Film Score Friday 12/3/99
by Lukas Kendall
Elmer Bernstein's guitar concerto, premiered in concert last September,
will be recorded by the composer in London for release next year on Angel/EMI.
The people at Botcon are considering a limited repressing of their Transformers:
The Movie complete soundtrack CD--actually a 2CD set, the other disc is
Stan Bush songs. If you're interested, reserve a copy now at http://www.botcon.com.
The more complete CD of Tomorrow Never Dies from Chapter III
Records will be out January 11. The label had hoped to have it available
online before that, but that will probably not be the case.
The Mission to Mars trailer, for those who are wondering, is
scored with Vangelis's music from 1492.
Check out Gramaphone's site for a Howard Shore interview in Real Audio:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/shore.html
FSM CDs -- see the movies!
Here's a list of movies for which we've released the scores in our limited
edition CD series and their December cable airings in the U.S.:
Cabinet of
Caligari (Gerald Fried)
Tuesday, December 7, 5:01 pm fXM
Saturday, December 11, 9:01 am fXM, 11:01 pm fXM
Monday, December 20, 9:01 am fXM, 11:01 pm fXM
Conrack
(John Williams)
Tuesday, December 7, 6:30 am Moremax
The Comancheros
(Elmer Bernstein)
Saturday, December 4, 5:00 pm American Movie Classics, 11:00 pm AMC
(LBX)
Patton (Jerry
Goldsmith)
Saturday, December 4, 10:30 pm TBS
Stagecoach
(Jerry Goldsmith)
Saturday, January 1, 3:00 pm The Western Channel
Visit Cinema Concerto for a review of our Prince of Foxes CD,
http://members.aol.com/marcgothic.
Jeff Bond on Internet Radio
From: Jimmy Aquino <jim@aquino.com>
FSM's Jeff Bond, the author of Lone Eagle Press' The Music of Star
Trek, will be heard discussing Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek: The Motion
Picture score, in an interview recorded last year, on the next edition
of A Fistful of Soundtracks, which will celebrate the 20th anniversary
of the soundtrack. The show will feature all the score tracks on the 20th
anniversary CD reissue, as well as selections from Goldsmith's subsequent
Trek feature film scores and an interview with MusicHound Soundtracks editor/author
Didier C. Deutsch, one of the reissue producers. Plus, hear William Shatner
rap - from the soundtrack to the recent film Free Enterprise. If the WebRadio
feed is working, hear the show on the Web Saturday, December 4 12-2:30
PM PST at http://www2.ucsc.edu/~kzsc/
or http://www.webradio.com/
(look for KZSC under "College Radio Stations"). For more info
about A Fistful of Soundtracks, click to http://jim.aquino.com.
Upcoming Concerts
If you're in Amsterdam, you're in luck: The following film music concerts
are scheduled to take place at Amsterdam's concert hall, "De Beurs
van Berlage," in The Netherlands:
December 18, 20: Italian film music by Nino Rota (La Strada, Prova d'Orchestra)
and Nicola Piovani (Kaos, Caro Diario); the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra
cond. Daisuke Soga.
February 9, 10: "From Hitchcock to Spielberg": American film
music by Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest) and John
Williams (Schindler's List, E.T., Indiana Jones); the Dutch Philharmonic
Orchestra.
March 11, 17: "From Ivens to Haanstra": Music from Dutch cinema
by Otto Ketting, Heppener, Jurre Haanstra, Hanns Eisler; the Dutch Chamber
Orchestra cond. Alexander Liebtrich.
April 12, 13: The Beau Hunks perform music from the 1930s shorts of
Leroy Shield and Laurel & Hardy.
May 6, 7: "Metropole Goes Hollywood": Film music by Ennio
Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West) and Maurice Jarre (Dr. Zhivago,
A Passage to India); the Metropole Orchestra cond. Dick Bakker.
Price Guide Question
From: Jeff Thomas, MaestroJW@aol.com
Hello, I read your article about the new price guide. Was wondering
if you might have an idea about what an autographed Schindlers List CD
might be worth, not that I would ever ever part with it. Its autographed
by Itzahk Perlman on the front cover and John Williams on the inside cover.
Now if I can only get Spielberg to sign it! Thanks
This is actually something our price guide does not cover -- autographs
and special things like that which increase value. So honestly, I don't
know. Cool item, though!
Go
here for information the price guide, hot off the presses.
Film Music Scores (the manuscripts)
From: "Andrew Drannon" <scoresheet@hotmail.com>
I went back and reread Hal Jackson's great Film Score Daily article
called Reading
Film Music, in which he talked about the availability (and lack thereof)
of various printed scores. You wrote a footnote, saying how you once tried
to convince LucasFilm to publish the trilogy scores, but that they were
afraid of "unauthorized performances."
Anyway, have you talked to them recently? Any chance they might
change their minds?
I thought of a possible solution - instead of the fully orchestrated
score they could typeset and publish Williams' sketch score. It would still
give a complete look at the music, but would be nearly impossible to perform.
In order to perform this, someone would have to go back and orchestrate
the entire thing themselves. That might also bring the price down - instead
of the 900+ pages for each score, the books could be 300 p. or less. Just
a thought.
Here at Film Score Monthly we've done nearly 100 editions of
a magazine, over a dozen CDs, a couple of books, a video documentary, and
this website... but we've never published a book of a film score -- the
written music -- and we'd like to. All I can say is that I know of no plans
right now for anyone to do this, which is a shame, because it should be
done.
Have a nice holiday weekend. Happy Hanukah!
MailBag@filmscoremonthly.com
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