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225268bk Robin Hood 21/7/03 9:44 pm Page 28 Great Film Music on Marco Polo with William Stromberg & John Morgan SIR MALCOLM ARNOLD The Invisible Man Returns 8.223747 David Copperfield • The Roots of Heaven The Ghost of Frankenstein • Son of Dracula 8.225167 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror ADOLPH DEUTSCH Black Friday • Man Made Monster 8.225124 The Maltese Falcon • Northern Pursuit MAX STEINER The Mask of Dimitrios • High Sierra King Kong 8.223763 George Washington Slept Here 8.225169 The Lost Patrol • Virginia City HUGO FRIEDHOFER The Beast with Five Fingers 8.223870 The Adventures of Marco Polo • The Lodger They Died With Their Boots On 8.225079 The Rains of Ranchipur • Seven Cities of Gold The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 8.225149 8.223857 Son of Kong • The Most Dangerous Game BERNARD HERRMANN 8.225166 Garden of Evil • Prince of Players 8.223841 All This, And Heaven Too • A Stolen Life The Snows Of Kilimanjaro • 5 Fingers 8.225218 8.225168 DIMITRI TIOMKIN BERNARD HERRMANN & ALFRED Red River 8.225217 NEWMAN FRANZ WAXMAN The Egyptian 8.225078 Mr Skeffington 8.225037 ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Objective, Burma! 8.225148 Escape Me Never • Another Dawn 8.223871 Devotion 8.225038 ROY WEBB Cat People • Bedlam • I Walked With A Zombie ALFRED NEWMAN The Body Snatcher • The 7th Victim 8.223857 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Beau Geste • All About Eve 8.223750 VICTOR YOUNG PHILIP SAINTON The Greatest Show On Earth • Bright Leaf The Uninvited • Gulliver’s Travels 8.223857 Moby Dick (Complete) 8.225050 ‘Murder & Mayhem – Great Horror Scores HANS J. SALTER & PAUL DESSAU from Hollywood’s Golden Age’: House of Frankenstein (Complete) 8.223748 MAX STEINER: The Beast With 5 Fingers HANS J. SALTER & FRANK SKINNER VICTOR YOUNG: The Uninvited Son of Frankenstein • The Wolf Man HUGO FRIEDHOFER: The Lodger 8.225132 225268bk Robin Hood 21/7/03 9:44 pm Page 2 Erich Wolfgang Korngold John Morgan Widely regarded in film-music circles as a master thanks to its spectacular nuclear explosions and The Adventures of colorist with a keen insight into orchestration and powerhouse music.” In addition, Morgan has won the power of music, Los Angeles-based composer acclaim for efforts to rescue, restore and re-record Robin Hood Film Score,1938 John Morgan began his career working alongside lost film scores from the past. Recently, Morgan, such composers as Alex North and Fred Steiner along with Stromberg, composed the score for the Score restorations by John Morgan before embarking on his own. Among other acclaimed documentary, Cinerama Adventure. projects, he co-composed the richly dramatic score Stromberg and Morgan are currently composing Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Stromberg for the cult-documentary film Trinity and Beyond, music for Sony’s Starship Troopers 2 feature film. described by one critic as “an atomic-age Fantasia, 1 Main Title—Muted Fanfare 1:49 Appearance at the Archery Field— 2 Sir Guy and Robin Hood 1:49 Preparation for the Archery Contest— William Stromberg 3 The Meeting 1:11 Robin Hood Starts to Shoot—Finale of the Archery Contest 6:38 A native of Oceanside, California, who hails from a scores from Hollywood’s Golden Age, including 4 The Banquet 2:14 family of filmmakers, William T. Stromberg several works recorded for RCA with the 5 Robin Hood Outside—Robin Hood’s $ Arrest of Robin Hood 0:47 balances his career as a composer of strikingly vivid Brandenburg Philharmonic. For Marco Polo, he has Entrance—The Fight—The Chase % Tribunal—The Jail 2:27 film scores with that of a busy conductor in Marco conducted albums of music devoted to Max Steiner, Polo’s Classic Film Score Series. Besides Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Philip of Robin Hood—The Victims 6:13 ^ The Gallows—The Flight of Robin conducting his own scores – including his recent Sainton, Adolph Deutsch, Hans J. Salter, Victor 6 Robin Hood Meets Little John— Hood 4:40 Robin Hood Fights with Little John— music for the thriller Other Voices, the monster Young and Malcolm Arnold. He has also conducted Jolly Friendship 3:57 & Love Scene 6:25 film, Bugs, and the documentary Trinity and several much-praised albums devoted to concert Beyond – Stromberg serves as a conductor for other works by American composers, including two 7 * Arrest of Lady Marian 0:45 The Oath and The Black Arrow 1:58 film composers. He is especially noted for his albums of music by Ferde Grofé. 8 The Fish—Robin Hood’s Fight with ( Much: The Knife Fight 1:10 passion in reconstructing and conducting film Friar Tuck 3:29 ) Richard Meets Robin Hood—Richard 9 A New Companion (Friar Tuck) 0:56 the Lion-Heart 4:03 Special thanks to … 0 Robin Hood Attacks Sir Guy’s Party— ¡ The Procession 3:09 The Attack 5:12 Danny Gould, Keith Zajic Warner Bros. Music • Randi Hokett, Noelle Carter ™ Prince John 1:33 Warner Bros. Archive, USC • Ned Comstock Cinema-Television Library, USC • ! Flirt—Feast—Poor People’s Feast— Gold 5:59 £ The Battle—The Duel—The Victory 5:36 Stacey Behlmer Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library • James V. D’Arc @ The Poor People 4:19 ¢ Epilogue 1:33 Brigham Young University • Ray Faiola • Anna Bonn • Rudy Behlmer • # The Tournament—Robin Hood’s ∞ End Cast 0:35 Peter Boyer • Scott MacQueen • Leith Adams Warner Bros. • Eric Stonerook Eric Stonerook Music • Valle Music 8.225268 2 27 8.225268 225268bk Robin Hood 21/7/03 9:44 pm Page 26 concurrently. However, Friedhofer did orchestrate an amazing ability of making his cues sound as Welcome to Sherwood! the Duel, which was anything but slow, and wrote a natural as through-composed music. Even when he note to Korngold on the last page of score: “FINE. musically caught screen action, one feels a certain Few motion pictures have ever matched the 1938 In addition to all the other ingredients, Warner LAUS DEO!” [End. Praise to God!]. “rightness” and structure housed in the very nature Warner Bros. production of The Adventures of Robin Bros. used the then-new three-strip Technicolor This has been one of our most satisfying projects of his music. It is our hope that this recording will Hood for sheer entertainment. Even today this film process. It was a wise decision, as the legendary in the entire Marco Polo Classic Film Music Series, not only please the many fans of The Adventures of ranks high on any list of all-time favourites. subject with its many lush forest scenes, costumes, which is entering its tenth year and nearing thirty Robin Hood and its music, but will also be a Warner Bros. first considered filming The and pageantry was ideal for full colour. CDs. Listening to the music in sequence and in satisfying musical experience on its own. Adventures of Robin Hood in 1935 with contract The studio shot most of the Sherwood Forest complete renditions gives added context and star James Cagney slated for the title role. But in sequences in Bidwell Park, 475 miles northwest of perspective to even the familiar cues. Korngold had John Morgan November of that year Cagney, in a contractual Los Angeles in the town of Chico. A natural park dispute, walked off the lot and did not return for two filled with giant oaks, sycamores, and a wide creek, years. One month later the studio presented it was a lovely and fresh setting for the film. newcomer Errol Flynn in Captain Blood. After that Some of the favourite incidents of the Robin Moscow Symphony Orchestra film’s extraordinary impact, The Adventures of Hood legend were used on the screen for the first Robin Hood was tailored for Flynn and given a time: the bout with quarterstaves between Robin Home base for Marco Polo’s critically acclaimed recordings, particularly its continuing work with budget of $1,600,000 – the largest sum allotted to a and Little John (Alan Hale) on a log spanning a Classic Film Score Series, the Moscow Symphony conductor William T. Stromberg in Marco Polo’s Warner film up to that time. (The cost eventually stream, Robin’s first meeting with Friar Tuck Orchestra has won plaudits for its versatility, Classic Film Score Series. David Hurwitz of reached $2,000,000.) (Eugene Pallette) and his forcing the rotund cleric to tackling everything from orchestrations of beloved Classics Today recently found much to treasure in Although almost non-stop action was the carry him piggyback across the stream, and the rock classics to soundtracks for movies to such the orchestra’s re-recording of Max Steiner’s The keynote of The Adventures of Robin Hood, there King (Ian Hunter) coming to Sherwood disguised as intriguing projects as the first-ever cycle of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, adding that was also above average dialogue, spirited a monk. Finally, all the various archery contests symphonies by Malipiero. In addition, it has given “Stromberg and his Moscow forces play these performances, and impressive spectacle. An described in the many legendary versions were numerous performances of classic works by colorful cues with their usual aplomb, and they’re important element was the excellent casting, amalgamated into one major archery tournament, Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky and vividly recorded, too. If you’re into movie music, including the premier swashbuckler Errol Flynn, wherein Robin splits his opponent’s arrow (actually remains the busiest orchestra in Russian recording this latest issue recommends itself.” Franz who at 29 was at his peak and perfect for the role, accomplished by archery champion Howard Hill) studios today, performing everything from Irish folk Waxman’s titanic score for the film Mr.