percussive rhythm usually reserved for muted brass. Its sharp attacks at the beginning of each phrase make it a distant cousin to the time travel motive—but with a more Eraser precarious edge. Note its use when Doc points out that Marty’s brother is fading from existence. Ironic Fanfare Americana Theme Silvestri engages in a bittersweet Americana develop- ment of his BTTF theme for scenes that discuss Doc’s impending murder in 1985. Silvestri does away with the tritone and replaces it with a perfect fourth, lending a more noble and rested quality to the melody. Why such a calm and beautiful theme under such tragic subject mat- ter? Silvestri is scoring the bond between Marty and Doc, not the conflict generated when Doc refuses to listen to Marty’s warning. If anything, the theme could be labeled a clarion call for Doc’s refusal to die. Witness the theme’s reiteration when Doc sits up and reveals his bulletproof vest to Marty—or even when Marty receives Doc’s 70- year-old letter from the Union man in BTTF II. (This fine theory is unfortunately rendered absurd when the theme plays as Marty discovers the new black truck in his garage.)

Suspense Motive The suspense motive is a portentous, dissonant string concoction that doesn’t play much of a role in the first film (it sounds as Doc refuels the DeLorean in the first parking lot scene). It’s only in BTTF II that this music becomes an all-out stamp of depression, underscoring the film’s sinister “alternate 1985” sequences, where Marty finds out that his father has been murdered and that strangers are living in Back to the Future Part II his house. This score is sort of the “embarrassing nephew that no one wants to At the risk of opening up a whole can of worms, the aforemen- talk about” of the BTTF trilogy. It’s mostly a rehash of the material tioned suspense motive fits a pattern that recurs in countless from the first score (albeit played by a smaller orchestra). Silvestri has Silvestri scores. It’s a seven-note, rhythmically regular idea that’s chalked this up to Zemeckis’ lack of input (the director was busy shoot- almost always shaped the same way. Look for it in Blown Away, ing BTTF III while the scoring went on). Silvestri does squeeze in a Predator, Eraser, The Abyss and several others. It’s something of a few new ideas, but in many ways this score is to the original what Basil Silvestri trademark, as are his patented uses of the octatonic scale. Poledouris’ Conan the Destroyer is to Conan the Barbarian.

Ironic Fanfare Evil Biff and More Octatonicism Each BTTF film ends with some kind of outrageous visual twist, and Evil Biff gets his own motive, a constipated yet menacing low-end chro- Silvestri follows suit with an ironic fanfare that leaps in unexpected matic piano riff that culminates with the first three notes of the BTTF directions and steps chromatically when reaching its landing points. theme. Silvestri also introduces a funeral-style lament for the dead (for It says in no uncertain terms: “You didn’t see that one coming, did George McFly’s tombstone and Doc’s tombstone in BTTF III) and a you, sucker?” Strangely enough, this fanfare is all but mixed out dramatic, tritone-focused theme, used along with the suspense motive of the first film; we can barely make it out aside from its last three from the first film to play up the pathos of the alternate-1985 scenes. notes. You can probably blame that on the loud DeLorean sound Silvestri later adds another octatonic variation (tunnel chase theme) effects. In the second two films, it can be heard in all its glory: when for the film’s final action set piece where Marty attempts to swipe the Marty “2” runs around the corner to surprise Doc in BTTF II, and sports almanac from Biff’s car. This motive is grounded by the clock when the train takes flight in BTTF III. tower snare ostinato from the first film, but the theme itself originally surfaced in Predator (where Arnold Schwarzenegger throws a truck at

Film Score M o n t h l y 19 November/December 2000 (The reason we keep bringing up Predator is not simply because it is Silvestri’s second-best score, but also because it is relevant. For some balance we will now bring up another Silvestri score.) The BTTF III love theme often lapses into a delicate flute lullaby reminiscent of Silvestri’s feather theme for . There. Since BTTF III revolves around the romance between Doc and Clara, there’s pre- cious little room for the Marty and Doc’s Americana theme. In fact, it doesn’t appear once in this film. But Silvestri does manage to get in a warm new theme for Doc advising Marty and Jennifer to make their futures “good ones” (“The Future Isn’t Written”).

New Action Material The best new material in BTTF III is Silvestri’s action writ- ing in the final act of the film. Silvestri concocts a tricky Lydian melody that winds itself up twice before shooting upward and trudging down an octatonic scale. This material actually makes up the bulk of the score in various guises, Back to the Future II occasionally popping up between statements of the love Evil Biff theme (in a more subdued form) and, in particular, kicking off the scene where Doc starts up the train. Silvestri lets the theme run its course during the final train chase, but Funeral Theme reminds us that we’re watching a Back to the Future movie by layering an augmented version of the first three notes of the main BTTF theme over top. Alternate 1985 Theme ’Round-the-Clock Bonus Coverage

Tunnel Chase Theme The Enchantment Dance One of the original BTTF’s central conflicts is resolved when Marty’s parents kiss on the dance floor: the defining moment when Lorraine realizes she’s going to spend the rest of her life with George McFly. Silvestri faced an inter- esting challenge with this sequence, as he had to recognize the drama of the scene while also reckoning with “Earth a group of unsuspecting guerrillas). These new motives are few and Angel,” the song being performed by the band on-stage. In a brilliant far between—most of the score consists of reiterations of the BTTF move, Silvestri embraces the source music, first weaving underneath B-theme representing Marty and Doc’s heroic deeds. Look at how little with a pounding timpani and dissonant tremolo string writing (as there is to say about BTTF II! This is why it’s easier to analyze the Marty’s hand starts its erasure from existence). This material gradu- Back to the Future trilogy than the Star Wars trilogy. ally overwhelms the source music, and eventually builds into two over- lapping statements of the first five notes of the BTTF theme. When Marty’s parents finally kiss, we’re taken right back into a climactic Back to the Future Part III verse of “Earth Angel”—but it’s now accompanied by Silvestri’s orchestra, complete with moving counterlines and capped off by The Old West Theme another fleeting statement of the BTTF theme. There have been few, BTTF III follows the Jerry Goldsmith Final Conflict school of scoring: if any, better combinations of source music and dramatic underscore “This movie sucks, but this is my trilogy!” and features a plethora in American film. of new thematic material, even an -style Old West theme. Brass-driven and characterized by a descent to a rousing octave The Clock Tower Sequence leap, the theme lovingly pokes fun at western clichés just as the film Silvestri’s two clock tower cues from the first BTTF showcase the best attempts to. We’ve got Pat Buttram and spoofing them- writing of his career; they’re a of contrapuntal magic and selves, so why not nudge Bernstein and Morricone at the same time? motivic development. The first clock tower cue makes up the bulk of This theme is excitingly developed during the film’s climactic train the “Back to the Future Suite” on MCA’s original album. Marty and sequence, where it’s voiced in low brass over a chugga-chugga “train” Doc’s farewell conversation is ingeniously underlined by the fusion rendition of Silvestri’s eight-note danger motive. of a bold horn statement of the main theme with the relentless, mili- taristic snare ostinato. The passage simultaneously evokes Marty’s Love Theme (Doc and Clara) sorrow and frustration (this could be the last time he’ll see Doc alive), Silvestri also writes a melancholy love theme for Doc and Clara (played as well as a sense of impending excitement (the lightning bolt hits in by the delightfully opaque ). It has a tragic air to it; less than five minutes). After a full, expanded statement of the theme, a lament on BTTF III’s main story thrust: Doc and Clara are perfect the woodwinds repeat it atop a new contrapuntal low brass idea. The for each other but are cruelly separated by the laws of time. The theme three layers (two simple and slowly developing lines over a fateful is structurally similar to Silvestri’s solo trumpet theme from Predator, snare ostinato) make for a terrific emotional compliment with the where it served as moving funeral music for Jesse the Body Ventura. picture as Doc and Marty shout their goodbyes over the howling wind.

N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 20 F i l m S c ore M ont h l y Again, Silvestri is not afraid to make himself heard in an important dialogue scene. Back to the Future III The second clock tower cue begins with a reprisal of the Old West Theme slicing string figure from the Twin Pines Mall cue. Marty slides across the hood of the DeLorean and speeds off into the distance, leaving Doc to rewire the clock tower. The Love Theme (Doc and Clara) cue becomes a sort of manic rondeau, with full-blooded statements of the BTTF theme juxtaposed with passages that furiously shape subsidiary material. Of particular Jesse “the Body” Ventura (from Predator) note is a jagged 8-note figure voiced in low strings and piano. It fuses two central ideas from the score: the first five notes of an octatonic scale capped off by the first three notes of the BTTF theme. Doc’s struggle to rewire Lullaby the clock tower receives the brunt of this material, while Marty’s approach is juiced up by suspended-cymbal- dressed presentations of the BTTF theme. It all makes for the musical equivalent of a marijuana-rush—when fans complain about the lack of a complete album for the first The Future Isn’t Written BTTF, this is the cue most have in mind.

The End Back to the Future III Action Theme Straight to the point—Silvestri has proven he’s got the ver- satility needed to succeed in this business (he’s done com- edies, dramas, cartoons and just about every other genre imaginable). In 1987, he scored Predator and proved that BTTF was no fluke. Even richer in thematic material than ROUND THE CLOCK BONUS COVERAGE BTTF, Predator sports rhythmic motives that are not only Clock Tower Ostinato great ear-candy, but also work wonders at heightening the suspense-level of the film. Maybe we’ll take a look at that score some time in the future...or in the past. FSM Clock Tower Action Motive

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Film Score M o n t h l y 21 N ovember/December 2000 This month marks the DVD used a lot of instruments from other places in the world as well—Jajouka was probably the most predominant—but release of The Cell, the love- there are instruments from India and Japan, and other African instruments. it/hate-it tale of a serial killer and FSM: And this is again going toward the exotic nature of everything? his dog. Throw in some disembodied HS: It seemed like a chance to do some things that I had mind-jumping, the trippiest imagery of been thinking about wanting to do with films, and that seemed like a good opportunity to write something like that. summer 2000, and Jennifer Lopez as the Of course, with all that wonderful imagery, that offered a most well-groomed child psychologist of all time, great chance as well. FSM: When you combined this with the orchestra, you and you’ve got the film that had half the audience had said something about putting together a manifesto—a cheering “visionary!” and the other half hissing “fraud!” notational guide for the orchestra. Could you describe this However, both camps embraced the score by Howard a little bit? Shore as one element that perfectly matched subtext HS: The manifesto that I wrote was based on the nota- with style. And what a style. Shore’s work spins standard tion that I created for the score. It was based on Polish orchestral writing on its head by allowing the performers to avant-garde notation of the ’50s. It’s really been around a improvise within given frameworks a la many styles of non- long time; it’s just that it’s rarely used in film music. And, Western music. The writing was influenced by Moroccan having decided to take that route—to write in somewhat of orchestra, the Master of Jajouka: an eons-old a non-European style with current notation—that lead me orchestra that served as a stylistic role model and actually to write in this style. So I had to create my own manifesto, sat in with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. which was really a series of instructions for the orchestra about what the symbols [in the music] represent. set free in the CeLL Howard Shore lets loose on monochords, murder and the

FSM: Could you tell me about your work with the Master It had to do with how to treat the symbols. It wasn’t Musicians and how you came to approach them about this? much different than looking at other avant-garde scores of Howard Shore: The Master Musicians of Jajouka are the ’50s. It was just that I had shaped this a little bit to my a 4,000-year-old orchestra, a special caste. They live in the own use. I did things the produce the sounds that I wanted foothills of the Rif Mountains of Morocco. They’re spiritual- to create. ists, and the music that they play in Morocco is used for I did certain things that were unique, because I assumed healing powers. I first heard them on an that this was what [Jajouka] were doing when they cre- album that he did in 1973 called “Dancing in Your Head.” ated some of their language. It was a way for them to write

He collaborated with them on a track called “Midnight things notationally that they were hearing and I was doing . I n c Sunrise.” a similar thing. So I used their notation as they do, and then , When I first saw [The Cell] I thought of Jajouka almost I went a little further, specifically for what I wanted to do immediately. It was one of the first enticing things about with film music and how it should relate to the film. the film. FSM: Did you use primarily things like box notation, like in pi ct ure s

FSM: What was the connection? Obviously you’re a fan of a Penderecki score where he has the box of notes, the playing line

their work, but what was it about The Cell that you thought instructions, and the time duration. ne w would match so well? HS: Yes, that technique was used in the film. I would give HS: The African imagery that Tarsem uses. As I saw those a part of the orchestra certain tonalities that they were

opening sequences of those big dunes and a few other scenes allowed to play in, and then I gave them instructions about ORK ©2000 in the film that are African desert scenes, I thought that how to play them and the length. Everything was very would be perfect for them. I thought of the score as being notated in terms of phrasing and dynamics. But what I was A R TW very exotic—a chance to do something with very exotic trying to do was have the European or the Western orches-

instruments and The London Philharmonic. I actually tra play the way Jajouka plays. That was my goal. The first THE CELL

N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 22 F i l m S c ore M ont h l y day of the recording Jajouka came from Tangiers, and I HS: Well, they were all treated as one new orchestra. placed them in the middle of the orchestra and I had them Everybody was in the room; it wasn’t overdubbed. It was play their wonderful music. Then I talked a lot about how kind of a new orchestra. I had certain ways that I separated they played and how they related to each other and how I the orchestra. Actually it didn’t have so much to do with wanted the Philharmonic to play and relate to each other sound; it had more to do with range. in the same way. It was about an 85-piece orchestra, and I FSM: So it’s almost treating the orchestra as one large choir had them play individually so that they would relate to each in that way? other in the same way that Jajouka related to each other. Do HS: I took the entire orchestral group and I divided them in you understand that? ranges and wrote for them in specific ranges. FSM: Sure. FSM: That puts more of an emphasis on color combinations HS: It seems simple in a way. rather than anything else. FSM: [Laughs] Well, maybe to you! HS: Yes. HS: The orchestra is always seen in a very specific fashion from playing what is essentially 19th-century music. And Something familiar this had to do with breaking down the boundaries of the FSM: Where did the pre-existing songs on the CD come physical seating in the orchestra, so that a violist might play from—“El Medahey” and “Memories of My Father”? with a trombonist in a certain way. It allowed the orchestra HS: “Memories of My Father” was written by Bachir, the to relate to each other in a very different way than when leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka. It’s on the CD they normally play in standard notation. Apocalypse Across the Sky. And “El Medahey” was written FSM: Did you physically rearrange the orchestra? by his father, I believe. Those are fairly standard pieces in HS: No, it wasn’t physically rearranged. It was mentally their repertoire that they know very well. One is more of a rearranged. It wouldn’t have made sense to have really flute-oriented piece, and one is more of a horn piece. I used physically arranged the seating. It would have been too those pieces to be able to communicate with the Master confusing. It was more of a mental thing. They sat in their Musicians because they don’t speak English. Only Bachir

The orchestra wasn’t physically rearranged—It wouldn’t have made sense to change the seating. I hoped, by orchestrating and , to get them to relate to each other in a

normal sections, but what I was hoping to do by orchestrat- speaks a little English. So it was a way to communicate with ing and conducting was to try to get them to relate to each them through their own music. other in a different way. You know how seconds relate to FSM: Did you use that as the stone for the rest of firsts, or how brass relate to winds? I was flipping that a the score? little bit, changing the concept of what they thought music HS: I used those pieces to be able to communicate with Bachir might be. and I wrote around those pieces with the Philharmonic. FSM: How did you go about explaining this to them? So, in the opening title, part of what you’re hearing is an HS: Through the example of Jajouka, and though a type improvisation on—I think I used both pieces. There are of notation that allowed them to play in a way that was little fragments of both of them. It’s not dissimilar, in a way, non-Western. The percussionists in particular—I had many, to how I worked with Ornette Coleman when I was doing many percussionists throughout the orchestra. They were Naked Lunch. It was similar in the sense that I worked with able to hear and see Jajouka playing, and they were able to the artists and their own music and built another language also play with Jajouka. So that gave them a whole differ- around it. So the artists were always highlighted, really ent [idea]. I could not have done this without having that playing their own music. I wrote an original piece to some Moroccan orchestra right in front, because I could use them of their original pieces, if you know what I mean. I sort of as an example of what I was trying to create. combined the two pieces into a new piece. FSM: Orchestrationally, how did you treat the Moroccan FSM: That’s an interesting way to do it. instruments? Did you treat it as strings, woodwinds, brass, HS: I like it because Jajouka is playing their true music. percussion, and then the Moroccan instruments? Did you They’ve been playing this music over 4,000 years. The treat them as a separate section, or did you treat them as an whole idea of working with a great orchestra like that adjunct of the percussion section? How did they relate to the Moroccan orchestra is that you really want to have their rest of the instruments? music. The most effective was to [have them] collaborate

F i l m S c ore M ont h l y 23 N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 with the London Philharmonic, have them light, depending on the scene. FSM: Well, just to play devil’s advocate, I’ve play, and then to create another structure FSM: That’s great because composers have been to seminars where they’ve said don’t try to where they were actually playing fragments ignored these techniques for so long, and I’m be interpretive when conducting in a film score; of pieces that they knew. Then I took the frag- not really sure why other than the fact, that don’t try to give dynamics or cues because ments and restructured them into a new piece, a lot of these devices, when they first entered you’re just supposed to be the human embodi- and fit it to the film. Western music, were coming out of the Polish ment of the click track. FSM: How much of the score are they on? avant-garde school and things like that. But HS: Well, I think that it depends on the type HS: They play in the opening—they’re really I’m glad that it’s finally being used in some of score you’re doing and what kind of emo- featured in the opening. Then there’s another new ways. tional aspects the score has—or even dramatic African sequence in the second reel where HS: Yes, I agree. It’s always been used in a aspects. Catherine’s at home and she sort of halluci- very peripheral way. I asked Vic Fraser that as But, even basic concepts of dynamics can nates a little bit and she goes back into that well. He’s a copyist; he’s copied scores for over be created on the podium by the conductor. dream world of Edward’s. She looks down 30 years. He’s done everything. And he said It helps to orchestrate and conduct because at her quilt and it dissolves into the desert. he’s never seen so much music written in this you’re essentially working from the same idea. They’re featured in that scene. style for a film score. When I write I have so much of the idea in my FSM: There’s a very horizontal sense through- FSM: Oh really? head, to be able to orchestrate and conduct out the score, isn’t there? HS: That’s what I said! I said, “Really?” He is just a further expression of the original HS: Right. [Jajouka’s] music just goes on and said, “Occasionally you see a few bars here idea. It allows you to create the idea that you on. It’s all completely horizontal. When they and there. Somebody will write 12 bars or initially had. There have been only a couple of play they’ll play for eight, nine hours—some- 15 bars of something.” But this was a whole times where I’ve not conducted, and it’s very times days. They do festivals where they play score structured in that notation. There’s a difficult. It’s a broken telephone. It’s so much for days where it’s very trance-like music tremendous freedom to it. I also found that it more direct to be able to express your musical and it’s very spiritual. And it’s all propelled was quite cinematic, in a way, because of the ideas from the podium. So much can be done forward. It has that looping forward motion horizontal structure of the writing. And of in that moment. all the time. The attempt was to try to write course film is very horizon- FSM: Using a style that in that style, which is really a non-Western tal. It’s strips of celluloid run- is too often relegated to way of thinking about music. When we think ning through a projector, 24 Film recording is this hanging-in-time- in Western scores we always think of frames flickering with light style, how did you create just a photograph everything lined up on bars. through a lens. It’s the same the entire dramatic arc of idea, in a sense, as a horizon- of a performance, the film? Not exactly a straight tal approach to music. and a lot of the HS: First of all you have to line Horizontal’s not really performance is in commit to it. It was a size- FSM: In most film scores when there are the right word—it’s what we the conducting. able musical commitment non-Western elements and this kind of hori- used to call linear writing. to make. I mean, I’ve done zontal writing, it’s usually just used for some Linear meaning that all the that on other movies, like panicked fear shocker cue. You really ran the counterpoint is very flowing Crash or se7en. There were gamut of all these different emotions and and running in the same all written in very specific moods but still using this almost aleatoric type direction, as opposed to that ways, so I felt comfortable of style. 19th-century structure of in that. I didn’t feel that I HS: I did it harmonically. This gets into more bars and vertical writing that was taking that much of musical concepts, but it had to do with har- we are more used to seeing. a musical chance, I just monic structures. And it did run the gamut. And there’s a lot of free- thought that once I took Some of the music is very tonal in the sense dom of expression to it. I was that concept, I had to fol- that I would stay true to the techniques of just amazed at some of the low it through. I couldn’t the score, but sometimes I would just use tri- qualities that I heard in the do it halfway. So there’s ads—major triads, minor triads. So no matter recording. There was a lot of your arc right there. You’ve what the orchestra would play, they were still expression and it was creative. And sometimes already established the musical framework of restricted to play those notes. They could only it was really out of control—not really out of the film, just from the concept of how you’re play a minor triad, or a major triad. And control, I mean, I always had it under control. going to compose it and how you’re going to then, by shaping those sounds into lengths of I was conducting, and I had orchestrated it, so orchestrate it. Now it’s just a matter of finding time and harmonics and dynamics, I was able I always had it under control, but sometimes all the different textures and all the different to create different emotions while still using I would let it get right to . And some- emotional aspects within the [concept]. And the techniques. times I would keep it more in check. A lot of it it’s like I said a little earlier about using dif- We [usually] think of these techniques as depended on what I was doing on the podium ferent harmonic relationships for different being a little more twelve-tone where there and how much I would . scenes. Some scenes were purely more tonal would be dissonance in it, but it only has dis- than others. And some of them were really sonance when the composer has allowed the It’s all in the wrist based on rhythm. players to play within this structure that has FSM: So this could be one of the first film It’s a very rhythmic score, which also [came dissonance in it. If you’ve written that the scores where conducting is an essential element from] Jajouka because all of their music is orchestra can only play a minor triad, or major to the sound? based on their rhythm and heavy use of drums triad, then that’s the sound you’ll get. It won’t HS: Yeah, well I think it is. Conducting is an and how the percussionists relate to each matter. That’s how I was able to control it. I incredibly essential part of it. Film recording other. So I used a lot of rhythmic ideas, and would go from the darkest tones, or the most is just a photograph of that moment. The this tonal language for the orchestra. And then dissonant sounds, to the most completely open moment is , and a lot of the the ideas and the themes were all connected, tonalities—just based on a palette of dark and performance is in the conducting. just the way you would do it in any film score.

N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 24 F i l m S c ore M ont h l y Paul Clarvis is a percussionist who put did low guttural sounds, and also very high, of people are wondering how much longer the together the percussion ensemble that I added keening Indian singing sounds—just tonalities orchestra as an institution is going to last. I to the London Philharmonic percussion. There that I would give him and then he would work know even a lot of concert hall composers are are a lot of very unique sounds that we worked within those structures or those tonalities. saying that we may be in the last death throes of with. Certain metallic rattle sounds—we prob- John Hendrickse played the Ney flute, the the orchestra, which I think is too bad because ably went through hundreds of rattles before beautiful African flute that you hear. people have been stifled from trying things dif- we found exactly the right sound. They played FSM: Did you manipulate balance electroni- ferently. They’ve got to sell records and pack the beautiful taiko drums—left, center, right— cally, the way that you’ve done before? concert halls and so on. I think they’re really that you hear in the score in the Dolby Digital HS: I did a little bit, yes. Robert Cotnoir nervous right now. systems. They played other African drums. worked with me and we created certain pal- HS: There are a lot of nerves involved in it, I ettes for certain scenes. It’s not used too exten- guess it’s true. And there aren’t many wonder- The big box sively, because the orchestra was so colorful, ful projects like The Cell that you can do. You FSM: Speaking of the rhythmic ideas, can it was so beautiful. But I did use electronics also have to be able to have the experience of you talk about one of the instruments you used, in a few cases where the sounds were just being able to do it. This is not something I the monochord. Can you walk us through its so interesting. It’s interesting, on the CD—I might have attempted years ago. I would have history? should have probably mentioned this on the wanted to do it, but it took me a while to get HS: The monochord is really used for heal- CD—there’s one track that’s completely elec- the opportunity to book somebody like Jajouka ing. It’s a large box, about eight feet long. It tronic. [The track is No. 11, “Only Girls Play and bring them to London. It’s not without has a series of 50 strings underneath it. And With Dolls.”] its costs. the patient lies on the box and the therapist FSM: Really? I never would have guessed. FSM: But you were pretty forward-looking tunes up the person by striking the strings in HS: I know, that’s what’s so amazing about even with your earlier scores. Though you such a way that it resonates the body and has it. And the reason I put it in was exactly certainly weren’t shipping people in from all a healing effect. Sonia Slany, who played it, is that. When you hear it, you don’t think, “Oh, over the world. a therapist—she actually uses it for therapy— there’s the electronic track,” because it sounds HS: I didn’t have the budgets to do it, but

and she’s a and a composer. She’s a just like the orchestral recording. And it was I was still trying to do things. and wonderful artist; she has her own recordings so much like what I was trying to achieve. I and things like that, it’s true. that I had heard in the research I did for the wanted the orchestra to sound like sampled That’s what I always thought film music was. film. The monochord is like a large tamboura, environmental sounds. I wanted to write to I guess it was just the period that I grew up an Indian instrument, but it has tremendous make the orchestra sound like an acoustic ver- in. To me it was Takemitsu and Cage. It was depth to it. It really has a wonderful sonic sion of those electronic sounds. That’s really a very experimental thing. I always thought of quality. It’s so large it was placed in the rear what I was going for in the recording. When I film music like that, and I thought that was of the orchestra and it kind of played up and put that one electronic track in, and you listen the wonderful thing about it. It was a way to above. It was raised up on a platform and it to it, it goes right by. You don’t even notice it! actually try those things in cinema. It was a came up into that church of Air Studios and FSM: No, I didn’t notice it at all. great thing. would just float up into the ceiling and over HS: I know. FSM: It really contextualizes it for an audi- the orchestra. We would tune it up to different ence, too. It’s not just a strange sound; it’s a tonalities in different cues. It’s basically the A change of pace strange sound that means this. overtone series; it produces the Pythagorean FSM: It’s great to hear a score like this that HS: Exactly! And that was a way that you series of overtones. throws a complete curve at you. It’s nice to not could actually do it. You could make dramatic FSM: What were some of the other non-Western hear the same thing in every single film. sense out of music and use it in films and cre- instruments you used? HS: Right, I know. I understand. So much of ate these emotions with it. That was all the HS: We used an Indian bowed lute called my interest in doing film music was to be able interesting part of doing it. And it still lives to a sarangi. It was played by a man named to do scores like this. It’s sort of the tenor of a certain degree. FSM Chandru. It’s a wonderful Indian violin-type , I think. For music in general, it’s not of sound—very emotional sound. He also that creative a period. Do you find? Doug Adams is a regular contributor to FSM; his last article was an sang—there’s singing in the score as well. He FSM: No I don’t think it is, and I think a lot analysis of Bruce Broughton’s Silverado in Vol. 5, No.8.

F i l m S c ore M ont h l y 25 N o v em b er /D e c em b er 2 0 0 0 opinions. You don’t have to go any fur- Here it is, the dawn of ther than your web browser for that kind of stuff. No, we editors of FSM have the 21st century. And yet, attempted to quantify greatness by a complicated voting scale that takes into we at Film Score Monthly account a wide range of qualities, includ- ing but not limited to: musical value, haven’t made a tally, a historical significance, the composer’s voice, commercial achievement, popular- reckoning, a final account- ity, quality of performance, recording quality, availability, completeness, even ing of music from the packaging. We even factored in your votes over the past decade of FSM, not 20th century. Oh, we’ve to mention those of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And published plenty of “des- then, in the event of a tie, the editorial staff would take it out behind the office ert island lists” from our dumpster. (Who says we don’t suffer for our passions?) In short, we selected CDs readership, not to men- for inclusion by: tion best of the year lists, Musical achievement The score is an important composition but it’s time that we really and/or representative of a noteworthy artist. stick our necks out. Significance to Film History Let’s be clear: This is not a list The score is an influential trend setter or of the 101 greatest film scores ever. captures a moment in time. Some of the all-time greats have never been properly represented on Presentation compact disc. Others in release are The score album features an exceptional compromised by inferior re-record- performance and recording, and is an ings or suffer from poor sound qual- enjoyable album on its own. ity. Conversely, there are plenty of lesser, derivative works from recent We come to praise, not to bury CDs. So films whose deluxe sound quality and we didn’t grade these scores from “best” professional performances cannot to “worst.” Times and tastes may change, disguise their inherent weaknesses. but in their day, all of these film scores So this is a qualified list—but one have achieved greatness. It’s common for culled from an unprecedented wealth each generation to dismiss or downplay of choices. Here’s how a film score the achievements of their juniors. Folks qualifies for inclusion: gripe that artistic standards are in con- FSM selects the stant decline. We’re not sure about that, The Criteria ultimate list of but we’ll admit that artistic standards First, we only considered instru- are constantly changing—and we think mental, motion picture underscores influential, significant change is good. So we’ve listed them (sorry, and and enjoyable chronologically, in order to consider each Airwolf fans). Second, a film score title’s place in history. must be commercially available on soundtracks Perhaps you’ll take this opportunity compact disc (at least once in the past to re-examine your own list of favorites 15 years). If a score, however great, released on CD. and consider adding a few new ones. has only been released on LP, it’s out Those of you new to the field can get of the running. Likewise, bootlegs Edited by Joe Sikoryak some pointers about the most notable are ineligible. Besides the fact that titles in the history of film scores and we frown upon illegal releases of seek them out. In any event, we’d like to With contributions by anyone’s music, the point of this list encourage you to write in with your own is to celebrate the music that’s avail- John Bender, Jeff Bond, choices. Well, three, anyway. We’ll follow able, and provide a buyer’s guide for Jason Comerford, up this article with “More Great Film you, the reader. Go forth and listen, Tim Curran, Jeff Eldridge, Scores on CD”—titles that you, the read- O brothers and sisters—there are ers, agree we should have included. But Jonathan Z. Kaplan, oodles of great film scores available! then, this wouldn’t have been any fun at Only 101 titles have made it onto Lukas Kendall, Joe Sikoryak all if somebody didn’t have something this list. This is not simply a popular- and Chris Stavrakis to grouse about, eh? Let the grousing ity contest, or a bunch of fat-headed begin:

November/December 2000 26 Film Score M o n t h l y Pacific. This rerecording of the score conducted by Kenneth Alwyn superbly recaptures the score’s period 1930s flavor and syncopated rhythms. —Jeff Bond The Score Also Rises Nevsky (1938) City Lights (1931) Sergei Prokofiev • RCA Victor 09026-61926-2 • 18 tracks - 50:51 Charles Chaplin (Cond. by Carl Davis) he collaboration between Sergei Eistenstein and Silva America SSD1054 • 12 tracks - 53:22 TProkofiev is arguably the first great composer/ t’s ironic that we kick off the history of film scores director relationship in film history; Alexander Nevsky Iwith one of the masters of silent film, but Charlie is the best example of their collaboration. Prokofiev, Chaplin knew how to manipulate his audience. As a better known for his concert-hall compositions (Peter director and performer who eschewed dialogue for a and the Wolf and Lieutenant Kije Suite, for example) decade after the advent of sound, he relied on music later arranged music from the film into the Alexander to exact his desired effects. His music for City Lights Nevsky Cantata, which remains one of his most famous is more than just sturdy accompaniment to a classic works. The film score itself—as reconstructed and comedy; it’s a historical document. The sound of his arranged by William D. Brohn for a 1993 re-recording— writing captures the sound of early-20th-century musi- doesn’t quite have the cantata’s thrilling climax, but it cal theater (especially ). The score exudes compensates with superb atmosphere and stirring cho- a wistful grace and simple elegance not found in the ral material that’s fresh and intriguing. The Brohn res- typical Hollywood scores of the late ’30s. Chaplin didn’t toration—conducted by Temirkanov—remains the write music per se, but “la-la’d” his tunes to arrangers like best way to experience the score proper, despite the abun- Arthur Johnson (and later, ) and oversaw dant concert arrangements. Runner-up: Ivan the Terrible —JC the recording with maniacal attention to detail. The 1989 re-recording conducted by Carl Davis is a sublime The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) re-creation of the period. Runner-up: Modern Times. —Joe Sikoryak Varèse Sarabande VCD-47202 • 16 tracks - 42:43 state-of-the-art action flick from the Golden King Kong (1933) AAge that required two directors, six months and Max Steiner • marco Polo MP 8.223763 • 22 tracks - 72:19 well over a million (Depression-Era) dollars to com- ilmdom’s first great adventure still remains a plete. Scored like an with a populist bent, this Frousing favorite after nearly 70 years, and Max soundtrack solidified Korngold’s approach to swash- Steiner’s epic score remains a benchmark. Steiner’s bucklers and provided an essential reference point for wall-to-wall approach to King Kong resulted in a sound Star Wars 40 years later. The re-recording conducted that some critics felt was anachronistic; today, it remains by Varujan Kojian stands up well to the original, the granddaddy of all action-adventure scores (for even if the slightly bigger sound of the re-recording better or worse), with plenty of bombastic orchestral isn’t technically accurate. Captain Blood and The Sea showpieces to keep things moving along. Marco Polo’s Hawk are arguably more well-rounded, but Robin 1997 reconstruction/re-recording (performed by the Hood has the bright, cheerful edge and storybook-like Moscow National Symphony Orchestra under the direc- motifs that makes it the most successful of its kind. tion of William Stromberg) is the best way to experi- Runner-up: The Sea Hawk —JS ence this score. Some original cues are available on a Rhino CD (in hissy mono), but the loving restoration Gone With the Wind (1939) of Steiner’s music (by John Morgan) makes Steiner’s Max Steiner music sing. —Jason Comerford Rhino R272269 • Disc 1: 27 tracks - 74:22; Disc 2: 29 tracks - 73:21 ndlessly quoted, endlessly parodied, Max Steiner’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935) E “Tara Theme” from Gone With the Wind wins Franz Waxman • Silva America SSD 1028 • 13 tracks - 46:31 over even the most hard-hearted cynic with pure vol- erman emigre Franz Waxman boldly entered the ume and repetition at the most opportune moments of GAmerican film music scene by scoring the sequel this film classic. Like most films of this periodCitizen ( to James Whale’s Frankenstein. That film, like Lugosi’s Kane and The Wizard of Oz among them), it’s deliri- Dracula, was released at the dawn of “talking pictures” ously, giddily entertaining. Steiner’s penchant for and featured just a sprinkle of music (uncredited con- interpolating traditional songs often irritates by quot- tributions from Giuseppe Becce and Bernhard Kaun). ing every national anthem and appropriate folk song For the more sophisticated sequel, Waxman wrote one in sight (like a solemn Carl Stalling). But in Gone of the first distinctive and memorable scores: a mix of With the Wind his full-bore, shameless sentimentality delicate lullaby, spirited jeopardy music and a show- works like gangbusters, keeping the audience with piece climax. His take on the fright-wigged “friend” the film every minute in a performance as bravura as for Karloff’s monster went hair-raisingly against the Vivien Leigh’s infuriatingly lovable Scarlett O’Hara. grain by emphasizing soothing melody over horror- Steiner’s score wasn’t available to the public until 15 film bombast. Waxman’s heroic motif was tracked years after the movie’s premiere, when he recorded into the subsequent Flash Gordon serials, thus drum- around 30 minutes of his music for RCA; the original ming itself into generations of impressionable young- music score recording wasn’t issued on LP until 1967, sters. Curiously, “The Creation” anticipates Rodgers and but Rhino’s sumptuous box set is the ultimate (and Hammerstein’s melody for “Bali Ha’i” from South most appropriate) presentation. —JBond

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 27 November/December 2000 1940s The Gold Rush The Jungle Book (1942) MIKLóS RóZSA • Varèse Sarabande VCD 47258 • 1 track - 29:32 Pinocchio (1940) he Thief of Bagdad may have been a more spec- Ned Churchill, Ttacular film, but this later Alexander Korda pro- Walt Disney 60845-2 • 15 tracks - 61:55 duction announced that a star had arrived. Not Sabu, eature animation was still a new art and Walt lead player in this Kipling adaptation, but composer FDisney drew upon musical theater for his sonic Miklós Rózsa, whose richly textured and muscular com- reference point. With years of Silly Symphonies to positions gave these technicolor fantasies a melodic lift test these comedic, sentimental and melodramatic never before heard in motion pictures. The music didn’t idioms, and 1938’s Snow White to prove their viabil- just counterpoint the action—it played the storyteller, ity, Pinocchio cemented the sound of Disney films for using various parts of orchestra to speak for the animals’ decades (until and voices. Even the triumphant majesty that would make revived them for contemporary audiences). The Rózsa composer of choice for biblical epics is glimpsed keening strings, the insistent voices, the clockwork here. This score was recorded twice with narration, in , the “Mickey-Mousing” if you will, the ’40s and ’50s, and was a huge best-seller. —JS drew a bull’s-eye on the hearts of young viewers even as the music gently caressed their fears. Listen to For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Cliff Edwards and the chorus sing “When You Wish • Stanyan STZ-112 • 10 tracks - 40:31 Upon a Star” and cherish the seeming innocence of his score to the wartime flag waver starring Gary this early scores (before it was co-opted as Disney’s TCooper and the luminous Ingrid Bergman was one corporate anthem). —JS of the first soundtrack releases ever. While many of his scores are relatively undistinguished (Young’s output Citizen Kane (1941) often reflected his assignments relative merits) this Bernard Herrmann • rca victor 0707-2-RG • 4 tracks - 13:40 score is brimming with latinesque themes and sweep- sublime collaboration with is a ing, lush melodies, and is nicely representative of Young Atough place to start your career—it’s a wonder at his best. A prodigious composer of scores and songs Bernard Herrmann didn’t just throw his baton in (with over 200 titles to his credit) Young followed in the trash thereafter. His first score is by turns brood- the tradition of Max Steiner throughout his career, and ing, lyrical, witty and moving, tracking the life of the men enjoyed a long friendship (including Steiner’s Charles Foster Kane in ingeniously non-linear fash- completion of Young’s score to China Gate after the ion. Consider Herrmann’s achievements: the morose composer’s untimely death.) This album (sporting a opening theme for Kane (reprised in spine-tingling re-recording by ) is out of print but not fashion as at the film’s conclusion); the grandiose uncommon. Runner-up: The One —JS false opera designed to highlight the vocal inadequa- cies of Susan Alexander; the sweeping underscore to Laura (1944) a failing marriage over the breakfast table; and the David Raksin • 20th Century-Fox 11006 • 1 track - 27:16 magnificent musical eulogy that throbs into anguish hile searching for her killer, detective Dana at the sight of beloved “Rosebud” in flames. There WAndrews falls in love with a portrait of the late have been two re-recordings of the full score (on (or is she?) Gene Tierney in this stylish, witty Label X, and most recently on Varèse Sarabande), classic directed by , with terrific support but neither tops Charles Gerhardt’s brief suite from Clifton Webb and Vincent Price. Raksin’s theme, conducted for the compilation that included White which permeates the film both as source music and in Witch Doctor and Hangover Square. —JBond the underscore, is justifiably one of the most famous melodies ever composed for the silver screen. Yet one Kings Row (1942) never tires of the melody, thanks to Raksin’s inven- Erich Wolfgang Korngold tiveness. On CD, the original 1944 film recording is Varèse Sarabande VCD 47203 • 2 tracks - 48:00 presented in a single track as “The Laura Suite: Theme erhaps most famous for ’s fine and Variations” (coupled with Herrmann’s outstanding Psupporting performance, Kings Row follows the Jane Eyre). Runner-up: The Bad and the Beautiful —JE lives of several people in a small, turn-of-the-cen- tury Midwestern town. When he composed the regal Spellbound (1945) main title, Korngold was under the impression that MIKLóS RóZSA • Stanyan STZ116-2 • 16 tracks - 55:45 the subject of the film was a European monarch. lfred Hitchcock’s loopy take on psychiatry features Nevertheless, as with all of his film scores—from swash- AGregory Peck troubled by Salvador Dali night- buckling pirate adventures to period costume dramas— mares and tempted by his shrink, Ingrid Bergman. Korngold’s Viennese musical sensibilities managed to The proceedings were enhanced by Miklós Rózsa’s perfectly embody of the characters and innovative score (which won a well-deserved Oscar), the thrust of the story. It is impossible to choose a “best” and it’s still one of his best and most accessible pieces score among Korngold’s many magnificent works, but of work, balancing eerie, urgent passages for Peck’s consider that the composer’s son, nightmares (sweetened by the then-daring use of the George Korngold, selected this score as the first of his ) with a characteristically lush love theme. father’s great scores to be re-recorded as a stand-alone Stanyan’s release is a ’50s re-recording conducted by album, here in the capable hands of Charles Gerhardt Ray Heindorf; for completists it’s the best way to go. and the National Philharmonic. —Jeff Eldridge But Charles Gerhardt’s suite-form re-recording on November/December 2000 28 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y Spellbound: The Classic Film Scores of Miklós Rózsa is matches it to a pretty good movie, his second for direc- just as effective a take on the material. — JC tor in the service of a John Steinbeck story. Copland was interested in tunes, melodies that The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) sounded like folk songs but were his own invention. • Label X LXCD • 11 tracks - 46:11 The recording in question here is actually a symphonic his film captured the national zeitgeist after WWII suite that was fashioned by Copland after the film, but Tand was rewarded handsomely with accolades and it’s a marvelous reduction. Listen to it and see if you big box-office earnings (and voted “most representative can imagine any subsequent Americana scores written film” of postwar America in a national newspaper poll). without its example. Runner-up: The Heiress —JS The stories of three returning veterans and their difficult re-introductions to peacetime society are a little blocky but sincere. Hugo Friedhofer had plied his craft as a 1950s trusted orchestrator for Steiner and Korngold, but com- Better Listening Through Chemistry posing assignments were few. When he got his chance on The Best Years of Our Lives, he ran with it, getting The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) an Oscar and kudos from “serious” film critics. There’s Bernard Herrmann a heaping helping of Copland in this work, but it isn’t 20th Century-Fox 07822-11010-2 • 18 tracks - 36:02 limited to typical Americana. It’s big and grand when obert Wise institutes all the basic components it deserves to be, harsh and dissonant where it needs Rof classic Hollywood sci-fi, including the subtext to be, but positive and uplifting throughout. Lauded of sociopolitical paranoia. This film hasn’t aged—the as “the perfect film score,” it’s close enough. —JS steady directorial style is timeless, the special effects are still convincing, and sadly, Klaatu’s warning has Captain From Castile (1947) yet to be heeded. Most memorable is Gort, the ominous Alfred Newman • Facet 8103 • 1 track - 42:50 cyclopean robot—his motif presents a ruthless assault s head of the 20th Century-Fox music department, on our subconscious; it throbs, pulses and burns with an AAl Newman used to complain about how difficult alien heat. Equally effective is the opening theme, a dis- it was to write film music—maybe it was his particular orienting whirlpool of cold and glittering instrumenta- assignments. Imagine him straining under the weight tion, a near perfect representation of the horrible allure of this colorful but tedious tale (of Cortez plundering of the infinite void. With this trendsetting production, Mexico) in order to make it seem more exciting. Tyrone Herrmann gave symphonic voice to humanity’s evolving Power was a poor-boy Errol Flynn anyway, so it was up awareness of the surrounding universe. The great com- to Newman to add the juice, which he did spectacularly. poser singlehandedly carved a path through virgin cin- The score thrusts forward relentlessly with tons of ematic territory and laid the rock-solid foundation of a brass and crashing percussion, making the “Conquest” beloved film . All 36 eloquent minutes of the cue a prehistoric hi-fi delight. The keening strings of original score are intact on this disc. —John Bender the love theme are sweepingly romantic and a little melancholy. This score is so much fun—so why, oh why, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) isn’t there a great re-recording available? —JS Alex North • Varèse Sarabande VSD-5500 • 15 tracks - 46:46 lia Kazan blew cinema wide open in 1951 with his The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Escreen adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ contro- Bernard Herrmann • Varèse Sarabande VSD-5850 • 33 tracks - 50:36 versial play, and bringing his stage collaborator Alex he Ghost and Mrs. Muir remains a perennial North along proved to be a godsend to film music. North Tfavorite; the story of a love affair that crosses broke with the traditions set forth by Max Steiner and the lines of life and death is even more effective with Alfred Newman by writing a complex, dissonant work Bernard Herrmann’s beautiful score (said to be the that played brilliantly to the psychology of the play, composer’s personal favorite). It’s at once classic instead of using brute orchestral force to make its Herrmann, with plenty of his distinctive writing for points. His use of jazz idioms was another breakthrough woodwinds and brass, but at the same time, its poi- for film scoring and was arguably the first film score to gnant use of complex, haunting leitmotifs for Lucy fuse these popular forms into a symphonic whole. The (Gene Tierney) and the ghostly Captain Gregg (Rex original album recording is available on a Capitol CD Harrison). “The Spring Sea” and “The Late Sea” (in crunchy mono, coupled with suites from three Max remain some of the most affecting cues in Herrmann’s Steiner scores), but go with Jerry Goldsmith’s painstak- canon. Elmer Bernstein conducted a re-recording of the ing 1995 re-recording. —JC score in the ’70s, but the original cues (as assembled in stereo for the 1997 restoration) can’t be beat. —JC The Robe (1953) Alfred Newman The Red Pony (1948) Varèse Sarabande/Fox Classics 07822-11011-2 • 26 tracks - 60:55 • RCA Victor 09026-61699-2 • 7 tracks - 23:24 ith Fox’s first big Cinemascope movie, music ith all the talk about Americana in film scores, Wdirector Alfred Newman proved he could stand Wwe could scarcely exclude the guy who invented toe to toe with Miklós Rózsa when it came to biblical it: our country’s most admired and beloved composer. piety and the brass-heavy sound of Ancient Rome. Ironic that a gay Jew from would come to The tale of a Roman soldier () who represent the sound of WASPs on the great fron- finds himself tangled in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ tier…but The Red Pony typifies his approach and prompted Newman to write a theme that practically

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 29 November/December 2000 had the heavens bursting forth in choral and orchestral of the most convincing epic title themes ever written glory. His gloom-and-doom, wailing choral accompani- for a motion picture. Like Bernstein’s The Magnificent ment to the crucifixion itself hits the nail on the head Seven, Tiomkin’s melody went on to find even greater (no pun intended). But the score (preserved in its familiarity with the public in a series of Levi’s televi- original form as a Fox Classics release) really shines in sion commercials in the ’80s. —JBond two other areas: in Newman’s fantastically arrogant and strident Roman march for the Emperor Caligula Raintree County (1957) (a deliciously fruity and decadent Jay Robinson); and John Green an exquisite love theme for Burton’s relationship with Preamble 2-PRCD 1781 • Disc 1: 11 tracks - 44:43; Disc 2: 8 tracks - 43:11 fellow Roman Jean Simmons (who also helped inspire a ere’s a sentimental favorite. MGM hoped to similarly keening romantic melody from Alex North in H strike gold again with a story set around the the later Spartacus). —JBond time of the Civil War—it’s fine entertainment but it ain’t Gone With the Wind. Composer “Johnny” Picnic (1955) Green had a long and illustrious career at Metro as a music executive, and he wrote a rich sweeping score MCA MCSD-31357 • 12 tracks - 46:32 befitting the sumptuous production. But something olumbia Pictures relied heavily on George Duning about the score caught on with the record-buying Cto shore up all sorts of light comedies, frolics and public. Four iterations were released, as single and in the ’50s. Picnic is an odd bird, a popular double LPs, in mono and stereo—this was fairly play by William Inge dragged out of the dark confines unprecedented. Collectors drove up the price of the of the theater and shot in the natural light and mag- album for years afterward. Listening now to the nificent expanse of the Midwest. The dialogue seems “Song of Raintree County,” plucked out on or disconcertingly artificial in locations brimming with with a full orchestra, you can catch a whiff of a magi- verisimilitude—leave it to Duning to add a deft touch cal time gone by—on and off the screen. —JS and quell those misgivings with marvelous “movie music.” His rising chimes strike a hopeful note in a Peyton Place (1957) story about small-town women struggling for accep- Franz Waxman • Varèse Sarabande 302 066 070 2 • 18 tracks - 50:17 tance—and love. The melodies are sweet without being race Metalious’ scandalous roman à clef was trans- cloying, the conflicts are sounded with harsh fanfare Gformed into a stylish film by producer Jerry Wald and the sexual tension gets a sultry brass treatment. In and director Mark Robson. Waxman’s elegant score, short, the composer makes the most enjoyable choice particularly the gorgeous main title theme (which was between artifice and realism. —JS also used in a film sequel and a subsequent television series), is a paean to small town New England—and The Searchers (1956) plays no small part in elevating the film above the Max Steiner level of a trashy . Other highlights of the Screen Archives Entertainment FMA/MS101 • 37 tracks - 67:34 score include a number of playful variations on the teiner “wrote his head off” for nearly 30 westerns, main theme and even a few moments of violent action Sbut this one is special. There’s the customarily music. Waxman’s own album has been re-issued on CD swirling action music for the big action scenes (like in Spain by RCA, but Frederick Talgorn’s reading with the amazing Indian attack on horseback), and plenty the Royal Scottish National Orchestra boasts an excel- of interpolated folk songs to tug at the ol’ heartstrings. lent recording with several cues that were omitted from But Steiner also managed some subtlety in this compo- the original album. Runner-up: Valiant —JE sition, something he hinted at in Pursued, one of the few “psychological” westerns he worked on. The Searchers The Big Country (1958) is a dark picture, with playing an unusu- • Screen Classics SC-1R-JM • 42 tracks - 72:39 ally mean sonofabitch, and the music dogs him with the teiner, Tiomkin, and of course, Elmer Bernstein all mournful title tune and muted and . S influenced the sound of western films, but Moross’ Unfortunately, Steiner wasn’t happy with the way his The Big Country could well be the ultimate Hollywood music was edited by John Ford, and he expressed some Western score. This music’s importance sets in imme- misgivings. Enjoy the full, unadulterated score on this diately with the stunning effect of the “Main Title”’s archive edition from Brigham Young University. —JS whirling strings. Their literal proximity to the furi- ously spinning wheels of a hell-bent stage coach Giant (1956) (courtesy of title designer Saul Bass) isn’t “mickey- Dimitri Tiomkin • Capitol • 12 tracks - 43:26 mousing,” but shows Moross having the guts to shove hile Leonard Rosenman scored the introduction his convictions right into the hot dusty maw of the Wof James Dean to the big screen in East of Eden wild frontier. The inspiration for the music came first and Rebel Without a Cause, it fell to Dimitri Tiomkin hand as the composer rode through the Southwest; to write Dean’s musical epitaph when he scored George he was overwhelmed by the “big country” and never Stevens’ sprawling, multi-generational tale of family lost the sensation. The score is so full of warm sat- rivalries among Texas oil barons. Like , isfying themes, and rich yields of dynamic textures Tiomkin had a way with a popular tune; he wrote and design, that it stands forth as an independent robust songs for westerns like Gunfight at the O.K. symphonic work, worthy to be counted among the Corral and . But for Giant he captured the best of concert hall standards of Americana. Get the boundless expanse of Texas with a vaulting Americana original mono tracks and skip the digital re-interpre- theme, writ huge by orchestra and a full choir. It’s one tations that diffuse the magic. —JBender November/December 2000 30 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y List-o-mania FSM’s 101 Great FILM SCORES ON CD •¹How MANY are in your collection?

1930s Raintree County (1957) The Lion in Winter (1968) City Lights (1931) John Green John Barry Conan the Barbarian (1982) Charles Chaplin Peyton Place (1957) Planet of the Apes (1968) basil Poledouris King Kong (1933) Franz Waxman Jerry Goldsmith II: Max Steiner The Big Country (1958) Bullitt (1968) The Wrath of Khan (1982) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Jerome Moross lalo Schifrin James Horner Franz Waxman The 7th Voyage of The Thomas Crown Affair Koyaanisqatsi (1983) Alexander Nevsky (1938) Sinbad (1958) (1968) philip Glass Sergei Prokofiev bernard Herrmann michel Legrand The Natural (1984) The Adventures of Touch of Evil (1958) The Wild Bunch (1969) Randy Newman Robin Hood (1938) henry Mancini Return to Oz (1985) Erich Wolfgang Korngold North by Northwest (1959) Gone With the Wind (1939) bernard Herrmann 1970s Witness (1985) Max Steiner (1959) (1970) maurice Jarre Pee-wee’s 1940s Ben Hur (1959) Patton (1970) Big Adventure (1985) Pinocchio (1940) miklòS RòZSA Jerry Goldsmith Danny Elfman Ned Churchill, Leigh Harline A Clockwork Orange (1972) Ran (1985) Citizen Kane (1941) 1960s Wendy Carlos toru Takemitsu Bernard Herrmann The Guns of Navarone (1960) The Godfather (1972) The Mission (1986) Kings Row (1942) Dimitri Tiomkin nino Rota ennio Morricone Erich Wolfgang Korngold Exodus (1960) Maddalena (1972) Camille Claudel (1988) The Jungle Book (1942) ernest Gold ennio Morricone gabriel Yared MIKLóS RóZSA Spartacus (1960) Superfly (1973) Batman (1989) For Whom the alex North Danny Elfman Bell Tolls (1943) (1960) (1973) Henry V (1989) Victor Young elmer Bernstein lalo Schifrin patrick Doyle Laura (1944) Psycho (1960) Antony and Cleopatra (1973) David Raksin bernard Herrmann John Scott 1990s Spellbound (1945) La Dolce Vita (1961) Chinatown (1974) Edward Scissorhands (1990) MIKLòS RòZSA nino Rota Jerry Goldsmith Danny Elfman The Best Years of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Jaws (1975) Dances With Wolves (1990) Our Lives (1946) henry Mancini John Williams John Barry Hugo Friedhofer Jules and Jim (1961) Rocky (1976) Backdraft (1991) Captain From Castile (1947) georges Delerue bill Conti hans Zimmer Alfred Newman The Miracle Worker (1962) The Omen (1976) Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Ghost and Jerry Goldsmith howard Shore Mrs. Muir (1947) How the West Was Won (1962) Suspiria (1977) (1992) Bernard Herrmann Alfred Newman goblin Jerry Goldsmith The Red Pony (1948) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Close Encounters of the The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Aaron Copland elmer Bernstein Third Kind (1977) trevor Jones /Randy Edelman The Pink Panther (1963) John Williams Alien3 (1992) 1950s henry Mancini Superman (1978) elliot Goldenthal The Day the Earth The Great Escape (1963) John Williams Tombstone (1993) Stood Still (1951) elmer Bernstein Star Trek: bruce Broughton Bernard Herrmann vs. Mothra (1964) The Motion Picture (1979) The Shawshank A Streetcar akira Ifukube Jerry Goldsmith Redemption (1994) Named Desire (1951) Goldfinger (1964) Tess (1979) thomas Newman Alex North JOHN BARRY philippe Sarde Fargo (1996) The Robe (1953) Doctor Zhivago (1965) carter Burwell Alfred Newman maurice Jarre 1980s (1997) Picnic (1955) (1966) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) James Horner George Duning leonard Rosenman John Williams Fast, Cheap, and The Searchers (1956) The Good, the Bad, Altered States (1980) Out of Control (1997) Max Steiner and the Ugly (1966) John Corigliano caleb Sampson Giant (1956) ennio Morricone Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Unbreakable (2000) Dimitri Tiomkin Casino Royale (1967) John Williams James Newton Howard (1982) FSM

Film Score M o n t h l y 65 N ovember/December 2000 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Ellington’s music. Instead the bold score aligns itself Bernard Herrmann • Varèse Sarabande VCD 47256 • 11 tracks - 33:46 with the seedy milieu of hard drinking, dancing, and ovies didn’t come more high-tech in 1958 than elicit seduction, but even more pointedly Ellington’s MThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad; even today Ray brassy designs speak for Lee Remick’s libidinous char- Harryhausen’s special-effects are impressive. But the acterization. She steals the show as Ben Gazzara’s fun of the film is at least doubled by Herrmann’s overripe bride, too young, too hot, and too available; frenetic adventure score, the first in a series of fan- Ellington’s raunchier fabrications emphasize just how tasy films he did with Harryhausen. There’s plenty dangerous this delicate flower is. One of the top exam- of great material to go around, in particular his har- ples of American jazz in film, and an equally superb monically complex writing for the various stop-motion listening experience. Runner-up: I Want to Live —JBender monstrosities and an overall sense of swashbuckling adventure and kids-eye wonder. John Debney’s 1998 Ben Hur (1959) re-recording for Varèse Sarabande is a faithful attempt MIKLóS RóZSA (and far longer), but the hard-to-find Varése edition of Rhino R2 72197 • Disc 1: 43 tracks - 74:55; Disc 2: 45 tracks - 73:07 Herrmann’s original album has a slight edge in per- iblical scores seem to begin and end with Rózsa’s formance quality. Runner-up: Jason and the Argonauts —JC BBen-Hur. Covering subject matter similar to The Robe, Rózsa put forth his inimitable Hungarian-influ- Touch of Evil (1958) enced style in its broadest, most gargantuan setting, Henry Mancini • Varèse Sarabande VSD 5414 • 19 tracks - 50:39 fashioning a baker’s dozen Roman marches (includ- ny film written and directed by Orson Welles ing the show-stopping “Parade of the Charioteers,” Ais bound to be a part of our cultural heritage, recently saluted in The Phantom Menace), gorgeous and so it is with Touch of Evil. Whit Masterson’s liturgical themes for the birth of Christ and an elegant, Badge of Evil was transformed into a raw cin- movingly simple harp motif for the Messiah as his pres- ematic conceit, immersing a “pure” couple (Charlton ence affects Charlton Heston’s title character. Don’t Heston and Janet Leigh) into an all-enveloping soup forget the thunderous battle music, including a unique of corruption and sleaze. Welles perverts Mexico into a rhythmic treatment of rowing galley slaves (featured in metaphor of Hades, an arid place of hopelessness and a great episode of SCTV in which the slaves furiously death. Henry Mancini’s dynamite jazz and rock score hum the rising-and-falling melody while they row). is unusual in that, at his director’s request, most cues Rósza’s score has probably seen more re-recordings and have been constructed as free-standing source music reissues than any other film score—it exemplifies “big (with the notable exception of the murder). soundtrack music” to most of the population, whether Throughout the picture his contributions emanate they know its melodies or not. Runner-up: El Cid —JBond from various radios, record players and saloons. As a result, Mancini’s score plays out on CD as an extremely evocative . With the newly recut film now 1960s downplaying the title theme, go back to the album for a POP GOES THE SOUNDTRACK fresh hit of his brassy debauchery. —JBender The Guns of Navarone (1960) North by Northwest (1959) Dimitri Tiomkin • Varèse Sarabande VSD-5236 • 12 tracks - 42:50 Bernard Herrmann • Rhino R2 72101 • 50 tracks - 64:51 ne of the first in a wave of large-scale WW II epics, o this day, ’s breezy comic thriller ONavarone was a climax of sorts for composer Tis a great example of pure moviegoing fun, and Tiomkin. His masculine, wall-of-sound approach to film Herrmann’s adrenaline-pumping score is every bit as scoring (more analogous to today’s Media Ventures style nimble as Ernest Lehman’s gloriously witty screen- than ) was well-matched to a tale of six play. Herrmann hits the ground running, with a hard-bitten demolition experts scaling a 400-foot cliff spry orchestral fandango for the bustling streets of to destroy the eponymous German artillery within. His Manhattan, and it never stops, climaxing in a lengthy music gave the lengthy, suspenseful spectacle a visceral chase sequence across Mount Rushmore that’s still one wallop, overwhelming the audience. But his dense action of the great matches of music and film. Rhino’s superb writing was counterbalanced by three melodic themes, restoration of the complete score is an unbeatable expe- given voice by the Sing Along Chorus. The rience, and a great listen at that; but obsessives should lyrics seem a bit silly today, but Tiomkin had launched note that the new DVD of the film has an isolated score a hugely successful decade with his song score to High channel that boasts slightly better sound quality. —JC Noon a decade earlier (also for Navarone producer ), and this approach became his unshakeable Anatomy of a Murder (1959) modus operandi. The Varèse album is a straight reissue Duke Ellington • WK 75025 • 13 tracks - 34:33 of the original LP, recapturing a ’60s classic. —JS his score makes me wish that Duke Ellington had Tbeen a career film composer. Born as a gift of the Exodus (1960) gods to the waiting world of jazz, he was immersed in Ernest Gold • RCA 1058 2R • 12 tracks - 34:27 that rebel genre, first as a band leader and composer, his is a textbook example of a film score wildly and later as a pioneer of large-scale orchestral jazz Ttranscending the movie for which it was written. concepts. Otto Preminger’s courtroom drama is a fine Ernest Gold provided a dramatically potent and highly film, similar to 1982’s The Verdict. Jimmy Stewart’s programmatic underscore for Otto Preminger’s dramati- homey demeanor in the lead role has little connection to cally flat would-be epic about the founding of the state

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 32 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y of . The score is full of ethnic detail, years ago and provided the basis for horror bravura action sequences and pathos, but 21 Should’a Been Contenders film clichés that persist to this day. What’s Gold’s title music remains one of the rich- Here are a few scores that deserve mention but which remarkable is that it took a remake of the est and noblest anthems in the history of haven’t yet gotten a legitimate release on CD. We would film to realize the definitive performance film music, launching in the aftermath have liked to have had the chance to consider them (but on CD. Herrmann’s own re-recording of an anguished opening statement for then, choosing just 101 scores was tough enough…) (made shortly before his death) lacks the strings. The long-form tune had an imme- verve of the original, and Joel McNeely’s Things to Come (1936) diate popular impact and was made into a reconstruction, while very accurate, suffers hit recording by the piano duo of Ferrante Of Mice and Men (1939) Aaron Copland from lousy acoustics. With the budget of a and Teicher; after the film flopped, it was The Razor’s Edge (1946) Alfred Newman major motion picture, not to mention an the single that exposed the most people to Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Vaughan Williams accolyte’s fervor, Danny Elfman gets the Gold’s music. —JBond Invaders From Mars (1953) Raoul Kraushaar sound just right, and throws in a couple of his own grace notes. Runner-up: Vertigo —JS Spartacus (1960) On the Waterfront (1954) Leonard Bernstein Alex North • MCA MCAD 10256 • 11 tracks - 41:52 The Brave One (1956) Victor Young La Dolce Vita (1961) partacus is a rare film for its blatant On the Beach (1959) Ernest Gold Nino Rota • CAM CSE 009 • 11 tracks - 39:20 Smixing of modernistic writing with a Cleopatra (1963) Alex North rederico Fellini viewed our 20th basically traditional epic/period drama. The Lord Jim (1965) Bronislau Kaper Fcentury Western civilization with idea behind this approach may have simply In Cold Blood (1967) Quincy Jones the child-like eyes of a jovial visitor from been to go against the grain of Rózsa-styled another planet. His many films are classics, The French Connection (1971) Don Ellis epic scores—or maybe to do something as but La Dolce Vita (The Good Life) is gener- jagged, irreverent and packed with unpre- Images (1972) John Williams ally considered to be the greatest of all. dictable emotional punch as were Spartacus Marathon Man (1974) Maestro Rota was Fellini’s full collabora- and his army of gladiators themselves. The Farewell, My Lovely (1975) David Shire tor—the master musician who could relate only legitimate Spartacus album release Damnation Alley (1977) Jerry Goldsmith to his director’s dreamlike insights. La isn’t even close to an adequate representa- Dolce Vita sliced deep and broad into 1960 Big Wednesday (1978) Basil Poledouris tion of North’s landmark score, but it easily Italy’s high-flying cafe society. Generally makes this list even in this woeful incarna- The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1982) Carl Davis seen as an indictment of city life, the film tion. Any album of Spartacus is going to Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan (1984) John Scott actually lingers with a more compassionate be loaded with the goods—almost every Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) Bruce Broughton look at individuals (thanks in part to the track is overflowing with interest. The main Falling Down (1992) J.N. Howard warm, vibrant underscore, swinging from title, which is thankfully included, is one broad and sensitive). Vita shows us that of the most arresting tracks ever put to the capricious human spirit will permeate, film. The original LP reportedly has great sound, but infect and eventually bring truth to the stubborn facade you probably don’t have your record player anymore. of a popular lifestyle. The score tracks “La Dolce Vita” Runner-up: Cleopatra —Jonathan Z. Kaplan and “Cadillac” became pop-media symbols of any shal- low attempt to appear hip and/or wealthy. —JBender The Magnificent Seven (1960) Elmer Bernstein • Rykodisc RCD 10741 • 23 tracks - 67:39 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) ernstein had scored westerns before, but never had Henry Mancini • BMG 2362-2-R • 12 tracks - 34:43 Bhe scored one that needed his melodic and rhyth- enry Mancini is a unique case among modern mic vitality as much as John Sturges’ stolid adaptation Hfilm composers, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s encap- of The Seven . This film featured loads of tall sulates his special skill. He could do anything—having men standing around talking, or riding at a relaxed pace started with bombastic, agitated monster music in ‘50s across the Mexican countryside. Bernstein juiced up the sci-fi movies. But once Blake Edwards hired Mancini for action with an instant classic of a theme that vaulted TV’s Peter Gunn, Mancini revealed an incredible knack directly onto center stage, elevating the film from a for writing useful and distinctive themes that became sluggish wannabe to a certifiable classic. The sweeping huge popular hits. In short, Mancini was a natural Americana main title was famously employed to hawk songwriter, unlike the vast majority of his contempo- Marlboro cigarettes for years, providing more traction raries, who would farm out songwriting assignments with the public than the movie ever did. Originally, to specialists or make their own, lackluster attempts. the score was only put forth (lushly reorchestrated) For Tiffany’s Mancini wrote a heartbreaking, roman- at the time of the sequel, Return of the Seven. Two re- tic melody that translated into a song (“”) recordings of the score (one by Bernstein) are available, and became a pop touchstone. When the chorus sings but Rykodisc’s explosive mono release of the original ’s lyrics as Audrey Hepburn finds a lost (released in 1998) is the one to have. Bernstein’s gun- cat in the rain…well, let me tell you, my huckleberry fight music is incredible. —JBond friend, there isn’t a dry eye in the house. —JBond

Psycho (1960) Jules and Jim (1961) Bernard Herrmann, arr. Danny Elfman (1998) Georges Delerue • Nonesuch Film Series 79405-2 • 5 tracks - 15:50 Virgin Records 7243 8 47657 2 9 • 22 tracks - 31:35 ules and Jim fronted another great and lasting team: here’s no denying the staggering influence of this JGeorges and François (Truffaut, that is). Over 11 Tlandmark work. Herrmann’s string-only master- films and 20 years, the lyrical composer found a sym- piece of fright completely unnerved film audiences 40 pathetic ear with the “nicest” of the

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 33 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 directors. This second collaboration exemplifies their The Pink Panther (1963) shared fascination with the mysteries and the miracles Henry Mancini • BMG (UK) 660472 • 12 tracks - 28:28 of love. The score tracks a doomed romantic triangle, eter Sellers makes his debut as Inspector Jacques that begins boisterously as the boys become friends PClouseau in the first of Blake Edwards’ many before WWI. There follows a delicate two-note melody films involving the bumbling French detective. Although for love interest Jeanne Moreau and a minor-key varia- Mancini’s classic theme is now associated more closely tion as the relationship takes a tragic turn. Alas, the with the DePatie-Freleng cartoons, this is where it all songs sung so memorably by Moreau are not part of this started. Mancini’s comedy scores always lent an air re-recording or the original album. —JS of sophisticated silliness to the goings-on, however outrageous they might be; this is no exception, with The Miracle Worker (1962) the irresistible song “It Had Better Be Tonight” just LaUrence Rosenthal • Windmere (Intrada promo) • 13 tracks - 34:33 one of the highlights. With a nod to his journeyman o Helen Keller jokes here—just an achingly beau- days at Universal, Mancini writes diverse comic, sus- Ntiful score. From the first notes, Rosenthal places penseful, menacing and romantic cues as required. us inside the blind and deaf girl’s lonely remove, with- The original Panther album has been reissued on a out sentiment. He charts the struggle of teacher Annie British import CD with the score to Return of the Pink Sulllivan (Anne Bancroft) to connect with her mute Panther (1974). Runner-up: The Pink Panther Strikes Again —JE student (Patty Duke). Plucked strings, brief piano runs, and chimes evoke the child striving to escape her physi- The Great Escape (1963) cal limitations, in counterpoint to the dissonant strings Elmer Bernstein • Intrada MAF 7025D • 13 tracks - 32:34 and reverb that highlight the teacher’s frustrations lmer Bernstein wrote his usual mix of kinetic and fears. Rosenthal has always been a smart, savvy Eaction, robust melodies and delicate lyricism for composer who’s tackled a wide range of genres—and this true story of a mass escape attempt from a WWII here he avoids cliché with a forthright, adult take on a German POW camp. But what set The Great Escape potentially maudlin subject. Runner-up: The Comedians —JS apart was a jaunty march for and brass that launched the film and established an immediate mood How the West Was Won (1962) of plucky heroism against indomitable odds. While the Alfred Newman precedent had clearly been set by the “Colonel Bogey Rhino R2 72458 • Disc 1: 27 tracks - 70:44; Disc 2: 31 tracks - 68:14 March” in The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bernstein’s ow the West Was Won was one of a few Cinerama tailor-made music was actually catchier and went on to Hspectacles, with more of everything: three direc- be a source of endless quotation and parody. —JBond tors, 24 stars and 16 reels on a triple-faceted screen. Al Newman could have rested on his laurels by this Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964) time, but he and collaborator hammered Akira Ifukube • Futureland TYCY-5348 (Japan) • 32 tracks - 58:01 out an epic structure of new orchestral material and apanese monster movies, or Dai , rest solidly a mix of original and traditional songs. The intimacy Jon the mountain-high shoulders of a mutant lizard- and rough-hewn performances of the Whiskeyhill demon: Godzilla! His debut, aptly subtitled King of the Quartet nicely suggest the pioneer experience, and Monsters, began a visual narrative phenomena and a the cues build in power and complexity to include historic film music canon. Maestro Akira Ifukube was the full studio chorus, mirroring the settlement of as predestined to fabricate the orchestral persona of the the West. Tying it all up is yet another great western Monster Island as John Barry was duty-bound to Agent movie theme that surges forward with the certainty of 007. Ifukube laid the groundwork for all Japanese mon- Manifest Destiny. Call it the last of the innocent west- ster movie music with the classic 1954 production, play- ern scores (and thanks to Rhino, you can choose to ing lumbering basso chords against bright (but futile) hear the music with or without Spencer Tracy’s politi- military marches. He evolved his own concepts for the cally incorrect narration). —JS fourth (and perhaps the best) film,Godzilla vs. Mothra. For Ifukube, this awe-inspiring dinotherian score stands To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) as a pinnacle of sorts, striding midway between his bril- Elmer Bernstein • Varèse Sarabande VSD-5754 • 14 tracks - 41:57 liant genesis of the ’50s, and the later realizations for s there a motion picture score that captures the the “second series” Godzilla films of the ’90s. And its got I innocence and vulnerability of childhood with those tiny twins warbling “Mo-th-u-ra!” —JBender the wistfulness of sweet nostalgia better than this seminal effort? Mockingbird encapsulates everything Goldfinger (1964) great about the composer’s style: the brash, synco- JOHN BARRY • EMI-USA CDP 7-95345-2 • 10 tracks - 31:24 pated playfulness, the pounding hysteria, and most o you expect me to talk?” “No, Mister Bond, of all the astonishingly haunting, hushed and deli- “DI expect you to die!” John Barry’s scoring cate lyricism of the film’s main title. First issued on for 007’s most famous adventure captures the bad-ass LP with inferior sound quality (later reprised in a superspy in his ultra-hip prime. This is ’60s lounge-style couple of noble-minded but unsuccessful CD issues), action at its finest, with rattling snares, tingling cym- Bernstein’s first, flavorful re-recording from the ’70s bals, twangy surf guitar and traditional Barry strings has yet to make it to CD. It can be difficult for com- coalescing into a musical adventure that’s as much posers to recapture the glory and intensity of their fun to listen to as the film is to watch. The bare-bones early works, but Bernstein’s efforts here are as good release from EMI is worth every penny of its “budget” as we could hope for. —JBond price. Completists, take note: the limited-edition 30th Anniversary James Bond set includes five Goldfinger N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 34 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y cues missing from this disc. Runners-up: Diamonds Are Forever, On by , a bouncy theme performed by ’60s pop Her Majesty’s Secret Service —Chris Stavrakis phenom Herb Albert, and goofy orchestrations combin- ing harpsichord and the Tijuana Brass. The original Doctor Zhivago (1965) LP was prized by audiophiles, with ’s Maurice Jarre • Rhino R271957 • 45 tracks - 69:46 reedy vocals considered the ultimate test for hi-fi per- avid Lean and composer Jarre enjoyed a long col- formance. The CD is a straight reissue, including most Dlaboration over the span of a few films (director of the underscore, notably missing a wacky/sinister Lean was a methodical slowpoke). They got off to a big riff used for the expressionistic Berlin sequence. This start with the spectacular Lawrence of Arabia, but their is the sort of pop extravagance bemoaned by fans of popular success was cinched with Dr. Zhivago, a lavish, Golden Age scoring, but it captures the spirit of its time. soapy spectacular based on Boris Pasternak’s great Runner-up: What’s New Pussycat? —JS Russian novel. Jarre scores the epic background action, employing a huge orchestra, 24 balalaikas and a Moog The Lion in Winter (1968) sythesizer, but his emphasis was on the love theme John Barry • Legacy/Columbia CK 66133 • 12 tracks - 36:24 (presaging James Horner’s approach to Titanic). The he film version of James Goldman’s vitriolic stage coupling of Yuri (Omar Sharif) and Lara (Julie Christie) Tplay is, for several reasons, a milestone. The cast- was the real focus of Jarre’s writing, and it paid off ing was a once-in-a-lifetime convergence of prodigious handsomely—Lara’s Theme was huge in its day. Rhino talent (Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn) and the brings it all back in a crystal clear album, with bonus explosive, delightfully lurid nature of the character- takes of the orchestra jamming jazz, rock and swing driven plot is stablized by director Anthony Harvey’s versions of Lara’s Theme. Runner-up: Lawrence of Arabia —JS choice to dress the film authentically: The royals wear drab, rough-hewn garments and roam the frigid corri- Fantastic Voyage (1966) dors of a dank and muddy castle. Barry’s score registers Leonard Rosenman • Film Score Monthly Vol. 1, No. 3 • 13 tracks - 47:28 that the doomed magnificence of these individuals lies omposer Rosenman took audiences on an unprec- not in some fabricated romance of heritage, but in the Cedented aural adventure for this trip into the manifestation of their flawed personalities, particularly human body. Wisely reserving his orchestral impact, the as played out in the cruel cultural and political ambi- score’s first notes are struck some 30 minutes into the ence of the Dark Ages. The score is a masterwork film, as the miniaturized enter the bloodstream. that, by turns, strikingly captures the thunderous, That kind of restraint is amazing by today’s standards, awful blacks, and the ascendant, grandiose golds of our but the soaring, mystical sound Rosenman employs is enigmatic human condition—arguably Barry’s finest equally remarkable. Using a short thematic motif (often accomplishment. —JBender associated with the submarine Proteus), he develops the theme and elaborates on it with rhythmic, harmonic Planet of the Apes (1968) and contrapuntal variations. His atonal approach curi- Jerry Goldsmith • Varèse Sarabande VSD 5848 • 17 tracks - 51:07 ously gives credibility to the wild, op-art plastic scenery. he highlight of Goldsmith’s long and fruitful col- A warm variation at the film’s conclusion provides a Tlaboration with director Franklin J. Schaffner, heroic flourish and spares us any ridiculous dialogue this remarkable score eschewed conventions and used that would have diminished the previous sense of won- serial techniques to help turn normal landscapes into der. It’s an awesome album. —JS frightening alien terrain. Jerry Goldsmith complains that he didn’t do anything “new” in this —regardless The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) of whatever ideas of Webern, Varèse, Strauss, Xenakis Ennio Morricone or Schoenberg that Goldsmith leaned on, his dramatic EMI-Manhattan/CDP 7-48408-2 • 11 tracks - 34:13 reinterpretations combine to blow away the originals. I oes anyone not own this one? Leave it to the refuse to include the overused “avant-garde” reference DItalians to take a tired American genre and cre- in this summation, but if you’ve found it hard to warm ate one of the greatest action films ever made, a tale of up to atonal writing, your best bet to break in lies with three ruthless gunmen in search of Confederate gold. Planet of the Apes. It hangs on to just enough of the ele- Morricone’s eight-note warble has entered the cultural ments that make music enjoyable to listen to (and not landscape as the best-known western theme of all time. more enjoyable to dissect mathematically) and is acces- The rest of his masterwork is no less remarkable, infus- sible even to the untrained ear. Then, once you’re in, ing a bloody story of greed with mythical resonance. Apes only gets better with each listen. —JZK Despite dated sound quality, the album’s selection— identical to its original LP release—features enough Bullitt (1968) passionate, operatically titled cues to make a Morricone Lalo Schifrin • Aleph Records 018 • 18 tracks - 55:47 fan out of anyone. Runner-up: A Fistful of Dollars —CS nyone surprised to see this score in the list just Ahasn’t been paying attention. Schifrin set the Casino Royale (1967) tone of masculine cool as manifest in the violent urban Burt Bacharach • Varèse Sarabande VSD-5265 • 13 tracks - 34:21 setting of 20th-century America. The composer drew he first James Bond film produced outside of on the African roots of jazz, his own Latin beginnings Tthe Broccoli-Salzman franchise is a bloated, dis- and the full strength of the modern orchestra to cre- jointed comic misfire, but the soundtrack is a success ate an impressionistic big band jazz form that moves amidst the excess. Arguably the quintessential Burt with an intimidating beauty. Call it a kind of musical Bacharach score, it includes charming songs co-written martial art (appropriate given Schifrin’s future assign-

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 35 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 ments). Legendary power-cues such as “Hotel Daniels,” collection of pounding, throbbing sex anthems and lux- “Shifting Gears” and especially “Ice Pick Mike” repre- urious adornments—an R-rated, jazz-influenced mas- sent not just tough characters and thrilling moments, terwork. Anyone not connecting with this art will find but lasting portraits of the hazardous U.S. metropolis. their bedroom is too small for music! —JBender Bullitt is peculiarly American, and it speaks to our tough and vigorous determination to live with the dan- Patton (1970) gers intrinsic to a truly free society. Schifrin’s re-record- Jerry Goldsmith • Film Score Monthly Vol. 2 No. 2 • 15 tracks - 36:00 ing, close-miked and powerfully played, sounds like a atton’s economical use of music, with barely 20 great ’60s album rescued from oblivion. —JBender Ppercent of the scenes scored, is noteworthy given the punch of those few musical moments. The exhila- The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) rating marches, the aching reveries, and especially the Michel Legrand • Rykodisc RCD 10719 • 18 tracks - 41:16 eerie battle in the snow prove the axiom: less is more. ore than just a top-rank score, The Thomas But the misunderstood hero of this score remains the MCrown Affair is emblematic of a decade. The echoplex, that little proto-sampler that was part of the soundtrack, captures the swinging, cosmopolitan air of tape revolution of the ’60s. No surprise that sonic junkie confidence and sophistication following JFK’s . Goldsmith would pick up on the gadget and employ it Director Norman Jewison transformed a familiar caper- in his work—but those damned trumpets have forever film plot into a striking, and at the time, contemporary altered the way the military is underscored in film. The synthesis of images and music. It’s significant that absolute control and precision of the device beats con- Michel Legrand was able to convince Jewison to defer cert hall approximations. Accept no substitutes. —JS all editing until he had finished composing. Atypically, The Thomas Crown Affair was cut to its music. Legrand A Clockwork Orange (1972) used the quirky personality of jazz to spice his seduc- Wendy Carlos • East Side Digital ESD 81362 • 10 tracks - 46:56 tively fluid orchestral manueverings, and this coupled tanley Kubrick’s ear has always been the equal of with two memorable theme songs (“The Windmills of Shis eye, and he has tracked his films with a succes- Your Mind”, “His Eyes Her Eyes”) means Affair has sion of classical and top-40 tunes whose significance are the kind of vivacious, indelible music that most direc- inevitably altered by their inclusion. Our criteria ren- tors can only dream about. —JBender der 2001: A Space ineligible (though its legacy in pop culture is nearly incalculable.) But the score to A The Wild Bunch (1969) Clockwork Orange is significant not only for the direc- Jerry Fielding • Warner Home Video • 22 tracks - 75:38 tor’s choices but the composer’s achievement: Carlos am Peckinpah’s masterful examination of the ties created a fascinating hybrid of and Sthat bind hardened criminals in the American “futuristic” color via the Moog synthesizer. The com- West is still as pungent and affecting as it was in 1969; plete score includes adaptations of Rossini, Beethoven the unsparing depiction of violence in a dying era is as and others (substituted in the film due to time limita- influential as Jerry Fielding’s bustling, dissonant score. tions), and spotlights a significant transition in the His music fuses together his own distinctively aggres- history of electronic scores, from useful gimmick (as in sive, modernistic orchestral writing with more gentle, Forbidden Planet) to the genuine article. —JS upbeat Mexican influences, enriching an already-unfor- gettable fusion of music and film. Nick Redman’s stereo The Godfather (1972) restoration of the score (produced for a laserdisc box set Nino Rota • MCA/MCAD-10231 • 12 tracks - 31:37 in 1995) is far and away the best representation of the ike Morricone’s famous whistling motif, the mourn- score and a worthy tribute to the late composer. —JC Lful trumpet intro to this sweeping mobster epic has become Rota’s hallmark. 30 years later, this powerful score has lost neither its menace nor its minor-keyed 1970s European romanticism, as exemplified by the enduring SCORING AS A SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY “Love Theme.” The album contains only a taste of the film’s rich soundscape: traditional tarantellas, jazzy Camille 2000 (1970) “crime” riffs, -trilling Sicilian airs and an Piero Piccioni • Easy Tempo ET 905 CD • 22 tracks - 62:27 ominous pipe-organ toccata to boot. ’s e puritanical Yanks have a cozy love/hate rela- work is also noteworthy; the Godfather Suite CD from Wtionship with our smut, sleaze, porn and trash, Silva Screen, with re-recordings of cues by both compos- while Europeans freely imbibe the delights of erotica. ers, makes a nice companion to the score album. —CS French and Italians, particularly, portray human sexu- ality in a richly successful cinematic genre. Piero Maddalena (1972) Piccioni’s stylistic agenda destined him to lay claim to Ennio Morricone • Avanz SP/CR-20009 (Japan) • 6 tracks - 40:13 this hot purlieu. In films such as The Witches, Check his film stars Lisa Gastoni, whose powerful cin- to Queen, 70 and Apassionnata, his sinu- Tematic presence combined intense sensual allure ous rhythms, gently heaving organ riffs, and ardent with a disorienting aspect of availability. As the titular orchestral textures weave a sublime atmosphere of character, she tragically obsesses for an intimate rela- bracing earthiness. Piccioni’s consumate statement for tionship with a young priest; her unrelenting pursuit of Euro-exotica is his score for ’s Camille this passion ultimately leads to the destruction of her 2000, a dazzling, decadent drama that Life Magazine husband, the priest and her own identity. 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Lengthy tracks feature the flawless solo its emotional distance, an aloofness that smartly mimes performances of Morricone’s closest collaborators, Edda the picture’s tone of nihilistic detachment. Even the Dell’Orso (voice) and Bruno Nicolai (organ). —JBender Love Theme holds an appropriately off-kilter resonance, it gently shelters a thorn of loneliness. —JBender Superfly (1973) Curtis Mayfield Jaws (1975) Rhino R2 72836 • Disc 1: 11 tracks - 43:40; Disc 2: 12 tracks - 41:44 John Williams • Decca 289 467 045-2 • 20 tracks - 51:17 lthough ’ has the single most he recent 25th Anniversary album releases (Decca’s Afamous song, Curtis Mayfield’s Tsuperlative OST and Varèse’s worthy re-recording) Superfly is the single greatest blaxploitation album: helped revive interest in one of the greatest scores mostly vocal and a veritable ghetto opera. Outside of ever composed...not that interest in Jaws’s music ever the “Junkie Chase,” it does not score the died. The shark motive has long been an identifiable action as much as broadly set the mood, with insightful and widely spoofed terror icon in pop culture. The lyrics that convey the subtext of black pride, street life rest of the underscore is brilliantly conceived in every and drug culture struggles (sometmes the screen action way—Williams balances the fear of the shark with the stops dead to allow Mayfield to perform onscreen in a joy of the chases, pressing the right buttons in every nightclub). While it’s extremely tuneful, the best way to scene. His (or Spielberg’s) only mistake was in spotting, describe this music is melodic proto-rap, enhanced by but Steven Spielberg thankfully cut out just enough live percussion, upbeat grooves, and pre- strings music to let the film breathe. It’s hard to limit yourself (by Johnny Pate). The splendidly remastered Rhino set to one Jaws album, but it’s surely between the new includes an extra disc of material. —Lukas Kendall Decca and the original MCA (that concert version of the “Shark Cage Fugue” is hard to let go of). —JZK Enter the Dragon (1973) Lalo Schifrin • Warner Home Video • 17 tracks - 57:12 Rocky (1976) ruce Lee’s last completed film looks a little dated Bill Conti • Liberty CDP 746081 • 13 tracks - 30:39 Btoday (and lethargic in comparison with the influx ill Conti’s defining moment, and another score of Hong-Kong martial-arts movies of recent years), but B that became a pop culture sensation. Sylvester it set the standard for years. Lalo Schifrin’s score was a Stallone himself acknowledged how important Conti groundbreaker; his finesse keeps the ’70s- stylings was to the success of the . If you have a from seeming dated and gimmicky. The crisp, propul- heart, it’s easy to like Rocky music—aside from the sive music has more coherence and focus than many of main theme, the Rocky franchise birthed some of the today’s action-adventure scores could dream of, fusing most memorable and exciting pop songs (used inte- a handful of Eastern and Western musical forms into a grally in the films) written in the past quarter-century. remarkably seamless whole. The original soundtrack If this list weren’t limited to legitimate soundtracks, album ran under 29 minutes; the 1998 restoration of we might have instead recommended The Rocky the score for Warner Home Video includes the entire Story compilation, which includes pop favorites like 57-minute score in pristine stereo. —JC Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” and “Burning Heart,” as well as some of Vince Di Cola’s dynamic under- Antony and Cleopatra (1973) score for the 90-minute , Rocky IV. But John Scott • JOS 128 • 19 tracks - 63:00 The Rocky Story is missing vital music like Conti’s ake no mistake—this is an epic score in every phenomenal “War” fight music. —JZK Msense of the word. Okay, not every sense; the clas- sically styled battle music can be floppy and banal. The The Omen (1976) rest of the score is stellar. A gorgeous main/love theme Jerry Goldsmith • Varèse Sarabande VSD 5281 • 12 tracks - 34:16 (Goldsmith and Jarre-influenced) is supported by a his isn’t arbitrarily included because it got strong following of subsidiary motives and ethnic dance TGoldsmith his Oscar. With all the incredible scores music. It’s a shame Scott, a gifted melodist, never got to he’s written, Goldsmith might have won his Academy score the kind of film that could have really jump-started Award for something retarded like Powder, but hap- his career. He has labored magnificently in the shadows, pily his work on ’s The Omen is one of with Shoot to Kill and The Final Countdown among a his deserving and most influential scores. It found its few scores that boast memorable main themes. —JZK way into the repertoire of many film composers (Chris Young, James Horner and most any generic horror Chinatown (1974) composer) and continues to reach millions of people, Jerry Goldsmith • Varèse Sarabande VSD-5677 • 12 tracks - 31:22 referenced in things like Final Fantasy VIII for the t’s amazing that one of the seminal scores of the Sony Playstation. The Mephisto Waltz might be scarier, I’70s, was a last-minute rush job. ’s but The Omen covers more territory. The love theme is near-perfect film thrusts a trembling Faye Dunaway disturbingly varied throughout the album, and there (as Evelyn Cross, threatening to shatter like flawed are several cues where Goldsmith’s propulsive layering crystal) into the arms of (as the seem- techniques hit full-steam-ahead. —JZK ingly bloodless anti-hero Jake Gittes). After Krzysztof N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 38 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y Suspiria (1977) Goldsmith’s use of the blaster beam (popular in other Goblin • Cinevox CD MDF 305 • 12 tracks - 41:30 sci-fi films) is unparalleled in its strength and ingenuity. oggle-eyed Jessica Harper attends a prestigious This score, written at the peak of a master’s powers, is GEuropean ballet school that is actually home to a hugely popular for all the right reasons. —LK coven of witches. Producing a sound compatible with Dario Argento’s surreal Technicolor bloodbath must Tess (1979) have been a daunting task, but the band formerly Philippe Sarde known as Cherry Five rose to the occasion. Goblin’s Universal Music Jazz France • 159 898-2 • 13 tracks - 37:23 distinctive, pulsing keyboard-and-bass elegies and echo- his film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, of a heavy chants function perfectly, blaring unnervingly Tpoor girl raising a ruckus in “polite” society fea- through most of the film. In 1997, Cinevox finally tured an authentic period look, a fetching star (Roman released several Goblin albums on CD, including this, Polanski’s protégé Nastassja Kinski), and a lovely score their magnum opus (with four unreleased alternate by Philippe Sarde. The original LP has just been reis- cues). A sensational release that’s already becoming sued (paired with his score for The Tenant)—sans the scarce; grab a copy while you can. —CS pop song that crowded the U.S. album. From the first notes you can tell that this isn’t simply a pretty composi- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) tion for nostalgia’s sake; you can feel dread underlying John Williams • Arista 07822-19004-2 • 26 tracks - 77:19 the beauty. Tess’ character is represented by a climbing teven Spielberg’s mysterioso precursor to E.T. horn figure that repeatedly elbows its way through the Sprovided an opportunity for the inimitable John gorgeous strings, all the way to the troubled finale. —JS Williams to create something more esoteric than the rousing themes he wrote for Star Wars that same year. At times, it rivals Alex North’s legendary, unused score to 2001: A Space Odyssey in atonal mystery; 1980s at others, it’s pure Williams, with thunderous brass, Score Loud, Louder—I Can’t Hear You! tremolo strings, flittering woodwinds and martial snares used to spectacular effect. Arista’s fully- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) packed “Collector’s Edition” is astounding, featuring John Williams over a dozen unreleased cues and alternate takes RCA Victor 09026-68747-2 from the film’s Special Edition re-release. A brilliant Disc 1: 11 tracks - 62:41; Disc 2: 12 tracks - 61:42 reissue that leaves the earlier, “concertized” record- he Empire Strikes Back is widely held to be the ings in the dust...despite its cheap “digi-pak” sleeve. T greatest and most listenable soundtrack of all Runner-up: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (MCA expanded) —CS time. It’s not only the pinnacle of John Williams’ career but one in the history of motion picture Superman (1978) scoring. Most of Empire’s themes have become an John Williams indelible part of pop culture (sure...several were Rhino R2 75874 • Disc 1: 17 tracks - 75:18; Disc 2: 18 tracks - 73:38 introduced in Star Wars, but Empire has the Imperial oming off the incredible success of Star Wars, John March, Yoda’s Theme, the Love Theme and more). CWilliams again hit the ball out of the park with his Every action/suspense cue is composed with pains- operatic score to Superman, Richard Donner’s agree- taking detail—you’d be hardpressed to find a single ably campy take on the legendary comic-book charac- measure of filler (unlike in today’s composing climate, ter. Williams’ main-title march is still the final word in where you’d be hard-pressed to find a measure of go-for-broke adventure music, and the rest of the score interest). It’s tough to exclude Star Wars and Return is every bit as fun—from the eerie harmonic effects of the Jedi from this list, but Empire represents of “The Planet Krypton,” to the stirring Americana the fullest expression of the material (plus we have music for Clark Kent’s adolescence, to the jaunty to make room for other classics, like Superfly and “March of the Villains.” Warner’s original album was Suspiria). Runner-up: Star Wars —JZK a lengthy one at 70+ minutes, but it still lacked many of the key set pieces of the score, all of which were Altered States (1980) restored to completion for Rhino’s 2000 release. —JC John Corigliano • RCA Victor/3983-2-RG • 9 tracks - 40:18 en Russell’s film about a mental quest for the Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) K origin of our species is a visual tour de force, Jerry Goldsmith • Columbia/Legacy C2K 66134 • 18 tracks - 64:29 but try watching it once without sound to see just T:TMP is by no means a great movie. Still, it is how dependent it is upon its score, particularly the Scompelling for the sheer verisimilitude of its world, many “hallucination” sequences. Russell, leery of made unforgettable by Jerry Goldsmith’s music. His experimenting with such drugs himself, opted to allow score may be the best character in the movie, render- music to create the mind-bending atmosphere he ing hours of elaborate, too-expensive-to-edit effects desired, and Corigliano’s unparalleled score succeeds footage watchable. The march, played ad infinitum on immeasurably. His compositions are nearly indescrib- the series’ television offspring, still sounds fresh in ST: able: hovering strings, synthesizer, alpenhorn and TMP. It’s the perfect theme for Gene Roddenberry’s brass combine to form an ethereal auditory environ- utopian future: strong and martial, but also peaceful ment where “apparition” motifs float in and out with (and full of hope). The set pieces (like “Klingon Battle”) abandon, a hair-raising experience with the RCA are masterpieces of economy, effectiveness and melody. disc’s digital surround. —CS

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 39 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 digital presentation will have you leaping to your feet Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and screaming “KHAAAAN!” —CS John Williams • DCC Compact Classics DZS-090 • 19 tracks - 73:30 ohn Williams helped initiate yet another ultra-suc- Koyaanisqatsi (1983) Jcessful film franchise with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Philip Glass • nonesuch 79506-2 • 8 tracks - 73:21 Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ homage to the ew composers have been given as much leeway great rollercoaster serial thrills of the 1930s and ’40s. F(and as much responsibility) as Glass got from The rousing “Raiders March” has become a concert- director Godffrey Reggio in Koyaanisqatsi. The film is hall staple around the world, but there’s more to this composed of a series of arresting time lapse images and score than that signature theme: fun travelogue cues uncommon views from the “modern” and “natural” (“Journey to Nepal,” “To Cairo”) are balanced out with worlds, presented without narrative, human speech or loads of darker material (“The Well of the Souls”). And even sound effects. The addition of indigenous chorus to “Desert Chase” is still one of the great action sequences the hypnotic minimalist writing provides grounding in in film history, thanks in no small part to Williams’ a film about “life out of balance.” Glass’ score carries at wall-to-wall scoring. The 1995 restoration of the score least half the freight and transforms the images from eye is the best collection of the varied material Williams candy to something profound. Endless reruns on PBS created for the film. —JC stations probably secured his reputation with the public, although a sequel, Powaqqatsi, failed to resonate. Glass Blade Runner (1982) oversaw this re-recording of the score in 1998, topping Vangelis • Atlantic 82623-2 • 12 tracks - 57:36 the original release by nearly 30 minutes. —JS angelis’ jazzy, new-age score for Ridley Scott’s Vfuturistic film noir was slow in coming, and long The Natural (1984) in demand; for years, the only available album featured Randy Newman • Warner Bros. • 14 tracks - 34:32 a limp re-recording by the New American Orchestra. he last great decade of baseball was celebrated with After a dozen years of wrangling, the cagey Greek Tmusic that embraces the unabashed sentiment composer revamped his revolutionary synth-and-sax and nostalgia of its time (aka “Morning in America”). I arrangement for commercial release. This CD includes doubt Randy Newman’s a Reaganite, but he hit one out several cues from the film (and some new mood pieces of the park for director Barry Levinson’s larger-than-life with dialogue interwoven), perfectly replicating the tale of a man destined to be a big leaguer. With generous film’s gloomy ambience in a beautifully flowing format. doses of Copland-esque material and synthesizer pads Numerous bootlegs also exist (shamefully, some are that recall a stadium organ, this score is sure to tug more comprehensive), but Atlantic’s classy release at the heartstrings. It’s remarkable that such a (seem- should more than satisfy conscientious fans. —CS ingly) cynical curmudgeon can write such affecting scores—but he has continued to do so in films as diverse Conan the Barbarian (1982) as , Awakenings and even . The album is Basil Poledouris • Varèse Sarabande VSD 5390 • 16 tracks - 67:20 brief and a bit repetitous, but catchy nonetheless. —JS ohn Milius’ film captured just enough of the mythic Jand no-nonsense elements of Robert E. Howard’s Return to Oz (1985) Conan lore—but Basil Poledouris’ music singlehand- David Shire • Bay Cities BCD-3001 • 12 tracks - 48:13 edly elevated it to classic fantasy status. How can a alter Murch’s attempt to continue the story of score so blatantly and unabashedly tonal be so reward- WDorothy in the magical land of Oz failed with ing after so many repeat listenings? The answer: The moviegoers, and was forgotten; it’s too bad, because romantic score is chock full of memorable themes David Shire’s score remains one of the best of its genre. developed in every way you could possibly want. Shire starts the score slowly, with a beautiful open- Poledouris has a genius for melody that has never been ing cue (“Dorothy Remembers/Home/The Ride to Dr. more apparent than with Conan. The album is, from Worley’s”) that slowly metamorphoses into a cacophony start to finish, one of the most listenable of all time. of adventure cues scored with ragtime influences. It’s a There’s even more great music (like the Rózsa-inspired technically brilliant piece of music with soaring senti- pitfighting cue) that didn’t make it onto the extended mentality and exhuberant power that’s been overlooked Varèse release, but this is a small price to pay. —JZK for far too long. Bay Cities’ excellent 1991 release of the score is sadly out of print—grab it if you can find it. —JC Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) James Horner • GNP Crescendo GNPD 8022 • 9 tracks - 44:54 Witness (1985) efore Titanic made “Horner” a household word, Maurice Jarre • Varèse Sarabande VCD-47227 • 8 tracks - 32:02 Bsci-fi fans were enthralled by his robust work ost fans revere this score for its lyrical “Barn on the second big-screen adventure of the Starship MRaising” cue, which has appeared on many Enterprise. Horner does a remarkable job of redefin- compilation albums as well as numerous film clip ing the intrepid essence of Star Trek without leaning montages on awards shows and retrospectives. While on Goldsmith’s work for the first film. His trademark it’s all electronic, the Americana music sounds orches- brass fanfares and martial snare rhythms are nowhere tral—unlike the pulsating suspense music that under- better suited than here, ranging from fiery, rattling scores the film’s pivotal scenes and climaxes with “Khan attack” motifs to the majestic string glissandos a showdown between ’s John Book of the Enterprise theme. STII is widely regarded as and his corrupt colleagues on an Amish farm in the finest of the Trek films and scores; GNP’s splendid Pennsylvania. Jarre became an -

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 40 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y writing machine in the early ’80s but mances of and Robert De his toneless underscoring didn’t adapt Missing in Action Niro—and Morricone’s vibrant score. particularly well to the technology, cul- Jon and Al Kaplan sing for those who cannot. The well-traveled Morricone had already minating in scores like , dabbled in most of the styles he explores full of aimless buzzing. The Witness ou may be wondering why certain composers didn’t in The Mission, so there isn’t much “new” suspense music actually went some- make it on to this list. Where are current super- material. But the score is full of memo- where and established a new sensibil- Ystars Silvestri, Kamen, Shaiman, David Newman...even rable setpieces (including the layering of ity for action scoring that fused Barry Arthur B. Rubenstein or Michael Small? There are varying a traditional Morricone romantic theme DeVorzon and Vangelis, and influenced factors that led to their unfortunate exclusion. and accompaniment with whirlwinds of the ’80s fetish for for years to It’s easy enough to understand the lack of Golden Age ethnic voices and exotic percussion) that come. —JBond soundtracks, given the age of the recordings and the cavalier have been tracked into many temps, not attitude of cash-strapped studios (“Do we maintain expen- to mention various Colombian coffee Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) sive warehouses of original scores and recordings, or do we commercials. If it’s not Morricone’s best Danny Elfman bulldoze ’em for parking? Hmmm…”). Artists with classical score, it is surely one of his most revered Varèse Sarabande VCD 47281 • 11 tracks - 20:43 cred like Korngold and Herrmann get numerous recordings and best-known. As Morricone’s music is ee-wee Herman—we tried to hate of their work, but how many civilians are willing to line up usually concert-styled and not composed P him but couldn’t. His first film for OSTs by Roy Webb, or Cyril Mockridge? to picture, the album plays nicely—but is anomalous, perfect—but idiosyncratic Things got better in the ‘50s and ‘60s when soundtracks there are scenes in the film where the productions such as this can be scor- were more commonplace (even if they were compromised music is distracting, and in opposition to ing nightmares, forcing even skilled by insensitivity and cheapness). But in the current age of a the images. —JZK composers to scramble for an approxi- soundtrack for every movie, what’s the deal? mate cliché. Danny Elfman pulled a Some composers, like poor Alan Silvestri, simply aren’t Camille Claudel (1988) miracle out of his hat and graced the Big well-represented on albums. Back to the Future and Gabriel Yared • Virgin 30673 • 13 tracks - 38:25 Adventure with a new sound as queer Predator, his two best scores, still haven’t received respect- irector Bruno Nuytten, better and phantasmagorical as Pee-wee’s flib- able releases. almost made it on with his Dknown for his work as a cinema- bertigibbet universe. Mixing circus fan- popular Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but some folks just tographer on Manon of the Spring and fare, classic Golden Age screwball, some put too much stock in the fact that Kamen used 87 orchestra- Jean de Florette, here tells the story of tips o’ the hat to Carl Stalling, a dash of tors on that film. He had another shot at stardom with Die Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani), the Rota a lá Fellini, and just a pinch from Hard, but alas...no album. And god, where is Michael Small? young apprentice and mistress of sculptor Herrmann’s dark side, Elfman baked Could it be that Hollywood is not the only place that refuses Auguste Rodin (Gerared Depardieu)— them in the multicolored oven of his to recognize his talents? Calm down...you can’t hold this one and the tempestuous relationship they imagination. The resultant hyperkinetic against us either. Where the hell are the albums for Marathon share. With Camille Claudel, Gabriel stew is more than the sum of its parts, Man or Parallax View? Yared creates a score that, in spite of his providing its film with an expressionistic Marc Shaiman (and ) should be on here for more recent accolades for The English heart, simultaneously odd and famil- , but alas there still aren’t enough people who Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley, he iar. The scant album captures the best take that brilliant score seriously. Plus, we didn’t want to get has yet to equal. Scored primarily for material, demonstrating Elfman’s influ- into the “musical vs. underscore” argument. strings, harp and percussion, Camille ence on contemporary comedy scoring Arthur B. Rubenstein did terrific work on Claudel is a cornucopia of brilliant chro- and temp tracks to this day (for bet- and War Games, but this painstakingly thought-out list is sup- maticism and counterpoint—the schizo- ter or worse). —JBender posed to reflect scores that have had some kind of impact phrenicly elegant waltz “The Banquet” on the general public. No one remembers those movies, is a perfect example. The disc may be a Ran (1985) much less the scores. David Newman has also suffered from bit difficult to find, but it’s well worth the Toru Takemitsu • Milan CDMFC-5 • 2 tracks – 33:12 writing great scores for forgettable movies. His Hoffa theme search. —Tim Curran kira Kurosawa’s last great film must have broken a record for appearing in so many trailers A incorporates spectacular battles, for other films...but does anyone care abut the long-winded Batman (1989) quiet naturalism and surreal theatrical- movie for which it was actually written? Similarly, Randy Danny Elfman ity in a loose retelling of King Lear in Edelman’s themes for , Dragon: The Warner Bros 9 25977-2 • 21 tracks - 54:57 samurai drag. Composer Takemitsu came Story and all pop up with obscene ype could have ruined Tim to prominence in the ’60s with avant frequency, but the original films are largely forgotten. But H Burton’s dark, intense interpreta- garde compositions (some using tape then, there is a key difference between David Newman and tion of the famed DC Comics character, à la ), but he is recognized Randy Edelman. David Newman’s albums have more to offer but instead it turned his distinctively for over 40 soundtracks as well. Ran than a catchy theme. Randy Edelman’s do not. Thank you for twisted worldview into a marketable includes long passages of piercing flutes, your time and consideration. FSM commodity. The success of the film was, low strings and woodblocks, in counter- in no small part, attributable to Danny point to ferocious timpani; but the scenes Elfman’s grandiose orchestral score. don’t play the way you’d expect—a siege is scored to Called “wonderfully morose superhero music” by reflect the King’s nightmare, anguish and despair, critic Pauline Kael, the Herrmann-influenced music not the broad, brutal action. The album collects these made his career and remains one of his most popular brief interludes into two longish suites. —JS works. Elfman’s interpolation of material by Stephen Foster and Prince made the score ineligible for Oscar The Mission (1986) consideration, but it continues to be a strong influ- Ennio Morricone • Virgin 90567-2 • 20 tracks - 48:47 ence the action-adventure genre. The Warner album is oland Joffé’s The Mission is a well-mounted missing a few key bits of music but remains a terrific, R but boring film that’s saved only by the perfor- almost-comprehensive listen. —JC

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 41 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 Henry V (1989) In many ways, Backdraft cemented (if not introduced) Patrick Doyle • EMI CDC 7 499192 • 15 tracks - 59:16 what has become the Zimmer sound of the past decade. hen Kenneth Branagh adapted Shakespeare’s The bold main theme, rhythmic action motive and the WHenry V, he introduced himself and Patrick gentle passage for brothers Kurt Russell and William Doyle to movie audiences. The composer’s prior work Baldwin have all seeped their ways through countless had been for the stage, but you wouldn’t know it Zimmer, Mancina, Powell and Glennie-Smith scores. from his incredibly rich, dramatic and melodically And how can we not mention Backdraft’s prominent powerful score. The music lent as much interest in its and hysterical use in the weekly hit Japanese cooking motivic approach to Branagh’s interior monologues contest, The Iron ? Runner-up: Gladiator —JZK as it did in its balletic, layered scoring of the film’s bloody, climactic battle in the mud of Agincourt. Silence of the Lambs (1991) Doyle’s scoring of Branagh’s “St. Crispin’s Day” Howard Shore • mCA MCAD 10194 • 13 tracks - 56:22 speech has to rank as one of the most rousing and onathan Demme’s film garnered five major Oscars sublime musical accompaniments to film. Sir Simon Jthat year—with and Rattle, conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony most deserving—but Howard Shore wasn’t even nomi- Orchestra, makes this recording one of the best-per- nated. Silence of the Lambs codified the dark and undu- formed, best-sounding and most dramatically satisfy- lating voice of the disturbing, of ing score albums you’re likely to hear. —JBond the ’90s. Shore’s score is used prominently in the film and keeps a stranglehold on the viewer throughout. The only downside is that it, along with Shore’s relationship with , helped pigeonhole the talented 1990s composer into a narrow genre. Of course, Shore is THE TEMP COMMANDMENTS comfortable with this material—and it’s a hell of a lot better than having him wasting away in romantic com- Edward Scissorhands (1990) edies—but we hope Lord of the Rings will once again Danny Elfman • MCA MCAD-10133 • 17 tracks - 49:23 prove his limitless abilities. —JZK im Burton could have gotten away with mur- Tder after the incredible success of Batman; Basic Instinct (1992) instead, he deepened his fan base by creating Edward Jerry Goldsmith • Varèse Sarabande VSD 5360 • 10 tracks - 44:06 Scissorhands, a deeply personal modern-day oldsmith’s last great score defined the sleek that is his most intimate and affecting work to date. Gthriller sound for the ’90s. His psychological Danny Elfman’s score is every bit as stirring as the film music adds innumerable layers to Paul Verhoeven’s it accompanies, contrasting an enchanting storybook lopsided tale of sex and malice. While the eroticism feel for the lovestruck Edward with more satiric, Latin- and violence are cavalierly displayed on screen for all influenced sections for Burton’s askew look at subur- to see, Goldsmith’s Herrmann-esque approach lends bia. Elfman’s breathtaking “Grand Finale” is still the an undeniable class—it even manages to make Sharon most beautiful piece of music he’s ever written. MCA’s Stone’s character seem intelligent. Goldsmith also album has a few minor edits but preserves all of the tackles the torrid sex scenes with an expert hand, pro- most important sections of the score. —JC viding pronounced orgasmic thrusts from the orches- tra. The Basic Instinct album is topped off by some of Dances With Wolves (1990) Goldsmith’s best mixed-meter action writing in power- John Barry • epic/ZK 46982 • 18 tracks - 53:27 house tracks like “Night Life” and “Roxy Loses.” —JZK nion soldier John Dunbar befriends a tribe of USioux and rapidly learns that “civilized” people The Last of the Mohicans (1992) are the true savages. Barry once again strikes musical Trevor Jones / Randy Edelman gold with this grand, panoramic tribute to America’s Morgan Creek 20015-2 • 16 tracks - 54:59 vanished frontiers. Low, noble brass and stately strings hat are the odds against a brilliant score being capture precisely the epic grandeur of Dunbar’s jour- Wcreated by two noted composers? Ask Michael ney, while sharp, staccato drum riffs create a terrifying Mann, whose ambitious adaptation of Cooper’s famous cadence for assaults by the fierce Pawnee. The Epic CD tale yielded results that are nothing short of remarkable. features an excellent, extensive selection of cues, and Jones’ work chiefly consists of Celtic-flavored themes a “Gold Edition” containing three extra promo tracks for low brass, strings and traditional instruments; was available briefly; but fans continue to clamor for Edelman’s contributions include more modern-sounding unreleased tracks. Runner-up: Out of Africa —CS guitar and synth melodies. The original CD segregates the composers’ work (Jones, tracks 1-9; Edelman, 10-15; Backdraft (1991) ending with a tune by Clannad). Varèse Sarabande now Hans Zimmer • milan 35854 • 10 tracks - 42:50 offers a fine re-recording of the score, with less music ackdraft (the movie) isn’t as bad as How the (45:26); but newly sequenced in film order. —CS BGrinch Stole Christmas, but it surely planted seeds that could one day direct something Alien3 (1992) as abominable as the recent Jim Carrey holiday special. Elliot Goldenthal • MCA MCAD 10629 • 14 tracks - 49:37 While the 1991 film was clogged in almost every way avid Fincher’s contribution to the Alien series was imaginable, Hans Zimmer’s score was a breath of fresh Dinsultingly dissmissive of the films that preceded air: a heroic, in-your-face tirade of memorable themes. it—but standing alone, it’s a well-crafted sci-fi tale with

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 42 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y NOW AVAILABLE: Silver Age Classics FSM Vol. 3, No. 9 The Stripper/Nick Quarry Composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith has sustained relationships with numerous top Hollywood directors, from Robert Wise to to Paul Verhoeven. However, no relationship was as longlasting or as fruitful as his collaboration with director Franklin Schaffner, for whom he scored Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillion, The Boys From Brazil, Islands and the Stream and Lionheart. But before those classics there was The Stripper (1963), Schaffner’s first with a heartfelt and melancholy score by Goldsmith, then only 33 years old. The title is a bit of a misnomer—the film is . based on a play by William Inge titled A Loss of Roses and follows a failed Hollywood showgirl (Joanne Woodward) as she returns to her home town and begins a tentative romance with a young man (Richard Beymer). The story is hardly a day in the life of a stripper but rather a sensitive human drama about loneliness and love. Goldsmith’s score is one of his earliest available to collectors and is a rare chance to hear him tackle an established ’50s-

20th Century Fox Photo Archive and Photofest and Archive Photo Fox Century 20th styled genre rather than push off into his own ’60s territory. The score is permeated with melody, as well as some jazz elements, and is very much in the style of Alex North’s scores for similar pictures— while still retaining Goldsmith’s unique voice. It is presented here in stereo from the original session masters. Also included for the sake of completeness are the various source cues (not by Goldsmith) and the songs recorded by Joanne Woodward for her strip act at the end of the film, only one of which was used in the picture. Still photographs and poster images courtesy of of courtesy images poster and photographs Still

THE STRIPPER (Rube Bloom & Harry Ruby) 2:18 The Strip Act 1. Main Title 2:24 19. Twistin’ Baby ( 27. Something’s Gotta Give As a special bonus, the CD is 2. The Execution 2:22 & Jonathan Hughes) 1:42 (Johnny Mercer) 1:49 filled out with a true Goldsmith rarity: Nick Quarry, 3. Sunday Dinner 2:08 20. Rock and Roll Blues 28. You’ve Gotta See Mama Every Night an unaired 1968 TV show (actually an abbreviated 4. The Empty Room 1:47 (Lloyd V. “Skip” Martin) 1:32 (Billy Rose & ) 1:13 5. Lila and Helen 3:40 21. Anabel (Lionel Newman 29. Frankie and Johnny (traditional) 1:05 pilot known as a demonstration reel) produced by 6. Party Boy 3:23 & Jonathan Hughes) 1:10 30. You’ve Gotta See Mama 20th Century-Fox based on the Tony Rome detective 7. A Mother’s Worry 2:14 22. Gas Station Source (unused) 0:57 Every Night (reprise) 8. Job Hunting 1:17 23. Stripper Blues (Urban Thielmann) 0:38 0:37 film. Goldsmith wrote 11 minutes of music in his 9. The Classroom 2:33 24. Dixieland Source (unused) 1:04 Total: 4:56 Our Man Flint/In Like Flint style that have never 10. The Dancing Lesson (includes “Should I” 25. Rock and Roll Retch Bonus Score been heard—or for that matter, heard of! His com- by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed) 3:01 (Urban Thielmann) 1:39 31. The Empty Room (alt.) 1:46 11. The Birthday Present 2:01 26. Romance (Walter Donaldson 32. End Title (mono) 1:29 plete score is presented here in clean mono. 12. Lila’s Confession 1:16 & Edgar Leslie) 1:27 Total: 3:24 19.95 plus postage, exclusively from FSM. 13. The New Job 2:41 Total: 12:46 Nick Quarry Look for our Golden Age offering, Beneath the 14. Comfort for Lila 1:51 33. Meet Nick Quarry 2:49 15. A Change of Heart 3:11 Album produced by Lukas Kendall 34. Body Art/Don’t Move/Pool Bit 1:53 12-Mile Reef, elsewhere in this issue. 16. Lila’s Advice 4:02 35. House Call 2:23 17. End Title 1:28 36. Quarry Cornered 3:15 call toll-free 1-888-345-6335 Total: 42:01 Total: 10:27 or visit www.filmscoremonthly.com Total album time: 73:35

1963 Movie Radio 18. Give Me the Simple Life a consistently disturbing tone. Contributing to this dark Titanic (1997) and oppressive mood is one of the ’90s most innovative James Horner • Sony SK 63213 • 15 tracks - 72:29 scores—Goldenthal’s blaring and trilling French horns eople might have problems with the inclusion of this remain a staple in violent action music to this day. His Ptitle—but just think how many 13 year-old girls love music is paced by a subtle but efficient use of ambient it... The film was a smash hit even if it made half of this electronics (at times substituted for sound effects), while angry, sniveling and cold-hearted country nauseous—and Goldenthal also provides the melodic and powerful the album did well enough, too. Titanic features several immolation theme. The legacy of Alien3 has worked its of Horner’s rehashed favorites (the main theme from The way into the repertoires of many respected film com- Rocketeer, action motives from Courage Under Fire and posers, including Marco Beltrami, Patrick Doyle and Capricorn One), but there’s also a good deal of new music James Newton Howard. —JZK like the overplayed “” love theme. Most important, Horner took this project seriously, scor- Tombstone (1993) ing to picture with great attention. He’s almost always an Bruce Broughton • Intrada MAF 7038D • 18 tracks - 66:42 effective dramatist, but Titanic stands out in this regard scheduling conflict led to Broughton’s getting this even among Horner’s solid repertoire. Like Jarre did in Ajob over Jerry Goldsmith—but it was a blessing Dr. Zhivago, Horner gave the intimate moments more in disguise. George P. Cosmatos’ action-packed comic prominence than the spectacular ones. The popularity of book take on Wyatt Earp already benefited from Kevin this score rests not on music for the boat and the iceberg, Jarre’s efficient script and a handful of exciting per- but rather on music for the lovers (and that’s probably formances. Broughton’s score was the icing, giving the why boys don’t like it as much.) —JZK film a necessary kick-in-the-ass and outdoing Silverado by a wide margin. Tombstone has stronger themes, Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (1997) better variations and most important, a dark edge that Caleb Sampson • accurate AC-5027 • 17 tracks - 47:20 propels both the film and the album forward. Delicate, ocumentarian Errol Morris makes one-of-a-kind, bitonal variations on the love theme are balanced by D iconoclastic movies about pet cemetaries, cop exhilarating Williams-caliber action cues. Broughton killers, the history of time, and in this instance, robot didn’t come close to matching this until Lost in Space. designers, mammal experts, lion tamers and topiary On the other hand, Young Sherlock Holmes had a shot trimmers. He found a worthy collaborator in the late at bumping Tombstone off the 101 Greats, but it was Sampson, formerly of the Alloy Orchestra, who worked never released on CD. —JZK on several scores simultaneously with Morris. Fast, Cheap… uses melodic synths, sinuous strings, circu- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) lar horn charts and deft percussion to weave a wholly Thomas Newman • Epic EK 66621 • 21 tracks - 53:24 original sound. The result is an optimistic, amusing and he Thomas Newman sound runs neck-and-neck propulsive score, celebrating (and reflecting) the deter- Twith the Zimmer factory’s in the race to homog- mination and eccentricity of its four diverse subjects. enize film scoring. Shawshank is not only one of Even if the multiplexes are clogged with routine fare, Newman’s best scores (particularly effective in the film it’s refreshing to find this sort of upstart innovation and but unedited and better represented on the album), but integrity in the margins of the industry. —JS probably his most influential. Elements of this score have found their way into virtually every intimate Unbreakable (2000) drama (not to mention other genres) filmed in the last James Newton Howard • Hollywood HR-62290-2 • 14 tracks - 45:31 six years. Even though Thomas got plenty of ideas t takes some balls to include something so fresh on from his brother David (Hoffa, Mr. Destiny), the suc- Ithis list. Probably the single-most-exciting (and most cess of Shawshank is what propelled this “sound” into prolific) composer working today, Howard just came the popular consciousness of motion pictures. Quirky, off of three powerhouse scores (The Sixth Sense, Snow exotic percussion-laden scores like The Player and more Falling on Cedars and Dinosaur) and still hadn’t built recently American Beauty have had their impact as up enough support to make this list—until we heard well, but they’re not as musically fulfilling. —JZK Unbreakable. This score is part Arvo Pärt-meets-hip hop, and part Miklós Rósza-meets-Danny Elfman. Using Fargo (1996) a remarkable economy of notes, the music seamlessly Carter Burwell • TVT 8010-2 • 16 Tracks - 27:22 ranges from sensitive to mythic to terrifying...in any he Coen Brothers’ blackly comic crime thriller given cue. Less is more for James Newton Howard; T Fargo was a critical and financial success when you’re confident in your music you don’t have that suffered undue comparisons to . to dress it up with heavy orchestrations or fruitless Nevertheless, it’s their most focused and sustained ornaments. This is not only a rich album with terrific work to date, and longtime collaborator Carter replay value, but the music couldn’t pay more careful Burwell contributed a score that gels beautifully with attention to the film it supports. Howard always writes its unmistakably eclectic style. Burwell’s deceptively competent scores, but lately he’s whittled away the fat simple score uses a folksong-like main melody to set from his writing—he’s at the top of his craft. —JZK the stage for all the blood, carnage and “Yah, sure, you betchas” that follow, adding darkly urgent undercur- Special thanks to Geoff Leonard, Rob McGlynn, Robert Reneau, Steve Sikoryak rents as the film’s ill-advised crime scheme spins out and especially Douglass Fake for advice and counsel. You can send your of control. TVT coupled the brief score with Burwell’s comments to the guy responsible for this list via [email protected]. composition for Barton Fink. —JC

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 44 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y Crouching Composer, Hidden Cellist Scoring the atypical art-house action flick By Jeff Bond

n the latter half of 2000, a motion picture infiltrated American theaters with the stealth of a ninja. It’s a movie

about ancient traditions, mystical forces, martial knights and their apprentices, secret identities, secret

romances, unspoken love and betrayal. Add a light saber and you’d have the greatest Star Wars movie ever made.

IAdd dialogue spoken entirely in Mandarin and you’ve Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm got a hell of a marketing problem. Crouching Tiger, hardly suggested a man who could helm an epic martial Hidden Dragon is a martial arts adventure set in a mys- arts . But Lee had nurtured the dream of tical, mythical ancient China, featuring legendary Hong making such a film since his youth. He hired acclaimed Kong action stars Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh as martial arts choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping, who produced venerable warriors whose fates are tied to a mysterious the pyrotechnics of both ’s Drunken young woman played by Zhang Ziyi. Together the three Master series and the Wachowski Brothers’ The Matrix. become involved in the theft of a legendary sword called For the film’s music, Lee turned to two masters of a the Green Destiny, and the search for an infamous thief different discipline: the concert performance. Composer and killer known as Jade Fox. Along the way they engage Tan Dun began his career in the and is a in some of the most breathtaking, balletic and magical graduate of ’s Central Conservatory and Columbia martial arts battles ever put on film. Now it remains to University in New York. He has written symphonies, be seen whether American audiences will suffer English and a large-scale work for choir and orchestra to subtitles in order to watch one of the most amazing commemorate the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. adventure films they will ever see. Tan Dun had scored the Denzel Washington film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was directed by Ang Fallen in 1998 but was otherwise unknown to American Lee, whose earlier films The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink film audiences. “I actually scored 20 feature films in

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 45 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 China, from experimental movies to big feature films,” has great imagination,” Ma says. “The way that we Recording the composer explains. “I did my first film when I was worked on the film score was that I was actually doing about 20 years old and in my second year of study at the the first dub of the cello line which he then took to vari- cellist Conservatory. I was working with a younger generation ous places and added to it. So what made it possible was of Chinese directors. What I did mostly were dramas and that I did know Tan’s work and a little bit of ’s and love stories; I had never scored a martial arts movie.” work, and they were both there at the sessions. It was His assignment on Crouching Tiger grew out of his incredibly helpful to have Tan be there, and rather to orchestra relationship with the film’s director. “Ang Lee and I had have him say, ‘This is where I think it’s going, this is how known each other for probably 10 years,” he says. “As I’m going to write it.’ I could get an imaginative sense of separately friends we shared time together, but we never talked about what he was going to do, and I saw snippets of the film collaborating until four years ago when he finished The Ice with Ang Lee, who had been shooting for I think a year, did not Storm and he told me his idea of doing an updated, histori- including very difficult locations in the western part cal kung fu film that would be more of a crossover melo- of China in the desert, with no real infrastructure for faze Dun drama. He asked if I was interested in scoring for him. We filming. He had film crews shooting around the clock. It was obviously a huge effort; I was dropped in there, but knowing a little bit about it allowed me to go with their flow. It’s very exciting to be part of that.” Dun points out that the separate recording of the cello solos and the full orchestra did not present a par- ticular challenge to him. “I was conducting, so when I’m composing I always have a way to deal with how things should be put together under different circumstances,” the composer says. “When I was scoring the orchestra and the cello I already knew the situation, so when I was scoring it, it was all designed that way. It came out quite dramatically because Yo-Yo never played strictly to the click track—he always played around with the click track, and that was very interesting because he never allowed it to steal his . The click track is a technical kind of marking, but it should never influence the music itself.”

Playing to expectations Ma adopted a tradi- tional performance style for the film, allowing his cello to fit SCORING CHOPS: listened to all kinds of music and talked about the story, in seamlessly with the (From left to right) and he asked me about what the score could be like.” other native Chinese Cellist Yo Yo Ma and Lee and Dun immediately hit on the idea of collaborat- instruments in the composer Tan Dun ing with famed concert cellist Yo-Yo Ma. “We wanted him orchestra. “I knew review the score; to be the leading thing that would cross the East and the that it was going to be Director Ang Lee on West,” Dun explains. “We also wanted to have two orches- the cello and the erhu the set; Chow Yun tras: an Eastern orchestra and a Western orchestra, to playing that theme have a dialogue about inner space and outer flaming. together,” Ma says of the film’s central romantic melody. Fat and Michelle This film to me is not really a conventional impression “In terms of my contribution, having had knowledge of Yeoh at rest; of a . To me it’s a drama, it’s something Tan Dun’s music and knowledge of the instruments he Zhang Zi Yi takes a seen through martial arts but actually [it’s] much more was going to be working with, including the tar in the flying leap. discovering the human side—stories between woman and desert fight scene and the erhu—which was an instru- woman, between woman and man, between teacher and ment my father used to play so I fiddled around with it a student and between the old and the new. I thought cello little—and the different techniques and styles of playing would be something much more efficient, and especially with different instruments, I knew enough about it to with Yo-Yo Ma because his fingering is always very roman- be able to suggest those sounds and colors. I think that tic and very touching. We thought using cello would lead was quite important within the score to be able to bend people to think this is something much deeper and more certain notes and know about the techniques so it doesn’t dramatic than just a martial arts film.” just sound like a classical or romantic cello performance but could refer to a wider family of instruments.” Brethren under the baton The cellist applied specific approaches to his technique Like Ang Lee, Yo-Yo Ma had a prior relationship with to gain the desired results. “You get it from listening the composer, having collaborated with him on the work and also from certain traditions within that style which for the Hong Kong changeover, Symphony 1997 (Heaven involve sliding more,” Ma says. “In a lot of those instru- Earth Mankind). “I’m a fan of his and I really love his ments it’s physically determined because they don’t have work; his music is very evocative and very theatrical and a solid fingerboard with frets—if it’s fretless you actually

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 46 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y can’t put your fingers on top of the strings, which stops the string and creates the pitch. You use a fingernail technique or other kinds of techniques that are determined by the physical nature of the way the instruments are constructed. If you know that, you can approximate some of those sounds, which makes it sound authentic without actually imitating those instruments—you’re paying homage to that style. I used my regular cello but played in a slightly different way to get different types of colors.” While Tan Dun’s deeply romantic primary theme speaks to the film’s central focus on drama and love, the composer faced an equally great challenge in finding unique approaches to scoring the film’s spectacular

theater is somebody drumming with words of an army of gangsters. Dun’s scoring here to tell the whole landscape, the whole story is bright and kinetic as a solo flute whirls in of something happening. Ang Lee asked if it and out of conflict with a percussion group. was possible that we could use drums like in “It gets a play character feeling there,” Dun Peking Opera drumming, and I said of course says of the score. “This girl is an out-of-mar- it was possible because I was a Peking Opera riage character, this martial arts student. musician and I know it immediately.” She is an out-of-her-range girl and she’s a The brilliant, stunning choreography of symbol of trying to break up laws and rules. this first, nocturnal martial arts fight com- In that way, whatever she was fighting is bined with Dun’s accelerating, percussive pretty much humorous. In Chinese theater scoring has led to an almost universal audi- and also in Japanese Kabuki theater, when ence reaction to the close of the fight: wild you have these kind of humorous things come applause, something not often heard in up, you always have one simple bamboo flute movie theaters. Dun himself was surprised against a huge group of drums. It’s like the martial arts sequences. “Ang Lee’s fighting is by the intensity of audience reaction to the little flute represents the little girl, and the almost like a ballet, and my experience work- scene. “I saw it at a film festival closing flute counterpointing with the big group of ing with him is pretty much like Stravinsky night, and I was quite happy,” the composer drum symbolizes this little tender girl playing working with Ballanchine,” Dun explains. recalls. “To see the music solely from your- around and derailing the big society and tra- “What he’s doing with martial arts is not self compared to the thing becoming a prod- ditions around her. We looked at many ways really to just let them fight—each second is uct—when the consumer meets the product of doing that scene. We knew it shouldn’t be choreographed and the length of each step of and the people to challenge you and be chal- something serious and it shouldn’t be some- jumping and feinting—he had specific things lenged by your work it is quite stimulating thing too loose—it needed to be humorous in mind and specific instruments and music because people breathe together with your but somehow challenging.” in his mind. So in that way we would go back music. They have an immediate response to Dun used another ethnic instrument to and forth and compare our music notes. But any movement and any sound—that’s very represent the film’s Vader-esque villain, Jade basically all the meters and timings are pretty exciting. It’s very interesting because from Fox. “Jade Fox is the secret tutor of this girl, much like a ballet score. Like in ballet, the a Western point of view, for a big drama, big, and she’s the most wanted character,” Dun dance is already there, and composers use this passionate and the strong story coming in, points out. “When she comes on-screen we click track. It’s tough, but in a way it’s very we’re automatically thinking about complex- always used an instrument called the bawu, convenient.” ity and heavy orchestral layers. But here which is something Burmese people use a lot. Dun scored the film’s show-stopping first Ang Lee and I went to a very Eastern way It involves sticking a wand of metal reeds into

Artwork ©2000 Artwork S O NY PIC T U R ES CLASSICS fight scene using only traditional stick per- of scoring that was very simple and minimal a bamboo, then when you’re blowing the bam- cussion, an idea gleaned from Lee. “He was with just drumming. But the heaviness and boo, sounds come out like a cross between the thinking that we had to have an astonishing complicated feelings being taken forward by bamboo and the clarinet. It’s a feeling really kind of smash power there,” Dun says. “But simple rhythms is so effective that we cannot very much like opium. In China we call that

HIDDEN DRAGON meanwhile we’ve got to have some humorous imagine anything else there.” sound the sound of opium, and it’s something

and dramatic kind of storytelling there. In the very secret and mysterious, so we used that East we have drumming-talking, drumming Leaping for Laughs as the symbol for Jade Fox. When I played the theater, spoken theater. In spoken theater a Equally striking, albeit in a different way, is a sound for Ang Lee he thought we should use man or a woman can spend a whole night later scene in which Ziyi’s character destroys it for Jade Fox; I said, ‘That’s opium!’ and he

CROUCHING TIGER, talking about Scheherazade. And drumming a restaurant while kicking the collective butts said, ‘That’s right. She is opium!’”

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 47 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 For a flashback sequence in the desert locations near the border the confluence of ideas telling. “It’s coinci- Mongolian desert that establishes The sound of Russia and Mongolian China. dental, but fate has something to do with it a love interest for Zhang Ziyi’s That’s the gallery of the , of course,” the composer says. character, Dun provides a more of the and the location of that cello solo.” traditional, epic-sounding action The Silk Road, an ancient silk Devouring the soundtrack cue, but again veers off into a more villain, trading route in China, has special With a solid footing in the concert world, Tan distinctive area when the young meaning for Yo-Yo Ma, who has Dun sees film scoring with a unique perspec- girl takes off after a handsome played on begun a three-year “Silk Road” tive. “Concert music has an invisible goal desert raider on horseback. Yo-Yo project that emphasizes the musi- and structure, dependent entirely upon the Ma enters the fray with a cello solo bawu, was cal folk traditions of territories music itself,” he says. “The music builds its that glides in and out of the action along the route. “One of the things own architecture up inside peoples’ minds. material to establish the soaring the sound that the project really tries to This invisible shape has an enormous power. spirit of the young female warrior. do is to take root traditions and Film music is different. Film music gives Dun found the kernel of the cello of opium. find contemporary manifestations you very very specific, touchable, watchable solo material while doing research for those traditions without ghet- structures and timings, and working with for a scene that occurs just after toizing it,” Ma says. “So the idea touchable, watchable timings and structures this sequence. “When the boy is having the is you cast a wide net and look for talent, is a very different process. In motion pictures barbecue and the girl sneaks in with the big find pocket communities and through work- you have to come up with a very balanced, stone and hits his head, and right before she shops and festivals find venues where they’re mingled kind of style that goes along with the hits him he’s chanting something there,” looked at, not in a strange exotic way but picture, the color, the costume and the pac- Dun explains. “That’s the folk song we picked just as great ways of expression that have ing. Bad music always sticks out and makes up from the historic library of that region. come down to us that are not so far from us. people just feel something is bothering them. Ang Lee called me from the location. I was Because they not only exist in the local com- Good music you don’t feel, but you are driven in Japan at the time, and I looked in the munities of ritual nations, but also because totally by the process and the development of Japanese music library for that region’s Silk of demographics in our cities, and those tal- the story, and only afterwards when you’re Road folk songs and how or when this guy ented people are our neighbors. That’s one coming down do you discover that the music should chant before he’s hit by this wise girl. way of doing things, and the film is a perfect was there, fantastically. That’s why a lot I faxed a few of the songs to Ang Lee and he example of the type of work that might be of concert composers really don’t know the chose one, and that’s the one I scored for the done in that project.” way of collaboration between film composers cello. It’s a very ancient Turkish kind of Silk Tan Dun was unaware of the film’s con- and directors, and sometimes film composers Road flavor. The film itself is shot in differ- nection to the Silk Road when he asked Yo-Yo don’t know the way concert music should ent locations, especially the snow mountain Ma to join the project. Nevertheless, he finds work. To me it’s very different, but it’s like you’re eating an appetizer and the main dish, and following is dessert; and the way of eating each of those dishes is totally different, but they are one meal, the one meal of my life.” For cellist Yo-Yo Ma, one of the biggest rewards of working on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was simply experiencing the vision of the film itself. “I was totally mesmerized when I watched the movie, and I wasn’t really listening to the music that much because it’s a very powerful film,” Ma says. “I was so stunned by the visual beauty and people flying through bamboo groves and all that. What I loved about the whole idea of doing this film is they took what is essentially our easiest entry into Chinese culture, which is the martial arts genre, which I think is kind of unfair, because martial arts are those Special offer for ancient traditions of fighting that people had Call forFSM details! to do because they weren’t allowed to have readers! 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StarSCORE Wars: The Phantom Menace: who expect to hear every note re-create a lot of the atmosphere “War Plans,” although both cues The Ultimate Edition Williams recorded for the film in of the original Star Wars mov- quickly give way to more direc- 1 ★★★ /2 the order he originally intended ies. But I can’t help wondering tionless underscoring. It would JOHN WILLIAMS them. Williams himself has often how much better the score would probably be impossible for any Sony Classical S2K 89460 confounded fans by taking a real have been had the movie not composer to maintain and develop Disc One: 35 tracks - 57:27 interest in how his scores play been such a talky, uninspired excitement and suspense over a Disc Two: 33 tracks - 67:04 as music, often rearranging the waste of time (and before I get three-way battle as lengthy and begin this review facing order of cues and “segueing” from inundated with letters responding unfocused as the one that wraps Ianother raging controversy one cue to another, mixing and to that sentence, let me assure up The Phantom Menace, and among soundtrack collectors matching in a way that is often you that this is just one man’s indeed Williams had similar dif- who will not rest until they have completely different from the opinion and I’m sure TPM is the ficulties bouncing back between every nanosecond of Star Wars original score’s chronological flow. equivalent to Citizen Kane for space action, drama and farce music ever written. These collec- The original Phantom Menace many fans). But some of these in the final third of Return of tors were infuriated when Sony album was done this way, and the track titles do not exactly inspire the Jedi. In Menace “The Battle Classical released a 70-minute, “Ultimate Edition” also has his tingles of listening anticipation: Begins” could easily pass as single-disc for stamp of approval. However, the “Anakin’s Midi-Chlorian Count,” Ewok battle music. Some of The Phantom Menace last year. announcement that this album “Jar Jar’s Run-in With Sebulba,” the climactic war music (“The Since the “Ultimate Edition” would follow the film order of the “Anakin, Pod Racer Mechanic,” Phantom Menace album is a 2- music precisely, edits and tracking and my personal favorite, “Talk of CD affair boasting, according to included, has so incensed certain Podracing.” Whew! Let me get my its packaging, “every note of the fans that they’ve already tried to heart rate down for a minute. original music that John Williams organize a letter-writing campaign The biggest strength of the new composed” for the movie, you’d for Sony Classical to release an album is that it includes all of the think everyone would be happy, ultimate “Ultimate Edition” of action music from the movie that right? Well, not quite. In what the score that will present the was almost completely missing some feel is a spiteful case of tak- music in the way Williams origi- from the first CD (which often ing fans too literally, the album nally intended. played like underscoring for a producers have reportedly recre- This raging controversy actu- broadcast day on C-SPAN). But ated the Phantom Menace score ally ran neck and neck with the because so many of the battles exactly as heard in the movie. Florida presidential vote as a in TPM are played for comedy Of course, a movie score is not national crisis in November, but (I’m thinking orange frogs versus recorded in one uninterrupted I can’t say it interests me much. duck-shaped robots here), the take while the movie plays in In fact, for those frothing at the lion’s share of the action music in the background—it’s assembled mouth over this issue, I would the back-half of the album evokes Gungans Retreat and The Queen out of many bits and pieces of simply say that Sony is offering uncomfortable memories of the Surrenders”) was identified as the performance, and even after that the anal-retentive listener some- goofy Endor Forest battle music Pod Race music on the original the cues can be cut, rearranged, thing they rarely get—a literal from Return of the Jedi. The only album. Williams wraps up the repeated or left out altogether duplication of a film’s movie score full-throttled Star Wars-style gargantuan land/space battle with during the final edit of the film. as heard on screen, warts and action music comes in “Escape a redress of the old hammering Much of the music heard on all—and in good sound. I have to From Naboo,” a wonderfully “Mars, Bringer of War” rhythms the original Empire Strikes Back admit that there are certain films developed bit of military bustle he originally employed in the soundtrack album was actu- whose clumsy music edits are so that also underscores most of the first Star Wars film, but there’s ally written for but never used ingrained in my memory from Pod Race (in the album’s most not a hint of the breathtaking in the film. And all of Williams’ multiple viewings that it’s jarring egregious—but oddly welcome— excitement Williams brought to Star Wars albums (the original to hear the “correct” version on bit of retracking). The initial “The Last Battle.” Maybe that’s Phantom Menace CD included) a soundtrack album. This, and burst of Korngold-esque brass in because there’s no clear goal in have concert arrangements of spe- the unavoidable fact that Sony “Fighting the Destroyer Droids” the Phantom Menace battles and cific themes, which allow Williams will surely release yet another is also exciting. Anakin wins the space battle by to develop his melodies in what “Ultimate” edition of this score A lot of the incidental writing dumb luck. he feels is a more listener-friendly when Episode Two hits screens, is well worth having, particularly Capping off the album is a “dia- manner. or when the Star Wars DVDs are the rich, dignified music for violas logue version” of the film’s “Duel The new “Ultimate Edition” released, or when George Lucas and cellos in “Anakin Is Free” of the Fates” cue. You might think soundtrack album includes not faces his next IRS audit, should which tries to enoble a completely this is a straight soundtrack, dia- only jarring edits between bits of placate fans at least a little. flat-footed dramatic scene in logue and effects version of the music, but also repeats lengthy Any John Williams genre score the movie. There’s also jaunty big light saber duel scene, but it sections of music and adheres to a is going to be coveted by fans, militaristic writing in “The Queen actually seems to be a reproduc- musical flow that will outrage fans and The Phantom Menace does and Group Land on Naboo” and tion of the MTV video that strung

F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y 49 N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 S C O R E recent penned for Four Weddings The chamber music quality Chapter III has done an excel- together dozens of scenes from and a Funeral. Most may be of the score sets this work apart lent job in digitally remastering the movie underneath Williams’ more familiar with his master- from most other period films. this score. But there must have music. The result only reinforces ful music for Murder on the Gently lilting strings provide been some additional Bennett my decision to not let this movie Orient Express, nominated for the backdrop for the plaintive score in the MGM library that take my cash a second time—it’s Best Original Score in 1974. Far melodies that weave through the could have rounded off this short a farrago of lame, portentous From the Madding Crowd was textures of music that’s harmo- CD. Don’t let that distract you dialogue and indifferent, if not nominated for a Best Original nized in fourths or fifths. More from enjoying this wonderful outright bad, dialogue readings. Score Oscar in 1968, only to lose traditional harmonies are then music! —Steven A. Kennedy —Jeff Bond to Elmer Bernstein’s lesser music used to bring closure to a scene, for Thoroughly Modern Millie. and more free-flowing melodies Meet the Parents ★★★ John Barry’s The Lion in Winter, are used to provide a hint of the RANDY NEWMAN, VARIOUS which happened to win the next unsettling nature of things to Dreamworks 0044-50286-2 year, makes an admirable com- come. Bennett also includes col- 18 tracks - 39:31 panion to Far From the Madding oristic orchestral explosions that how Me a Man/Who’s Crowd. create tension and propel the “SGentle and Kind/And I’ll Bennett emphasizes English music forward. Show You/A Loser.” So begins horn and flute (in the gorgeous The genius of this score lies Randy Newman’s soundtrack main title “Fanny and Troy” in Bennett’s use of dissonance album for Meet the Parents, the and elsewhere) to set the mood and in his overall restraint. By Ben Stiller/ com- for this English drama based on spreading out clusters of sounds, edy that proved to the world that the Thomas Hardy novel. The the music communicates the Austin Powers director Jay Roach music is decendant from other drama without detracting from could do just fine without Mike English folksong-inspired music. it. Even when the Myers in front of the camera. Far From the Madding Crowd The sparsely scored accompani- settles into simple melody and Newman’s original song for Meet ★★★★ ments for “Bushes and Briars” accompaniment, Bennett still the Parents, “A Fool in Love,” create a unique setting under manages to add interesting layers showcases Newman’s familiar Chapter III 1005 • 13 tracks - 36:39 Isla Cameron’s beautiful vocals that are easily picked out in the sense of humor; there’s even an ichard Rodney Bennett is (she also sings on “The Bold light texture. The atonal flashes off-the-cuff mid-song reference to Rone of the finest dramatic Grenadier”). “Tinker’s Song,” then provide the tension needed the Dreamworks logo (“Look at composers. He has a penchant sung by Trevor Lucas, is also an as contrast to the stable folk that boy! Sitting on the moon!”) for beautiful tunes, his most admirable piece. music. Two other Newman songs, “Poor

N o v e m b e r / D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 50 F i l m S c o r e M o n t h l y beginning in 1926 with a song by Me” and “Got My Mo Jo Book Review bandleader Guy Lombardo for the Working” lead into the score film What Price Glory?) through 1 portion of the album (about 25 Sound and Vision ★★★★ /2 David Raksin’s seminal “Laura” minutes worth). JON BURLINGAME and Dimitri Tiomkin’s “Do Not Newman’s orchestral sense Billboard Books, 244 pages, $18.95 Forsake Me Oh My Darling”; of sardonic whimsy is a better from High Noon (the first song match for things like Pleasant- eriodically I get a phone to actually promote a film before ville than for the likes of A call from Jon Burlingame its release) to Bill Haley’s “Rock Bug’s Life; despite the tinkling Pasking me if I know Around the Clock”; and from The mickey-mousiness of some of something about a certain com- Blackboard Jungle (which almost his instrumental writing, his poser, record label, movie score or singlehandedly introduced rock distinctive sense of humor is soundtrack album that he doesn’t. and roll to movie audiences), right always evident—and this can I’m presuming that one of these on through the Beatles’ hits for be both a blessing and a curse. phone calls led to me being thanked their films, Simon and Garfunkel’s Newman cleverly spices the in the foreword of Burlingame’s new industry-changing songs for The bulk of his orchestral score book, Sound and Vision. However, I Graduate and chart-topping with the “A Fool in Love” am continually perplexed that Jon makes these albums like the aforementioned and theme, enforcing his point of phone calls to me. Doesn’t he realize that I’m Saturday Night Fever. view, which also happens to the same Jeff Bond whose sleep-deprived memory You can almost see Burlingame holding his nose be concurrent to the film’s. put Clint Eastwood in the cast of Wagon Train? through some of this, and indeed the book consis- It’s always nice when compos- Who said Saul Bass did the title sequence to The tently poses the question of whether there is merit ers are well-matched to when it was actually Depatie-Freleng to the song-score approach (and whether there’s, material, and this is an exam- Associates doing a Saul Bass-like title sequence? Or in fact, any relationship between many of these ple of good technical casting. who misspelled “The Master Musicians of Jajouka” songs and the movies in which they appeared, other Still, Newman’s scores have in his summer movie piece when discussing Howard than a purely contractual one). But ultimately the always worked better in their Shore’s score to The Cell? parallel relationship between musicals, song com- respective films than they do The fact is, I’m the one who should be calling pilations and actual movie score albums makes as albums (with the notable Jon Burlingame every day. And when I finally do for a fascinating journey through popular taste, exception of The Natural), get around to doing that, asking him some arcane showing how songs written by real film composers and Meet the Parents is no question about a TV score (one of many subjects (like Barry’s title tunes to Born Free or Goldfinger exception. on which Burlingame is unquestionably the final and Horner’s “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic) Fortunately, there are authority), Jon’s response is inevitably “Don’t have more than held their own against the works of plenty of great moments you have my book?” Well of course I have TV’s more popular contemporary musical voices. throughout the album to Biggest Hits, but I kept my jealously guarded edi- Burlingame does an invaluable round-up of the make it worth a listen. tion at home where I could savor it. Only when major film composers of the 20th century, provid- Newman’s approach skirts I brought the book into the office did I cut my ing a brief but informative background on each the line between straight- volume of desperate calls to Jon Burlingame in and then listing several representative albums forward parody and come- half. Now he has produced Sound and Vision for (some, sadly, still only available on LP), with works dic orchestral pratfalls, Billboard Books, which should practically elimi- ranging from Korngold and Steiner through North, using plenty of undulating nate all my calls to him. Goldsmith and Williams, to today’s practitioners string rhythms to under- In Sound and Vision, Burlingame is given the such as Horner, James Newton Howard, Marc score Stiller’s surreptitious unenviable task of encapsulating the entire history Shaiman and everyone in between. Burlingame’s sneakings in DeNiro’s home of the movie soundtrack, with an eye toward the taste is impeccable, and film score fans exploring (“Meet the Parents”). There’s popular influence (as interpreted via sales figures) the range of the hobby will find the book a perfect an amusingly twisted mili- of the medium. Of course this is impossible to do. checklist for what they should seek out in order to tary feel given to DeNiro’s Burlingame does it anyway, in 244 pages. In a fasci- experience the best of all the composers who’ve con- character (“Could You Milk nating opening section, he charts the history of the tributed to the form. Rounding out the book is an Me?”), with the added bonus soundtrack album from a 1926 Bell Laboratories 33 equally exhaustive compilation of the biggest-sell- of a chorus here and there 1/3-rpm recording of the John Barrymore film Don ing and most familiar song and compilation score to keep things interest- Juan to The Jazz Singer, from early Walt Disney albums, from Forrest Gump to Amadeus, Evita and ing (“Greg Loses Jinx”). soundtracks for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Oklahoma! to Natural Born Killers and New Jack Newman’s quiet, sneaky and an album from The Wizard of Oz featuring new City. If you have any doubt about the completeness approach to the score results recordings of and the Ken Darby of this section of the book, I need only inform you in a lot of music that churns Singers doing songs from the film, to much later that Rick Springfield’s soundtrack album to the and bubbles but doesn’t breakout hits like Maurice Jarre’s Dr. Zhivago, film Hard to Hold IS included. quite boil; there are few Ernest Gold’s Exodus, John Williams’ Star Wars For soundtrack fans, Sound and Vision puts their fireworks on the album, but and James Horner’s Titanic. obsession in a cultural and commercial context they what bursts of excitement I’ve got a feeling the folks who commissioned probably rarely consider, while the casual reader there are (“Burning Down this book wanted Burlingame to do a book about interested in how many copies the Saturday Night the House,” “The Car Race”) albums like Flashdance, Saturday Night Fever Fever album sold will be amazed at how many “real” prove that Newman’s still and Footloose, and that Burlingame told them film score albums are familiar to them. Now I just very much on top of his he wouldn’t do it without discussing the movie- have to remember to keep my copy of Sound and game. Newman’s tonal and score end of the business as well. He tracks the Vision at the office instead of at home—I have a feel- harmonic (continued on page 58) history of the movie-inspired popular song (also ing I’m going to need it. —Jeff Bond FSM

Film Score M o n t h l y 51 N ovember/December 2000 lain, mentor (sound familiar?) in a stirring NEW!NEW! symphonic setting. Our first Golden Age The Stripper/Nick Quarry Classic includes the complete surviv- An early score and a rare demo by Jerry Goldsmith! ing score, newly remixed from the 20th Century-Fox archives in good stereophonic Jerry Goldsmith’s long-lasting, fruitful collaboration with director sound with bonus tracks. Franklin Schaffner (Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillion, The Boys $19.95 from Brazil) began with The Stripper (1963), Schaffner’s first feature film with a heartfelt and melancholy score by Goldsmith, Wild Westerns then only 33 years old. Based on William Inge’s A Loss of Roses, it follows a failed Hollywood showgirl (Joanne Woodward) as she returns to her home town and begins a tentative romance with a dash of 007. Also included are outtakes, young man (Richard Beymer). A sensitive human drama about source music, and the 45-rpm single loneliness and love, Goldsmith’s score is one of his earliest avail- recording of “The Good Times Are Coming.” able to collectors and is a rare chance to hear him tackle a ’50s- $19.95 styled genre. Rich with melody, as well as some jazz elements, the music retains Goldsmith’s unique voice. It is presented here in stereo from the original session masters. As a special bonus, the CD includes a true rarity: Nick Quarry, an unaired 1968 demonstra- tion film produced by 20th Century-Fox based on the Tony Rome detective film. Goldsmith wrote 11 minutes of music in his Our Man Flint style that have never been heard—or for that matter, heard of! His complete score is presented in clean mono. $19.99 The Undefeated/Hombre Two never-before-available, original scores on one CD! Beneath the 12-Mile Reef NEW!NEW! In the late 1960s, the western went Bernard Herrmann’s undersea spectacular! nova, brimming with radical change Herrmann’s music is unique for its gorgeous, atmospheric and experimentation. We present two evocation of the film’s underwater photography, with nine never-before-available scores from Crazy Cult Classics harps (each playing a separate part) grounding the sublimely that period: The Undefeated (1969) Batman Herrmannesque sea-soundscapes—from gentle currents to with John Wayne and Rock Hudson The Bat-Premiere of ’s rippling waves to crashing terror. The score also includes (!); and Hombre (1967) with Paul feature film score jaunty maritime melodies, heartfelt string writing (à la The Newman. The Undefeated is a sprawling Authentic bat-music from the 1966 Ghost and Mrs. Muir), crashing action music and the proto- escapist western with a score by Hugo theatrical score by band leader and minimalist traveling patterns of “The Marker”—which later Montenegro, steeped in tradition yet arranger Riddle, whose sound character- became the jetpack music in Lost in Space—all culminating in with a pop gleam in its eye. Its terrific ized the classic ABC-TV series. This the primal aggression of “The Octopus.” A suite from 12-Mile main theme could easily be at home in a exciting score features extended pas- Reef was recorded in the early 1970s for the Herrmann entry modern-day NFL broadcast. In contrast, sages of familiar Bat-music, including a of RCA’s Classic Film Scores series—now, get the complete the music for Hombre by is a riveting title tune (with the supervillian chronological score, in stereo, as conducted by Herrmann for short, sparse score both meaningful and motifs), propulsive traveling music, the film. Please note that the master tapes have sustained melodic. This CD is chock-full of excite- piratical villain cues, generous helpings some deterioration and that there is minor “wow” present; these masters are all that survive of the score. and we trust that ment and emotion—in stereo from the of motif, and a deluxe pre- aficionados will appreciate having them in the best condition possible—in stereo from the original session masters! $19.95 original multitrack masters—and offers sentation of his swinging, brassy fight tribute to two distinguished, prolific but music. Plus, there’s the straight TV ren- under-represented musicians. $19.95 dition of Neil Hefti’s Batman theme, and inherent in all tyrants. It’s adventurous, extra source cues. Nearly 66 minutes of Golden Age Greats spirited and darkly atmospheric, with a superheroic Bat-music in crystal clear vintage Newman love theme. The score monophonic Bat-sound. $19.95 has been remixed to stereo, with several unused cues. $19.95

All About Eve/ The Comancheros Leave Her to Heaven Elmer Bernstein’s first Two Alfred Newman classics! western score for the Duke! From the Terrace FSM dives into the voluminous legacy of This 1961 film marked Bernstein’s first Beneath the Planet of the Apes Elmer Bernstein’s Grand ! Alfred Newman with this doubleheader of many famous western scores for John Leonard Rosenman’s This drama of romance and one man’s restoration of (1950) and Wayne: a rousing, melodic Hollywood west- mind-blowing sci-fi score! struggle between society’s expectations Leave Her to Heaven (1945). All About ern with a dynamite main theme—sort Composer Rosenman retained the and his own conscience demanded a sen- Eve is Newman’s tribute to the theater of “The Magnificent Eight”—plus classic neoprimitive musical tone of the Apes sitive, emotional touch. Elmer Bernstein’s world and sympathetic underscoring of moments of quiet reflection and cascading series while creating a score very much in score speaks to the emotions of Alfred the Academy Award-winning film’s sharp- Indian attacks. Remixed in its entirety in his own, inimitable style. It goes beyond Eaton (Paul Newman), opening boldly tongued women; Leave Her to Heaven stereophonic sound from the 20th Century- Fantastic Voyage with layers of sound, with a soaring and deeply passionate is his brief but potent score to the Gene Fox archives. $19.95 clanging, metallic effects, bristling, ram- love theme. The score’s complexity is Tierney-starring noir tale of love and mur- bunctious chase music and a perverse, enriched by a strained waltz theme that derous obsession. It’s terrific! $19.95 Monte Walsh chaotic march for the ape army. Add underscores Eaton’s misguided marriage John Barry’s original western score! some striking electronic effects, a bizarre to Mary St. John (Joanne Woodward). Prince of Foxes Two decades before Dances with Wolves, choral mass and you have one of the most The score is varied and rich, marking a The ”lost” Newman adventure score! Prince Valiant Barry scored this 1970 character study original sci-fi scores ever written. The disc middle ground between the lush soap- This 1949 Tyrone Power/Orson Welles Franz Waxman’s classic, influential of aging cowboys (Lee Marvin and Jack features every note of the OST in stun- operatics of the Golden Age and the costume epic is arguably Newman’s adventure score! Palance) with his impeccable melodic ning stereo sound, plus sound FX cues, leaner, modernistic style of the ’60s. For greatest achievement at 20th A stirring adventure work in the tradition touch. The score (never before released) and as a bonus, the complete original the first time ever on CD—more than 70 Century-Fox: a colorful, rollicking score of Star Wars and The Adventures of Robin features a title song performed by Mama LP with its specially arranged music and minutes—IN STEREO! $19.95 capturing the spiritual renewal of the Hood. It features a dynamic set of themes Cass, beautiful lyrical moments, a dialogue—it’s two albums in one. Go Renaissance, yet conjuring up the evil and variations for the hero, princess, vil- thunderous mustang-herding cue, and a ape! $19.95

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The Omega Man 100 Rifles Ron Grainer’s long-awaited sci-fi Never before released OST! fan favorite! 100 Rifles (1969) is Jerry Goldsmith’s most Charlton Heston is “the last man on Earth” outrageous western score, featuring bel- battling a tribe of Luddite barbarians, the Glorious Goldsmith licose brass, wild percussion and melodic “Family.” This action-adventure is made Tora! Tora! Tora! Mexican nuggets. The CD features the score memorable by Grainer’s beautiful pop- Premiere release of the twice: in newly remixed stereo and in the flavored score, which mixes baroque, jazz, complete, original score! mono mix originally made for the film. It’s avant garde and dramatic orchestral styles Jerry Goldsmith composed music for two an audacious, rip-roaring hunk of Mexican into a seamless whole. With a gorgeously World War II films in 1970: Unlike Patton, adventure, never before available. You’re elegiac main theme and distinctive melo- however, Tora! Tora!Tora! concerns itself gonna love it! $19.95 The Flim-Flam Man/ dies, earns its reputation broader themes. The result is a powerful A Girl Named Sooner as one of the most unforgettable genre work, full of majestic Asian writing and Two complete Goldsmith scores! scores of the ’70s. The disc sports stun- pulsating action cues that capture the Enjoy two complete Goldsmith outings in ning stereo sound, unused score cues, unsettling sound of conflict. The score the gentle Americana vein that has always specially arranged source music and an bristles with unique instrumentation and brought forth the composer’s most tender alternate end title. $19.95 overlapping rhythms so characteristic of and heartfelt writing. The Flim-Flam Man Goldsmith’s period at Fox in the ‘60s. The is the story of a veteran Southern con man CD includes every note written for the film, and his escapades. Previously excerpted on plus military band & dance source music a limited tribute CD—but this release is and a pair of unused variations on the complete, in stereo, with all of the instru-

main theme, all in stereo. $19.95 mentation and “sweeteners” intact. A Girl marketplace Named Sooner is cut from a similar cloth Stagecoach/The Loner (presented in clean mono) making a heart- Two early, original westerns! warming duo. $19.95 Stagecoach is the 1966 remake of the John Ford western. The previous Mainstream CD is a re-recording; this CD debuts the original soundtrack, as conducted by the composer. Fantastic Voyage The Loner is Goldsmith’s complete contribu- The complete, unreleased ’60s tion to Rod Serling’s 1965 western TV series masterpiece by Rosenman! (sounds like Rio Conchos): main and end Fantastic Voyage is the classic 1966 titles and two episode scores. The first FSM fsm science fiction movie which follows a min- Silver Age Classic—get it now.. $19.95 iaturized surgical team inside the human Patton/ body. The score by Leonard Rosenman (Lord The Flight of the Phoenix Take a Hard Ride of the Rings, East of Eden, Star Trek IV) Classic Goldsmith plus rare Frank Complete ’70s score for is one of his most famous and has never DeVol together on one CD! the first time! Rio Conchos before been available. It is a powerful, This score brilliantly defines General A , buddy movie, blax- Complete hard-riding score! Welcome to modern orchestral work with breathtaking Patton, from the jaunty march to the ploitation epic and kung fu thriller—this Jerry Goldsmith came into his own as a musical colors, presented here in complete trumpet triplets that conjure up the ghosts one has it all, including one of Goldsmith’s creator of thrilling western scores with the FSM form, in stereo. $19.95 of an ancient, martial past. Unlike previous most enjoyable western scores. While 1964’s Rio Conchos, a tuneful work that Marketplace! albums, this is the original film soundtrack. emphasizing action, Hard Ride benefits is at times spare and folksy, at others The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) is a superb from a rousing, full-blooded adventure savage and explosive. It’s a prototype for adventure film about a cargo plane that theme, and consciously references the aggressive action music for which crashes in the Sahara desert. DeVol’s rous- Morricone-isms that recall The Good, the the composer has become famous, but We’re pleased to offer ing, kinetic score melodically delineates Bad and the Ugly. This is the uncut, fully- it also probes the film’s psychology with hard-to-find, unusual the film’s sharply drawn conflicts and the restored version of Goldsmith’s penultimate constant melody. This is the first release of characters’ struggle against the encroach- western, presented just as he wrote the original film recording of Rio Conchos, soundtrack-related ing threat of the desert. $19.95 it—and in stereo. $19.95 complete in mono with bonus tracks of a vocal version of the theme plus six tracks products, including: repeated in newly mixed stereo. $19.95 Exclusive CDs; Books Join the Classics Charter Club for music lovers; The Return of Dracula Hurry up, Don’t Wait! Send us your name, address and Wonderful Williams Books for composers; 2CD set also credit card info (VISA, MasterCard or AmEx), and we will A Guide for the Married Man including I Bury the Living, automatically send each CD upon release. You can return any disc for The complete original ’60s romp! One-of-a-kind collect- The Cabinet of Caligari and a full refund or credit within 30 days. Each CD costs $19.95 plus ship- The funniest of “Johnny” Williams’ first Mark of the Vampire. comedies was A Guide for the Married Man, ibles; and more! Order ping ($3 U.S./Canada, or $5 rest of world); no charges until shipping. From the composer of Star Trek’s “Amok directed by Gene Kelly and starring Walter online, by phone or by Time” and “Catspaw” comes this historic Pre-order A Send me everything! Matthau and Robert Morse. This spirited 2CD set of four of his early horror scores: Pre-order B Send me each Silver Age CD for $19.95. score catalogs his diverse styles: from goofy, mail: see contact info The Return of Dracula (1958) is based Pre-order C Send me each Golden Age CD for $19.95. faux-hip source music, to bold orchestral on the Dies Irae, I Bury the Living (1958) scoring featuring brass fanfares and his below. features creepy harpsichord, The Cabinet of To order multiple copies of releases (up to six each), just write trademark woodwind runs. Listeners will Caligari (1962) has a beautiful, romantic how many copies you want on the form between pages 40-41. note foreshadowings of the music he would theme, and Mark of the Vampire (1957) later write for space epics and adventures.

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Until now, the only music available from A in an expanded edition! his most creative period of the ’60s. It Guide... was the title song. Our CD release Bruce Lee’s most famous film introduced features his 14-minute guitar concerto, includes Williams’ complete score in him to mainstream American audiences “Romance for Guitar and Orchestra,” per- Seconds conversion tables for U.S. and stereo, restored and sequenced by Michael and cemented his superstar status. Lalo formed by Renata Tarrago and the London European film and video speeds. 430 pp. Matessino; the title song by The Turtles; Schifrin scored this 1973 adventure with Philharmonic; the title song “My Love Has Price is the industry standard for click and nearly 15 minutes of unused cues and his greatest fusion of funky backbeats, Two Faces” performed by books; this one gives more value for the alternate takes. $19.95 catchy melodies, screaming orchestra (“Goldfinger”), plus two unreleased alter- money! $149.95 and wild percussion. It is the ultimate nate versions of same (vocal by Malcolm combination of symphonic fury with crazy Roberts and instrumental); and vintage, New Updated Edition! ‘70s solos. A short CD was released in dramatic Barry underscore. $16.95 2000 Film/TV Music Guide Japan; this newly remixed and remastered Getting the Best Score for From the Music Business Registry Your Film: A Filmmakers’ Isn’t your career worth it? An exhaustive Guide to Music Scoring directory of record labels, music publishers, by David Bell film/TV music depts., music supervisors, Respected TV composer David Bell wrote music editors, composer representatives, this book in 1994 to help producers and composers, clearance companies, record- directors get the most out of film music. ing studios, performing rights societies, It’s aimed at filmmakers, but also provides and music libraries—names, addresses, useful professional info to composers and contact numbers. $94.95 The Poseidon Adventure/ musicians—or any interested fan. Topics The Paper Chase include spotting, communicating, record- Original unreleased ’70s scores! ing, budgeting and licensing, with explana- The Poseidon Adventure is the classic tions of the various personnel and entities 1972 Irwin Allen disaster movie, with a disc features the complete score (57:14) in Mad Monster Party involved in each; also included are lists stunning title theme and suspenseful chronological order. $19.95 30th anniversary of agents, clearance companies, glossary interior passages. The Paper Chase is the The Exorcist collector’s edition terms and resources. Silman-James Press, acclaimed 1973 comedy drama about The seminal horror soundtrack! From Rankin/Bass, the creators of TV’s 112 pp., softcover. $12.95 Harvard law students, with music ranging William Friedkin’s 1973 thriller of demonic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, comes from a light pop love theme to Baroque possession is perhaps the scariest film the original soundtrack to Mad Monster adaptations to the haunting “Passing of of all time, and it was enhanced by these Party. The jazzy score by composer Maury Wisdom.” Also includes Americana 6-min. frightening, avant garde compositions Laws, with lyrics by Jules Bass, features main title to Conrack (1974). $19.95 by Penderecki, Webern, Henze and other the vocal talents of , Phyllis modernist composers. This CD includes Diller, Ethel Ennis and Gale Garnett. The all of the rejected music (14:14) which deluxe package includes a 16-page color Warner Home Video Lalo Schifrin recorded for the film—never booklet with dozens of never-before pub- books for has led the way for video restoration with before heard! (Regrettably, “Tubular Bells” lished photographs and concept drawings elaborate box sets of the studio’s most & “Night of the Electric Insects” are omit- by Mad Magazine alumnus Jack Davis and music lovers famous films. They have also produced ted from the disc.) $19.95 Don Duga. A wacky and fun blast from the U.S. Soundtracks on CD: soundtrack CDs available to the public past! $16.95 Scores for Motion Pictures only within the larger video packages— and Television 1985-1999 until now. FSM has the following CDs to Price Guide sell via direct mail only to our readers. E x c l u s i ve by Robert L. Smith The Click Book FSM’s market-standard price guide is back video! Comprehensive timing tables with a new-look second edition, featuring for synchronizing music to film over 2,400 listings of album titles with Basil Poledouris: Created by USC student and composer composers, label numbers, special collect- His Life and Music Cameron Rose. Click-tempo tables for 6-0 ible information and—most of all—esti- An intimate visit with through 32-0 frame click-tempos (6-0, 6-1, mated values. The listings are annotated the composer of Conan 6-2, etc.)...Each timing table covers beat 1 to help collectors differentiate between the Barbarian, Big to beat 999 at the given click-tempo... originals and reissues, commercial albums music from Retrograde! Wednesday, , Starship Troopers Large, bold, easy-to-read click-tempo val- and rare promos. Find out what’s out there, and Lonesome Dove. Take a tour of his ues and equivalent metronomic values at what your prized rarities are worth, and The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 work and lifestyle—in his own words— the top of each page...Timing, frame and how much you should expect to spend to Killer ’70s groove—available for the from his methods of composing to his footage breakdowns for rhythmic subdivi- fill out your collection. Author Robert L. first time anywhere! love of sailing and the sea. 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Visible The Art history of John Barry’s music and career, appeared in “The Score,” the quarterly Year 2000 fifth edition Ink Press, 872 pp., softcover. $24.95 of Soundtracks from his earliest days as a British rock and journal of the Society of Composers and Compiled and edited by by Frank Jastfelder & Stefan Kassel, roller to his most recent films and London Lyricists, a professional organization Vincent J. Francillon Foreword by Saul Bass concert. It is not a personal biography but for filmcomposersm. Topics include This is the ultimate resource for finding This 1997 coffee table book is a stunning rather a comprehensive chronicle of every melodies, “hummers,” emotion and out what composers have scored what collection of soundtrack LP covers. From single thing John Barry has ever done: from more. 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To Order: Call Toll Free 1-888-345-6335 • Overseas 1-310-253-9598 • Fax 1-310-253-9588 • Online www.filmscoremonthly.com S C O R E his orchestra’s role in the score, tones (“Gathering Darkness,” emphasizing the disco in the “Somewhere to Belong”) (continued from page 51) extreme. The disco is boisterous Holdridge’s melodic focus holds focus consistently reminds you and obnoxious, sounding closer the score beautifully in place. of the control he has over his to chase music from a CHiPs And when the music reaches its material, and that’s always nice episode than action music from a emotional peak, in “Living With to hear these days. Even the Bond score (“Runaway” and “A the Past,” you don’t feel cheated more emotional cues (“Broken Drive in the Country”). Parts are whatsoever, because the release Hearted,” “Together Again”) reminiscent of the Rocky scores, has been earned. have a distinctively sarcastic feel. especially the brass performance The subject matter and style Filler songs by Bobby Womack, in “Runaway.” Conti shows little of this film and its score war- Lee Dorsey and Dr. John round restraint in his use of Moog syn- rants inevitable comparisons to out the album (however, any thesizers, electric guitars, flugel- Schindler’s List. This album, album with Dr. John on it is fine horn and funky disco beats. however, combines the Yiddish by me). There’s even a ghost The disco in For Your Eyes folksong and original underscore track for those of you who just Only did not seem as out of in a more streamlined and effec- can’t get enough: an unlisted, place in 1981 as it does today. tive way than the Schindler’s List vaudeville-style version of “A Fool But, by sacrificing durability for album did, by arranging the songs in Love” complete with effects popularity, Conti’s music lost its in such a way that it lends itself from and accor- staying power. (In 20 years, the to the emotional flow of the story. dion. And that’s not all—half the same may happen to Arnold’s All due credit goes to Holdridge song is sung in French. Take it as The World Is Not Enough, when for not succumbing to heart-on- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control Newman’s final joke to his audi- ’90s dance beats are a thing of the-sleeve, tearjerking writing and Barbara Kopple’s Harlan ence. —Jason Comerford the past.) It’s important not to that distracts from the power County, USA. But while the base a score too heavily on a inherent in the storytelling. —J.C. dividing line between realism and For Your Eyes Only ★★ fad, because all fads pass as a drama has always been blurry, BILL CONTI matter of course. Since disco is (Joel McNeely re-recording) for composers this seems to Jaws Ryko RCD 10751 • 19 tracks - 89:50 practically dead, its steady pres- JOHN WILLIAMS result in fertile ground for plant- ohn Barry’s Bond scores were ence in the score is consistently Varèse Sarabande 302 066 078 2 ing musical ideas. Lee Holdridge successful partly because annoying. Conti’s music is not 25 tracks - 51:09 J is no stranger to documentaries of his ability to blend a sym- a total loss; a few tracks offer his is a re-recording that col- (he scored the Oscar-winning phonic sound with the sounds of exceptional music. The bonus lectors would have gone ga- The Long Way Home), and his T then- styles. Barry tracks, 13-19, include the least ga for if not for the recent Decca newest project, Into the Arms of realized the need for a certain disco-oriented material and are release of the Jaws OST. Joel Strangers, allows him the room degree of in his scores the best tracks on the album. McNeely has proven to be a com- to develop a more traditional to satisfy the target audience, Tracks 15-19 show Conti’s abil- petent conductor/preservationist, dramatic underscore with a while the film needed symphonic ity to write music (almost) free and his interpretation of Jaws is careful eye on his boundaries. underscore for dramatic pur- of the disco influence. The title faithful to the original, while also Into the Arms of Strangers also poses. He showed restraint in song, sung by Sheena Easton, is providing insight into changes reunites Holdridge with The his use of ’60s rock in On Her a fair entry into the Bond songs that Williams likely made on the Long Way Home writer/director Majesty’s Secret Service, disco in and surprisingly marks one of scoring stage in 1975. This Varèse Mark Jonathan Harris, and the Moonraker, and ’80s pop beats in the most memorable parts of album is especially exciting for result is a surprisingly varied The Living Daylights. This blend the disc. The other Conti song, such musical additions like the soundtrack album. became the formula for a success- “Make It Last All Night,” is atro- echoing flute line in “Father and Holdridge approaches the ful Bond score, and formula is cious. Oddly enough, the produc- Son” that aren’t on the OST. The material with admirable what this film series is all about. tion quality of the CD is superior shock music of “Ben Gardner’s restraint, using a handful of Bill Conti’s For Your Eyes Only to the music; Ryko has assembled Boat,” written for Gardner’s Yiddish children’s songs as the fails to capture the true essence a wonderful release for an unfor- head popping out of that hole, emotional backbone for his own of Bond because of a departure tunately mediocre Bond score. is now interpreted more like compositions. This extremely from the series’ musical tradi- The sound quality of this disc is the raking strings of the shower well-sequenced album allows tions—gone are the twangy elec- superb, and the booklet format scene in Psycho. In “Man Against for a lot of delicate emotional tric guitar, muted brass, lounge- makes for easier viewing than the Beast” McNeely adds the pic- fluctuations. It’s a testament jazz tracks, memorable action “map” that came with previous colo solo that wraps up the cue to Holdridge’s capacity as a themes and Barry’s unique string Ryko/Bond score releases. on the MCA LP version but is talented melodic composer that work. Conti does emphasize the —Martin Dougherty absent from the movie. And “The he’s able to keep the material popular style (disco), but does so Shark Approaches” switches the so focused without becoming at the expense of all other facets simple, rumbling shark motif Into the Arms of Strangers maudlin and self-consciously of scoring. Unlike Conti’s effort, ★★★★ heard in the film with a repeat melancholy. His “Main Theme” David Arnold’s Tomorrow Never LEE HOLDRIDGE, VARIOUS of the “Brody Panics” noctur- has a childlike simplicity of tone, Dies was successful because the Chapter III CHA 1006-2 • 15 tracks - 42:30 nal shark menace music. There but compositionally it’s carefully composer returned the series to pplying dramatic techniques are also striking, high-pitched guarded, never leaning in direc- its musical roots following the to documentary accents heard in “The Shark Hits A tions that could cause the rest of disappointment of Eric Serra’s is a tricky and intangible process; the Cage,” which are inaudible the score to spin out of control. Goldeneye. witness the difference between in the movie version. In many Even when the music hits darker Conti mistakenly downplays something like Errol Morris’ key instances, McNeely’s horn

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S C O R E the newer material—which was unreleased killed in the estuary after trying to help prior to Decca’s Anniversary edition—is Brody’s kid out with his small launch. It’s key instances, McNeely’s horn section also here.) There’s also a major discrepancy in remotely possible that Williams wrote this eschews the warmer sound of Williams orig- the score’s chronological presentation (we scene for the estuary sequence and moved inal recording in favor of a brassier, harsher are doomed to never have a chronological it to later in the film, but that really makes cuivre horn sound. This is like listening presentation of this score): “A Tug on the no sense given what’s going on musically to Jaws: The Version You’ve Never Heard Line” (which underscores Quint’s prepara- in “A Tug on the Line.” Here Williams Before, except Jaws doesn’t walk backward tion of his deep-sea fishing line and rod introduces his “counterattack” theme (later down a flight of stairs. as it’s gently tugged on by the shark just developed into “The Shark Cage Fugue”), Of course, the Varèse album isn’t with- after the Orca takes to sea) plays between but this idea is clearly intended to begin as out its problems. It’s missing one bit of “Montage” and “Into the Estuary” instead Quint, Brody and Hooper begin their sea music heard on the Decca album: the moody of in its proper position between “Out to duel with the shark, not to underscore the post-attack cue for the crabs scuttling over Sea” and “Man Against Beast.” The liner death of someone in the estuary (the “Tug” the remains of the first shark victim on notes even describe the cue musically, but cue is soothing, and hardly chomping-shark the beach. (On the other hand, the rest of attribute it to the scene in which a man is music). But for those still wondering about the mysterious “Shark Attack” cue heard out of sequence on the Decca album, it’s cor- rectly sequenced (and named) on the Varèse album as “Quint Meets His End.” The album’s problems are not limited to the likes of sequencing. As a conductor, McNeely is usually reliable when it comes to sticking to tempo, but “Father and Son” drags, and the dissonant string pedal that lends the passage its power is far too quiet. “The Shark Cage Fugue” is well-played and has the necessary bite, but the orchestra threatens to derail in a couple of spots. Despite its “flaws,” Varèse’s Jaws has many selling points. The performance by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is exceptional—particularly the brass section— which makes one wonder what went wrong Now back in the public eye due to Warner Bros. recent Get the on their renditions of Superman and Back theatrical reissue, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was a cultural phe- to the Future. And strangely enough, some nomenon in 1973 and remains one of the most sophisticated and ter- people may actually prefer Varèse’s 20-bit scariest rifying horror movies ever released. digital sound over the Decca version, which featured a low-end that seemed to exist soundtrack Friedkin reportedly threw the reels of Lalo Schifrin’s below the floor, making a lot of the shark spooky atonal score across the street when he heard them, but now you motif treatments nearly inaudible. There’s can hear Schifrin’s lost music no need to get riled up over the musi- ever heard cal changes (whether they reflect Williams’ along with equally experimental original vision or alterations by McNeely) music from Webern, Penderecki because we already have access to the com- and other composers, which plete original score. If you’ve already picked Friedkin did use in the film. up the Decca release of Jaws, you probably While the director only chose won’t need this Varèse version. However, fragmented moments of these this is still a stellar presentation of the score pieces (like Webern’s “Five with enough interesting variances to make Pieces for Orchestra” and P it worth hearing. The music is unquestion- enderecki’s “Polymorphia”) in ably phenomenal and worthy of alternate order to create a decidedly interpretations—and as far as re-recordings “non-movie-like” sound for the film, this exclusive album includes the go, this one is leagues ahead of Varèse’s disgraceful rendition of Back to the Future. complete movements from the pieces in question so you can experience Don’t be fooled by the measly sand shark on them the way they were meant to be heard (Alas, no “Tubular Bells,” the album cover. This album packs a serious though!). bite. —Jeff Bond and A.K. Benjamin Including Should Friedkin have stuck with Schifrin’s score or did Grand Prix/Ryan’s Daughter ★★★ he make the right decision? You make the call! Order your copy today. MAURICE JARRE music never The CD is available only from FSM for $19.95 Chapter III CHA 1001-2 • 23 tracks - 67:13 Call Toll Free 1-888-345-6335 his Chapter III Classic reissue is a combo Talbum of two ’70s Maurice Jarre released or use the order form on page 58. (continued on page 63)

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Who did it? What is it? To buy or not to buy? Twin Falls Idaho Matthewman (known for his pop work with Sade and In the more thematic tracks like “Let Me In,” I might have believed Burwell 1 ★★★ /2 Maxwell) adds a Carter Burwell-like touch to this story wrote it. There are even twinges of Morricone and Elfman dashed about (U about Siamese twins who are named Falls and are Turn and come to mind in tracks like “I Wasn’t Stealing” and STUART MATTHEWMAN living in Idaho. Synths are mixed with acoustics and “Trick or Treat”). Matthewman covers a wide range of styles, but the music What Are? 60043-2 vocals throughout the generally ambient score. There’s doesn’t sustain great interest away from the film for the duration of this 19 tracks - 54:45 a decent amount of string-laden dramatic underscore album. The more listenable material suffers from repetition—and the ethnic tempered by cues based more on electronica or source- vocals are annoying. On the other hand, this is better than almost anything like funk, blues and jazz. I’ve reviewed in the past four months. —J.Z.K. Always an enthusiast of the rhythms of jazz and blues, It’s not film-score accessible, but this album has a lot to offer for those with a Esperanto Lalo Schifrin takes the idea of a “universal language,” little patience. It’s impressive that this live concert recording has so much focus ★★★ “Esperanto” (coined by a Polish physician in the late and coherency. There’s plenty of fun to be had, starting with the opening track, 19th century), and creates a concert work for his WDR “Pulsations,” and continuing with the more sedate “Resonances.” Schifrin man- LALO SCHIFRIN Big Band. Organized into six lengthy suites, this album ages to keep interest by cleverly combining Eastern and Western instrumentation Aleph 019 will likely delight fans of Schifrin and drive others in “Dance of the Harlequins”; his distinctive musical style is apparent throughout. 6 tracks - 69:56 completely mad. Parts of the album do bog down (“Tango Borealis” is long-winded), but it’s still worth a spin for enthusiasts of the musical forms presented. —J.C.

Meetings With The true story of a man named Gurdjieff who traveled Rosenthal weaves de Hartmann’s disparate thematic material into a full-blooded Remarkable Men through the Middle East and Asia in the ’20s (meeting orchestral fabric, and the result is something like the quiet and introspective ★★★★ with philosophers and leaders in an attempt to find the portions of a particularly intelligent biblical epic. In track 7 (“The Gobi Desert”) meaning of life), Meetings With Remarkable Men fea- the score opens up with a Lawrence of Arabia-like desert flourish, but even here LAURENCE ROSENTHAL tures an appropriately remarkable score by Laurence the overall mood is low-key. “The Expedition Fails” moves into more traditional Citadel STC 77123 Rosenthal, one of the great unsung practitioners of dramatic writing for brass, rich with crescendos and a distinctive call from a 11 tracks - 43:19 film scoring. Rosenthal conceived much of the score by ram’s-horn-like ethnic instrument. “The Journey” and “The Great Prayer” take adapting piano music written by Thomas de Hartmann, on a mystical, hollow feeling with a primitive-sounding choir and more touches of who as a young man was a student of Gurdjieff’s. ethnic instrumentation, while “The Contest of the Ashokhs” is a long, semi-source piece of hypnotic Mongolian chanting. —J.B.

Running Free Piovani’s score Running Free isn’t the exultant specta- Give Piovani credit for not relying heavily on ethnocentric instrumentation for 1 ★★ /2 cle-fest that one might expect from the film’s pedigree effect; he manages, through straightforward orchestrational techniques, to (i.e., co-writer-producer Jean-Jacques Annaud); if any- establish a tone and feel that have a more universal quality. The seven-minute thing, the somewhat queasy, drunken-Rota style lends “Running Free (Main Title)” cue introduces his theme, a wistful little motif that Varèse Sarabande 302 itself more easily to a story with themes of sadness he develops in the Morricone style of constant re-use and development. It proves 066 157 2 and uncertainty. Those two emotions are what Piovani’s to be flexible enough, but listeners interested in more variation would be better 16 tracks - 57:18 music tends to generate, and while the score has its advised to seek other waters. Fans of this European style of scoring will most cer- quiet, soft moments (“A Sky Heavy With Sun”), it leans tainly drink this up; others in the mood for a little diversity, beware. It’s an awfully in large part toward those ambiguous ends. long haul for so little in the way of development. —J.C.

Two Family House ★★ Factory worker Buddy Visalo (who coulda been a Stephen Endelman’s scoring (credited to the “Two Family House Ensemble”) focuses on crooner but blew it) buys a two-family house and turns the European angle, with lots of mandolin, accordion, tuba and strings, used in a serio- the lower level into a bar where he can perform for comic form that drenches lighthearted Italian-flavored themes in a gray cloud of som- STEPHEN ENDELMAN his neighborhood cronies. Unfortunately, the family berness. The CD does include a few traditional faves, and John Pizzarelli also appears RCA Victor 09026-63733-2 living upstairs consists of a pregnant Irish girl and her on five tracks. These interludes aren’t bad, and Endelman’s work is dead-on with 18 tracks - 40:52 abusive, alcoholic husband; complications ensue. regard to the subject matter: He’s produced an appropriately melancholy sound for such a sullen tale. As an album, however, it’s a little too leaden for the average listener. Recommended if you enjoy eating pasta while sulking on rainy days. —C.S.

1 Duets ★ /2 Several people from varying walks of life are drawn Three of the disc’s 12 tracks are actual duets, but thankfully none sounds together at a karaoke competition—including karaoke like an actual karaoke performance. There are such oddities as lounge-style DAVID NEWMAN, VARIOUS (now there’s a new one) Huey Lewis and renditions of the ’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” “Free Hollywood HR-62241-2 his estranged daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow). Andre Bird” and the anthem of kitsch: “Copacabana.” Composer Newman’s single 12 tracks - 44:20 Braugher, Maria Bello and Paul Giamatti also join in grudging cue (a whopping two minutes) begins as a quirky, low-key bit of the festivities. Naturally, the disc consists mostly of piano-and-sax jive—a simple, jazzy motive indicative of momentum; of vocal numbers by the cast. Paltrow’s voice isn’t bad at people making their way to the big karaoke fest. This little riff segues into a all, and Lewis turns in a kickin’ version of Joe Cocker’s nice moody theme for piano and strings, presumably for an emotional scene “Feelin’ Alright.” between Lewis and Paltrow as pere et fille. Hardcore Newman fans may be mildly interested. —C.S.

N ovember/December 2000 62 Film Score M o n t h l y S C O R E rather than a coherent album much of worth here, but those legitimate, big-time director by unto itself. —J.C. who skipped the occasional Trek forcing his composer to copy (continued from page 60) score can use “The Ultimate Star the temp track—even if Ottman scores: John Frankenheimer’s The Ultimate Star Trek ★★★ Trek” to pick up the slack if they himself is the composer. Or per- Grand Prix and David Lean’s VARIOUS deem it necessary. Besides, it has haps we should all stop whin- Ryan’s Daughter. Given Jarre’s Varèse Sarabande 302 066 163 2 lovingly crafted liner notes by our ing about temp track-induced primarily electronic output in 12 tracks - 52:03 own Jeff Bond. —A.K.B. plagiarism because half of the recent decades, these two more here’s little point in dis- time the sound-alike scores are traditional scores are a good Tsecting Star Trek music for example of why Jarre has been the purposes of this review—by able to coast largely on the coat- now, most of us know whether tails of things like Lawrence or not we like Star Trek music. of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. The more important matters Jarre excels at sweeping orches- at hand are performance (noth- tral effects, but when he strays ing on this disc is from an OST) from them his music becomes and programming. This album unfocused. consists primarily of main or Grand Prix is a decent grab end titles from the films and TV bag of Jarre tricks, using a shows, conducted by the likes of pompous main theme in a vari- Fred Steiner, Jerry Goldsmith, ety of musical settings. Thrown Cliff Eidelman and Frederic into the mix are odd bossa nova Talgorn. The performances range tracks (“Sarti’s Love Theme,” from fine to embarrassing. Cliff “Scott’s Theme”) that don’t Eidelman takes both Star Trek just the result of a lack of time make much sense, seeing as II: The Wrath of Khan and Deep Urban Legends: Final Cut or creativity on the composer’s this was a film about race-car Space Nine too slow for comfort, JOHN OTTMAN part. It’s not that rewarding to drivers. Jarre’s scoring of a but ironically, he has much more Varèse Sarabande 302 066 179 2 list all of Ottman’s references, race sequence (“The Zandvoort trouble keeping the orchestra 24 tracks - 73:23 so here are the two most inter- Race”) is even more bizarre; together for his own Star Trek ohn Ottman does not appear esting: One of the main themes he approaches it like it’s a fan- VI: The Undiscovered Country. Jas comfortable with John from The Sixth Sense opens the dango left over from Lawrence While this score does have dif- Corigliano’s “horror”-like “Meeting Trevor” cue. Why on of Arabia. (I pictured camels ficult brass writing, substantial orchestral effects as are the earth would this , dare galloping around a racetrack.) parts of this performance are likes of Chris Young or Marco you ask? Look closely and you’ll There’s plenty of diversity in simply painful to sit through. Beltrami. Divorced from their find that Haley Joel Osment Grand Prix, but nothing really There are also countless, aston- films, these musical techniques (the little boy in The Sixth gels; Jarre’s stylistic variations ishing trumpet and horn flubs in are often exposed on CD as Sense) is named Trevor in Pay are more gimmicky than any- the Seattle Symphony readings of effects-for-effects’ sake (unless It Forward. “Sandra’s Missing” thing else. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home they’re written by Corigliano is built on a poorly disguised Fortunately, Ryan’s Daughter and the aforementioned Star or Goldsmith) and are painful version of Caine’s descent into has more life. Jarre’s score Trek VI. Such blatant clams have to listen to—random ear-split- the hive of eggs in Alien—but I to David Lean’s penultimate no place on a legitimate album ting shock attacks with now- have yet to discover a “Trevor”- film has its share of offbeat release. On a brighter note, generic horn rips and familiar like connection to justify this musical effects (like the quasi- Dennis McCarthy’s Generations bursts of alleatoric strings. one. Perhaps it’s just there comic stylings of “Michael’s sounds more robust than ever “Puppy Chow,” for instance, because director John Ottman, Theme” and the mock-milita- under the steady baton of is a track cobbled together out a big Jerry Goldsmith fan, ristic rhythms of “The Major” Frederic Talgorn—direct com- of a series of effects. Much of asked his composer to revamp and “The Shakes”), but unlike parisons of the Royal Scottish this 73-minute album consists some of Jerry’s better material. Grand Prix, the music is coher- National Orchestra with the of either violent attack music While it’s fun to postulate ent. Jarre’s romantic main Seattle Symphony Orchestra are or creeping-around stuff. There how and why this score became theme, blessedly, doesn’t bring inevitable with this album, with are also more melodic cues another in a series of lousy and to mind his famous melodies Seattle suffering. like “The Tower,” which mixes boring horror rip-offs, Ottman from previous Lean epics. It It’s nice to have all the main and matches orchestral terror may have revealed the sad truth instead has an intimate sensibil- Star Trek themes sewn together effects with passages of over- in various interviews. After ity that keeps it from dwarfing on one disc, but a compilation wrought Poltergeist evil/wonder his experience on Halloween: the rest of the score. Subtle of themes from the OSTs would music (even though Ottman’s H20 (where the film tested well electronic effects are sprinkled have been aesthetically (if not notes explain this writing as with the temp track), Ottman throughout, particularly in financially) safer. The addition more of a nod to Herrmann was afraid to stray too far from “Ride Through the Woods,” a of a few more scene-specific cues than to Goldsmith). the temp on Urban Legends: subdued cue that works pre- would also have been helpful Given that Ottman not only Final Cut (which he naturally cisely because of its understat- with pacing (more in the way of composed this score but directed wanted and needed to succeed). edness. Unfortunately, as with Jerry Fielding’s “The Trouble the film, one has to wonder why John Ottman may be a decent Grand Prix, the score builds up With Tribbles” and Goldsmith’s this score references so many composer, but in a climate like little momentum, despite nice “The Enterprise” from Star Trek: other musical works in the today’s we may never get the spots here and there; it’s like The Motion Picture). Die-hard horror canon. Perhaps Ottman chance to find out. a sampling of a greater whole Trek fans aren’t going to find wanted to prove that he is a —J.Z.K.

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stage. On the other hand, overuse of music and bad choices of styles can kill it. I let the script and the actors guide me in my Tuning up for Prime Time choices of music to use. I try to keep the style of the show in mind and thus the style of music that will eventually be scored for it. AN ANIMATION Director TALKS ABOUT That’s not to say that every piece of music SPOTTING MUSIC FOR Television Cartoons has to be driven by acoustic guitar, or that it must be simple and bare bones. I have used b y S h a u n C a s h m a n cues from The Abyss and Back to the Future (Alan Silvestri), Young Frankenstein (John Over the last couple issues of FSM, we’ve taken ist (TV’s version of a key animator) and later Morris), Psycho (Bernard Herrmann), The you behind the scenes for a firsthand look at as an assistant director. I had also been an Sting (Marvin Hamlisch, Scott Joplin), To Kill the recording sessions for episodes of televi- AD on an earlier KOTH episode (“Texas City a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein), Raiders of sion’s and The Simpsons. Twister”) and was thrilled at the time to find the Lost Ark and Star Wars (John Williams), As a follow-up, we thought you might find it out that for our animatics we could create thirtysomething (W.G. “Snuffy” Walden) and interesting to hear from someone intimately title sequences and put music in—something The Untouchables (Ennio Morricone), to name involved with what actually goes into spotting we weren’t able to do on The Simpsons. just a handful. I have over 200 soundtracks music for TV animation, and how it differs An animatic is like a pencil test that’s in my office that I can pull from; and it’s not from feature animation and films. done in feature animation, except that we uncommon for the other directors to call me get a fraction of the when they’re looking for a specific types of THE IN-BETWEENER: Director Cashman with his cast. time to do it—roughly cues for their shows. five weeks. An entire episode is drawn with Newman’s a Natural both backgrounds and Sometimes the drama and action of the key drawings of char- show call for a bigger sound, such as Randy acter actions and act- Newman’s score for The Natural, a personal ing. Some sequences favorite and one that the producers have require that we do as come to know well from my animatics. I much of the anima- used many cues from that soundtrack for the tion here in the States “Hank’s Cowboy Movie” episode where Hank as possible before we tries to get Bobby’s hometown spirit back by send it overseas to be getting the Dallas Cowboys to move their finished. These lay- training camp to Arlen. I felt that the closing outs are then scanned scenes between Hank and Bobby would ben- and compiled on a efit from a tug at the heartstrings and wrap computer and put in up the story on an emotionally “up” moment. kay, King of the Hill fans, here’s sync with the dialogue track that was broken It worked well enough that Greg Daniels some trivia for you. Do you remem- down, frame-by-frame, so picture and sound instructed Producer Joe Boucher to have O ber the scene where and work together. composer Greg Edmonson create a score that his son Bobby are throwing a football around When that’s finished, I get to make “my mirrored the temp track. What he did was in the front yard and the camera cranes up little movie.” Up to this point I’m consumed original, but Newman-esque enough to elicit to the horizon to a sweepingly majestic score with keeping the schedule and making sure the same feel for the close of the show. by Randy Newman? Or Hank being chased that my crew (five to six artists drawing the I probably pay more attention to the music through a landfill by a cop to a lively romp characters and two drawing backgrounds) than most directors, but to me it’s an integral by John Williams? Or maybe you recall Hank gets the roughly 300 to 400 scenes done part of the process even though I will have looking for friends Dale and Bill—who were on time. Then I take three days to put no say in the final product—the producer stuck in the ground at a pet cemetery—with together the animatic, which is screened typically oversees the scoring of each episode. the sounds of Pete Townshend’s acoustic gui- for Executive Producer/Co-creator Greg And although the people who worked on the tar in the background? If you don’t remember, Daniels, Executive Producer Rich Appel and show are likely the only ones to ever hear my there’s a good reason—you didn’t see those all the writers. (No pressure!) They use this scratch track, I’ve put my musical stamp on scenes with that specific music. You saw them screening to see if the story and the humor it as the director. It’s what helps me “sell” with some fine original music penned by one work as well as the animation. my work on the show just as the writers and of the top-shelf composers who score King of From the day I receive the script, through producers do, and it’s part of the process that the Hill. However, those aforementioned cues the storyboard phase and throughout the I love and look forward to doing on every were used as temp scores for our animatics, layout of the show, I’m thinking primarily of episode I direct. Going to the scoring ses- television animation’s version of the pencil two things: the timing of the animation and sions in the final stages of post-production test. I’ll get into a more detailed explanation the music. Good drawings, acting and sense of is another thrill for me because I get to see of that shortly. timing can “plus up” (as we call it) an already what the producers and composers have done When I became one of the many animation well-written script (something we’re all spoiled with the show since I finished with it months directors on King of the Hill back in its sec- by on King of the Hill), and a carefully planned before. And, as is usually the case, they’ve ond season, I had come from a long stint on “scratch track” with appropriate music cues taken it somewhere even better than I ever The Simpsons, first as a character layout art- will bump it up another level in the animatic imagined. FSM

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