Volume 9, Number 5 Original Music Soundtracks for Movies and Television CD Contest PG. 6 Sounds OF Summer HOTTEST HITS ON A SILVER PLATTER King-Sized Television The Trouble With Harry Shrek... and Friends Singing for Williams & Shore Gary LeMel, Mr. Songtrack PLUS: THE LATEST CDS REVIEWED $4.95 U.S. • $5.95 Canada v9n05COV.id 2 7/2/04, 4:41:41 PM contents JUNE 2004 DEPARTMENTS FEATURES 2 Editorial 16 The Trouble with Harry We’re Fine, Thanks. You? Catching up with Lalo Schifrin, we find out that he’s got a lot more going on than just the long-awaited, recent release 4 News of his seminal score to 1971’s Dirty Harry. AFI’s 100 Songs. By Nick Joy 5 Record Label Round-up What’s on the way. 5 Now Playing 19 In the Service of Two Masters Movies and CDs in Boys choir director Michael McCarthy discusses the toils, 14 It’s a bird... release. troubles and triumphs of creating choral soundscapes for 7 Upcoming Film the likes of Howard Shore and John Williams. Assignments By Karen Rugg Who’s writing what for whom. 8 Concerts Film music performed 22 Song Sung around the globe. As head of Warner Bros. music for nearly two decades, Gary LeMel has seen and heard it all. And even as the 9 Mail Bag practical inventor of the modern-day soundtrack, he pushes Troy. for traditional scores more often than you’d think. By Jeff Bond 11 Pukas He’s in heaven. 14 Downbeat 27 When Harry Met Shrek....and Friends 27 It’s a cat... King-Sized Television. Harry Gregson-Williams has had more than his share of success since breaking away from Media Ventures. But his 30 Score relationship with a gazillion-dollar giant green ogre has New releases including: really put him on the map. The Black Swan, The Chase, By Jeff Bond Basic Instinct (expanded), and the entire Harry Potter series up to and including the next, unreleased film. 45 Reissue Corner A Masterpiece Restored! 36 FSM Marketplace 16 It’s Scorpio! 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Williams’ Executive Editor the end of the day and I have yet to write the score was expectedly great. JONATHAN Z. KAPLAN editorial. I’m also wondering why I thought a I refuse to see The Terminal because of the way Managing Editor sandwich-bag of grapes and dry cereal would Tom Hanks is craning his neck on the poster. TIM CURRAN suffice for lunch. But enough about that. Let’s talk about Film Design Director The truth is, I’ve been spending the last couple Score Monthly. This issue, we’re offering a little JOE SIKORYAK of days finishing the issue and trying to come of what you’re expecting, and hopefully a lot Supervising Content Consultant up with something to say. Something relevant, of what you’re not. We like to think of it as AL KAPLAN our “Summer Counter-Programming Issue,” Editor-at-Large JEFF BOND what with Lalo Schifrin/Dirty Harry coverage, Copyeditor Morricone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly re- STEVE GILMARTIN issue, and even an interview with an industry Contributing Writers exec, Warner Music’s Gary LeMel. On the other STEPHEN B. ARMSTRONG hand there’s Harry Gregson-Williams’ Shrek 2 SCOTT BETTENCOURT and Christopher Gordon’s Salem’s Lot, along with WILLIAM FLANIGAN Harry Potter and even Lord of the Rings thrown in LUKE GOLJAN for good measure. A little something for every- MARK GRIFFIN SUMMER IN L.A.: Adequate to be alive. one, we hope. But as always, we’d love to know NICK JOY or remotely interesting. I’ve got nothing. I’m what you think of this and any other issue we’ve STEVEN A. KENNEDY still excited about Gabriel Yared’s rejected Troy put together. Frankly, it’s tough to get a response DARREN MACDONALD BRUCE R. 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