Links Are Go!

by Lukas Kendall

Today's column is a notice. But, not a mere boring notice, this is a very useful notice. If you click on our links page, you will find it has been enlarged by, most likely, 2000%. We got everything now.

The person to thank for this effort is Stefanie Sellars, who scoured the Internet to provide you, the readers, with the A-1 compendium of film music links. So, go nuts.

So that this column is not totally a promotional tool, Andy Dursin brings us this quick news flash:

"John Williams was interviewed in the Boston Herald on Friday (8/15). He said he concluded recording Seven Years in Tibet last week; it's a "romantic" score designed for Yo-Yo Ma in the same way that Schindler's List was written as a vehicle for Izthak Perlman. The movie is due October 8th. Williams also said that he has written about 25 minutes of the Amistad score; he has to write 90 minutes by the deadline (October 1st), so apparently he's "rushing" to get it done. (Rushing in Williams' mind means a lot longer preparation than other situations, I guess)."

I'll also leave everyone with Sony Classical's run-down of CDs forthcoming for the rest of the year:

September 30: Seven Years in Tibet (John Williams; Yo Yo Ma, cello).

October 14: Mister Kamen's Opus, a new recording of Michael Kamen's film themes conducted by the composer.

October 28: Liberty! (PBS documentary, Mark O'Connor, Richard Einhorn, James Taylor, Yo Yo Ma, Nashville Symphony).

November 18: Titanic (James Horner).

December: The Red Violin (John Corigliano; Joshua Bell, violin).

Tomorrow: A response to Jeff Bond's westerns piece from last Thursday, and Jeff's additional thrilling comments. (It's the reason they're putting seat belts in theaters this summer!)

Lukas

Lukas@filmscoremonthly.com