Film Score Friday 3/17/00
by Lukas Kendall
Does anyone know what today is? Are you guessing that it's the 100th
birthday of Alfred Newman? Wow, good guess! It is. He was born on March
17, 1900. Next "100th birthday" is Victor Young on August 8.
Hollywood Book & Poster Company is doing a book signing for the
Sherman Brothers, Richard M. and Robert B., Sunday, April 9, 12-3PM, at
their store: 6562 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA 90028; phone 323-465-8764.
The Shermans wrote the songs for countless famous Disney productions and
have penned a new book, Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond, that will be
on sale at the store. Also at the event will be a live band of Disney alumni
playing the Sherman Brothers' songs.
Concerts
Last night in Los Angeles was a Ryuichi Sakamoto concert at the El Rey
theater on Wilshire. Of this writing, I have yet to go. By the time you
read this, I will have gone. I hope I liked it! Sakamoto's upcoming engagements:
- March 18: San Francisco, The Fillmore (tomorrow!)
- March 19: Seattle, Showbox (this Sunday!)
- March 24: Washington DC, 9:30 Club
- March 25: Philadelphia, Theater of the Living Arts
- March 26: Boston, Berklee College of Music
- March 28: New York, Bowery Ballroom
Here's a great link for silent film screenings, some with live music
accompaniment: http://www.west.net/~mortilla/upcoming.html#anchor736758
Message Board
FSM's message board has been grayed out for several weeks and although
I've promised everyone that there would be a new board soon, people have
kinda noted... there still isn't one. Here is the situation: sadly, we
are not Disney or something. We had to move our website from one hosting
company to another in January due to irreconcilible differences with the
old company. Basically, we outgrew it. This is a good thing. However, in
the process we had to scrap our old board and now we have to start a new
one from scratch.
So, you say, great, where's the new board? The problem is that we have
one webmaster who has an array of problems to fix. We have had to prioritize
our needs and the message board is somewhere in the middle. (#1 is an ordering
database as our system of logging orders here at the FSM home office is
in dire need of an overhaul.) So, yes, we have every intention of restarting
the board -- hopefully in an even better form than it used to be. But it
simply has to wait until a few other problems are taken care of. Thank
you for your patience and I will try to keep people updated on Film Score
Daily.
Brave Little Toaster
Regarding yesterday's
column:
From: Randall Derchan <DSPY007@aol.com>
I love that film, especially the huge score David wrote for it.
I have a wonderful recording of it that without songs. It's a pity that
it has no official release, of course that seems to be the fate of most
of David Newman's material. I haven't seen the sequels but they look cute
too.
From: Jackie Holstein <stanleykubrick70@mindspring.com>
Great article on such a under-rated animated film! It is nice to
see such a story pop up on your screen at 4:36 am. At first I wasn't sure
if it was for the fact that filmscore was going to sale the CD soundtrack?
It surprised me that someone brought the film back to my attention. Thanks.....
Hey, not everything we print is just a plug for a CD we sell! Although
the next one is, and we're proud of it!
Take a Hard Ride
From: Guy Reid <spordesign@earthlink.net>
Like, gag me with a spoon and dump my body behind Denny's...I can't
believe you actually did it.!!! Even though the SPFM release finally replaced
the television broadcast I put to cassette...to actually be alive to see
the complete score released is like...is like...I just don't have the words!!!
Except, perhaps, that you have my eternal gratitude...
Thanks! FSM's
complete stereo CD of Take a Hard Ride is available now!
CD Release Questions
From: Levi D. Tinker, Levi929@aol.com
Why are disney and dream works not releasing score cds for their
movies reindeer games and galaxy quest . i liked both scores but was dissapointed
not to see a soundtrack listed on either the credits or the movie poster
. also any word as to weather there will be an isolated score on the world
is not enough dvd like on the tommorow never dies one. i really enjoyed
the score onte of the best for a bond film .david arnold has done it again
. but the cd disapointed me because it didnt have the end credit music
on the cd. and was missing some other good cues.
Also bond related i have been searching ever since golden eye came
out for acopy of the bond theme that was used in the golden eye previews
ireally lked this version it had sort of a rock edge to it sort of like
the new version of mi theme comming out next month . did they ever release
it on any thing . or will they ever . There is a CD of Galaxy Quest but
it's a promotional CD only -- see www.supercollector.com. As for Reindeer
Games, I don't know. Both of these are very large orchestral scores recorded
in Los Angeles that would cost a lot of release (due to musicians union
fees) but would not sell well enough to recover costs -- so that's why
there aren't commercial releases. Sorry!
The GoldenEye trailer music was written specifically for the
trailer by Jeff Fair and Starr Parodi; I don't know of any CD release.
The Problem with Publishing
From: "Kristopher Kerr" <KKERR@stthomas.org>
How hard would it be to publish full score songbooks of soundtracks?
Perhaps your success releasing hard-to-find soundtracks on CD could influence
publishing companies to allow you to release a limited number to your readers.
Today anyone can walk in to Barnes & Nobles and pick up a copy of Stravinsky's
Firebird or Holst's The Planets. How cool would it be to buy a copy of
the Star Wars Trilogy in Full Score annotation! You have the vehicle to
show publishing companies that there is a demand, especially with the exploding
availability of the internet and the rise of film and film composition
programs in colleges around the country.
If not, I would be sure to renew my subscription if you continued
to have more notated examples ala the John Williams Phantom Menace issues.
We absolutely will have more notated music examples in our articles
in FSM -- we're printing a Jerry Fielding retrospective in our next issue
which will have reproductions in the composer's hand of some of his sketches.
I've brought up the topic of publishing film scores informally with
a couple of studios and the response is the same: they are committed to
publishing deals already, and they do not want to make these things available
because then they could not control public performances. So, it's too bad
but it's probably not something we'll be able to do through Film Score
Monthly in the near future.
Legrand
Regarding last
Friday's column:
From: Andrew Shepherd <cinema@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
Stephane Michaud <s.michaud@videotron.ca> wrote in Film Score
Friday:
>Two more CDs, easy to find in France: a compilation (playtime)
focusing on Legrand's scores for director Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Cyrano,
The horseman on the roof)...
Both "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Le Hussard sur le
Toit" (The Horseman on the Roof) from director Jean-Paul Rappeneau
were scored by Jean-Claude Petit not Michael Legrand. Both are available
on CD..."Cyrano" from DRG...and "Horseman" from Travelling/Auvidis.
I highly recommend Petit's "Horseman"...a truly epic romantic
score...for what was at the time the most lavish & expensive French
production ever (since surpassed I believe by both "Asterix &
the Gaul" and Luc Besson's "The Messenger").
Radio Programs
From: "Michael Enright" <thescorefm@hotmail.com>
Composer W.G. Snuffy Walden will be on "The Score" this
Tuesday beginning at 7:30 am eastern time. Besides an exclusive interview,
we will also be playing a wide range of his music direct from his home
studio, including selections from: "The West Wing", "Felecity",
"Now and Again", "My So-Called Life", "Providence"
and the 1992 Ed Zwick feature film, "Leaving Normal". See http://www.webspawner.com/users/thescore/
From: Jimmy Aquino <jim_aquino_2000@yahoo.com>
The next edition of A Fistful of Soundtracks puts the spotlight
on the expanded reissue of John Williams' terrific score to 1978's Superman:
The Movie. Hear selections from this long-awaited release, as well as an
interview with reissue producer Michael Matessino. Tune in on March 18
to A Fistful of Soundtracks, the show that's faster than a speeding bullet,
more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single
bound.
A FISTFUL OF SOUNDTRACKS With Jim Aquino, Saturday, March 18, 12PM
PST at http://kzsc.ucsc.edu - KZSC 88.1
FM Santa Cruz, California
Have a great weekend!
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